Chapter 17 Quiz

Which of the following women gained widespread notoriety during the so-called Baroque Period of the seventeenth century?

Artemesia Gentileschi

Leonardo da Vinci's technique of blurred edges, as seen in his Mona Lisa, is a special type of _______ the artist invented called sfumato.

Chiaroscuro

____________ depict the lives and surroundings of common people. These paintings normally depict everyday life are still beloved today.

Genre Paintings

The Renaissance ushered in an age of logical thought and the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement called __________.

Humanism

Which work of art represents the clearest summation of the following Renaissance beliefs and artistic conventions: - Humanism - Linear Perspective - Philosophy - Classical Inspiration

Raphael's The School of Athens

Caravaggio's high contrast of lights and dark as well as the extreme _______ of Saint Paul create a vivid and dramatic portrayal of The Conversion of Saint Paul.

Foreshortening

The Rococo style, with its decorative and sensual qualities, was particularly suited to the extravagant and often frivolous life of the

French court and aristocracy.

Many Baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the

Counter-Reformation

Which of the following works of art was the first life-sized, free-standing nude figure created since Roman times?

David by Donatello

Both Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi (originally, a Last Supper image) and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper go against tradition by depicting Jesus Christ in a worldly setting with flawed human beings that include buffoons, drunkards, and similar vulgarities.

False

In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize

Fertility

Which of the following artists was one of the first to use oil paint to create life-like representations?

Jan van Eyck

Which style/period of art is best described as: decorative, sensual, exuberant, extravagant, and often frivolous?

Rococo

Both Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) and Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait feature self-portraits.

True

Jan van Eyck's reflection can be seen in the mirror of The Arnolfini Portrait. His reflection in addition to his signature and the date, 1434, refer to van Eyck as having been a witness to the wedding ceremony depicted in the painting.

True

Northern Renaissance artists like Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, were even more concerned than the Italians with depicting life in the real world.

True

Unlike many works of art that depict Jesus Christ as a divine and heavenly figure, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper was one of the first to focus on Jesus as an accessible person. The painting reveals Jesus' divinity in an earthly setting, among disciples who look like us. This facet of The Last Supper is related to the emergence of Humanism as a social and cultural attitude that permeated the Renaissance.

True

Michelangelo's David has a naturalistic pose, called _______ and influenced by the Classical sculpture of the ancient Greeks.

contrapposto

The Holy Trinity fresco, by Masaccio, is considered to be the first Renaissance painting based on the use of

linear perspective.

In the Netherlands, the major patrons of such artists as Vermeer and Rembrandt were

the wealthy merchant class.