renaissance
Which of the following is NOT true of Campin's Merode Altarpiece?
Campin painted himself kneeling in prayer in the panel on the left.
Identify the artist, title and date of this image.
Claus Sluter The Well of Moses c. 1395-1405
The Palazzo Rucellai is similar to which Ancient Roman structure?
Colosseum
Each floor of the Palazzo Rucellai served a different purpose. Please match the floors to their purpose.
The Palazzo Rucellai had four floors: the first was where the family conducted their business; the second floor, or piano nobile, was where they received guests; the third floor contained the family's private apartments; and a hidden fourth floor, which had few windows and is invisible from the street, was where the servants lived.
Which of the following is NOT true of Sluter's Well of Moses?
The Well of Moses was left unpainted by Sluter, who wanted to emphasize the timelessness of the stone.
Which of the following is NOT true of Michelangelo's ceiling for the Sistine Chapel?
The architectural framing that we see surrounding the central scenes is the only real element on the ceiling, the remainder is paint.
Which of the following is NOT true of Mantegna's Dead Christ?
The artist perfectly executed the foreshortening of the body of Christ.
Which of the following is NOT true of Masaccio's Holy Trinity?
The barrel vault with coffers recalls the architecture of Ancient Egypt.
Which of the following is NOT true of the sibyls?
The body of the Libyan Sybil twists in a complex pose that is typical of the High Renaissance.
Which of the following is NOT true of Donatello's St. Mark and its location in Orsanmichele?
The bottom of the niche was near the ground so that St. Mark would be eye-level with the viewer.
Which of the following is NOT true of Brunelleschi's dome?
The bricks are hollow and therefore counter the downward and outward thrust of the dome.
Which of the following is NOT true of Claus Sluter and Claus de Werve's Tomb of Philip the Bold?
The figures of the Mourners originally decorated the walls of the funerary chapel.
What best explains the apparently tilted floor in Fra Anglelico's Annunication?
The fresco's position at the top of a stairway
Why did the Florentine architects have a such a difficult time constructing the dome for the cathedral?
The knowledge for how to vault such a wide space had been lost during the Middle Ages. The city could not get enough lumber at the appropriate sizes to construct the wooden scaffolding to make the dome in a traditional way.
Which of the following is NOT true of Donatello's David?
The sculpture is typical of its time in that it shows a sense of eroticism.
Match the artist with the detail from their work.
The small fly is from a painting by Petrus Christus, the tools are from a painting by the workshop of Robert Campin, Mary is from a painting by Roger van der Weyden, and the mirror is from a painting by Jan van Eyck.
Which of the following is NOT true of Raphael's School of Athens?
The two central figures in the painting are Christ and St. Peter.
Which of the following is NOT true of Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino?
These two portraits were once part of a larger altarpiece for the family's chapel.
Which of the following statements is true of Masaccio's Tribute Money?
This scene shows atmospheric perspective This scene is one of the earliest surviving examples of linear perspective. At this time, the Florentine government had just initiated a new tax and this painting may show that Christ condoned that kind of civic responsibility.
Which of the following is NOT correct?
This was made using tempera paint
Identify the painting shown:
Tintoretto, Miracle of the Slave, 1548
Which of the following is NOT true of this painting?
Titian was looking back to Raphael's nude for inspiration.
The prophets and angels display emotion which, according to the speakers, was intended to inspire prayer.
True
The landscape in this painting recalls the _______ andscape that the artist was familiar with.
Tuscan
Van der Weyden carefully constructed the composition of his Deposition. Which of the following does NOT describe the composition of the painting?
Van der Weyden uses rigid symmetry to organize the figures in the painting.
Who commissioned the sculptures for Orsanmichele's exterior niches?
Florence's guilds
Which of the following is NOT true of Fra Angelico's Annunciation?
Fra Angelico made careful observations from real life and applied them consistently throughout the painting
Which of the following is NOT true of this painting?
Giovanni Arnolfini's wife was pregnant with their first child at the time of this painting
In the center of the center panel _________ is dressed like a king with the papal crown on his head and another crown at his feet.
God the Father
Which of the following is NOT true of the Ghent Altarpiece (open)?
In the scene below, four groups of people come to the altar with the goat bleeding into the chalice, which is a symbol of Mary and her sacrifice.
Identify the artist, title and date of this image.
Jan van Eyck The Ghent Altarpiece 1432
Which of the following is NOT true of this painting?
Leonardo includes all of the traditional symbols of the divine in this painting.
Prior to this painting, most representations of the Last Supper look very similar. What key feature did Leonardo change in his version?
Leonardo placed Judas on the same side of the table with the other apostles. Traditionally he sits on the opposite side.
Which of the following is NOT true of this painting?
Lippi emphasized the golden divine light of the scene, creating distance between the figures and the viewer.
What allowed Jan van Eyck to create the luminous quality of the painting?
Multiple layers of glazes
What characteristics of oil paint did Giovanni Bellini exploit?
Oil paint dries slowly Oil paint can be applied in thin translucent layers Oil paint allows for subtle blending of colors
Donatello's Saint Mark originally stood in a niche in the exterior of ___________ and was commissioned by the linen workers' guild.
Orsamichele
The Duomo's dome was almost as wide as the _______ dome.
Pantheon's
When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in 1517, he initiated the . . .
Protestant Reformation
God's saving grace and power are themes that run through the altarpiece. This is a __________ idea as opposed to the wrathful God of __________ art.
Renaissance Medieval
When the Duomo was built, it was the highest dome that had ever been raised, until the rebuilding of
St. Peters Basilica
Sluter individualizes the faces and carves the drapery folds so that they fill the space around the figures, which marks a change from earlier Gothic sculpture.
TRUE
David, the biblical underdog, defeated his giant enemy with God's help. Who identified with David?
The Florentines The Medici family
Match the two columns.
The Man in the red turban is a self-portrait of the artist Jan van Eyck. The monk in a white robe is from a Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus. The sculpture is a portrait of Philip the Bold (art historians believe), from the Well of Moses. The figure with the gray beard is Joseph from the Adoration of the Kings.
Fra Filippo Lippi's *Madonna and Child with two Angels * demonstrates a shift toward more naturalistic depictions of religious subjects in the Renaissance. Match the description to the appropriate image and organize them in chronological order.
While this painting suggests some spatial depth in the treatment of the architecture, the symmetry and linear patterning recalls Byzantine traditions, and helps identify it as the earliest of these examples.
Which of the following is true of Titian's Venus of Urbino?
With this painting, Titian establishes the genre of the reclining female nude that many later artists will use. Titian manipulated the proportions of the body to make her extra elegant. Titian was looking back to Giorgione's reclining nude (Sleeping Venus) for inspiration Titian used glazes, or thin layers of translucent oil paint, to create this painting and especially the glowing nude.
Identify the artist, title and date of this image.
Workshop of Robert Campin The Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece) c. 1427-32
The Pazzi Chapel was part of the Church of Santa Croce and it was used as . . .
a meeting room
Giorgione used oil paint in a different way than Bellini by emphasizing the . . . Choose 1 answer:
opacity of the paint.
The prophet Jeremiah is a portrait of the
patron
Which of the following features are typical of Brunelleschi's architecture?
pietra serena stone circles rectangles and squares
Fra Filippo Lippi's Madonna and Child with two Angels shows the influence of Renaissance Humanism in its. . .
playful and earthly approach to the subject matter.
The Ghent Altarpiece is a ______ which is made of many panels that can open and close.
polyptych
In the figure of St. Mark, Donatello revived several classical features that were important to later Renaissance sculpture, including . . .
revealing the body through the drapery. contrapposto.
Michelangelo brought a strong ___________ element to the painted figures on the Sistine Chapel.
sculptural
Carthusian monks who lived at Chartreuse de Champmol lived apart from the community and dedicated themselves primarily to
solitary prayer
Veronese, and Venetian painters generally, are known for their . . .
sophisticated use of color.
The portrait busts of Roman emperors that surround the oculus in Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi are particularly appropriate to Mantua because . . .
the Italian city-state of Mantua was ruled by a marquis.
The Holy Thorn Reliquary shows a scene of
the Last Judgement
The removed shoes may symbolize that . . .
the couple stands on holy ground.
The small size of the altarpiece suggests that . . .
the painting was made for a private home instead of a public church altar.
This reliquary was a gift for Jean Duc de Berry and would have highlighted
the piety and political power of the recipient
Which elements of Mantegna's San Zeno Altarpiece identify the court of heaven as a classical building?
the sculpted frieze the relief sculpture in the roundels garlands the fluted columns that are part of the frame
Which features of the Libyan Sibyl are typical of Michelangelo's figures?
the use of a classical figure to reinforce Christian ideas the twisted pose the anatomical detail the idealized beauty
What are the classical elements of Donatello's David?
the use of contrapposto the free-standing nude figure the use of bronze
Which technique did Titian use to paint the Venus of Urbino?
thin layers of oil paint, called glazes
Van der Weyden gives his figures great emotional intensity combined with great attention to detail. These allow the viewer . . .
to empathize with the figures in the scene.
What was the most important factor contributing to Venice's wealth?
trade
A sacra conversazione, or sacred conversation, is a painting that shows the Madonna and Child talking to saints from different time periods.
true
Both Mary and the angel are idealized, but lack the facial details to make them look like real individuals.
true
Brunelleschi's panel shows a violent and dramatic moment where Abraham is in the process of killing Isaac before he is stopped by the angel.
true
Leonardo's letter to the Duke of Milan tells us that court artists were engaged in many activities, including engineering, not just painting and sculpting. Choose 1 answer:
true
Lippi's Mary appears real and beautiful, which departs from earlier representations of the Madonna and Child.
true
Masaccio's Holy Trinity is credited with being the first true example of one-point linear perspective.
true
Michelangelo's figures recall the strength, beauty, and idealism of classical sculpture.
true
Pope Julius II financed his art and architecture projects in part through military campaigns. Choose 1 answer:
true
The Tribute Money is one of the earliest surviving examples of a painting that used linear perspective.
true
The gestures of Plato and Aristotle in the painting reference the ideas of these philosophers. Plato points to the heavens, as his writings dealt with intangible heavenly things. Aristotle points down because he was interested in observable, tangible, earthly things.
true
The original title for this painting was the Last Supper.
true
The painting contains many subtle and overt symbols of Christian belief.
true
This scene of the Deposition shows Christ being removed from the cross and is one of the standard scenes from the life of Christ.
true
This sculpture shows a return to the admiration of the human body we see in ancient Greek and Roman art.
true
Brunelleschi came up with a way of constructing a dome that did not require the use of
wooden scaffolding
At this time, the Florentine government had just initiated a new tax and this painting may show that Christ rejected that kind of civic responsibility.
false
Everything in this space is meant to appear disjointed and unnatural.
false
Ghiberti's Isaac references Ancient Egyptian sculpture.
false
In Raphael's Alba Madonna, the traditional iconography of the divine was replaced with symbols derived from classical mythology.
false
In order for Renaissance buildings to be truly Humanist, they must look to medieval buildings for inspiration.
false
In the Virgin of the Rocks, Leonardo's interest in the details of the natural world is obscured by his use of sfumato.
false
In the closed view, prophets and sylbils are present in the upper sections of the altarpiece. These figures prophecy of the end of the world.
false
Leonardo's Last Supper is the altarpiece for the main church space in Santa Maria delle Grazie. Choose 1 answer:
false
Piero della Francesca's figures have an energy and vibrancy that are very characteristic of his work.
false
Profile portraits are associated with piety and submission to God.
false
Raphael's School of Athens shows how the Catholic world rejected the classical world during the High Renaissance.
false
St. Mark's face is highly individualized with a lot of detail, showing the influence of medieval spirituality.
false
The figures are in realistic positions, which is typical of Renaissance realism.
false
The overt sensuality of this painting meant that its influence in art history was limited.
false
The placement of all the figures in the same space in Domenico Veneziano's St. Lucy Altarpiece borrows from an earlier tradition.
false
The prophets and angels have blank expressions on their faces, which inspired piety and serenity in the monks.
false
Fra Angelico shows an awareness of the latest stylistic trends in ___________ but also shows an unwillingness to employ them fully.
florence
Leonardo unified the composition by grouping the apostles together in _______ groups of _________ figures.
four three
Piero della Francesca used __________ to organize the figures in this scene.
geometry
What traditional features does Tintoretto revive in the Last Supper?
halos and other markers of divinity.
Donatello studied classical sculpture and the way that ancient artists represented the body, but also imbued St. Mark with . . .
human behavior and movement
Alberti designed the Palazzo Rucellai so that it would follow Renaissance values of architecture. It was the first private residence that employed __________ in its design.
humanism
Lippi's Madonna and Child with two Angels is different from previous representations of the same subject because it reveals a more __________ approach by the artist. This is especially seen in the __________ of the figures.
humanist playfulness
In the colossal statue of David, Michelangelo created a(n) _______ body.
idealized
hich tool developed by Brunelleschi was widely adopted by painters in 15th century Italy? Choose 1 answer:
linear perspective
The setting for this scene of the Annunciation is spare, with few additional details or objects, which is appropriate to this ________ space.
monastic
Campin used
multiple view points
Bellini's St. Francis reflects the Renaissance humanist idea that . . .
nature can express the divine.
Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds broke with tradition by . . .
not employing symmetry and a visual hierarchy that emphasized the Madonna and Child.
Van der Weyden's Deposition reveals many artistic conventions of the Northern Renaissance. Which of the following is NOT present in the painting?
An interest in detailed landscapes.
What may have influenced Botticelli in creating isolated figures set against a background?
Ancient Greek vase painting
**The Pazzi Chapel shows careful attention to geometry in its plan and construction which echoes the great buildings of . . .
Ancient Rome.
Which of the following is NOT true of Masaccio's Tribute Money?
Although Masaccio tried to create a convincing illusion of real life, the light in the painting does not align with the light from the windows in the Brancacci Chapel.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Ghent Altarpiece (closed)?
Artists of the Northern Renaissance were not interested in the details of the natural world, but more interested in a sense of generalized realism.
Brunelleschi and Ghiberti's competition panels for the Florence _________ doors are sometimes seen as the beginning of the Renaissance.
Baptistery
According to the speakers, which building most likely influenced the architecture depicted in Bellini's San Giobbe Altarpiece?
Basilica of San Marco
The figure of Venus in Botticelli's Birth of Venus was based on . . .
an Ancient Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of Aphrodite/Venus.
Ancient Greeks thought that geometry was . . .
an expression of the perfection of the divine realm.
Titian created an asymmetrical composition, that ________.
anticipated Mannerism was unusual for that time
Medieval Christians used relics
as a point of access to the divine. as focal points for prayer.
Fra Filippo Lippi used __________ to create a real landscape.
atmospheric perspective
This painting is typical of other works from the Northern Renaissance because of its . . .
attention to detail.
Renaissance women plucked their hairline because high foreheads were also thought to be
beautiful
Piero della Francesca wrote a treatise on the mathematical basis of
beauty
One-point linear perspective had been developed by __________ one year earlier.
brunelleschi
Raphael is painting the Stanza della Segnatura at the Papal Palace at the same time that Michelangelo is painting the
ceiling of the sistine chapel
This chapel is unusual for its time in that its plan is very close to a __________ with a strong sense of geometry and order.
central plan
The source for Correggio's Jupiter and Io was a . . .
classical Roman poet.
The figures in these portraits are in profile and the use of the profile was an attempt to recreate ruler portraits from
classical antiquity
According to the speakers, Mantegna paid particular attention to drapery folds, which were inspired by
classical sculpture.
This scene shows atmospheric perspective, which allows the mountain to recede into the background through changes in
color
____________ made figures look like they were moving and really alive, unlike medieval sculpture.
contrapposto
Compared with Brunelleschi's panel, Ghiberti's panel is more _________ as Abraham hesitates as looks directly into Isaac's face.
emotionally complex
Sluter and de Werve's Mourners from the Tomb of Philip the Bold are
emotionally expressive weighty individualized
Sluter's prophets
engage with the viewer. emerge from their niches. are individualized.
In the Early Renaissance, the only acceptable female nude was the biblical figure of ____________ Botticelli is breaking this convention by from showing a nude Venus.
eve