Chapter 21: The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy

Which artist departed from the convention of frontality by placing figures on a triangular base?

Antonio de Pollaiuolo

Which individual is the subject of this equestrian statue?

Bartolommeo Colleoni

Donatello revolutionized relief sculpture in his image of Saint George and the Dragon by doing what?

Creating an atmospheric effect with incised lines

Who created this statue of David for the Palazzo Medici?

Donatello

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

Florence

Which of the following artists was the winner of the famous competition for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery?

Ghiberti

In Four Crowned Saints, Nanni di Banco achieved a unified spatial composition by arranging the figures in what way?

In a semicircle

What factor allowed Ghiberti's entry to win the competition for the design of the baptistery doors for the Florence Cathedral?

Its spatial illusion

Author of the Commentaries, who is considered the first Renaissance art historian?

Lorenzo Ghiberti

This is the interior of which building by Brunelleschi?

Pazzi Chapel

Which of the following describes the style of Fra Angelico?

Simple and direct

In Ghiberti's Issac and His Sons, the artist's study of ancient art is especially apparent in which detail?

The figure of Rebecca

In Masaccio's Holy Trinity, where is the vanishing point?

At the foot of the cross

Which Florentine artist painted Primavera?

Botticelli

Which description best describes the work shown here?

Competition panel, San Giovanni

What art historical term is used to describe the perspective effect achieved by Mantegna in this ceiling painting?

Di sotto in sù

Which mode of thinking inspired the leading families and many artists of the Early Renaissance in Italy?

Humanism

Which figure sits isolated from the rest in Castagno's Last Supper?

Judas

Often synonymous with the Renaissance, who were great patrons of the arts in Florence?

Medici family

Which artist painted Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter?

Perugino

Which of the following artists shows the most interest in depicting the human body in violent action?

Signorelli

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to which artist?

Brunelleschi

Which artist introduced the contrapposto pose to Quattrocento sculpture in his representation of Saint Mark?

Donatello

What term do art historians use for the windows used by Brunelleschi in buildings such as San Lorenzo?

Oculus

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

Through modeling with a specific light source outside the picture