HUM 111 Week 8 Quiz - Questions & Answers

HUM 111 Week 8 Quiz • Question 1 3 out of 3 points Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes include the first instance since antiquity of the depiction of Response Feedback: Good work • Question 2 3 out of 3 points To what world historical event does Boccaccio allude in the following line from his Decameron: "Gathering in those houses where no one had been ill and living was more comfortable, they shut themselves in." Response Feedback: Good work • Question 3 3 out of 3 points What is one striking feature of Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets? Response Feedback: Good work • Question 4 3 out of 3 points In the Inferno, Dante places Judas, Brutus, and Cassius in the lowest level of his hell, because they Response Feedback: Good work • Question 5 0 out of 3 points What is one feature Duccio di Buoninsegna's Maestá shares with the Maestà of Simone Martini? Response Feedback: That's not correct • Question 6 3 out of 3 points It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely more than a half century earlier, the city-state had witnessed Response Feedback: Good work • Question 7 3 out of 3 points Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because Response Feedback: Good work • Question 8 3 out of 3 points In Mona Lisa, Leonardo achieved the sfumato effect by Response Feedback: Good work • Question 9 3 out of 3 points Michelangelo represented David before, not after, his triumph over Goliath primarily to Response Feedback: Good work • Question 10 3 out of 3 points The vast power of the Medici in fifteenth-century Florence is a sign of the increasing importance in the world economy of Response Feedback: Good work