AH II Module 4

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

Pantheon, Rome

Who was the Venetian painter who created dynamic compositions, often by means of swirling clouds and fitful light?

Tintoretto

The robust and monumental figures of the Virgin and Child in Leonardo's Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John are reminiscent of ____.

Greek pedimental sculpture

In the Creation of Adam, Michelangelo fashioned the conception of God after ____.

Olympian deities

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

Il Gesù

Visible in his David, rather than concentrating his efforts on ideal beauty, the artist Michelangelo focused on ____.

pent-up emotion

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

the encounter before the battle

Michelangelo went beyond self-contained statues in his David by ____.

turning his head

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

The chronology of Christianity

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

A halo

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

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

The artist of the Assumption in Parma's Cathedral, ____ greatest contribution was illusionistic ceiling perspective paintings.

Correggio's

In Leonardo's Last Supper, the numerous preparatory sketches and studies he made for the work indicate how carefully he thought about this 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?

Each figure was individualized.

Who commissioned the Tempietto?

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

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

Humanism and Christianity

____ was the most influential church building in the later cinquecento.

Il Gesù

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

Isabella d'Este

Leonardo's use of light and dark in the Madonna of the Rocks built on the work of the artist ____.

Masaccio

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

Reflecting the influence of ____, Raphael included his portrait in the reflection in his painting of Pope Leo X.

Netherlandish art

____ influenced Raphael's perspective system in his Marriage of the Virgin.

Perugino

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

Rome

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

The Counter-Reformation

After Bellini's death in 1516, ____ became the official painter of the Republic of Venice.

Titian

The term Accadian landscape, as seen in Bellini's Feast of the Gods, refers to ____.

an idyllic place

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

classical art

In his representation of Pope Leo X, Raphael did not portray him as head of state, but rather as a ____.

man of learning and a collector

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

placement of the figures on a steep diagonal

In his Assumption of the Virgin, Titian used ____ to create intensity and drama.

vibrant color

The cleaning of Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling initially shocked art historians because it revealed ____.

vivid colors