Quiz: Renaissance Arts202

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

Alberti

In Masaccio's Trinity the vanishing point can be found at which of the following?

At the foot of the cross

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

What does the fountain created by Claus Sluter for the cloister of Chartreuse de Champmol symbolize?

Everlasting life

In the 15th century, the dukes of Burgundy wielded power over which of the following counties?

Flanders

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

Florence

Which of the following artists was the winner of the famous competition for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery?

Ghiberti

Which of the following artists specialized in images of the Madonna and Child?

Hans Memling

In Masaccio's Trinity he embodies two principal Renaissance interests. One is realism based on observation. Which of the following is the other?

It is the application of mathematics to pictorial organization of perspective.

____ created the first known Western portrait where the sitter looks directly at the viewer.

Jan van Eyck

Who was the noble patron who commissioned Les Très Riches Heures?

Jean, Duke of Berry

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife contains many symbols. Which of the following is an allusion to fidelity?

Little dog

Often synonymous with the Renaissance, the ____ were great art patrons.

Medici family

____ was the Dominican monk who denounced the secular humanism of the Medici and others.

Savonarola

In 1401, Ghiberti's entry won the competition for the design of the baptistery doors for the Florence Cathedral partially based stylistically on its ____.

a new spatial illusionism

The following phrase from Revelations, "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb," is depicted in which of the following?

altar of the lamb from the ghent altarpiece

The ____ were the most powerful northern European rulers during much of the 15th century.

dukes of Burgundy

Employed by Ghiberti on his Gates of Paradise, presenting several episodes ______ was a medieval narrative method.

in a single frame

In the calendar pages of Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, scenes of courtly life alternate with ____.

seasonal tasks

Enhancing its meaning, the Portinari Altarpiece contains small scenes, such as the ____, in the background.

the Arrival of the Magi