Deck 12: The Fifteenth Century

Question 1

What name did Michelangelo give to the east doors of the Florence Baptistery?

A) the Archway of Angels
B) the Portal of Judgment
C) the Eternal Entrance
D) the Gates of Paradise

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What was Brunelleschi's contribution to the Cathedral of Florence?

A) He painted the interior frescoes.
B) He designed the dome.
C) He designed the transept.
D) He created the artwork for the nave.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What was the primary source of the Medici family's wealth?

A) shipping
B) banking
C) wool trade
D) agriculture

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which artist wrote the first theoretical treatise about creating perspective in art?

A) Piero della Francesca
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Fra Angelico
D) Masaccio

Question 5

What is the message of the poem "The Song of Bacchus"?

A) Always proceed with an eye toward the future.
B) Don't underestimate the power of music.
C) Enjoy the present moment.
D) Respect your elders.

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT designed by Brunelleschi?

A) The dome of Florence Cathedral
B) Palazzo Rucellai
C) The loggia of Ospedale degli Innocenti
D) Pazzi Chapel

Question 7

Who was the greatest Florentine sculptor of the first half of the 1400s?

A) Donatello
B) Michelangelo
C) Masaccio
D) Botticelli

Question 8

Which city was the most important center of the early Italian Renaissance?

A) Venice
B) Milan
C) Florence
D) Rome

Question 9

What famous painting of Sandro Botticelli celebrates the spring?

A) The Birth of Venus
B) Madonna of the Rocks
C) Primavera
D) Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride

Question 10

What was innovative about Donatello's portrayal of David ?

A) It depicted David in old age.
B) It used a completely new artistic medium.
C) It was the first freestanding life-size nude since Classical antiquity.
D) It did not show any sign of Goliath.

Question 11

What was the subject of Donatello's most famous life-size sculpture?

A) Adam
B) Moses
C) Abraham
D) David

Question 12

Masaccio's painting was notable for what?

A) its continuation of Byzantine style
B) its expressive force and realism
C) its palette of predominantly "cool" colors, such as green and blue
D) the absence of biblical subject matter

Question 13

What Florentine banker founded an academy for the study of Plato?

A) Cosimo de Medici
B) Sforza
C) Ficino
D) Savonarola

Question 14

What were seen as the advantages of humanist education and learning?

A) It would perfect and ennoble man.
B) It would provide entertainment.
C) It would satisfy humanity's basest desires.
D) It would lead to a life of solitary religious devotion.

Question 15

Which Dominican monk preached against Florentine art and culture?

A) Pico della Mirandola
B) Piero de' Medici
C) Fra Savonarola
D) Giorgio Vasari

Question 16

Which composer was one of Dufay's most prominent pupils?

A) Fra Savonarola
B) Lorenzo de' Medici
C) Guillaume de Machaut
D) Johannes Ockeghem

Question 17

Who invented printing with movable type?

A) François Rabelais
B) Johannes Gutenburg
C) Aldus Manutius
D) Leonardo da Vinci

Question 18

Who were the two finalists in the 1401 competition for the decoration of the doors of the Florence Baptistery?

A) Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
B) Michelangelo and Leonardo
C) Donatello and Masaccio
D) Botticelli and Mirandola

Question 19

Which of the following did Pico della Mirandola write?

A) Oration of the Dignity of Man
B) The Praise of Folly
C) Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
D) The Prince

Question 20

Which artist won the competition for designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Leonardo
C) Ghiberti
D) Donatello

Question 21

Who wrote The Prince , which is considered an early work of secular political theory in the West?

A) Cereta
B) Erasmus
C) Mirandola
D) Machiavelli

Question 22

During the 15^th century, Florence was the center of European ________.

A) banking
B) wool manufacturing
C) wine-making
D) farming

Question 23

What is the subject of The Praise of Folly ?

A) a celebration of the comedic arts
B) a satirical criticism of society
C) a call to live for the moment
D) an account of a traveling actors' troupe

Question 24

What is the frottola ?

A) a Venetian ode to court life
B) a popular song form of Florence
C) a Roman religious hymn
D) a Sienese devotional poem

Question 25

Who is portrayed three times in Masaccio's painting The Tribute Money ?

A) Jesus
B) Judas
C) Peter
D) Matthew

Question 26

Sometimes considered the most important Christian humanist in Europe, ________ was fond of using puns in the titles of his books. 

A) Aldus Manutius
B) Niccolò Machiavelli
C) Desiderius Erasmus
D) Giorgio Vasari

Question 27

What is the name of the collection of Jewish law and tradition created ca. 5^th century CE?

A) Pentateuch
B) Talmud
C) Kabbalah
D) Reuchlin

Question 28

What two innovations mark European music during the 15^th century?

A) the perfection of organ-playing and the elaboration of Gregorian Chant
B) the development of musical notation and the invention of the harpsichord
C) the invention of the trombone and trumpet
D) the secularization of the motet and the use of folk tunes in sacred music

Question 29

How was Botticelli's Birth of Venus influenced by Platonic idealism as well as Classical sculpture?

Question 30

What was the Pazzi Conspiracy? What was its outcome?

Question 31

The period of Florentine history marked by Lorenzo de' Medici's accomplishments is called the ______________.

A) Medici Legacy
B) Lorenzo's Time
C) Magnificent Decade
D) Laurentian Era

Question 32

Which painter defied the 15^th-century trends of realistic representations of the natural world and a focus on tonal contrasts of light and shade?

A) Uccello
B) Botticelli
C) Piero
D) Ghiberti

Question 33

Who painted Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ?

A) the Limbourg Brothers
B) Robert Campin
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Sandro Botticelli

Question 34

Who was the most famous composer of the 15^th century?

A) Guillaume de Machaut
B) Guillaume Dufay
C) Heinrich Isaac
D) Marsilio Ficino

Question 35

According to Machiavelli's The Prince , what was the role of morality in the exercise of power? What justification did he offer for the use of cruelty or hypocrisy?

Question 36

What early Renaissance artist perfected the International Style of painting, which had emerged in the 1300s?

A) Gentile da Fabriano
B) Fra Angelico
C) Paolo Uccello
D) Robert Campin

Question 37

According to Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), how did the values and beliefs of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?

Question 38

Who painted the manuscript illuminations for the Duke of Berry's prayer book?

A) Limbourg Brothers
B) Van Eyck
C) Campin
D) Gutenberg

Question 39

In linear perspective, what is the term for the lines that converge on a single point in a painting?

A) polyptych
B) transversal
C) orthogonal
D) vanisher

Question 40

From what class did most women who received a humanistic education come? What pressures did women scholars confront? Who in the text exemplifies the pressures women faced?