Quiz 2

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Which of the following architects wrote influential treatises on painting and architecture?

Alberti

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

By placing Judas on the same side of the table as the others

Which artist introduced the contrapposto pose to Quattrocento sculpture in his representation of Saint Mark?

Donatello

Which Italian city played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early 15th century?

Florence

Which Dominican monk denounced the secular humanism of the Medici and others in the late 15th century?

Girolamo Savonarola

Which mode of thinking inspired the leading families and many artists of the Early Renaissance in Italy?

Humanism

In Four Crowned Saints, Nanni di Banco achieved a unified spatial composition by arranging the figures in what way?

In a semicircle

What factor allowed Ghiberti's entry to win the competition for the design of the baptistery doors for the Florence Cathedral?

Its spatial illusion

Often synonymous with the Renaissance, who were great patrons of the arts in Florence?

Medici family

What characteristic compositional technique does Leonardo use to unite the figures in Madonna of the Rocks?

Pyramidal grouping

What principal Renaissance interest is embodied in Masaccio's Holy Trinity alongside realism based on observation?

The application of the new science of perspective

Michelangelo deviated from earlier representations of David in his rendition by portraying which part of the episode?

The encounter before the battle

What did the cleaning of Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling reveal that shocked art historians?

The vivid original colors

How did Masaccio create a sense of bulk in his figures in Tribute Money?

Through modeling with a specific light source outside the picture

In his David, how does Michelangelo break away from the self-containment of earlier standing statues?

Turning his head toward adversary


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