art history test 1

Often synonymous with the Renaissance, the ____ were great art patrons.

Medici family

Which artist was known as being difficult to work with?

Michelangelo

Which artist's assertion of his authority anticipated modern concepts of the artist?

Michelangelo

Why were the subjects muscular in the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings?

Michelangelo likely used male models.

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

Pantheon, Rome

____ was one of the first Renaissance buildings conceived as a central-plan structure.

Pazzi Chapel

The School of Athens shows all but:

modern clothing.

Inspiration for the form of Claus Sluter's Well of Moses may have come from ____.

mystery plays

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

A halo

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

Alberti

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 of the following was Philip the Bold of Burgundy's grandest artistic enterprise?

Chartreuse de Champmol

Which of the following artists specialized in images of the Madonna and Child?

Hans Memling

In Jan Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, why, most likely, is Arnolfini holding up his right hand?

He is making a vow

Although women had many limitations as artists, ____ demonstrated the important role women played as art patrons.

Isabella d'Este

In Masaccio's Trinity the vanishing point can be found at which of the following?

At the foot of the cross

One of the most important trading cities of 15th-century Netherlands was ____.

Bruges

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

The Hundred Years War primarily involved which two kingdoms?

England and France

Who commissioned the Tempietto?

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

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

Florence

Which two entities divided the Burgundian territories after the death of Charles the Bold?

France and the Holy Roman Empire

Which panel for the compotition for the east doors of the Florentine Cathedral had the first nude depiction since antiquity?

Ghiberti

The robust and monumental figures of the Virgin and Child in Leonardo's Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John are reminiscent of

Greek pedimental sculpture

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

Il Gesù

____ was the most influential church building in the later cinquecento.

Il Gesù

The Nuremberg Chronicle is a tribute to the new craft of the printed illustrated book. What was the content of the Nuremberg Chronicle?

It was the history of the world.

The major center for artistic development in the High Renaissance was

Rome

____ was the Dominican monk who denounced the secular humanism of the Medici and others.

Savonarola

What element of Veit Stoss's style recalled the design principles of Late Gothic architecture?

Sharp forms that dart in a flamelike fashion

Why was the Mona Lisa groundbreaking?

She is looking right at the viewer.

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

The chronology of Christianity

How did Masaccio create a sense of bulk for his figures in the Tribute Money?

Through modeling with a specific light source outside the picture

Who was the Venetian painter who created dynamic compositions, often by means of swirling clouds and fitful light?

Tintoretto

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

classical art

Masaccio's Tribute Money is a(n) ______.

continuous narrative

The ____ were the most powerful northern European rulers during much of the 15th century.

dukes of Burgundy

In the treatment of space and narrative, Ghiberti's Isaac and his Sons recall ____.

painting techniques

A great achievement of the Les Très Riches Heures was that it made manuscripts more closely resemble ____.

panel paintings

Visible in his David, rather than concentrating his efforts on ideal beauty, the artist Michelangelo focused on ____.

pent-up emotion

The cleaning of Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling initially shocked art historians because it revealed

vivid colors