Deck 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Question 1

Andrea Palladio is particularly well-known for a series of villas he designed for wealthy patrons in which geographical region?

A) Venice
B) Tuscany
C) Siena
D) Bologna

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What northern European sculptor, having studied in Italy, became the most important sculptor in Florence during the last third of the sixteenth century?

A) Romano
B) Correggio
C) Bologna
D) Veronese

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who commissioned Giulio Romano to paint the Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua?

A) The Gonzaga
B) The Medici
C) Julius II
D) The Sforza

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked which city in 1527?

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

Question 5

Who designed the church for the Jesuits with a broken architrave, a broken entablature and large scroll-shaped buttresses?

A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta

Question 6

Who wrote The Four Books of Architecture?

A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Titian

Question 7

Which American referred to Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture as "the Bible"?

A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Adams
D) Andrew Jackson

Question 8

Which artist's work shows elongated figures, harsh colors, jarring proportions and irregular scale?

A) Bronzino
B) Veronese
C) Giulio Romano
D) All of the above

Question 9

The Duke of Florence sponsored what institution to further the arts in his domain?

A) Academy of Design
B) Florence Ballet Company
C) National Museum of Italy
D) School of Graphic Design

Question 10

Who changed the title of his work after the Inquisition deemed it unorthodox and inappropriate?

A) Michelangelo
B) Titian
C) Bruegel
D) Veronese

Question 11

The Inquisition was a completely new institution of the Church in the sixteenth century.

Question 12

Veronese, under pressure from the Inquisition, changed the title of one of his paintings to The Feast in the House of Levi from what?

A) The Last Supper
B) Sacra Conversazione
C) The Dinner Party
D) The Marriage Banquet

Question 13

The Academy of Design was established in Florence in 1563 to promote the arts in Tuscany by improving the training of artists.

Question 14

Who worked for the Gonzaga in Mantua, painting the Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus?

A) Rosso Fiorentino
B) Giulio Romano
C) Parmigianino
D) Bronzino

Question 15

Which is not true of Sofonisba Anguissola?

A) She worked in a Mannerist style
B) She was court artist to Philip II
C) She received her training as a professional artist
D) She communicated with Michelangelo

Question 16

Which architect is known for his symmetrical, classically inspired villas throughout the Venetian countryside?

A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta

Question 17

Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter, most likely learned to paint from her artist father.

Question 18

Michelangelo's last commission for the Sistine Chapel was the painting of The Last Judgment for the altar wall.

Question 19

Sofonisba Anguissola, a female artist of the sixteenth century, came from what Italian town?

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

Question 20

Who was the founder of the Jesuit order?

A) Ignatius Loyola
B) Pope Clement VII
C) Luther
D) Palladio

Question 21

Discuss the change in style between Michelangelo painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and his Last Judgment for the altar wall of that same building. To what factors do you attribute the differences between these works?

Question 22

Explain the various characteristics of Mannerist art using three key examples. In what ways did Mannerist art develop from High Renaissance art and in what ways is Mannerist art new?

Question 23

Examine Palladio's Villa Rotonda. What aspects of this building are classically inspired and how does the building communicate a relationship between human stature and the surrounding landscape?

Question 24

Discuss della Porta's handling of the facade of Il Gesù. What was classically inspired and what was innovative about his design? What problems was he addressing?

Question 25

The Venetian artist Tintoretto reportedly wanted "to paint like Titian and to design like Michelangelo."

Question 26

How and why did art in Venice develop so differently than art in Florence or Rome?

Question 27

What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?