AH 202: Exam 1 Test Review

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

Alberti

Who created Knight, Death, and the Devil?

Albrecht Dürer

Which of the following is one of the most important cities of the 16th-century Netherlands?

Antwerp

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

Bruges

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

The chief architect of the Venetian Republic from 1570 until his death was ____

Palladio

During the second half of the 16th century, ____ controlled the Netherlands.

Philip II

Which of the following would support the argument that the Well of Moses created by Claus Sluter did not actually spout water?

Carthusian commitment to silence would preclude any sound making device

The first known northern European self-portrait by a woman is purportedly by which of the following?

Caterina van Hemessen

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

Chartreuse de Champmol

The artist of the Assumption in Parma's Cathedral, ____ greatest contribution was illusionistic ceiling perspective paintings.

Correggio's

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

A familiar feature in French Gothic art, the loosely curved folds of the female saints in Duccio's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints ( Maestà) is a feature of ____ art.

French Gothic

In contrast to his father, Giovanni Pisano worked in a style derived from ____.

French Gothic art

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

Ghiberti

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

Isabella d'Este

The monumental composition and sculpturesque form in Hans Holbein's The French Ambassadors reflects the influence of ____.

Italian art

Which city was at its height of political and economic power when it employed the talents of the sculptor Nicola Pisano?

Pisa

Which art form grew in popularity partially because of its ability to memorialize the sitter?

Portraiture

Which of the following accounts 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

El Escorial is in which country?

Spain

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

Tintoretto

In Dürer's Melencolia I, the ____ is an optimistic note suggesting that the artist can overcome depression.

burst of light on the horizon

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

creating an atmospheric effect using incised lines

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

dukes of Burgundy

The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style.

fundamentally medieval

Confraternities are ____ who dedicated themselves to strict religious observance.

laypeople

In Dürer's print of the Fall of Man, the idealization of Adam and Eve is tempered by the ____ of the background.

naturalism

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

pent-up emotion

Michelangelo deviated from earlier representations of David in his rendition by portraying ____.

the encounter before the battle

Simone Martini's rendition of Annunciation may have been inspired by ____.

the etiquette of chivalric courts