Deck 21: The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy

Question 1

Donatello revolutionized relief sculpture in his image of Saint George and the Dragon by doing what?

A) Placing the scene in an added marble quatrefoil
B) Creating an atmospheric effect with incised lines
C) Gilding and painting the surface of the stone
D) Including many episodes in one composition

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which classical reference is visible on Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac panel?

A) The flowing drapery of Isaac
B) The naked figure of Isaac
C) The elongated S curve of Isaac's body
D) The pose of Abraham

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In Ghiberti's Isaac and His Sons , the artist's study of ancient art is especially apparent in which detail?

A) The central-plan building
B) The figure of Rebecca
C) The use of pointed arches
D) The orthogonals of floor tiles

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which Renaissance building was one of the first conceived as a central-plan structure?

A) Ospedale degli Innocenti
B) Pazzi Chapel
C) Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
D) Santo Spirito

Question 5

Which Italian city played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early 15th century?

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

Question 6

Which 15th-century Italian artist showed the influence of the International Style?

A) Masaccio
B) Gentile da Fabriano
C) Andrea del Castagno
D) Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Question 7

What naturalistic details are evident among International Gothic style conventions in Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi ?

A) A "modern" architectural setting for the adoration scene
B) The background scene of the adoration is the classical Roman countryside
C) A classical nude in the predella scene of the Flight into Egypt
D) Animals shown from a variety of angles and convincing foreshortening

Question 8

How did Masaccio create a sense of bulk in his figures in Tribute Money ?

A) Through modeling with an identifiable light source within the picture
B) Through modeling with a flat neutral light lacking an identifiable source
C) Through modeling with a specific light source outside the picture
D) Through modeling with several specific light sources within the picture

Question 9

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to which artist?

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

Question 10

In Masaccio's Holy Trinity, the coffered barrel vault is reminiscent of which of the following?

A) The baths of Diocletian
B) The Pantheon
C) A Roman triumphal arch
D) The basilica of Constantine

Question 11

Which of the following artists actively collected classical sculpture?

A) Nanni di Banco
B) Filippo Brunelleschi
C) Gentile da Fabriano
D) Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 12

Which Dominican monk denounced the secular humanism of the Medici and others in the late 15th century?

A) Marsilio Ficino
B) Piero della Francesca
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) Girolamo Savonarola

Question 13

Employing a medieval narrative method on his Gates of Paradise, Ghiberti presented groupings of episodes in what format?

A) Sequential frames
B) A single frame
C) Multiple round frames
D) Panels among Doric columns

Question 14

In Four Crowned Saints , Nanni di Banco achieved a unified spatial composition by arranging the figures in what way?

A) On horseback
B) In a straight line
C) In a semicircle
D) Across different niches

Question 15

What principal Renaissance interest is embodied in Masaccio's Holy Trinity alongside realism based on observation?

A) The introduction of the donors into the context of the work
B) The use of antique elements as components of the work
C) The mixture of sculptural media such as stone and metal
D) The application of the new science of perspective

Question 16

In Masaccio's Holy Trinity , where is the vanishing point?

A) Between the dove and God the Father
B) Above the head of God the Father
C) At the foot of the cross
D) On the face of the crucified Christ

Question 17

Which of the following architects wrote influential treatises on painting and architecture?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Michelozzo
C) Alberti
D) Petrarch

Question 18

Who was a Dominican painter-friar who combined elements of the new style of art into traditional religious devotional works?

A) Piero della Francesca
B) Pollaiuolo
C) Fra Angelico
D) Fra Filippo Lippi

Question 19

Which of the following artists was the winner of the famous competition for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery?

A) Donatello
B) Brunelleschi
C) Nanni di Banco
D) Ghiberti

Question 20

What factor allowed Ghiberti's entry to win the competition for the design of the baptistery doors for the Florence Cathedral?

A) The French-style frame
B) The chosen subject
C) Its high emotion
D) Its spatial illusion

Question 21

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Which artist painted Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter?

A) Mantegna
B) Signorelli
C) Perugino
D) Botticelli

Question 22

Which artist departed from the convention of frontality by placing figures on a triangular base?

A) Piero della Francesca
B) Paolo Uccello
C) Andrea del Castagno
D) Antonio de Pollaiuolo

Question 23

Which of the following describes the style of Fra Angelico?

A) Lush and opulent
B) Scientifically precise
C) Dynamic and complex
D) Simple and direct

Question 24

In Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter , what element does the artist include to remind the viewer of the ties between Saint Peter and Constantine?

A) The Pantheon-like temple in the background
B) The triumphal arches in the background
C) The key dangling from Peter's hand
D) The great marble piazza in the background

Question 25

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Who is the architect of the loggia of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence?

A) Alberti
B) Michelozzo
C) Brunelleschi
D) Lombardo

Question 26

Which of the following artists shows the most interest in depicting the human body in violent action?

A) Fra Angelico
B) Signorelli
C) Perugino
D) Mantegna

Question 27

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Who created this statue of David for the Palazzo Medici?

A) Rossellino
B) Desiderius
C) Verrocchio
D) Donatello

Question 28

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Which artist designed and created the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni?

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

Question 29

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Which Florentine artist painted Primavera ?

A) Fra Angelico
B) Botticelli
C) Filippo Lippi
D) Castagno

Question 30

Author of the Commentaries , who is considered the first Renaissance art historian?

A) Sandro Botticelli
B) Luca Signorelli
C) Lorenzo Ghiberti
D) Andrea del Verrocchio

Question 31

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What city is home to Sant'Andrea and its facade designed by Alberti?

A) Rimini
B) Florence
C) Urbino
D) Mantua

Question 32

Which artist introduced the contrapposto pose to Quattrocento sculpture in his representation of Saint Mark?

A) Ghiberti
B) Verrocchio
C) Pollaiuolo
D) Donatello

Question 33

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Which artist painted a cycle of frescoes, including the scene in this image, for the choir of Santa Maria Novella?

A) Mantegna
B) Perugino
C) Ghirlandaio
D) Botticelli

Question 34

What term do art historians use for the windows used by Brunelleschi in buildings such as San Lorenzo?

A) Casement
B) Lancet
C) Framing
D) Oculus

Question 35

Often synonymous with the Renaissance, who were great patrons of the arts in Florence?

A) Pazzi family
B) Riccardi family
C) Medici family
D) Gonzaga family

Question 36

Which mode of thinking inspired the leading families and many artists of the Early Renaissance in Italy?

A) Stoicism
B) Paganism
C) Capitalism
D) Humanism

Question 37

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Who was the architect of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Alberti
C) Sangallo
D) Michelozzo

Question 38

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Which description best describes the work shown here?

A) Door panel, Siena Cathedral
B) Competition panel, San Giovanni
C) Door panel, Saint Peter's, Rome
D) Competition panel, Santa Croce

Question 39

Which of the following accounts for the decline in the role Florence played in the support of the arts at the end of the 15th century?

A) Death of Lorenzo de' Medici
B) Incursion of the French armies
C) Savonarola's brief span of power
D) Death of Masaccio

Question 40

The duke of Mantua commissioned the frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi from Mantegna for which of the following reasons?

A) To memorialize courtly life
B) To glorify himself and his family
C) To challenge the Medici as art patrons
D) To create a tribute to his wife

Question 41

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Paolo Uccello's Battle of San Romano combines an interest in linear perspective with which style?

A) Netherlandish
B) International Gothic
C) Romanesque
D) Early Christian

Question 42

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Who is the subject of this statue made for Or San Michele by Donatello?

A) David
B) Saint Mark
C) Moses
D) Saint George

Question 43

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Which individual is the subject of this equestrian statue?

A) Gattamelata
B) Leonardo Bruni
C) Girolamo Savonarola
D) Bartolommeo Colleoni

Question 44

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Which sculptor made this statue group for Or San Michele?

A) Donatello
B) Nanni di Banco
C) Verrocchio
D) Pollaiuolo

Question 45

What art historical term is used to describe the perspective effect achieved by Mantegna in this ceiling painting?

A) Sacra conversazione
B) Chiaroscuro
C) Quadratura
D) Di sotto in sù

Question 46

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Which artist created the polychrome terracotta roundels in Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel?

A) Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
B) Pietro Lombardo
C) Piero della Francesca
D) Luca della Robbia

Question 47

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Which figure sits isolated from the rest in Castagno's Last Supper ?

A) Saint Peter
B) Judas
C) Jesus
D) Saint John

Question 48

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Which sculptor made this wall tomb inside Santa Croce?

A) Desiderius
B) Rossellino
C) Verrocchio
D) Donatello

Question 49

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In what medium did Giovanni Bellini paint Saint Francis in the Desert ?

A) Oil on wood
B) Tempera on linen
C) Pigment on wet plaster
D) Oil and tempera on wood

Question 50

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This is the interior of which building by Brunelleschi?

A) Ospedale degli Innocenti
B) Pazzi Chapel
C) Santo Spirito
D) Santa Maria del Carmine