Art History 2 - Unit 1A

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

Alberti

The personal tastes of the court of Francis I ran to the elegant, erotic, and unorthodox. Which of the following styles would most appeal to this king and his court?

mannerism

Which of the following were members of the Guild of St. Luke?

painters

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

perspectival systems

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry like many Books of Hours contains a calendar. This section of this manuscript in particular depicts which of the following?

seasonal tasks of peasants and the royal court

In Masaccio's Trinity there is a coffered barrel-vault reminiscent of which of the following?

A Roman triumphal arch

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

A pyramid

In the later part of the 1400s in Italy, which of the following artist demonstrated his ability with pictorial illusion, perspective including unique points of view and foreshortening, but late in his career tempered naturalism with artistic license to achieve greater emotional impact.

Andrea Mantegna

In Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs, the artist has depicted the Netherlandish obsession with proverbs. The scene is busy with a topsy-turvy multiplicity of figures and activities. It is reminiscent of which of the following artists?

Bosch

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

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 first known northern European self-portrait by a woman is purportedly by which of the following?

Caterina van Hemessen

Which of the following was Philip the Bold of Burgundy's most significant commission?

Chartreuse de Champmol (including the Well of Moses)

El Greco's unique personal styles shows influences of all except which listed below?

Classical Greek

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

Classical art

The Classical principle of contrapposto, or weight shift, was reintroduced into Western art by the sculptor ____.

Donatello

The Hundred Years War involved primarily which two kingdoms?

England and France

Hans Holbein, a master portraitist, combines realism with monumental composition and sculpturesque form. Which of the following earlier traditions does this describe?

Flemish and Italian

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

Florence

In the Assumption of the Virgin, Riemenschneider successfully incorporated which of these elements?

Gothic intricacy

Which of the following artists specialized in portraiture in the 16th century?

Hans Holbein

Who was dean of the painters' guild of Ghent that worked for Tommaso Portinari creating an altarpiece that would influence artists in Florence after it was installed in the family chapel.

Hugo van der Goes

What is an Arcadian reverie?

Idyllic place of rural, rustic peace and simplicity

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.

How does the Portrait of the Artist's Sisters and Brother by Sofonisba Anguissola differ from her contemporaries?

It portrays informal intimacy.

Which of the following artists painted portraits in secular rather than religious context?

Jan van Eyck

Looking at the text image of the inner courtyard of the Palazzo del Tè, Romano departs from classical design. In what architectural elements can you see the departure?

Keystones, voussoirs slip or are misplaced; pediments top rectangular niches rather than arches

Which of the following artist's painting was significant for the prominence of the landscape and it depiction of an actual site?

Konrad Witz

In the mid-late 1400s, media, artistic techniques and visual characteristics seen earlier in the 1400s in the Northern Renaissance began being used by Italian artists. The False statment is......

Large scale bronze equestrian statues were common among Flemish and French dukes before appearing in Italy in the later part of the 1400s.Large scale bronze equestrian statues were common among Flemish and French dukes before appearing in Italy in the later part of the 1400s.

In Dürer's The Great Piece of Turf, he has created a precise and scientifically accurate rendering of a small botanical landscape. Which of the following artists also heeded this notion of "observation yielded truth"?

Leonardo

Which of the following artists discovered the technique of producing glazed terracotta reliefs creating an inexpensive, durable artform for persons of modest means?

Luca Della Robbia

Which of the following was the most prominent patron of 15th-century Florentine art?

Medici family

The term terribilita is most often used to refer to____?

Michelangelo

The Palazzo Medici-Riccardi illustrates Italian Renaissance architects use of classical elements in secular architecture. This type of building will influence latter buildings designed in the Renaissance period and following......The False statment is...

Michelozzo, in fact, is faithfully executing an exact reproduction of the insula or apartment buildings of Rome.

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

Pantheon, Rome

Like Konrad Witz in the 1400s, what Flemish artists gave prominence to the landscape over the story or made it part of the story?

Patinir and Bruegel

Which of Brunelleschi's buildings comes the closest to the centralized plan loved by Renaissance architects?

Pazzi Chapel

It is said the Escorial is an expression of simplicity of form and streamlined clarity of surfaces and it represents the character of its royal patron. Who was the patron?

Philip II

Which of the following artists traveled to Italy yet chose not to incorporate classical elements into his work?

Pieter Bruegel

Who is the artist that did a series of six paintings showing seasonal changes?

Pieter Bruegel

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

Pope Julius II

The MAJOR center for artistic development in the High Renaissance was ____. Many cities saw artistic activity, but where are most of the work, patrons and artists?

Rome

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

Tintoretto

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?

Titian

In the engraving Knight, Death, and the Devil, the mounted Christian knight displays a monumental strength and character reminiscent of which of the following Italian artists/sculptors?

Verrocchio

Martin Schongauer was the master of what new technique developed in the mid-1400s in northern Europe.

engraving

Recent scholarship has indicated that many of the images of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights are most likely based on which of the following?

alchemical symbolism

Ghiberti's panel "Issac and His Sons" demonstrates his understanding of depicting space in relief sculpture. Which artistic device did he not use?

by hatching to create value and texture in the metal plate

The Portinari Altarpiece particularly influenced Ghirlandaio and other Florentine artists with the representation of what?

the incredible realism in representing human character and emotion

Michelangelo's architecture of the Laurentian Library abandoned many of the classical "rules of architecture". Which is NOT an example of how?

the use of the orders