Art History Quiz chapter 20-22

Pendentative

A concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four od which provide a square area to the circular base of a covering dome. They are used to support a dome.

Trompe L'oeil

A form of illusionistic painting that aims to deceive viewers into believing that they are seeing real objects rather than a representation of those objects.

Intaglio

A graphic technique in which the design is incised on a metal plate, either manually or chemically.

In Leonardo's Last Supper, the curved pediment above the head of Christ represents which of the following?

A halo

Orthogonal

A line imaged to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane.

Grisaille

A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral greys to simulate sculpture.

Roundel

A small disk, especially a decorative medallion

Sfumato

A smoke like haziness that subtly softens outlines in a painting.

Coffer

A sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or ceiling.

Tempera

A technique of painting using pigment with egg yolk, glue, or casein; dries very quickly.

Oil-Painting

A technique that rose to prominence in northern Europe in the 15th century and is now the standard medium for painting on canvas.

Polyptych

A three paneled painting, ivory plaque, or altarpiece.

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

Alberti

____ contributed to the decentralization of religious practice.

Books of Hours

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

Who won the commission for the innovative Cupola of the Florentine Cathedral?

Brunelleschi

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.

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

Chartreuse de Champmol

Which of the following was a dynastic symbol of Burgundian power?

Chartreuse de Champmol

Who commissioned the Tempietto?

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Which of the following artists actively collected Classical sculpture?

Ghiberti

Which panel for the competition for the east doors of the Florentine Cathedral had the first nude depiction since antiquity?

Ghiberti

In Riemenschneider's Assumption of the Virgin, the artist successfully incorporated which of the following elements?

Gothic intricacy

The robust and monumental figures of the Virgin and Child in Leonardo's Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John are reminiscent of ____.

Greek pedimental sculpture

Why are we unsure if Robert Campin was the actual painter of the Merode Altarpiece?

Guild apprentices in his workshop did not receive credit for their work.

Isocephalic

Having the heads of the figures in a composition brought to the same level.

In Masaccio's Trinity he embodies two principal Renaissance interests. One is realism based on observation. Which of the following is the other?

It is the application of the new science of perspective.

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

It marks the human presence on earth.

The Nuremberg Chronicle is a tribute to the new craft of the printed illustrated book. What was the content of the Nuremberg Chronicle?

It was the history of the world.

____ created the first known Western portrait where the sitter looks directly at the viewer.

Jan van Eyck

Which artist was known as being difficult to work with?

Michelangelo

Why were the subjects muscular in the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings?

Michelangelo likely used male models.

Reflecting the influence of ____, Raphael included his portrait in the reflection in his painting of Pope Leo X.

Netherlandish art

In the Creation of Adam, Michelangelo fashioned the conception of God after ____.

Olympian deities

Contrapposto

One part is turned in opposition of another part creating a counter positioning of the body about its central axis.

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

Palladio

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

Pazzi Chapel

____ influenced Raphael's perspective system in his Marriage of the Virgin.

Perugino

The major center for artistic development in the High Renaissance was ____.

Rome

In Martin Schongauer's engraving, he created distinctions of tonal values and textures. He distinguished between skin and cloth, feather and fur. Which of the following is the title of Martin Schongauer's engraving?

Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

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

What is not stylistically true of Flemish painting?

Separating the secular from the sacred

Why was the Mona Lisa groundbreaking?

She is looking right at the viewer.

Paul III convened the Council of Trent in 1545. It was part of which of the following?

The Counter-Reformation

Nave

The central area of an ancient Roman basilica or of a chruch.

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

The chronology of Christianity

Prefiguration

The depiction of Old Testament persons and events as prophetic forerunners of Christ and New Testament events.

Oculus

The round central opening of a dome.

Chiaroscuro

The treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.

In Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, the artist has reminded the viewer of the link among Constantine, Saint Peter, and the basilica of Saint Peter. Which of the following is the vehicle used as that reminder?

The triumphal arches in the background

After Bellini's death in 1516, ____ became the official painter of the Republic of Venice.

Titian

Titian's Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne was most likely inspired by ____.

classical art

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

dukes of Burgundy

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

in a single frame

In his representation of Pope Leo X, Raphael did not portray him as head of state, but rather as a ____.

man of learning and a collector

The School of Athens shows all but:

modern clothing.

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

pent-up emotion

By including ____ Hugo van der Goes revived medieval pictorial devices.

small background scenes and a varied scale of figures

Michelangelo went beyond self-contained statues in his David by ____.

turning his head

Terribilita

¨ The sublime shadowed by the fearful." A term used to describe Michelangelo Buonarroti.