Humanities Art Exam 2: Part 2

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: David, the biblical underdog, defeated his giant enemy with God's help. Who identified with David? - The Duke of Milan - The Florentines - The Medici family - The Sienese

- The Florentines - The Medici family

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: What are the classical elements of Donatello's David? - The subject matter - The use of contrapposto - The use of bronze - The hat - The elongated body - The free-standing nude figure

- The use of contrapposto - The use of bronze - The free-standing nude figure

Which of the following is NOT true of Masaccio's Tribute Money? - Masaccio tries to create the most realistic scene that he can using linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, emotions, gestures, and contrapposto. - This scene shows Christ and the apostles confronted by a tax collector, but Christ has renounced worldly possessions. The money for the tax is found in a fish, which is a miracle. - This scene shows three distinct events associated with this story: Christ ordering Peter to find a fish, Peter finding the money in the fish's mouth, and Peter paying the tax collector. - Although Masaccio tried to create a convincing illusion of real life, the light in the painting does not align with the light from the windows in the Brancacci Chapel.

Although Masaccio tried to create a convincing illusion of real life, the light in the painting does not align with the light from the windows in the Brancacci Chapel.

Brunelleschi and Ghiberti's competition panels for the Florence _____ doors are sometimes seen as the beginning of the Renaissance. - Baptistery - Hospital - No answer text provided. - Cathedral

Baptistery

One-point linear perspective was developed by _____. - Fra Angelico - Brunelleschi - Masaccio

Brunelleschi

Raphael is painting the Stanza della Segnatura at the Papal Palace at the same time that Michelangelo is painting the _____. - Last Judgment of the Sistine Chapel - Cappella Paolina - Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

The figures in Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino in profile and the use of the profile was an attempt to recreate ruler portraits from _____. - Classical antiquity - The Medieval world - The Proto-Renaissance

Classical antiquity

_____ made figures look like they were moving and really alive, unlike medieval sculpture. - Bronze - No answer text provided. - Contrapposto - The lost wax method

Contrapposto

TRUE or FALSE: Ghiberti's figure of Isaac references Ancient Egyptian sculpture.

False

TRUE or FALSE: Profile portraits are associated with piety and submission to God.

False

TRUE or FALSE: Raphael's School of Athens shows how the Catholic world rejected the classical world during the High Renaissance.

False

In the colossal statue of David, Michelangelo created a(n) _____ body. - Elongated - Idealized - Grotesque - Realistic

Idealized

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: What characteristics of oil paint did Giovanni Bellini exploit? - Oil paint dries slowly. - Oil paint allows for subtle blending of colors. - Oil paint can be applied in thin translucent layers.

Oil paint dries slowly.

Michelangelo brought a strong _____ element to the painted figures on the Sistine Chapel. - Sculptural - Stylized - Linear

Sculptural

Which of the following is NOT true of Mantegna's Dead Christ? - This painting is a prime example of foreshortening, which draws the viewer by making the viewer feel present in the room with the dead Christ. - This painting was in Mantegne's possession at his death and may have been rejected by a patron because of its extreme view of Christ. - This painting of the dead Christ emphasizes Christ's humanity, which is consistent with Renaissance Humanism. - The artist perfectly executed the foreshortening of the body of Christ.

The artist perfectly executed the foreshortening of the body of Christ.

Which of the following is NOT true of Masaccio's Holy Trinity? - The barrel vault with coffers recalls the architecture of Ancient Egypt. - Many families commissioned a chapel in fifteenth-century Florence, but this is more modest, as it is only the illusion of a chapel. - The figure of Christ shows a realistic and sympathetic body, which is typical of the way that Renaissance artists married faith and science. - The center of the painting shows the Trinity, or three-part nature of God, in the Catholic tradition: God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Christ.

The barrel vault with coffers recalls the architecture of Ancient Egypt.

Which of the following is NOT true of Michelangelo's sibyls in the Sistine Chapel? - The sibyls were ancient pagan soothsayers who could foresee the future and in the Catholic tradition, they foretold the coming of Christ. - The body of the Libyan Sybil twists in a complex pose that is typical of the High Renaissance. - Michelangelo used a male model for the Libyan sybil, which may explain the great physical strength we see in her body.

The body of the Libyan Sybil twists in a complex pose that is typical of the High Renaissance.

Which of the following is NOT true of Donatello's David? - This sculpture is made of bronze and was made with the lost wax method, which is the same method that ancient sculptors used. - Donatello's David shows a revival of the classical interest in and respect for the body. - Donatello's David was the first free-standing classical nude since antiquity. - The sculpture is typical of its time in that it shows a sense of eroticism.

The sculpture is typical of its time in that it shows a sense of eroticism.

Which of the following is NOT true of Raphael's School of Athens? - The architecture in this painting is more Roman than Greek. - The scene is a fabrication, showing Greek philosophers who lived at different times together at a single gathering. - The two central figures in the painting are Christ and St. Peter. - Bramante's design for the new St. Peter's Basilica influenced the architecture in the painting.

The two central figures in the painting are Christ and St. Peter.

Which of the following is NOT true of Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino? - These kinds of portraits were only affordable to very wealthy individuals. - The wife, Battista Sforza, had just died and this was a portrait to commemorate her. - Federico da Montefeltro, the patron, brought Northern Renaissance painters to his court, which may have influenced the details and landscape of this painting. - These two portraits were once part of a larger altarpiece for the family's chapel.

These two portraits were once part of a larger altarpiece for the family's chapel.

TRUE or FALSE: A sacra conversazione, or sacred conversation, is a painting that shows the Madonna and Child talking to saints from different time periods.

True

TRUE or FALSE: Brunelleschi's panel shows a violent and dramatic moment where Abraham is in the process of killing Isaac before he is stopped by the angel.

True

TRUE or FALSE: Donatello's David shows a return to the admiration of the human body we see in ancient Greek and Roman art.

True

TRUE or FALSE: In Raphael's School of Athens, the gestures of Plato and Aristotle in the painting reference the ideas of these philosophers. Plato points to the heavens, as his writings dealt with intangible heavenly things. Aristotle points down because he was interested in observable, tangible, earthly things.

True

TRUE or FALSE: Masaccio's Holy Trinity is credited with being the first true example of one-point linear perspective.

True

TRUE or FALSE: Michelangelo's David is reminiscent of the Greek and Roman sculptures and a reference to the classics.

True

TRUE or FALSE: Michelangelo's figures in the Sistine Chapel recall the strength, beauty, and idealism of classical sculpture.

True

Renaissance women plucked their hairline because high foreheads were also thought to be _____. - a symbol of wisdom - reflective of piety - beautiful

beautiful

In Masaccio's Tribute Money, the scene shows atmospheric perspective, which allows the mountain to recede into the background through changes in _____. - the shadow - size - color

color

Compared with Brunelleschi's panel, Ghiberti's panel is more _____ as Abraham hesitates as looks directly into Isaac's face. - emotionally simplified - emotionally complex

emotionally complex