Multiple Choice (593-633)

What architect wrote influential treatises on painting and architecture?

Alberti

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

_____ took a fundamental step forward in his representation of Saint Mark by the contrapposto pose.

Donatello

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

Florence

Who was the Dominican painter-friar who combined elements of the new style of art with traditional religious devotional works that did not conflict with the content of the works?

Fra Angelico

The 15th-century Italian artist whose work showed the most influential of the international style was ____

Gentile da Fabriano

What artist was the winner of the famous competition for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery?

Ghiberti

In Masaccio's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, Adam's feet clearly come into contact with the ground. What is the interpretation?

It marks the human presence on earth

Author of the Commentaries, ____ is considered the first Renaissance art historian

Lorenzo Ghiberti

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

Medici family

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

Pazzi Chapel

By placing figures on a triangular base, ____ departed from the convention of frontality

Pollaiuolo

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

Savonarola

What event is responsible for the decline in the role Florence played in the support of the arts at the end of the 15th century?

Savonarola's brief span of power

What artist was most interested in depicting the human body in violent action?

Signorelli

Ghiberti's competitive panel for the Baptistery doors of the Florence Cathedral shows classical references that reflect influences of humanism. Name a classical reference seen on Ghiberti's panel?

The naked figure of Isaac

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

In Masaccio's Trinity there is a coffered barrel-vault reminiscent of ____

a Roman triumphal arch

Although tied to International Gothic style conventions, among the naturalistic details found in the Adoration of the Magi are ____

animals seen from a variety of angles and convincing foreshadowing

Which of the following artists actively collected Classical sculpture? a. Nanni di Banco b. Ghiberti c. Brunelleschi d. Gentile da Fabriano

b. Ghiberti

By ____ Donatello revolutionized relief sculpture in his image of Saint George Slaying the Dragon.

creating an atmospheric effect using incised lines

In Ghiberti's Isaac and His Sons, the artist's study of ancient art is especially apparent in the ____

figure of Rebecca

Nanni di Banco achieved a unified spatial composition by placing the figures _____ and in relation to one another.

in a semicircle

Employed by Ghiberti on his Gates of Paradise, presenting several episodes ____ was a medieval narrative method.

in a single frame

In 1401, Ghiberti's entry won the competition for the design of the baptistery doors for the Florence Cathedral partially based stylistically on its ____

new spatial illusionism

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

painting techniques

What describes the style of Fra Angelico?

simple and direct

In Masaccio's Trinity he embodies two principle Renaissance interests. One is realism based on observation. The other is _____

the application of the new science of perspective

In Masaccio's Trinity the vanishing point can be found at ____

the foot of the cross

In Perugino's Christ delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, the artist has reminded the viewer of the link around Constantine, Saint Peter, and the basilica of Saint Peter. What is used as a reminder?

the triumphal arches in the background

The duke of Mantua commissioned the frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi from Mantegna for what purposes?

to glorify himself and his family