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HA2250

HA2250

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

PAINTING IN FLORENCE AND SIENA BEFORE AND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH

Time allowed: 2 hours.

Candidates must attempt ALL questions.

Each question carries the same weight and candidates are advised to spread their time evenly between the questions.

Refer to each image by the number and letter on the back.

Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars required are entered on each answer book.

Photographs and photocopies MUST NOT be defaced or removed from the examinations room.

1. Identify, date as closely as possible and compare A with B in terms of function and iconography.

2. Identify and compare A with B as representations of worldly pleasure.

3. Identify and date as closely as possible; compare A with B and discuss their relationship to earlier images.

4. Identify and compare A with B in terms of iconography and function.

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PHOTOMASTER

HA2250

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

PAINTING IN FLORENCE AND SIENA BEFORE AND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH

1. A Coronation of the Virgin signed by Giotto, for the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce c.1330

B Coronation of the Virgin by Bartolo di Fredi, 1388, Montalcino, Museo Civico

2. A Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Good Government in the Country, Siena Palazzo Pubblico, 1338/1339, detail of Dancers.

B Andrea di Bonaiuto, Triumph of the Dominican Order, Chapterhouse, S. Maria Novella Florence, 1366/1368, detail.

3. A Simone Martinin, Polyptych of the Blessed Agostino Novello, c. 1328, Siena Pinacoteca.

B Bernardo Daddi, Virgin and Child with Angels, c. 1345. Florence Orsanmichele.

4. A Taddeo Gaddi, Lamentation with a Donatrix, Florence S. Croce, Cappella Bardi di Vernio, c. 1335.

B Master of Codex of St. George, Lamentation, c. 1335. Met., New York.