Art Appreciation Chapter 16

Which shapes did Michelangelo use as a basis for the floor plan of St. Peter's Basilica?

A cross A square A circle

Agnolo Bronzino's painting Allegory ("Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time") demonstrates with Mannerist traits?

A forbidden or erotic undercurrent. Shallow, compressed, or illogical space. Classical subject matter and symbols. Elongated forms and twisted poses. Fondness for elaborate or obscure subject matter.

What Renaissance artist is most closely associated with the fusion of Italian concepts of math and science and Northern methods of meticulous detail and observation?

Albrecht Durer

Which of these themes are commonly seen in Renaissance art?

Detailed depictions of the physical world Idealized and proportioned human figures Interest in ancient Greek and Roman subject matter

Where is the vanishing point in Masaccio's The Trinity?

Directly under the cross on the mid-point of the ledge where the donors are kneeling

What is a Renaissance person?

Someone with a diverse skill set

Based on what scholars know about Giorgione's The Tempest, what do they believe to be the meaning of its content?

The focus is on the power of nature that brings opposites together.

What can be concluded about the period known as the Renaissance based on the role of the arts during that time?

The identities and influences of patrons played a larger role in the production of art.

Which of the following characteristics would not be classified as a trait of Nothern painting from the Renaissance period?

Use of linear perspective

Michelangelo envisioned St. Peter's Basilica as

an organic whole with a powerful upward thrust.

The Renaissance was when the concept of "___" arose.

art

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Renaissance style?

Complex, abstract forms that represent an idea rather than an observed form

Which of the following are not characteristics of Venetian Renaissance painting?

Emphasis on classical models and mathematican organization

How can scholars tell that Rogier van der Weyden's St. Luke Drawing the Virgin is, at least in part, a painting about looking?

Everyone in the painting in act of looking at something The artist's careful rendering of precise detail

The word renaissance refers to the revival of the ancient ___ and ___ cultures.

Greek Roman

Why is The Last Supper by Tintoretto considered an excellent example of Counter-Reformation artwork?

It conforms to the teachings of the Church.

What was the cause of the Northern Renaissance?

It developed from the growing fascination with the details of the visible world.

What is the accepted interpretation of the lute with a broken string depicted in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors?

It represents discord, which ties to the recent Protestant Reformation.

What is sfumato?

Layers of glaze that produce a soft, hazy ambiance Italian word for "smoke"

What Renaissance convention did Lorenzo Ghiberti use to arrange space in his composition of The Story of Jacob and Esau for the Flortine batistery doors?

Linear perspective

In 1401, what artist wwon a high-profile competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the Florentine baptistery?

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Which of the following were patrons of the arts during the Renaissance?

Merchant-rulers Clergy Nobility

What did Renaissance humanists believe to be true?

People's obligation to God is to realize their full intellectual and creative potential To combine the teachings of Christianity with the reason and intellect of ancient cultures

Why did Italy emerge as the home of the Renaissance?

The Christian Church was centered in Rome Humanism first arose in Italy Powerful banking families and economic prosperity emerged

What demands did the Counter-Reformation reformers make of artists?

The insisted that every depiction of sacred subject matter when directly commissioned by the Catholic Church. They demanded that compositions be arranged to make the lessons of Church teachings immediately evident.

What did Michelangelo feel summarized the noblest of creations worth of art?

The nude body

How does Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting The Harvesters illustrate the changes in art that were brought about by the Protestant Reformation?

The painting depicts scenes from everyday life and landscape rather than scenes of saints or religious subjects.

What are three characteristics demonstrated in Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece that would help one classify it as a Northern Renaissance painting?

The use of rich detail and precise brush strokes The use of oil paint on wood panel The combination of everyday life and the supernatural

How did Renaissance artists obtain ideal beauty?

They borrowed beautiful features from everywhere

What Northern Renaissance quality is evident in the Limbourg Brothers' Les Tres Riches Heures from the late Middle Ages?

careful attention to detail

During the Renaissance, works of art with Classical Greek and Roman subject matter were

especially popular and were commissioned for both secular and religious spaces.

Renaissance ___ held that people should pursue knowledge for its sake.

humanists

Even though Michelangelo was an accomplished artist in a variety of media, he considered himself to be a)n)

sculptor.

During which 25-year period did the High Renaissance take place?

1500 to 1525

What do the paintings in the prayer book constructed from the Limbourg Brothers' paintings represent?

A calendar illustrated with activities of the wealthy and peasants

What is the diagonal shape at the bottom of Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, and what did it represent?

A skull representing that everyone dies

To accurately portray the human body, what did some artists do to study human form?

Dissected cadavers

Who created this statue of Saint Mark?

Donatello

How does Tintoretto's painting The Last Supper draw the focus of the viewer to Christ?

Dramatic diagonal lines direct the viewers eye to Christ's figure in the foreground. Christ's figure is placed near the center of the composition.

How is Michelangelo's David different from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture?

Has tension and energy Knowledge of human anatomy Expression is communicated on the face

How does Leonardo da Vinci organize the forms in his painting Madonna and Child with Saint Anne?

He uses a soft gentle light to dissolve the edges of the forms. He organizes the forms into a triangular shape. He balances the composition with dark shadows in one corner and a dark tree in the other.

What is unusual about Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus?

It uses unusual linear style and shallow modeling The background acts as a backdrop, as for a play

___-named for the Italian word meaning "style" or "stylishness"-is the school of painting suggesting that the painters practiced an art of grace and sophistication.

Mannerism

Which of the following was a patron of the arts in the Renaissance but not a patron in earlier times?

Merchant-rulers

Who are two famous High Renaissance artists?

Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci

Which of the following Greek philosophers inspired the idea of ideal beauty, which was equated with moral goodness?

Plato

What does the term renaissance mean?

Rebirth

The plan of Leon Battista Alberti's church Sant'Andrea recalls examples found in the architecture of which ancient culture?

Rome

Why did the Counter-Reformation Catholic church see an art as one of their strongest weapons?

They understood arts ability to engage the emotions and intellect of the faithful.

Which Venetian painter created the painting The Annunciation?

Titian

How is Mechelangelo's David similar to ancient Greek sculptures, such as Warrior A?

Use of contrapposto Knowledge of human physique

Titan's style of painting, especially late in his life, incorporated ___ that made the image indistinct when seen close up but clear when viewed from a distance.

frenzied brush strokes

Installed in a hospital for illnesses of the skin, the graphic depiction of pain and suffering in Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece was intended to

increase the faith of the patients, inviting them to identify their own suffering with Christ's.

Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is an example of the ___ often found in Northern Renaissance art.

pain and suffering

The philosophy of humanism

revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman scholars. focused on the abilities and accomplishments of mankind.

The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel were completed with the help of

scaffolding many assistants