Chapter 22: Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy

Titian

His remarkable sense of color and his ability to convey light through color emerge in the altarpiece, Assumption of the Virgin. Who was this artist?

The placement of figure near the west door of the Palazzo della Signoria

How did Michelangelo's David become a political statement?

EX: Western influences are included through a combination of the Classical antiquity in the Catholic Church. (Include the usage of philosophy, mathematics, and sciences)

How does the Stanza della Segnatura reflect Western leaning? (Short answer)

EX: The catholic church sees Light as "heaven light" so there are only 2 light sources: Christ's halo being the most prominent one. This represents the fact that Christ illuminates and lights-up the viewer's world.

How does the work o fTintoretto reflect the Counter-Reformation? (Short answer)

With stern watchfulness before the battle

How has Michelangelo portrayed David?

By the placement of Judas on the same side as Christ and the other Disciples

In Leonardo's Last Supper, how did the artist break with traditional iconography

a halo

In Leonardo's Last Supper, the curved pediment above the head of Christ represents which of the following?

Each figure was individualized

In Leonardo's Last Supper, the numerous preparatory sketches and studies he made for the work indicate how carefully he though about his work as a complete entity representing the entire story and its theme. Based on this which of the following would describe Leonardo's conceptualization of the figures from his Last Supper?

Paganism and Christianity

In Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, he reconciled the philosophies and teachings of Plato and Aristotle. Which of the following have also been reconciled?

Raphael

Increasingly in portraiture, artists of the High Renaissance paid particular attention to the subject's personality and psychic state. This could be said to describe the portraiture of which of the following artists?

Masaccio

Leonardo painted the Virgin of the Rocks and it is said this work is a masterpiece in expressing emotional states. He modeled the figures with light and shadow - a technique he learned from earlier works. Which 15th century Italian artist would have influenced Leonardo?

The cartoon is ordered with pictorial logic and visual unity.

Leonardo's style fully emerges in the cartoon, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John. Which of the following describes this work?

It is a combination of athletic tension and emotional excess

Michelangelo's fascination with the human body was a lifelong pursuit. In his David he presented a perfect body with an attuned mind, prepared and ready for action. Which of the following descriptions of this work would support this statement?

Julius II

Of the following, who was one of the most important Roman patrons of Michelangelo?

the Counter-Reformation

Paul III convened the Council of Trent in 1545. It was part of which of the following?

Palladio

Sansovino was succeeded as chief architect of the Venetian republic by _________________.

Michelangelo

The Neo-Platonic ideals of the Medici circle were most congenial to the thinking of which of the following artists?

The chronology of Christianity

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

Pantheon, Rome

The dome Bramante designed for St. Peter's in Rome would have resembled which of the following?

Rome

The major center for artistic development in the High Renaissance was __________________.

Michelangelo

The term terribilita is most often used to refer to _______________________?

Classical art

Titian's Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne was most likely inspired by ______________________.

placement of the figures on a steep diagonal

Titian's altarpiece, the Madonna of the Pesaro Family, differed from High Renaissance compositions in central Italy in the ____________________.

EX: The medici popes commissioned Michelangelo to do such works as: the tomb of Pope Julius II, the Last Judgement, the Sistine Chapel, and the facade of the Church of San Lorenzo.

What commissions did the Medici popes give to Michelangelo? (Short answer)

Idyllic place of rural, rustic peace and simplicity

What is an Arcadian reverie?

Correggio

Which artist painted groups of soaring figures on the dome of Parma Cathedral that seemed to ascend through rings of clouds into the sky itself?

II Gesu

Which of the followin gwas teh primary church for the Jesuits in Rome?

perpectival systems

Which of the following developed in 15th century Italy but fully matured in 16th century Italy?

The bulging muscles and swollen veins of the figure

Which of the following sculptural conventions did Michelangelo use for the figure of Moses in order to create an expression of "awful wrath"?

pyramid

Which of the following was one of the favorite compositional devices of painters of the High Renaissance?

Tintoretto

Which painter created dynamic compositions, often by means of swirling clouds and fitful light?

Michelangelo

Which sculptor believed that the artist most proceed by first finding the idea-the image-locked in the stone and then release it by chipping away the stone?

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Who commissioned the Tempietto?

Perugino

Who was Raphael's teacher?

Isabella d'Este

Who was instrumental in transforming the Mantua court into an important center for art and learning?