ARTS 1303 Final pt.2

Treatise on Architecture

Alberti

What are the tables, or low stones, that are the focal point of Christian religious worship?

Altars

Architect that Pope Julius II appointed for the rebuilding of St. Peter's

Bramante

Florence Cathedral dome architect.

Brunelleschi

Michelangelo's preferred art medium

Carved marble

Which was an important manufacturing town, a key point for trade, and a major center for international banking?

Florence

The wealthiest and most influential cities that were organized as representative republics were:

Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Venice

Painting on walls

Fresco

The nine main scenes of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling represent scenes from which Biblical book?

Genesis

Gates of Paradise sculptor

Ghiberti

Who wrote The Lives of the most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, known as The Lives?

Giorgio Vasari

Who painted figures as geometric bodies and rendered them as three-dimensional shapes through the use of light?

Giotto

The theme of Ambroio Lorenzetti's frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena is:

Good and Bad Government

The study of which cultures profoundly changed the culture and art of Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries?

Greece and Rome

How were the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Angel Gabriel depicted in the Merode Triptych?

In a fifteenth-century Flemish household.

Vitruvius was an important Roman architect who wrote a treatise on architect.

True

The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore was:

a Gothic ribbed octagonal dome

Mendicant orders lived by

collection alms

Which of the following is NOT a printmaking technique?

diptych

What had a substantial impact on the culture and society of Italy in the fourteenth century?

the plague

Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio

writers

Fifteenth century artists well known for his engravings

Martin Schongauer

Franciscans and Dominicans

Mendicant orders

Designed the dome of St. Peter's

Michelangelo

Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?

Orthogonal converge toward the vanishing point.

The Garden of Earthly Delights was at one point owned by which king?

Phillip II of Spain

One of the most powerful men of the fifteenth century

Phillip the Good of Burgundy

What mode of painting reflects the expanding interest in secular themes and an interest in the individual in 15th-century Florence?

Portraiture

The altarpiece in which Florentine Chapel echoes the Portinari Altarpiece and reflects the impact of Netherlandish innovations?

Sassetti Chapel

The Baptistery of Florence is a focal point of pride because of whose role as patron saint of the city?

St. John

What are two important painting techniques from the period?

Tempera and fresco

The first time accurate mathematically based one-point linear perspective was used in a painting was:

The Holy Trinity by Masaccio

Who is thought to be patron of Leonardo's Mona Lisa?

The sitter's husband

With what tone has Claus Sluter imbued the figures in the Well of Moses?

Thoughtful and meditative

Which High Renaissance artists from Venice was equally adept at painting portraits, mythological subjects, and religious paintings.

Titan

The Garden of Delights

Triptych

A diptych is a work of art with two panels; a triptych has three panels.

True

Antonello da Messina, a painter from southern Italy, may have learned about oil painting in Flanders and passed the knowledge on to Venetian artists.

True

Atmospheric or aerial perspective is a method of showing depth through the use of color.

True

Hugo can der Goes;s Portinari Altarpiece makes use of atmospheric perspective

True

In the fresco technique pigments are mixed with water and applied to the surface of wet plaster.

True

Jan van Eyck signed The Arnolfini Portrait with the words, "Jan van Eyck was here, 1434."

True

Leonardo painted his Last Supper for the dining hall of a monastery in MIlan.

True

Mantegna made paintings influenced by his interest in archaeology and perspective.

True

Michael Pacher's St. Wolfgang Altarpiece remains in its original setting, the pilgrimage church of Saint Wolfgang, Salzkammergut, Austria.

True

Municipal patrons, like the city of Siena, commissioned works of art to proclaim and further their accomplishments.

True

The Christian altar traditionally is a narrow stone "table" that contains bone fragments of a martyr within it.

True

The Venus of Urbino may have been intended as an erotic image.

True

The city of Florence regarded Michelangelo's David as an emblem of it own republican virtues.

True

The detail and sharp focus of Late Gothic painting was an outgrowth of illuminated manuscripts.

True

The first freestanding life-size nude since classical antiquity David by Donatello

True

The young Martin Luther sparked the Reformation by posting his Ninety-five Theses

True

There was no single political entity called Italy in the fifteenth century.

True

Thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Italian art had its roots in both Byzantine forms and Italian artists' contacts with Roman and Early Christian precedents.

True

Important patron of the Florentine Renaissance

Cosimo de' Medici

Titan painted his famous image of reclining figure of Venus for which patron?

Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere of Urbino

Enrico Scrovengi was the patron of the Palazzo della Signoria.

False

Florentine painter Raphael fused Christian faith with pagan mythology in his works

False

Giovanni dei Grassi made a book of hours for Arnolfo di Cambio.

False

Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights is optimistic and playful.

False

Hugo van der Goes Portinari Altarpiece was produced for a patron and a location in Flanders.

False

Leonardo worked for the court of Ludovico Sforza in Venice.

False

Painters greatly advance the use of oil on canvas in Flanders and/or Netherlands.

False

Santa Croce church in Florence is a Dominican church

False

The Franciscans and Dominicans were religious orders located mostly in the countryside in remote monasteries.

False

The Gates of Paradise were made for the Brancacci Chapel.

False

The painter Bellini worked mainly in Florence.

False

There is no evidence of the use of oil paints before Jan van Eyck.

False

Titan was particularly skilled in the manipulation to the tempera technique in paintings of religious, mythological, and portrait subject.

False

Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece demonstrates the international character of the businessmen of Florence because its patron was from:

Italy

Leading French Renaissance painter

Jean Fouquet

Who was one of the foremost patrons of art during High Renaissance?

Julius II

Sfumato is seen in the work of:

Leonardo da Vinci

Whose extensive notebooks dealt with four themes, paintings, architecture, mechanics, and human anatomy?

Leonardo da Vinci

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck shows all of the following EXCEPT:

landscape featured prominently

Chiaroscuro

light and dark

To create the illusion of pictorial depth of space, the principle of parallel lines converging toward a single vanishing point is called:

linear perspective

Which medium is primarily used to make multiple copies of an image?

printmaking

All of the following are typical of the art of the Late Gothic style except"

scientifically based one-point linear perspective.

Patronage for art in fifteenth century Florence consisted of:

the Catholic church