On your CD, create a study set consisting of Duccio's Virgin and Child in Majesty and Giotto's Virgin and Child Enthroned. Compare and contrast the two, paying special attention to depictions of space and solidity of forms.

Create a study set on your CD and place the following two sculptural details from Chartres Cathedral in the set: 1) right side, central portal, Royal Portal 2) Saint Stephen, Saint Theodore and Two Other Saints, left side, left portal, south transept entrance. Take note of the dates assigned to the group on the Royal Portal and the dates assigned to Stephen and to Theodore. Describe the stylistic changes that you note in the handling of the human figure at Chartres over time.

On your CD, pull up the image of the ambulatory choir Abbey Church of Saint-Denis. What structural and engineering information does one have to have command of to see this space as revolutionary?

Make a study set on your CD and place the page with Louis IX and Queen Blanche of Castile from the Moralized Bible on one side and the Furrier’s Shop, detail of Charlemagne Window, ambulatory apse, Chartres Cathedral on the other side. What do the manuscript painting and the stained glass have in common?

On your CD, pull up the picture of the flying buttresses at Chartres Cathedral. Explain exactly what a buttress is, why these are called "flying," and describe how the builders obviously shaped the buttresses to blend in with the rest of the building.