Deck 13: Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation

Question 1

How do Mannerist compositions,such as Allegory with Venus and Cupid,differ from Classical arrangements from the High Renaissance?

A)They are complex and claustrophobic.
B)They include more figures.
C)They show a simplistic rendering of space.
D)They contain simplistic poses.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which is the term for the effect in painting of softer or smoky edges?

A)chiaroscuro
B)tenebrism
C)sfumato
D)trompe l'oeil

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which is the term for a painting or drawing used as a model or pattern for another work?

A)cartoon
B)hemicycle
C)sketch
D)illumination

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How does Michelangelo organize and give structure to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

A)with an illusionistic architectural structure,filled with narrative scenes
B)with one unifying scene
C)with a pyramidal composition
D)with a circular composition

Question 5

In Christian architecture,which of the following is a building over a grave that was traditionally circular in plan?

A)martyrium
B)hemicycle
C)mausoleum
D)cenotaph

Question 6

What is the word for strong contrasts of light and dark on an object?

A)sfumato
B)chiaroscuro
C)trompe l'oeil
D)poesie

Question 7

Which artist critiqued the early drawings of Sofonisba Anguissola?

A)Bronzino
B)Michelangelo
C)Raphael
D)Titian

Question 8

What inspired Giorgione's landscape paintings?

A)Roman sculpture
B)"Venus" paintings
C)classical landscape paintings
D)ancient pastoral poetry

Question 9

Which artist depicted Jesus with a broad-brimmed hat and a shovel?

A)Veronese
B)Tintoretto
C)Grünewald
D)Fontana

Question 10

Whose Last Supper was criticized because it was too grandiose and vulgar and included dogs and foreign soldiers?

A)Tintoretto's
B)Titian's
C)Leonardo's
D)Veronese's

Question 11

Which building was the main inspiration for the Villa Rotonda?

A)Saint Peter's Basilica
B)the Pantheon
C)Santa Sophia
D)the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

Question 12

What is dramatically altered from reality in Titian's portrait of Isabella d'Este?

A)her nose
B)her left eye
C)her age
D)her left hand

Question 13

The first School of Fontainebleau had a particularly strong influence in which of the following places?

A)Italy and Sicily
B)Spain and Portugal
C)France and the Netherlands
D)the Germanic states

Question 14

What did Veronese change about his Feast in the House of Levi from traditional scenes of the same subject?

A)He removed the German soldiers.
B)He changed the architectural setting.
C)He revised the title of the work.
D)He removed the dogs.

Question 15

Which of the following influenced sixteenth-century thinking so that paintings of female nudes became socially acceptable?

A)the decline of Christianity
B)the interest in Classical mythology
C)the dress styles of the day
D)a relaxing of moral standards

Question 16

When Leonardo da Vinci worked for the court of the Duke of Milan,which of the following interests occupied much of his time?

A)military and civil engineer
B)painter
C)sculptor
D)musician

Question 17

Which artist's influence is particularly strong in the work of Raphael?

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

Question 18

Upon which moment in the story of Jesus' Last Supper did Leonardo focus in his portrayal?

A)the passing of the bread
B)Jesus' statement that one of the disciples would betray him
C)the symbolism and distribution of the wine
D)the reception of the Holy Spirit

Question 19

Raphael gained early fame from his paintings of

A)Virgin and Child.
B)the life of Jesus.
C)Old Testament themes.
D)Greek mythology.

Question 20

Which of the following is a grand country palace?

A)palazzo
B)domicile
C)insula
D)château

Question 21

What is typically Northern (rather than Italian)about Dürer's Adam and Eve?

A)the proportions of the figures
B)the inclusion of animals
C)the descriptive detail
D)the name plaque

Question 22

Bruegel's Return of the Hunters represents which part of a cycle of paintings?

A)the time of dusk
B)the sense of sound
C)the months of November and December
D)the element of ice

Question 23

The religious reformers were most vocal against

A)art in churches.
B)nudity in art.
C)the sale of indulgences.
D)the granting of divorces.

Question 24

How and why did the early style of Michelangelo,as seen in David,change to his later style,as seen in the Last Judgment?

Question 25

Describe the setting of Giorgione's The Tempest,and explain why it was an important painting from the Venetian Renaissance.

Question 26

How does Hieronymus Bosch's painting Garden of Earthly Delights defy the traditions of the Renaissance?

Question 27

How did El Greco begin his career?

A)as a Byzantine icon painter
B)as a stonecutter
C)as a copyist of Bosch's work
D)as a goldsmith

Question 28

What is Dürer trying to show in his Four Apostles?

A)that Protestant imagery was possible
B)a canon of ideal human proportions
C)the new linear perspective
D)the new oil medium

Question 29

Describe the typical characteristics of Mannerism.Use Pontormo's work to explain the ways these characteristics appear.

Question 30

What did Holbein do because of harassment from reformers?

A)quit painting
B)turned to book illustration
C)moved back to England
D)turned to landscape painting

Question 31

Compare and contrast Lucas Cranach's Nymph of the Spring and Titian's "Venus" of Urbino.

Question 32

Which of the following subjects seemed to be Caterina van Hemessen's specialty?

A)religious figures
B)diplomats
C)working class dwomen

Question 33

What generally happened to art in churches that became Protestant?

A)It was altered to fit the new doctrine.
B)It was sold to Catholic churches.
C)It was destroyed and the walls whitewashed.
D)It was forcibly sold back to artists and patrons.