Unit 1: Exam Review
What is the message written on the scroll in the upper left corner of this fresco?
A promise of safety to those who live under the rule of law
In Masaccio's Holy Trinity, the coffered barrel vault is reminiscent of which of the following?
A roman triumphal arch
Which late medieval Italian painting constitutes the first landscape painting since antiquity?
A. Lorenzetti - Peaceful Country
In Masaccio's Holy Trinity, where is the vanishing point?
At the foot of the cross
The perspective technique in which the background appears hazy and fades within the distance.
Atmospheric Perspective
What is the subject of this panel from the Maesta altarpiece?
Betrayal of Jesus
Which Florentine artist painted Primavera?
Botticelli
What devastating natural disaster occurred in Europe during the 1340s?
Bubonic Plague
The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveal his training in which tradition?
Byzantine
Which of the following was a Roman fresco painter who is now seen as a pioneering figure in the birth of Renaissance style?
Cavallini
Who created this statue of David for the Palazzo Medici?
Donatello
Who is the painter of the back of the Maesta altarpiece?
Duccio
The Hundred Year's war was between which two nations?
England and France
Which of Giotto's innovations represents a departure from the Italo-Byzantine style?
Figures seen from the back
In Donatello's David, the biblical story represented is the tale of David and Goliath, but was also a symbol for the people of what papal state?
Florence
Which Italian city played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early 15th century?
Florence
Which characteristic of Duccio's figures in the Maestà originates in Byzantine art?
Formality and symmetry
Who was a Dominican painter-friar who combined elements of the new style of art into traditional religious devotional works?
Fra Angelico
In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries, leading to the Great Schism?
France
Which medium is created by mixing pigment with plaster?
Fresco
What was the media used to create Lorenzo Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac?
Gilded Bronze
Which artist sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty, three-dimensional body with the illusion of the space that contained it?
Giotto
Which mode of thinking inspired the leading families and many artists of the Early Renaissance in Italy?
Humanism
The illusionism found in French manuscript painting was influenced by contact with which area?
Italy
Which figure sits isolated from the rest in Castagno's Last Supper?
Judas
Confraternities, whose members dedicated themselves to strict religious observance, were made up of which group?
Laypeople
In the calendar pages of Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, scenes of courtly life alternate with what?
Lists of seasonal tasks
In which detail of Madonna Enthroned is Cimabue's movement away from the maniera greca most evident?
Mary's receding throne
During the middle ages, and much of the Renaissance, the Church associated what with sin and the fall of man?
Nudity
In what medium did Giovanni Bellini paint Saint Francis in the Desert?
Oil and Tempera on Wood
What Italian city is the location of the Arena Chapel?
Padua
Which artist painted Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter?
Perugino
Who was the leading Roman painter at the end of the 13th century?
Pietro Cavallini
Which of the following Italian cities was a major shipping power?
Pisa
Angel babies seen in many Renaissance works are called what?
Putti
Which of the following cities was considered the rightful capital of the Roman Catholic Church?
Rome
The painting technique that uses very thin, translucent layers of paint that show no visible transition between colors, tones, and often objects.
Sfumato
Which artist was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style?
Simone Martini
Which of the following describes the style of Fra Angelico?
Simple and Direct
Who was considered the first Pope of the Roman Catholic church?
St. Peter
Which element of Giotto's new style appears in the Madonna Enthroned?
Statuesque figures that cast shadows
In Berlinghieri's painting of Saint Francis, what physical feature in the image is meant to lead viewers to closely associate the saint with Christ?
Stigmata
Which medium is made with pigment mixed with egg?
Tempera
Which building was used in Brunelleschi's experiment?
The Florence Baptistry
Maniera Greca is an Italian term meaning _________________________.
The Greek Manner
Often synonymous with the Renaissance, who were great patrons of the arts in Florence?
The Medici family
The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?
The Salvation of Humanity
What principal Renaissance interest is embodied in Masaccio's Holy Trinity alongside realism based on observation?
The application of the new science of perspective
What is the subject of the frescoes commissioned for the Palazzo Pubblico by the Sienese government?
The civic life of the Sienese
Where in Italy did an admiration for classical art first reappear?
The court of Frederick II
In Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, which of the following elements is an allusion to fidelity?
The dog
In Ghiberti's Isaac and His Sons, the artist's study of ancient art is especially apparent in which detail?
The figure of Rebecca
In Jan van Eyck's Man in a Red Turban, we witness the return of what after 1000 years of nonuse?
The sitter looking directly at the viewer
In his David, how does Michelangelo break away from the self-containment of earlier standing statues?
Turning his head towards his adversary
In addition to spatial illusionism, what innovation appears in this painting by Pietro Lorenzetti?
Worldly Realism
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
The natural stance depicted by figures in this time period is referred to as what?
Contrapposto
What art historical term is used to describe the perspective effect achieved by Mantegna in this ceiling painting?
Di sotto in su
Which work derives some of its technical effects from the products of the silk trade in 13th- and 14th- century Italy?
Duccio's Maesta
What technical term do art historians apply to Giotto's treatment of the angels in this fresco?
Foreshortening
Which Dominican monk denounced the secular humanism of the Medici and others in the late 15th century?
Girolamo Savanorola
Simone Martini's rendition of Gabriel in the Annunciation may have been inspired by which contemporary phenomenon?
The etiquette of chivalric courts
What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?
The importance of creative individuals
Which classical reference is visible on Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac panel?
The naked figure of Isaac
