Art History Chapter 20: The Reniassance

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

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

How has Michelangelo portrayed David?

With stern watchfulness before the battle

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

a pyramid

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

Classical art

What is an Arcadian reverie?

Idyllic place of rural, rustic peace and simplicity

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

It portrays informal intimacy.

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

Rome

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?

The cartoon is ordered with pictorial logic and visual unity.