Deck 12: Early Renaissance Art

Question 1

Which is the name of Brunelleschi's added element,like a section of entablature,above the capital and below the springing of the arch?

A)aedicul
B)loggia
C)impost block
D)balustrade

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who changed Florentine painting more than anyone since Giotto?

A)Fra Angelico
B)Paolo Uccello
C)Sandro Botticelli
D)Masaccio

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which is the term for a framed niche in the wall?

A)loggia
B)sacristy
C)balustrade
D)aedicula

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who called Ghiberti's doors the "Gates of Paradise"?

A)Michelangelo
B)Brunelleschi
C)Vasari
D)Masaccio

Question 5

What makes Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition of special importance?

A)It is his only known work.
B)It is the first oil painting.
C)It establishes the characteristics of his work.
D)It was sent to Italy and spread the Flemish style there.

Question 6

Which of the following is an advantage of using oil paint versus tempera?

A)It did not create unique texture.
B)It created an opaque surface.
C)It takes a longer time to dry.
D)It does not penetrate to lower layers.

Question 7

Which is the first free-standing bronze equestrian statue since antiquity?

A)Riemenschneider's Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
B)Gislebertus's Flight into Egypt
C)Donatello's Gattamelata
D)Verocchio's Bartolomeo Colleoni

Question 8

Which is a process in which lines are cut into a plate with a burin and the low areas are printed?

A)aquatint
B)engraving
C)woodcut
D)lithography

Question 9

How did fourteenth-century Humanists view the "middle" ages?

A)as artistically advanced and creative
B)as surpassing the achievements of the ancients
C)as intellectually and culturally stagnate
D)as spiritually unfocused

Question 10

What is the term for art that has been created using a gouge to make high-relief areas for the image?

A)intaglio
B)lithograph
C)engraving
D)woodcut

Question 11

From which trade did engraving apparently develop?

A)banking
B)woodworking
C)brick laying
D)goldsmithing

Question 12

What is the setting for Robert Campin's Annunciation?

A)in a first-century home in Palestine
B)in a fifteenth-century Flemish home
C)in a Gothic church
D)a landscape in Judea

Question 13

What is the significance of the belt curling across the counter in A Goldsmith in His Shop by Petrus Christus?

A)It symbolizes the success of the couple's international business.
B)It symbolizes the upcoming marriage of the couple.
C)It symbolizes the wealth of the customers.
D)It symbolizes the piety of the couple.

Question 14

Who first demonstrated the system of linear perspective?

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

Question 15

What was the area of western Belgium,southwestern Netherlands,and a small part of northern France called in the fifteenth century?

A)Aquitaine
B)Holy Roman Empire
C)Flanders
D)Aragon

Question 16

Which is used at the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi to visually separate the three different stories?

A)the roughness of the stone
B)varying classical orders
C)arched windows,square windows,and no windows
D)a wide entablature between them

Question 17

Which is a decoration made by scratching through plaster or glaze?

A)sgraffito
B)engraving
C)rustication
D)intaglio

Question 18

Two influences on the work of Hugo van der Goes are the work of

A)Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
B)Petrus Christus and the Limbourg brothers.
C)Martin Schongauer and Antonia del Pollaiuolo.
D)Masaccio and Fra Angelico.

Question 19

Which of the following aspect of Très Riches Heures created by the Limbourg brothers is a Gothic convention?

A)the lack of a middle ground
B)the high placement of the horizon line
C)the depiction of only the peasant class
D)the attention to precisely following one-point perspective

Question 20

Where was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance?

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

Question 21

Give examples and explain how ordinary objects are used as disguised religious symbols in the Mérode Altarpiece.

Question 22

Discuss the different ways that Masaccio increases the illusion of space in The Tribute Money and the ways that he breaks from the International Gothic style.

Question 23

Which is the term for a section of fresh plaster that could be prepared and painted in one day?

A)sinopia
B)intonaco
C)sgraffito
D)giornata

Question 24

Who began the long tradition of illusionistic ceiling painting?

A)Sandro Botticelli
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Giovanni Bellini
D)Piero della Francesca

Question 25

Which of the following is defined as a line running back into the represented space of a picture that converges with other lines that are parallel in reality?

A)perspective line
B)vanishing line
C)orthogonal
D)giornata

Question 26

Which artist studied Alberti's theoretical treatises and wrote his own on perspective,geometry,and volumetric construction?

A)Sandro Botticelli
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Giovanni Bellini
D)Piero della Francesca

Question 27

Explain the composition of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Jacob and Esau panel from the "Gates of Paradise." Describe the narrative as it is told through relief.

Question 28

Which is the term for a little boy often shown naked and with wings?

A)giornata
B)sgraffito
C)aedicul
D)putto

Question 29

What was the purpose and setting for Fra Angelico's Annunciation?

A)an altarpiece in a monastery chapel
B)for meditation and prayer in monks' private living quarters
C)for a noblewoman's devotional at her home
D)for the pope's viewing in the Vatican apartments

Question 30

Describe how Martin Schongauer created an emotionally charged engraving.Give examples of technique and compare this technique with that of a woodcut.

Question 31

Which is the basis for Botticelli's Venus?

A)Masaccio's Eve
B)the antique Medici Venus
C)Donatello's David
D)Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes

Question 32

Discuss the iconographic meaning of The Unicorn Is Found and its meaning in contemporary fifteenth-century society.