Quiz: High Renaissance and Mannerism

Which artists's assertion of his authority anticipated modern concepts of the artist?

Michelangelo

The traditional interpretation of the meaning of Michelangelo's tombs for the Medici as the soul's ascent was influenced by ____.

Neoplatanism

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

Paganism and Christianity

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

Pantheon, Rome

What anamorphic symbol appears in Holbein's The French Ambassadors?

a skull

In Money-Changer and His Wife by Quentin Massys, the artist warns that ____ are a distraction from religious life.

financial transactions

Who created Knight, Death, and the Devil?

Albrecht Dürer

The first known northern European self-portrait by a woman is purportedly by which of the following?

Caterina van Hemessen

Saints Anthony and Sebastian appear in Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece because of their association with ____.

Disease and miraculous cures.

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

A halo

Which of the following was the mother church for the Jesuits in Rome?

II Gesù

The Protestant concern about the role of religious imagery was in many cases outright hostile. Martin Luther spoke about destroying images. This destruction of religious imagery also occurred during the Byzantine period. Which of the following defines this act?

Iconclasm

Although women had many limitations as artists, ____ demonstrated the important role women played as art patrons.

Isabella d'Este

The German artist who was dubbed with the title "painter of the Reformation" is ____.

Lucas Cranach the Elder

____ was the style that appealed to the French king, Francis I, because of its elegant, erotic, and unorthodox features.

Mannerism

Attributes of El Greco's style, such as elongated figures in an undefined space, are often characterized as ____.

Mannerist

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

Rome

The Sistine Chapel ceiling represents which of the following themes?

The chronology of Christianity

In his Self-Portrait, Durer's hand position may be a reference to ____.

the artist's hand as a creative instrument

Michelangelo deviated from earlier representations of David in his rendition by portraying ____.

watching Goliath die the moment of victory