Deck 23: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain

Question 1

During which conflict did bands of Calvinists destroy artworks in Catholic churches in the Netherlands?

A) Counter-Reformation
B) Great Iconoclasm
C) Thirty Years' War
D) Saint Anthony's Fire

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following contemporary areas made up the territory known as the Netherlands in the 16th century?

A) Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium
B) Bavaria, Holland, and Belgium
C) Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium
D) Northern Italy, Holland, and Belgium

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which German artist is referred to by the title "painter of the Reformation"?

A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Matthias Grünewald
C) Hans Holbein
D) Lucas Cranach the Elder

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In his painting, Jean Clouet presents Francis I as what?

A) Humble man
B) Worldly ruler
C) Revolutionary
D) Deeply pious figure

Question 5

El Escorial is in which present-day country?

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) Portugal
D) Morocco

Question 6

From which source did Albrecht Altdorfer derive the landscape depiction appearing in his painting Battle of Issus ?

A) A Roman floor mosaic
B) A map in the Nuremberg Chronicle
C) Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government
D) Cranach's prints promoting Lutheran ideology

Question 7

Which of the following historical figures is NOT considered a Christian humanist?

A) François Rabelais
B) King Henry VIII
C) Thomas More
D) Desiderius Erasmus

Question 8

Saint Anthony and Saint Sebastian appear in Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece because of their association with what?

A) The Virgin Mary
B) Craft and artist guilds
C) The Protestant Reformation
D) Disease and miraculous cures

Question 9

Which saint, associated with the plague, has a prominent role in the Isenheim Altarpiece ?

A) Saint Francis
B) Saint Anthony
C) Saint Mark
D) Saint Hildegard

Question 10

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Which of the following everyday objects depicted in Money-Changer and His Wife is NOT a symbol of religion commonly appearing in Netherlandish art?

A) Candlestick
B) Jar with water
C) Rosary
D) Gold coins

Question 11

Which artist had traveled to Italy yet chose not to incorporate classical elements into his work?

A) Hans Holbein
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Jan Gossaert
D) Pieter Bruegel

Question 12

The portrait Elizabeth I as a Princess , showing her as an elegant, formally attired young Elizabeth was created by which artist?

A) Hans Holbein
B) Levina Teerlinc
C) Caterina van Hemessen
D) Albrecht Dürer

Question 13

In Pieter Aertsen's Butcher's Stall , which element is a reference to a degenerate life?

A) Fishes on platter
B) Pretzels and wine
C) Oyster and mussel shells
D) Beggar and his son

Question 14

Who created Knight, Death, and the Devil ?

A) Cranach the Elder
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Jean Goujon
D) Jan Gossaert

Question 15

The first known northern European self-portrait by a woman is purportedly by which artist?

A) Levina Teerlinc
B) Judith Leyster
C) Lavinia Fontana
D) Caterina van Hemessen

Question 16

Which artist does Albrecht Dürer describe as a good landscape painter?

A) El Greco
B) Jean Clouet
C) Albrecht Altdorfer
D) Joachim Patinir

Question 17

Which monarch made a concerted effort to elevate his country's cultural profile by inviting esteemed Italian artists to his court?

A) Henry VIII
B) Charles V
C) Francis I
D) Elizabeth I

Question 18

In Money-Changer and His Wife by Quentin Massys, what is the viewer warned against as being a distraction from religious life?

A) Scientific experiments
B) Expensive garments
C) Pursuit of wealth
D) Reading books

Question 19

Many aspects of El Greco's works, such as the placement of elongated figures in an undefined space, are characterized as what style?

A) Medieval
B) Romanesque
C) International Gothic
D) Mannerist

Question 20

In Dürer's Melencolia I , what element is interpreted as an optimistic note suggesting that the artist can overcome depression?

A) Banner carried by bat
B) Hanging hourglass
C) Tools of the artist
D) Light above the horizon

Question 21

Which statement accurately describes the doctrinal differences between Protestantism and Catholicism regarding religious imagery?

A) Luther did not allow illustrations in his vernacular translation of the Bible.
B) Catholics felt church decoration distracted viewers from prayer and contemplation.
C) Catholics advocated the destruction of religious images that were too lavish and ornate.
D) Luther felt church decoration distracted viewers from their communication with god.

Question 22

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In The French Ambassadors , Holbein has painted the two French ambassadors to England through the lens of which school of thought?

A) Protestantism
B) Rationalism
C) Hermeticism
D) Humanism

Question 23

What is the size of Levina Teerlinc's portrait Elizabeth I as a Princess ?

A) Miniature
B) Wall height
C) Half-life-size
D) Life-size

Question 24

Which artist provided the illustrations for Luther's translation of the Bible into German?

A) Hans Baldung Grien
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Lucas Cranach the Elder
D) Matthias Grünewald

Question 25

In northern Europe of this period, the expansion in genre painting-landscapes, portraits, still lifes-was accompanied by what new element?

A) Interest in depicting foreign lands
B) Moralizing reminders of human vices
C) Increase of training in trades depicted
D) Overlay of overtly Catholic iconography

Question 26

What is the physical format of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights ?

A) Diptych
B) Triptych
C) Mural
D) Print

Question 27

Albrecht Altdorfer's landscape painting Battle of Issus is a reference to what contemporary conflict?

A) Prayerbook Rebellion
B) Henry VIII's campaign against the Romanians
C) War of the Portuguese Succession
D) Wilhelm IV's campaign against the Ottoman Turks

Question 28

Which of the following individuals was not the subject of a portrait painted by Hans Holbein the Younger?

A) Henry VIII
B) Martin Luther
C) Thomas More
D) Erasmus of Rotterdam

Question 29

Which New Testament scene does Pieter Aertsen depict in the background of Butcher's Stall ?

A) Crucifixion
B) Nativity
C) Flight into Egypt
D) Annunciation

Question 30

Which subject that became common in German art of the 16th century involved macabre scenes and female nudity?

A) Childbirth
B) Witchcraft
C) Martyrdom
D) Funerals

Question 31

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What is the title of this painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

A) Skating on the Zenne
B) Lesson of the Crows
C) Witches' Sabbat
D) Hunters in the Snow

Question 32

Aside from his skill at drawing, which earlier training contributed to Dürer's extraordinary proficiency in making engravings?

A) Blacksmith
B) Cartographer
C) Engineer
D) Goldsmith

Question 33

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Which saint's story does Joachim Patinir subordinate to a wide and detailed landscape depiction in this painting?

A) Saint Paul
B) Saint Anthony
C) Saint Jerome
D) Saint Giles

Question 34

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This first-known self-portrait of a woman artist is by which painter?

A) Levina Teerlinc
B) Lavinia Fontana
C) Catherine of Bologna
D) Caterina van Hemessen

Question 35

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From what body of knowledge did Pieter Bruegel the Elder draw the many vignettes in this painting?

A) Bible
B) Laws
C) Proverbs
D) Fairytales

Question 36

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Which artist created this tempera-and-oil portrait of Francis I?

A) Hans Holbein the Younger
B) Levina Teerlinc
C) Jean Clouet
D) Joachim Patinir

Question 37

Which foreign ruler controlled the region of the Netherlands in the 16th century and attempted to impose Catholicism on its entire population?

A) Henry VIII
B) Louis I
C) Philip II
D) Elizabeth I

Question 38

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Baldung's oil painting Three Ages of Woman and Death is a commentary on both the inevitability of death and what?

A) Greed
B) Nudity
C) Vanitas
D) Marriage

Question 39

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A work by which other artist inspired Gossaert's Neptune and Amphitrite ?

A) Lucas Cranach the Elder, Judgment of Paris
B) Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights
C) Albrecht Dürer, Fall of Man
D) Hans Baldung Grien, Witches' Sabbath

Question 40

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Dürer shows his support for Protestant reforms by minimizing the presentation of which saint in this painting he made for the Nuremberg city hall?

A) Saint John the Evangelist
B) Saint Paul
C) Saint Mark
D) Saint Peter

Question 41

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Which component of the Cour Carrée of the Louvre can be considered a northern European feature rather than a reflection of Italian Renaissance architectural models?

A) Precisely aligned windows
B) Steep roof and large windows
C) Curved and angular pediments
D) Arcading on the ground story

Question 42

Which European monarch was a patron of sculpture and the decorative arts, a passionate collector of paintings, and a builder on a grand scale, as well as declaring Protestantism illegal within his realm?

A) Louis XI
B) Henry VIII
C) Philip II
D) Francis I

Question 43

What construction material was used for the El Escorial complex?

A) Brick
B) Cement
C) Imported timber
D) Granite

Question 44

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The roof of the Château de Chambord is a product of which architectural style?

A) Medieval fortified castle
B) Italian palazzo
C) French Gothic residential
D) Mannerist country house

Question 45

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Which Spanish city has El Greco depicted in this painting?

A) Madrid
B) Granada
C) Toledo
D) Barcelona

Question 46

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In what medium did Dürer create his Melancholia I ?

A) Etching
B) Engraving
C) Drawing
D) Woodcut

Question 47

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Amid the realism of the earthly realm in Burial of Count Orgaz , El Greco's careful delineation of individual features reveals his talent for what genre?

A) Still life
B) Portraiture
C) Engraving
D) Perspective

Question 48

Portals of Spanish Plateresque facades generally took what form?

A) Inset entrance amid colonnaded wall
B) Carved retable against blank stone wall
C) Carved retable against patterned stone walls
D) Tall two-towered portal projecting from rusticated wall

Question 49

Which of the following paintings cannot be viewed as a moralizing work pertaining to the materialism of earthly existence?

A) Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights
B) Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow
C) Massys, Money-Changer and His Wife
D) Aertsen, Butcher's Stall

Question 50

Which was the dominant European power at the end of the 16th century, controlling an empire of a vast extent?

A) France
B) Spain
C) England
D) Italy