1. Siena's Duomo was built between 1215 and 1263 and designed in part by Gothic master Nicola Pisano. His son, Giovanni, drew up the plans for the lower half of the facade, begun in 1285. In what other city did we see work by the Pisanos?
Pisa
2. Select your answer from the following:
Black Death
3. Look at the photo to the right and tell me the style of architecture. This is a trick question because you will think it is one, but it is really the other! There is a hint in question 1.
Italian Gothic
4. We stood in a crowd of 28,000 all day long to watch this. What is it?
The Palio
5. Who is this guy?
The winner
6. Whose head is in this church in Siena while her body rests in Rome?
Catherine of Siena. The rest of her body is in the only Gothic church in Rome which is.... .... okay.. I'll tell you: Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which is located right behind the Pantheon. It seems that a bunch of people wanted Catherine back in Siena after she died, but Rome wouldn't give her back. So the people of Siena stole her head and chucked it in a paper bag. But they had to sneak it past the guards at the gates of the City. As they were passing through the gates, the Roman soldiers saw the bag, ripped it from them and tore it open but miraculously the head turned into Rose Petals! So they guards gave the bag back to them. They carried it home to Siena and it turned into the wrinkly old head we saw in the church.
7. The golden mosaics in the upper gables were made by Venetian artists based on drawings of 1878 by the Sienese painters Luigi Mussini and Alessandro Franchi. The centre gable, shown to the right is:
The Coronation of Mary
8. Why do you think the definition of virgin was changed?
There are many answers for this but it all has to do with suppression and male dominance and fiction and good old brain washing. It also has to do with translation errors. “Hebrew Gospels designated Mary by the word almah, mistakenly translated ‘virgin,’ but really meaning ‘young woman.'” Kind of puts a dent in the whole miraculous conception narrative, doesn’t it?
The link that I told you I would put here
Pisa
2. Select your answer from the following:
Black Death
3. Look at the photo to the right and tell me the style of architecture. This is a trick question because you will think it is one, but it is really the other! There is a hint in question 1.
Italian Gothic
4. We stood in a crowd of 28,000 all day long to watch this. What is it?
The Palio
5. Who is this guy?
The winner
6. Whose head is in this church in Siena while her body rests in Rome?
Catherine of Siena. The rest of her body is in the only Gothic church in Rome which is.... .... okay.. I'll tell you: Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which is located right behind the Pantheon. It seems that a bunch of people wanted Catherine back in Siena after she died, but Rome wouldn't give her back. So the people of Siena stole her head and chucked it in a paper bag. But they had to sneak it past the guards at the gates of the City. As they were passing through the gates, the Roman soldiers saw the bag, ripped it from them and tore it open but miraculously the head turned into Rose Petals! So they guards gave the bag back to them. They carried it home to Siena and it turned into the wrinkly old head we saw in the church.
7. The golden mosaics in the upper gables were made by Venetian artists based on drawings of 1878 by the Sienese painters Luigi Mussini and Alessandro Franchi. The centre gable, shown to the right is:
The Coronation of Mary
8. Why do you think the definition of virgin was changed?
There are many answers for this but it all has to do with suppression and male dominance and fiction and good old brain washing. It also has to do with translation errors. “Hebrew Gospels designated Mary by the word almah, mistakenly translated ‘virgin,’ but really meaning ‘young woman.'” Kind of puts a dent in the whole miraculous conception narrative, doesn’t it?
The link that I told you I would put here
