Deck 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520

Question 1

Who was the architect that Pope Julius II appointed for the rebuilding of St Peter's?

A) Bramante
B) Alberti
C) Brunelleschi
D) Michelangelo

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who is thought to be the patron of Leonardo's Mona Lisa?

A) The sitter's husband
B) Pope Julius II
C) The sitter herself
D) The duke of Urbino

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which High Renaissance artist from Venice was equally adept at painting portraits, mythological subjects, and religious paintings?

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

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Titian painted his famous image of a reclining figure of Venus for which patron?

A) Duke Cosimo de' Medici
B) Pope Paul III
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere of Urbino

Question 5

The nine main scenes of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling represent scenes from which Biblical book?

A) Genesis
B) Revelations
C) Exodus
D) Deuteronomy

Question 6

What was Michelangelo's preferred art medium?

A) cast bronze
B) fresco
C) carved wood
D) carved marble

Question 7

Where did painters greatly advance the use of oil on canvas?

A) Germany
B) Flanders and/or the Netherlands
C) Florence
D) Venice

Question 8

Chiaroscuro is an Italian word meaning:

A) heavy and ponderous
B) sfumato
C) soft and smooth
D) light and dark

Question 9

The city of Florence regarded Michelangelo's David as an emblem of its own republican virtues.

Question 10

What is one of Titan's innovations in Man with a Quilted Sleeve?

A) Texture is suggested by thick strokes of opaque white paint
B) The subject appears to exist in a convincing three-dimensional space
C) The sitter makes eye contact with the viewer
D) The painting is executed in oil

Question 11

Titian was particularly skilled in the manipulation of the tempera technique in paintings of religious, mythological, and portrait subjects.

Question 12

Who designed the dome of St. Peter's?

A) Bramante
B) Alberti
C) Brunelleschi
D) Michelangelo

Question 13

Whose extensive notebooks dealt with four main themes- painting, architecture, mechanics and human anatomy?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Alberti
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Raphael

Question 14

Bramante's original plan for the renovated St. Peter's was a

A) Greek-cross plan
B) Latin-cross plan
C) Celtic-cross plan
D) Papal-cross plan

Question 15

Who wrote The Lives of the most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, known as The Lives?

A) Giorgio Vasari
B) Girolamo Savonarola
C) Lodovico Sforza
D) Tiziano Vecello

Question 16

Who was an important Roman architect who wrote a treatise on architecture?

A) Vitruvius
B) Vasari
C) Alberti
D) Brancacci

Question 17

Who was one of the foremost patrons of art during the High Renaissance?

A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Lorenzo the Magnificent
C) Julius II
D) Martin Luther

Question 18

Leonardo worked for the court of Ludovico Sforza in Venice.

Question 19

Sfumato is seen in the work of:

A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Botticelli
C) Michelangelo
D) Masaccio

Question 20

The Venus of Urbino may have been intended as a(n):

A) Erotic image
B) Portrait of the duke of Urbino's wife
C) Private altarpiece
D) Depiction of a Greek goddess

Question 21

Compare Georgione's Pastoral Concert with Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. How would you compare and contrast the subjects, moods, and styles of these two works? How might the environments of Venice and Florence contributed to the differences in these works?

Question 22

Discuss the Sistine Chapel ceiling in terms of technique, subject matter, and composition. How does it differ in mood from the scene of Last Judgment behind the altar?

Question 23

Leonardo painted his Last Supper for the dining hall of a monastery in Milan.

Question 24

Compare Titian's Man with the Glove with Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Include in your discussion observations on chiaroscuro/sfumato, pose, composition, color and background.

Question 25

Most of the great achievements that made Rome the center of Italian art during the first quarter of the sixteenth century were influenced by what events and which important patron of the arts?

Question 26

Discuss Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, Bramante's Tempietto, and Michelangelo's Pietà as three works of the Italian High Renaissance. What underlying artistic characteristics and principles of the age do these three works have in common?

Question 27

Compare and contrast Titian's Venus of Urbino and Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. How do you account for the similarities and differences between these two works?

Question 28

Compare and contrast Titian's Madonna with Members of the Pesaro Family and Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Saints. How are these works similar and how are they different in terms of composition, subject matters, and overall meaning?

Question 29

What makes Leonardo's Last Supper such an important work of art that it has surpassed in fame all other representations of this same subject and has been reproduced countless times? Does the answer to this question have more to do with Leonardo himself, what he specifically painted in this work, or a combination of both?

Question 30

Where and for whom was Raphael's School of Athens painted? Discuss the subject matter of the painting in relation to Raphael's patron and the function of the room for which it was painted.

Question 31

Discuss Michelangelo's major works in sculpture and painting. What was his primary focus with regard to subject matter and what were his primary influences?

Question 32

The young Martin Luther sparked the Reformation by posting his Ninety-five Theses