Deck 10: The Early Renaissance

Question 1

__________ means,among other things,"rebirth."

A) Classicism
B) Gothic
C) Quattrocento
D) Progress
E) Renaissance

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Ghiberti used perspective to bring a new sense of deep space to __________.

A) print-making
B) drawing
C) painting
D) relief sculpture
E) etching

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The term "individualism" was invented in the __________ century.

A) twentieth
B) fourteenth
C) fifteenth
D) eighteenth
E) nineteenth

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The subject of Ghiberti's relief sculpture for the Florence Cathedral's Baptistery is the __________.

A) birth of Venus
B) crucifixion
C) deposition
D) lamentation
E) sacrifice of Isaac

Question 5

Italy gained nearly a half-century of peace when the Peace of __________ was established.

A) Padua
B) Savoy
C) Lodi
D) Urbino
E) Ferrara

Question 6

Pope __________ oversaw the construction of the Sistine Chapel.

A) Sixtus I
B) John II
C) Benedict III
D) Sixtus IV
E) Nicholas VI

Question 7

Renaissance sculptors depicted figures in a(n)__________ manner.

A) idealized
B) simplified
C) abstract
D) individualistic
E) generic

Question 8

Lorenzo de' Medici established a senate in Florence called the __________.

A) Senatoria de' Medici
B) Council of Citizens
C) Council of Seventy
D) Council of the People
E) Group of Ten

Question 9

__________ proposed nine hundred theses that he believed summed up all of human knowledge.

A) Lorenzo de' Medici
B) Marsilio Ficino
C) Pico della Mirandola
D) Machiavelli
E) Petrarch

Question 10

Important patrons of the arts,the __________ family ruled Florence for a number of generations.

A) Alberti
B) Ferrara
C) Medici
D) Ficino
E) Lorenzo

Question 11

The focal point of Donatello's Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata is the __________.

A) military implements
B) horse
C) attendants
D) rider
E) relief sculpture

Question 12

__________ believed that art was easier for the ancients because they had clear models to imitate.

A) Vasari
B) Vitruvius
C) Alberti
D) Masaccio
E) Leonardo

Question 13

The Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata is perhaps __________ greatest achievement.

A) Bronzino's
B) Ghiberti's
C) Donatello's
D) Raphael's
E) Masaccio's

Question 14

__________ is a type of low comedy characterized by slapstick.

A) Commedia dell'arte
B) Sottie
C) Proscenium
D) Farce
E) Autos sacramentales

Question 15

Commissioning art was often a means of acquiring of acquiring prestige for __________.

A) city-states
B) local churches
C) monastic orders
D) wealthy families
E) craft guilds

Question 16

__________ is the rational portrayal of spatial depth through linear or atmospheric means.

A) Verisimilitude
B) Realism
C) Perspective
D) Classicism
E) Symbolism

Question 17

An economic system pursuing market freedom and profit is called __________.

A) tribute system
B) capitalism
C) socialism
D) marketism
E) socialism

Question 18

Alberti believed the best example of the new Renaissance architecture was the __________ of the Florence Cathedral.

A) baptistery
B) tower
C) dome
D) chapel
E) courtyard

Question 19

A term for lifelikeness or nearness to truth is __________.

A) farce
B) proscenium
C) sottie
D) verisimilitude
E) obsequious

Question 20

Scholas were similar to modern-day __________.

A) professors
B) art critics
C) policy analysts
D) public schools
E) community centers

Question 21

The orthogonal lines of mechanical perspective recede to a spot called the __________.

A) horizon
B) vanishing point
C) barrel vault
D) mortus
E) cartoon

Question 22

Botticelli's La Primavera (or Spring)displays __________.

A) rationalism
B) religious orthodoxy
C) monastic discipline
D) lyricism
E) realism

Question 23

Alberti's Palazzo Recellai is clearly influenced by the Roman __________.

A) cathedral
B) basilica
C) Colosseum
D) bathhouse
E) gymnasium

Question 24

__________ has been called the "Father of Humanism."

Question 25

The 1486 exploration of Bartolomeu __________ connected the coast of Africa with the Mediterranean.

Question 26

The Florentine Foundling Hospital is by __________.

A) Alberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Pazzi
D) Ghiberti
E) Vitruvius

Question 27

In general,Renaissance art can be best described as finding delight in __________ things.

A) otherworldly
B) future
C) earthly
D) cerebral
E) emotional

Question 28

The Italian city of __________ was the first democracy in Europe since Ancient Greece.

Question 29

Renaissance artists such as Donatello revived the __________ tradition of the nude.

A) Medieval
B) Byzantine
C) Gothic
D) Romanesque
E) Classical

Question 30

The first of the Medici family to assume power was __________ de' Medici.

Question 31

The culminating work of Brunelleschi's career was the __________.

A) Foundling Hospital
B) Florence Cathedral
C) Palazzo Rucellai
D) Venetian Cathedral
E) Pazzi Chapel

Question 32

Masaccio's The Holy Trinity depicts Christ on the cross,which is being steadied by __________.

Question 33

__________ famously considered painting a science and sculpture a mechanical art.

Question 34

The Italians refer to the fifteenth century as the __________.

Question 35

With 50,000 citizens __________ was the largest city in Europe during the 1400s.

Question 36

Leonardo's well-known drawing __________,influenced by the anatomical writing of Vitruvius,shows the Renaissance fascination with the human body.

Question 37

Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money depicts a scene from the __________.

A) Old Testament
B) Iliad
C) Odyssey
D) Book of Hours
E) New Testament

Question 38

The Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence contains highly influential __________ by Masaccio.

A) relief sculptures
B) altarpieces
C) stained glass windows
D) frescoes
E) mosaics

Question 39

The fall of __________ to the Ottomans brought an influx of scholars with ancient manuscripts to Italy.

Question 40

Mantegna creates unsettling drama in his St.James Led to Execution by placing the __________ below the lower edge of the painting.

A) chiaroscuro
B) composition
C) horizon line
D) frame
E) viewer

Question 41

What did the Greeks of Periclean Athens provide Renaissance artists?

Question 42

A roofed,open arcade is called a __________.

Question 43

What Renaissance system of thought influences Donatello's depiction of St.George as a "hero of everyday proportions"?

Question 44

The ideas of Massacio were probably most influential on his contemporary,the painter __________.

Question 45

The printing press primarily affected the life of the political elite.

Question 46

Individualism was part of the central core of the Protestant Reformation.

Question 47

Is the term "Renaissance" more accurately applied to artists or societies at large?

Question 48

__________ sculpture,which had been out of favor since Classical times,was revived in the early Renaissance.

Question 49

What does the Florence Cathedral's dome resemble more than a classical dome?

Question 50

What led the city of Florence to sponsor artistic competitions?

Question 51

Part of the development of Renaissance architecture involved the measurement of __________ ruins and the conversion of the measurements into ideal proportions.

Question 52

The Renaissance was the first time Europeans regained an interest in Antiquity.

Question 53

Masaccio is known for his continuation of Gothic painting technique.

Question 54

Renaissance science was in harmony with traditional values.

Question 55

Classical scholarship was the forte of Pope Pius II.

Question 56

__________ refers to the use of light and shadow to create dimensionality.

Question 57

By and large,the Renaissance popes were indifferent to art.

Question 58

Capitalism supported the guild system.

Question 59

Christian humanism was a view common among the masses of Europe.

Question 60

Donatello's David was the first nude sculpture since Antiquity.

Question 61

What were the social,political,and economic factors that created a sense of "individualism" in the Early Renaissance? Give at least two examples of how this individualism was expressed in the arts.

Question 62

Compare and contrast Sandro Boticelli's The Birth of Venus with Masaccio's The Tribute Money.Which aspects of the works seem to best exemplify the Renaissance? Which aspects seem more medieval?

Question 63

Pick an example of Early Renaissance art.How is the philosophy of humanism expressed in the work?