AHist exam 1 review

Humanism

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Retable

A painted or carved altarpiece standing at the back of an altar.

Polyptich

A painting consisting of multiple panels

Figura Serpentinata

A serpentine-like figure, spiraling around a central axis used often in Mannerist painting

Tempera

A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein; also, the medium itself.

Triptych

A three-paneled painting or altarpiece.

"Pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb," a phrase from Revelations, is depicted in which of the following?

Altar of the lamb from the Ghent Altarpiece

Who was the architect of the cathedral of Florence?

Arnolfo di Cambio

Which individual is the subject of this equestrian statue?

Bartolommeo Colleoni

What is the subject of this panel from the Maesta?

Betrayal of Jesus

Savonarola

Bonfire of the Vanities

What devastating natural disaster occurred in Europe during the 1340s?

Bubonic plaque

According to the video, which term means "true fresh" relating to fresco painting.

Buon fresco

What is the subject of the personifications on the lower eight panels on Andrea Pisano's bronze doors for the baptistery of San Giovanni?

Christian virtues

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

Creating an atmospheric effect with incised lines

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

Donatello

What term describes portraits of individuals that accompany religious scenes

Donor portraits

Which of the following is NOT a technique used by Martin Schongauer to create tonal varieties and textures in his engraving of Saint Anthony?

Drew lines through an acid-resistant coating

Who is the painter of the back of the Maesta altarpiece?

Duccio

Who were the most powerful northern European rulers during much of the 15th century?

Dukes of Burgundy

The Tuscan Romanesque revetment of the Florentine Duomo brings it closest to which architectural tradition?

Early Christian

Cross-hatching is a device used in which artistic genre?

Engraving

What method was used to produce this artwork?

Engraving

Which of Giotto's innovations represents a departure from the Italo-Byzantine style?

Figures seen from the back

In the 15th century, the Dukes of Burgundy wielded power over which of the following counties?

Flanders

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

Florence

Trompe-l'oeil

Fool the eye

Which characteristic of Duccio's figures in the Maesta originates in Byzantine art?

Formality and symmetry

According to the video, Jan van Eyck signed his painting with

Fuit hic (was here)

Which artist designed and created the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni?

Ghiberti

Which artist painted a cycle of frescoes, including the scene in this image, for the choir of Santa Maria Novella?

Ghirlandaio

Which individual designed the Campanile of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence?

Giotto di Bondone

Contrapposto

Greek and Roman sculptural technique meaning counter-balance

Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

Hubert and Jan van Eyck

The Portinari Altarpiece was painted by which artist

Hugo van der Goes

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

Humanism

What is the setting for Pietro Lorenzetti's Birth of the Virgin?

Interior of an upper-class house

Guttenberg

Invented the printing press

Maniera Greca

Italian "Greek manner"; Italo-Byzantine style of 13th century painting

The illusionism found in French manuscript painting was influenced by contact with which area

Italy

What noble patron commissioned Les Très Riches Heures?

Jean, duke of Berry

Mannerism

Late Renaissance style emphasizing stylized forms

Confraternities, whose members dedicated themselves to strict religious observance, were made up of which group?

Laypeople

What is the focus of Dieric Bout's depiction of the Last Supper in his Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament?

Liturgical rite of the Eucharist

Which work do art historians consider to include a detailed self-portrait of Jan van Eyck?

Man in a Red Turban

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

Medici family

The activities of which month appear on this page from LesTres Riches Heures?

October

What Italian city is the location of the Arena Chapel?

Padua

Atmospheric Perspective

Painting technique where objects in the background appear hazier

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

Perugino

According to the video, this Italian Humanist was the leading voice of the revival of humanism.

Petrarch

Cartoon

Preliminary drawing from which a painting is made

In which detail of Madonna Enthroned is Cimabue's movement away from the maniera greca most evident?

Receding throne

What has Rogier van der Weyden painted this panel to resemble?

Relief carving

Memento Mori

Reminder of death

Alberti

Renaissance author of books on painting and architecture

Vitruvius

Roman writer and architect who influenced Renaissance builders

Which of the following cities was considered the rightful capital of the Roman Catholic Church?

Rome

Who is the subject of this statue made for Or San Michele by Donatello?

Saint Mark

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?

Savonarol's brief span of power

Which of the following describes the style of Fra Angelico?

Simple and direct

Sfumatto

Smoky, hazy quality associated with Leonardo

Central plan architecture

Tempietto

Vanishing Point

The area of a linear perspective drawing where all orthogonals meet

According to the video why are parts of the Tres Riches Heures unfinished?

The artists died before being able to complete it.

What is the subject of the frescoes commissioned for the Palazzo Pubblico by the Sienese government?

The civic life of the Sienese

Simone Martini's rendition of Gabriel in the Annunciation may have been inspired by which contemporary phenomenon?

The etiquette of chivalric courts

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

The figure of Rebecca

Which classical reference is visible on Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac panel?

The naked figure of Isaac

Chiaroscuro

The treatment of light and shade in a work of art, especially to give an illusion of depth.

An image with three folding panels is called a

Triptych

Chiaroscuro is Italian for light and dark

True

What occupation did Enrico Scrovengi practice that led him to commissioning the Arena Chapel?

Usury

What method was used to create this image?

Woodcut

Diptych

a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

Woodcuts

an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed

Book of Hours

book or manuscript containing a calendar, prayers, and biblical passages for private devotion

Arcadian

depictions of an idyllic place of rural peace and simplicity

Colorito

describes application of color in paint, but implies a sensuality and richness

Disegno

external manifestation of an internal idea(drawing)

In an engraving the ink sits

in the grooves created by the artist

In the Early Italian Renaissance, the basis of all art came from

nature

Orthogonal

of or involving right angles; at right angles. lines that appear to recede toward a vanishing point in a painting with linear perspective

Linear Perspective

parallel lines appear to converge with distance

Foreshortening

portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision.

Printmaking

process in which an artist repeatedly transfers an original image from one prepared surface to another

Oil Painting

the art of painting with oil paints

Black Death

the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of Western Europe

Fresco Secco

the technique of painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed in water.

Buon Fresco

true or wet fresco; pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster