Art 1302 - Renaissance History

Who is known as the father of Western Pictorial Art?

-Giotto Pietro Cavallini Ambrogio Lorenzetti Cimabue

____ sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty three-dimensional body and the illusion of space to contain it.

-Giotto Simone Martini Pietro Cavallini Duccio

Peaceful Country by Ambrogio Lorenzetti is one of the first examples of a pure landscape in Western art since antiquity.

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In Giotto's Madonna Enthroned, what is different about Giotto's angels in comparison to Cimabue angels in his own Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets?

Giotto's angels are less important to the composition. Giotto's angels are vertically stacked to imply space -Giotto's angels stand on common ground, around the throne All of the above

Which artist embraced ideals of humanism in their painting?

Nicola Pisano Cimabue -Giotto Andrea Pisano

According to the text, who was one of the first artists to break away from the Italo-Byzantine tradition?

Nicola Pisano -Cimabue Andrea Pisano Giotto Bondone

Elements of Giotto's new style that appear in the Madonna Enthroned include ____

slender and fragile figures floating figures heavily patterned drapery -statuesque figures that cast shadows

Commissioned by the Sienese government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico address the ____.

the artists position to society guild feuds the plague -civic concerns of the Sienese

Why does Cimabue use gold embellishments common to byzantine art?

to add color to add naturalism to decorate the royal robe of the virgin -to enhance the 3-D of the virgins robe

Bontaventura Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece, 1235, marked the end of medieval painting in Italy.

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