Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy Studyguide

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

A. By the placement of Judas on the same side as Christ and the other Disciples

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

A. Classical art

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?

A. Each figure was individualized.

Who was instrumental in transforming the Mantua court into an important center for art and learning?

A. Isabella d'Estte

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

A. Pantheon, Rome

Increasingly artists of the High Renaissance paid particular attention to the subject's personality and psychic state. This could also be said to describe the portraiture of which of the following artists?

A. Raphael

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

A. The chronology of Christianity

Which artist painted groups of soaring figures on the dome of Parma Cathedral that seemed to ascend through rings of clouds into the sky itself?

B. Correggio

Who commissioned the Tempietto?

B. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

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

B. Il Gesù

The Neo-Platonic ideals of the Medici circle were most congenial to the thinking of which of the following artists?

B. Michelangelo

The term terribilita is most often used to refer to ____?

B. Michelangelo

Leonardo's style fully emerges in the cartoon, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John. Which of the following describes this work?

B. The cartoon is ordered with pictorial logic and visual unity.

Which painter created dynamic compositions, often by means of swirling clouds and fitful light?

B. Tintoretto

How has Michelangelo portrayed David?

B. With stern watchfulness before the battle

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

C. A halo.

Which of the following was one of the favorite compositional devices of painters of the High Renaissance?

C. A pyramid

What is an Arcadian reverie?

C. Idyllic place of rural, rustic peace and simplicity

Of the following, who was one of the most important Roman patrons of Michelangelo?

C. Julius II

Which sculptor believed that the artist must proceed by first finding the idea-the image-locked in the stone and then release it by chipping away the stone?

A .Michelangelo

Leonardo painted the Virgin of the Rocks, and it is said this work is a masterpiece in expressing emotional states. He modeled the figures with light and shadow-- a technique he learned from earlier works. Which 15th century Italian artist would have influenced Leonardo?

C. Masaccio

Which of the following developed in 15th century Italy but fully matured in 16th century Italy?

C. Perspectival systems

Who was Raphael's teacher?

C. Perugino

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

C. Rome

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

C. The Counter-Reformation

In the scene, Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling God and Adam confront each other in the primordial void. Adam is part of the earth while the Lord transcends the earth. Which of the following interpretations best describes this depiction?

C. The humanist interpretation of the event

His remarkable sense of color and his ability to convey light through color emerge in the altarpiece, Assumption of the Virgin. Who was this artist?

C. Titian

Michelangelo's fascination with the human body was a lifelong pursuit. In his David he presented a perfect body with an attuned mind, prepared and ready for action. Which of the following descriptions of this work would support this statement?

D. It is a combination of athletic tension and psychological insight.

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

D. Paganism and Christianity

Sansovino was succeeded as chief architect of the Venetian republic by ____.

D. Palladio

Which of the following sculptural conventions did Michelangelo use for the figure of Moses in order to create an expression of "awful wrath"?

D. The bulging muscles and swollen veins of the figure

How did Michelangelo's David become a political statement?

D. The placement of figure near the west door of the Palazzo della Signoria


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