ART 100 ch. 16 The Renaissance era

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During the Renaissance, vast changes were seen in the world of art. This "rebirth" or reawakening of the "arts" revived interest in which culture(s)?

Ancient Greek and Roman

The Renaissance artist ______ created works, such as Primavera, from stories about Greek and Roman gods and goddesses

Botticelli

What main purposes did the Limbourgs' illuminated prayer book known as Les Très Riches Heures serve?

Daily devotion Lives of nobility and peasantry

The Early Renaissance in Italy produced a well-known sculptor named Donatello. What is one of the works he created?

David

What statements describe the philosophy of humanism?

It revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman scholars. It focused on the abilities and accomplishments of mankind.

In Agnolo Bronzino's Allegory, Venus and Cupid are in the foreground, as mother and son, and suggests an unusual relationship. The elongated and S-shaped poses are reflective of

Mannerist or Mannerism

During the Renaissance, what response did works of art with Classical Greek and Roman subject matter receive?

They were especially popular and were commissioned for both secular and religious spaces.

What period of art history is most closely associated with a revived interest in the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome?

The Renaissance

What characteristics in Bronzino's Allegory, made it difficult for scholars to understand the allegory taking place?

There were too many figures in the artwork doing different things that were unusual, as in a man grabbing his head and a girl holding a sponge. There was a forbidden undertone in the painting. Venus and Cupid were mother and son, yet the interactions suggested a different relationship.

An artistic trend reflected in a fondness for elaborate or obscure subject matter in which critics described as a negative reaction against the balance and order used in the Renaissance is

mannerism

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello's teacher, was the first to design figures an architecture piece on the same scale so that the images in the foreground would look larger than those in the distance.

true

The word renaissance refers to the revival of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

true


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