Deck 15: Renaissance and Baroque Art

Question 1

Masaccio's Holy Trinity (figure 15.8A) displays a number of characteristics prevalent during the Early Renaissance in Italy. We can see two of these in his use of a specific architectural style and linear perspective, which display the characteristics of:

A) Classical architectural settings and humanism
B) Naturalism and emergence of patrons
C) Classical architectural settings and naturalism
D) Humanism and change in the view of God

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What qualities make Leonardo exemplary of the High Renaissance?

A) Renewed status of artists and sfumato
B) Illusion of reality and science
C) Sfumato and humanism
D) Balanced designs and an interest in copying the natural world

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Michelangelo's David (figure 15.14A) is more Classically inspired than Donatello's David (figure 15.10), because:

A) It is marble
B) It is idealized
C) It is for the city of Florence
D) It shows David before the fight

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The art of the Renaissance in Venice was different from the rest of Italy because:

A) It copied medieval art
B) It distorted figures
C) It included shimmering surfaces
D) It showed nude figures

Question 5

Mannerism is characterized by the following:

A) C and D
B) Linear perspective
C) Unnatural colors
D) Distorted figures

Question 6

Using transparent glazes of oil paint to capture minute detail is characteristic of:

A) The Northern Renaissance
B) The Venetian Renaissance
C) The Italian Renaissance
D) The Italian Baroque

Question 7

Caterina van Hemessen's Self-Portrait (figure 15.21) illustrates what Northern Renaissance quality that was shared with Italian Renaissance artists?

A) An elevation of the status of artists
B) An interest in surface detail
C) A tendency to distort space
D) A use of sfumato

Question 8

Although it looks like it is just a portrait, Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors (figure 15.24) contains many references to religion and salvation. Holbein might have felt it was best to hide religious meaning in his painting due to:

A) The Counterreformation
B) The interest in humanism
C) The renewed interest in the individual
D) The Reformation

Question 9

One way artists could express their embrace of Martin Luther's ideas was by producing:

A) Propaganda
B) Paintings
C) Satires
D) Self-portraits

Question 10

Naturalism and emotionalism in Italian Baroque art was designed to:

A) Support the Reformation
B) Show Classical influence
C) Bring people back to the Catholic Church
D) Create balanced compositions

Question 11

Caravaggio's Deposition (figure 15.26) was revolutionary in depicting:

A) Color
B) Classical ideals
C) Space
D) Narrative

Question 12

Italian Baroque architecture is similar to painting in that it uses:

A) Rich colors
B) Emotional narrative
C) Dynamic space
D) Post-and-lintel construction

Question 13

By painting Marie de' Medici (figure 15.31) with emotionalism, bright light, and vivid color, Peter Paul Rubens was:

A) Glorifying her as an artist
B) Glorifying her as an individual
C) Glorifying her for the Counterreformation
D) Glorifying her as an allegory

Question 14

Nicholas Poussin's Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (figure 15.34) is both Baroque and:

A) Allegorical
B) Reformative
C) Classical
D) Humanistic

Question 15

Appealing secular paintings like Clara Peeters's Still Life with Fruit and Flowers (figure 15.37) is typical of the Baroque in the Dutch Republic because the Republic:

A) Was Catholic and used Baroque style
B) Lacked an absolute monarch but wanted to attract elite patrons
C) Was Protestant and had an open art market
D) Had an open art market and imported many works of art

Question 16

Leonardo's naturalism was related to science.

Question 17

Mannerism embraced Classicism.

Question 18

Northern Renaissance artists and Early Italian Renaissance artists approached naturalism the same way.

Question 19

Baroque art is more emotional than Renaissance art.

Question 20

The Baroque in France was more infused with Classicism than Baroque art was in other areas.

Question 21

Masaccio's Holy Trinity (figure 15.8A) shows how Early Renaissance art championed naturalism. The space in this painting is more believable because he was the first artist to use ______ .

Question 22

Northern Renaissance artists used transparent ______ of oil paint to create rich colors and capture realistic details and external surface textures.

Question 23

The Baroque in Italy was developed to promote the _________ in order to bring people back to the Catholic Church.

Question 24

Artists in Spain and Flanders used the Baroque style as _______ to glorify individuals.

Question 25

Unlike the monarchies of Italy, Spain, France, and Flanders, the Dutch Republic had an art market that catered to _______ buyers.

Question 26

and contrast Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (figure 15.13) with Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance (figure 15.38). How do the two paintings illustrate the differences between the High Renaissance and the Baroque, as well as Italian versus Northern style?

Question 27

Why do you think an art style like Mannerism, which often created works of art with disturbing imagery and awkward distortions of the real world, appealed to art patrons toward the end of the Renaissance?

Question 28

How does Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors (figure 15.24) reflect the changes in art that took place because of the Protestant Reformation? Give specific examples.

Question 29

Giving specific examples, explain how Italian Baroque artists incorporated the principles of Baroque art into their works.

Question 30

Explain how art in Spain and Flanders was used to glorify individuals. How does that to the way Mesopotamian art promoted the status of the elites?