Art 100 Ch. 16 - The Renaissance

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

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

A circle, A cross, A square

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

A skull representing that everyone dies

Which 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, Interest in ancient Greek and Roman subject matter, Idealized and proportioned human figures

Where is the vanishing point in Madaccio's The Trinity

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

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

Dissected cadavers

Many Renaissance artists began sculptural works by creating figures out of clay, they then draped clay-soaked fabric over the figure. After the clay dried they used the resulting model as the basis for a final marble copy. Which Renaissance artist may have invented that technique?

Donatello

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

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

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

Scaffolding, many assistants

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

The focus is on the power of nature and 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

Why did Protestants view religious images with hostility?

The images encouraged idol worship

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

Use of contrapposto, Knowledge of human physique

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

Use of linear perspective

Michelangelo envisioned St. Peter's Basilica as

an organic whole with a powerful upward thrust

Which characteristic does not define Mannerist style?

Classical and mathematical with restrained emotion

Which 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 mathematical organization

In what ways 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 is in the act of looking at something, The artist's careful rendering of precise detail

The Renaissance was a single, unified period in European art. It started in Italy and then rapidly spread over the Alps where Northern artists followed suit in exploring their Classical past.

False

The word Renaissance refers to the revival of the ancient _____ and _____ cultures.

Greek, Roman

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

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

Why did Italy emerge as the home of the Renaissance?

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

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

Humanists

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

It conforms to the teachings of the Church

Why is the Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel noteworthy?

It hinted at, rather than showed, the consummation

What is the most significant about the subject matter of Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus?

It illustrates a renewed interest in Greek and Roman mythology

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

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

Lorenzo Ghiberti

A style of art prevalent after the High Renaissance in Italy is known today as _____.

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

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

Rome

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

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

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

They understood art's ability to engage the emotions and intellect of the faithful

Which Venetian painter created the painting The Annunciation?

Titian

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 patients, inviting them to identify their own suffering with Christ's

The philosophy of humanism

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