Fine Arts Midterm Study Questions
Tempera
Before oil colors became popular, which medium was popular in painting?
The Platonic Academy
Besides the library, which other institution for learning and philosophy did the Medici's install in Florence?
Geometry, math, poetry (Lead to 'Universal Man')
Besides training their individual skills as architects, sculptures, and painters, what else did artists at the platonic academy learn?
Baroque
Caravaggio painted this, he was the greatest painter of what period?
Michelangelo
Did Signorelli influence Leonardo di Vinci or Michelangelo?
stress
Did the Renaissance stress of neglect the importance of the individual?
Pontormo
Name a mannerist painter?
Giotto
Name a proto-renaissance painter?
Uffizi Gallery
Name the picture gallery in Florence?
The Mint and The State Library
Name the two buildings by Sansovino on St. Mark's Square?
The Tomb Monument for Pope Julius II
The Moses by Michelangelo is one of only three completed statues for which project?
St. Francis of Assisi
The preaching of which monk humanized religion and drew attention to the beauty of the world?
Condottiero
The subject of the equestrian monument by Verrocchio in Venice is what?
Di Sotto in Sù
The technique of representing perspective in ceiling paintings is called? (Mantegna, Ceiling of the Camera)
Chiaroscuro
The use of light and dark gradation in painting is called?
Donatello's Gattamelata
This is Verrocchio's Bartolommeo Colleoni in Venice-what should you compare it to?
The Human Figure
This is a typical mannerist painter because it is most concerned with what?
Donatello
This is more open, turned outwards, fresh appearance, bold look, body of a young boy, as compared to who's David?
Sistine Chapel Michelangelo
This is the ceiling of the ________ painted by __________.
Donatello
This is the first freestanding statue. Who sculpted it?
Reclining Nude
This is the first of what type (subject matter) of painting?
Bramante, Centrally Planned
This is the original plan of New St. Peter's. Who designed it and what is this type of planning called?
Venice
This is typical art from what region of Italy?
Mannerism
This is typical for what style?
Michelangelo
This is very heavy and melancholy, who was that typical for?
San Giorgio Maggiore
What Venetian church did Palladio design?
Very Clear
What about the outline of these figures is very typical for the early renaissance?
The Canopy, St. Peter's
What and where is this?
Arcade
What are a series of arches called?
Colonnade
What are a series of columns supporting the upper story called? (Like around the courtyard of St. Peter's)
pediments
What are the triangles over the windows called?
Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella
What are the two important churches in Florence other than the Cathedral? (One is shown here!)
Perspective and Geometry
What are two important things to notice in this painting?
Piero della Francesca
What artist during the early Renaissance was known for his expertise and precise use of geometry?
Pantheon
What building in Rome is this modeled after?
Santa Maria Novella (Florence)
What building is this?
Villa Rotonda
What building is this?
The Mint (left) and State Library (right)
What buildings are these?
Cornaro Chapel
What chapel is this?
Sant Ignazio
What church is this in?
St. Peter's
What church is this?
Santa Maria Novella by Alberti
What church was the inspiration for the volutes on the side?
Padua
What city is the Arena Chapel in?
Venice
What city is this in?
Florence
What city is this statue located in?
Italy
What country was the renaissance style launched in?
signed it
What did he do to this statue that was special?
The Fifteenth Century Italian Art (1400s)
What does Quattrocento mean? (Ex. Masaccio's Tribute Money)
man in bonds of sin
What does this statue symbolize?
Perugino's Christ Delivering The Keys of The Kingdom
What early renaissance painting should you compare this to?
Medici
What family opened the Platonic Academy?
Medici
What family opened the first library since antiquity?
Medici
What family were the most lavish patrons of art and learning?
Colossal (Giant) Order
What important architectural feature was introduced with this building?
Holy Trinity Fresco
What important fresco is here?
A human brain
What is God and the people around him in the shape of?
Colossal Order
What is a a column that spans more than one story called?
Tondo
What is a circular painting or relief called (Here is the famous one called Michelangelo, called the Doni _____)?
Pilaster
What is a flat vertical member projecting slightly from the wall is called?
Campanile
What is a freestanding bell tower in Italy called?
Grisaille
What is a painting in gray tones to imitate sculpture called? (Used in the background of Birth of the Virgin by Domenico Ghirlandaio)
Cartoon
What is a sketch like preliminary drawing of a painting called?
Sfumato
What is a soft, smoky modeling called? (Used in Raphael's Madonna with the Goldfinch)
Intarsia
What is a wooden inlay work called? (This is not a figure, only an example)
The Medici Tombs
What is an example of a sculpted wall tomb?
Pediment
What is an ornamental triangle over a window called (inspired by Greek temples)?
tondo
What is art in this shape called?
The Holy Trinity Fresco
What is he painted wall tomb by Massacio called?
proportions are off
What is important about the figures?
It's very individual (Like Roman times again!)
What is important about this bust?
Humanization of Religion
What is important about this painting? (Based on the fact that members of a prominent family are featured in it?
Beginning of the 3/4 face instead of just the profile
What is interesting about the position of the head?
It's one of Three Panels (now all separated)
What is interesting about the way this formatted?
Cut off on the side (Typical for mannerism)
What is interesting of the framing of this picture?
Secularization
What is it called to combine everyday life (real life) with a religious scene? (Ex. Birth of the Virgin by Domenico Ghirlandaio)
Grisaille
What is it called when paintings are painted all gray to look like sculpture or relief?
Coffered Ceiling
What is it called when the ceiling is decorated with sunken ornamental panels?
Geometry (it all fits into a square, top part fits into a quarter of the square)
What is special about this particular building's design?
Weirdly proportioned, child looks dead (reminds of a pieta), distorted perspective
What is strange about this painting?
The late gothic in Italy
What is the Proto-Renaissance?
Pastoral, Arcadian
What is the atmosphere that the Venetian painters have, because of their love for nature?
Golden Legend
What is the collection of stories of the saints by Jacobus de Voragine called (Many paintings were made from these stories, for example the Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael)?
Coffered (Barrel Vault)
What is the design on the ceiling called? (Interior of Sant Andrea designed by Albert)
The Human Figure
What is the exclusive subject of the mannerist painters? (Madonna with the Long Neck by Parmigianino)
Perspective
What is the most important technique to notice in this painting?
Humanization of Religion
What is the most important thing about this painting, based on the fact that the painter painted his wife and his child's faces as those of Mary and Jesus?
Savonarola
What is the name of the extreme dominican monk who preached in Florence against the wordiness of the Medici family?
Cartoon
What is the name of this drawing?
Fountain of the Four Rivers
What is the name of this fountain in Rome?
Battle of San Romano
What is the name of this painting?
Birth of Venus
What is the name of this painting?
Birth of the Virgin
What is the name of this painting?
Last Supper
What is the name of this painting?
Madonna with the Goldfinch
What is the name of this painting?
Mona Lisa
What is the name of this painting?
Virgin of the Rocks
What is the name of this painting?
Sfumato
What is the smoke like haziness that softens the paintings called? (Used in the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci)
Philosophy (School of Athens)
What is the subject matter of Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura?
St. Peter
What is the subject matter of the Brancacci Chapel (Where Tribute Money is located-it's someone with Jesus in this painting!)?
The Last Judgment
What is the subject of the altar wall in the Sistine Chapel?
three scenes of the creation of matter God, three scenes of the creation and fall of man, three scenes of Noah (But he painted it backwards)
What is the subject of the ceiling Fresco in the Sistine Chapel?
Fresco
What is the technique that Raphael used for the Stanza della Segnatura?
cornice
What is the top part along the roof called?
cornice
What is the top part of a renaissance building with elaborate moulding called?
Tenebrism
What is the violent contrast of light and dark used here by Caravaggio called?
contrapposto
What is the way he is standing called?
En Face
What is the word for a full face portrait? (Such as this portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael)
Sistine Chapel
What is this a picture of?
Baroque Ceiling Fresco
What is this a typical example of?
Pieta
What is this called/is an example of?
Abduction of the Sabine Women
What is this called?
Bound Slave
What is this called?
Dying Slave
What is this called?
Ecstasy of St. Theresa
What is this called?
Last Supper
What is this called?
Miracle of the Slave
What is this called?
Moses
What is this called?
San Giorgio Maggiore
What is this called?
Il Gesù
What is this church in Rome called?
Calling of St. Matthew
What is this painted "called"?
Death of the Virgin
What is this painted called?
Portrait of a Young Man
What is this painted called?
Annunciation
What is this painting called?
Christ Delivering The Keys of The Kingdom
What is this painting called?
Conversion of St. Paul
What is this painting called?
Damned Cast Into Hell
What is this painting called?
Descent from the Cross
What is this painting called?
Flagellation of Christ
What is this painting called?
Glorification of St. Ignatius
What is this painting called?
Madonna and Child With Angels
What is this painting called?
Madonna of the Pesaro Family
What is this painting called?
Marriage of the Virgin
What is this painting called?
Pastoral Symphony
What is this painting called?
Philosophy (School of Athens)
What is this painting called?
Proving of the True Cross
What is this painting called?
Sacred and Profane Love
What is this painting called?
Creation of Adam
What is this painting on the ceiling of the sistine chapel called?
Doni Tondo
What is this painting, the only panel painting by Michelangelo, called?
Last Judgement
What is this scene of?
David
What is this statue by Bernini of?
David
What is this statue called?
baroque ceiling frescos
What is this the first step towards?
Frog's eye view (di Sotto in Sú)
What is this view called?
Capitoline Hill
What is this?
Museo Capitolino
What is this?
The Chair of St. Peter
What is this?
The Papal Staircase (Scala Regia)
What is this?
The Vatican
What is this?
profile
What kind of portraiture was common during the early renaissance?
Bronze from the Pantheon
What material is this?
Madonna with the Long Neck
What painting is this?
Venus of Urbino
What painting is this?
High Renaissance
What period does it belong to?
Early Renaissance
What period does this belong to?
High Renaissance
What period does this belong to?
Early Renaissance
What period does this building belong to?
Early Renaissance
What period does this painting belong to?
Mannerism
What period is this?
Di Sotto in Su
What perspective is this?
the temple front and the triumphal arch (barrel vault above)
What roman motifs are used on this building?
Triangle
What shape are the figures arranged in?
Baroque
What style is this?
Mannerism
What style is this?
Fresco
What technique did Giotto use to decorate the Arena Chapel?
Oil on Wood
What technique did Leonardo da Vinci use to paint this?
Chiaroscuro
What technique of light and dark is this a great example of?
Fresco
What technique was used to paint this Baroque Ceiling Fresco by Fra Andrea Pozzo?
Grisaille and intarsia
What techniques are used in the background of this painting that make it look like sculpture and inlaid wood?
Early Renaissance
What time period does this painting belong to?
Religious and Secular
What two things are mixed in the subject matter of this painting?
Oil paint and it started peeling before he was alive
What type of paint did he use for this and what happened to it?
The Foundling Hospital (Orphanage)
What was Brunelleschi's first building he designed by himself?
The Human Figure
What was Michelangelo's one and only subject manner (like Mannerism)?
Baroque Ceiling Frescos
What was the di sotto in sū perspective used by Mantegna for the Ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi a basis for?
The Four River Fountain
What was the largest fountain that Bernini designed for Rome?
Pope Julius' Tomb in St. Peters (Ended up in another church)
What was the originally designed for?
Humanism
What was the philosophy of living in this world developed during the Renaissance called?
Style
What word is used to refer to the time period of a painting? (Hint: Also a name of one of this girl's songs)
Triangular Shape
What's important about how the figures are arranged?
Strong Horizontal
What's important about the lines on this building?
capitals are different on each floor
What's interesting about the pilasters on this building?
Some are unnatural colors
What's weird about the bodies in this painting?
Rome
Which city succeeds Florence as the center of art and culture in Italy in the High Renaissance?
Florence
Which city took cultural command of Italy in the first half of the 15th century?
Marble
Which material did Michelangelo prefer for his sculptural works?
Oil on Wood
Which medium did Leonardo choose to paint the Mona Lisa?
Oil on Wood
Which medium did Leonardo di Vinci apply for his compositions?
The High Alter at St. Peter's in Rome
Which monument is entitled Cathedra Petri?
The Canopy
Which monument marks the pope's alter as well as St. Peter's tomb?
Pieta (His first-before the turn of the century)
Which of Michelangelo's works is located in St. Peter's in Rome?
Piero della Francesca
Which painter illustrated the story of the proving of the true cross?
The Capitoline Hill
Which site in Rome, once the center of the pagan Roman empire, was reorganized by Michelangelo?
Baroque
Which style was Pozzo's fresco?
Style
Which term was introduced to describe the certain features of an artwork in a particular time period?
His Tomb Monument (With Moses, Bound Slave, Dying Slave on it, was designed for St. Peters ended up in San Pietro in Vincoli)
Which was the first commission that Pope Julius II came to Michelangelo?
Andrea Palladio
Who built this?
Michelangelo
Who came up with the final design for this church?
Brunelleschi
Who completed the Florentine cathedral by adding the huge dome?
Masaccio
Who created a painted wall tomb (The Holy Trinity Fresco)?
Ghiberti
Who created the two doors of the Florentine Baptistry?
Andrea Palladio
Who designed the Villa Rotonda and the San Giorgio Maggiore?
Alberti
Who designed the church of San Andrea in Mantua?
Bernini
Who designed the colonnade?
Alberti
Who designed this building?
Bernini
Who designed this fountain (The Four River Fountain?
Bernini
Who designed this statue of David?
Alberti
Who designed this?
Andrea Palladio
Who designed this?
Bernini
Who designed this?
Michelangelo
Who designed this?
Sansovino
Who designed this?
Signorelli
Who did Michelangelo admire for his ability to put human figures in different positions?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who drew this?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who else painted a Last Super scene, other than this one by Tintoretto?
Caravaggio
Who initiated the Baroque Style in painting?
Mantegna
Who introduced the di sotto in sū perspective?
Piero della Francesca
Who is Frau Loos' favorite painter from this period that you should never ever forget? (Oh, and he painted this)
Michelangelo
Who is in the high Renaissance section of this book, but according to Frau Loos does not represent the high renaissance, instead is much closer to Mannerism or Baroque?
Perugino
Who is one painter who was involved in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel Walls
Saint Ignatius
Who is the Sant Ignazio church dedicated to?
David
Who is this a sculpture of?
Marcus Aurelius, Capitoline Hill
Who is this and where is it?
Raphael
Who pained this?
Fra Andrea Pozzo
Who painted illusionistic ceiling frescos in Sant Ignazio?
Raphael
Who painted the Stanza della Segnatura in the papal apartments?
Signorelli
Who painted the fresco cycle in San Brizo Chapel in Orvieto (The Damned Cast to Hell)?
Leonardo da Vinci and Tintoretto
Who painted the two last supper scenes?
Botticelli
Who painted this (and was also the favorite painter of The Platonic School)?
Michelangelo
Who painted this chapel?
Botticelli
Who painted this?
Bronzino
Who painted this?
Caravaggio
Who painted this?
Fra Andrea Pozzo
Who painted this?
Fra Angelico
Who painted this?
Fra Fillipo Lippi
Who painted this?
Giorgione or Titian
Who painted this?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who painted this?
Michelangelo
Who painted this?
Piero della Francesca
Who painted this?
Pontormo
Who painted this?
Raphael
Who painted this?
Tintoretto
Who painted this?
Titian
Who painted this?
Uccello
Who painted this?
Bernini
Who sculpted this?
Michelangelo
Who sculpted this?
Verrocchio
Who sculpted this?
Perugino
Who was Raphael's teacher?
Botticelli
Who was the Platonic Academy's favorite painter?
Giotto
Who was the artistic forerunner of Masaccio?
Julius II
Who was the commissioner of New St. Peter's?
Brunelleschi
Who was the most important architect for the beginning of the Renaissance (he designed the Foundling Hospital, the dome of the Florence Cathedral...)?
Masaccio
Who was the most important painter for the beginning of the Renaissance (Painted The Holy Trinity Fresco, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, and Tribute Money)?
Donatello
Who was the most important sculptor for the beginning of the Renaissance (Designed this David, Gattamelata in Padua)?
Alberti (Colossal Order, Triumphal Arch, Decoration in three stories like the coliseum)
Who was the most influential architect of the second half of the 15th century?
The only panel painting by Michelangelo
Why is the Doni Tondo so significant?
It has lots of figures so it's easier to paint (he didn't like Fresco and lots of figures allowed him to do one at a time)
Why would Michelangelo have liked painting this?
Oil Paint
People used to use something like this kind of paint (tempera) to paint. What does it get replaced by?
Carefully Observe
Did Renaissance artists neglect the optical world or carefully observe it?
Leonardo da Vinci
How do you spell the name of the person who painted the Mona Lisa?
Raphael
How do you spell the name of the person who painted the School of Athens (with all the philosophers and painters and historical figures!)
San Lorenzo
In which Florentine church is the New Sacristy (Medici Chapel)?
San Pietro in Vincoli
In which church is Michelangelo's Moses located?
economy (trade)
In which field did Italians come into contact with non-European civilization?
painting (fresco, panel painting)
In which medium did Fra Angelico excel?
Sant Andrea
What building is this?
Moses
Who is this a statue of?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who pained this?
San Lorenzo
Which church did Brunelleschi design for the Medicis?
Michelangelo
How do you spell the name of the sculptor who did the most famous 'David', among other things like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Centrally
How is the building in the background planned?
Centrally
How is the new St. Peter's planned originally?
Centrally Octogon
How is this planned and what shape is it?
Glazed Terracotta
In which technique did Luca della Robbia and family specialize?
What is the style of this painting?
Jeopardy time! If the answer to the painting is 'Baroque', what is the question?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael was inspired by who to paint this?
della Robbia
The family name of the workshop that specialized in glazed terracotta works?
sfumato
The figures in Madonna with the Goldfinch are a little hazy, what is this technique called?
San Francesco, Arezzo
Where do you find the most important work by Piero della Francesca?
Padua
Where is Gattamelata?
Venice
Where is Verrocchio's equestrian monument "Bartolommeo Colleoni" located?
Rome
Where is the mother church of the Jesuit order located?
St. Peter's
Where is this located (building, not city)?
Cornaro Chapel
Where is this located?
St. Peter's
Where is this?
Venice
Where is this?
The Sistine Chapel (Christ Delivering The Keys of The Kingdom)
Where would you find a fresco by Perugino?
Uccello
Which Florentine painter of the first half of the 15th century was into the foreshortening perspective?
Venice
Which Italian city besides Florence and Rome was important during the Renaissance?
Mannerism
Which anti-classical style succeeded the high Renaissance? (Focus on the human figure! This is The Last Supper by Tintoretto)
Bramante
Which architect first designed the plan for new St. Peter's?
Alberti
Which architect reintroduced the barrel vault in his church San Andrea in Mantua?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which artist introduced the high Renaissance style?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which artist invented the scientific drawing?
Raphael
Which artist of the high renaissance painted the marriage of the virgin?
second half of the 15th Century
Which century was the Sistine Chapel built?
