Chapter 16: The Renaissance

The era known as the High Renaissance encompasses a time period of about ________ years.

25

The Sistine Chapel ceiling took Michelangelo and his assistants ______________ to complete.

4 years

What Northern Renaissance artist traveled to Italy and attempted to fuse Italian ideas and discoveries with the Northern love of meticulous observation?

Albrecht Durer

While the Greeks know how bodies looked on the outside, Michelangelo knew how they looked on the inside, how they worked, because of his study of ____________ and dissecting corpses.

Anatomy

The Protestant Reformation drew large numbers of people away from the Roman Catholic Church. The ___________________ aimed to preserve what strength the church still had in the south and recover lost ground in the north.

Catholic Counter-Reformation

In the Early Renaissance _______________ sculpted his David, which was the first full-round nude sculpture to be made since antiquity.

Donatello

Religious art of the Northern Renaissance could be harsh in it's ___________________.

Emotionalism

Instead of working in the established ___________ method, Leonardo devised his own medium , sadly dooming the Last Supper to centuries of restoration.

Fresco

Along the central spine of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the painted architecture frames a series of nine spaces within which Michelangelo painted scenes from the Old Testament book of ________________.

Genesis

The _____________________________, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung in the chapel of a hospital devoted to the treatment of illnesses of the skin.

Isenheim Altarpiece

One result of the Protestant Reformation was that Northern Renaissance artists increasingly turned to the everyday world around them for subject matter. One of the most fruitful subjects they began to explore was ______________.

Landscape

The artistic trend from the Late Renaissance that interests art historians the most is ______________, of which Bronzino's Allegory and Anguissola's Self-Portrait at the Easel are examples.

Mannerism

_____________ sought to present the scene of Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors in as convincing an illusion as possible that the sacred scene was really present before the viewer.

Masaccio

The reconciliation between Classical culture and its relationship to Christianity gave rise to a philosophy known as ________________.

Neo-Platonism

Renaissance artists saw ________________and _______________ as God's gifts, part of humankind's inherent dignity.

Reason and creativity

The word renaissance means ___________________, and refers to the revival of interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture that is a key characteristic of the period.

Rebirth

The broken lute string in the painting _________________, highlights the discord of a Europe no longer in harmony because of the movement known as the Reformation.

The Ambassadors

The Northern Renaissance fondness for detail can be seen in February, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, painted by ___________________.

The Limbourg Brothers

While Michelangelo was working on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Raphael was painting his fresco, ________________ in the private library of Pope Julius II.

The School of Athens

Key elements of The Last Supper by ____________, the dramatic use of light, the theatricality, the heightened emotionalism and the diagonal composition, became part of a style soon to be taken up during the Baroque

Tintoretto