Deck 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe

Question 1

Which painter most fused Northern European with Italian traditions?

A) Dürer
B) Bosch
C) Bruegel
D) Van Eyck

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What social group did Bruegel often paint?

A) Peasants
B) Religious leaders
C) Biblical characters
D) Aristocrats

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Charles V ruled a vast area of modern Europe as the Holy Roman Emperor.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Francis I asserted his overriding interest in French art and artists at his chateau of Fontainebleau.

Question 5

Henry VIII officially broke with the Church in Rome in 1534 and formed the Church of England.

Question 6

The Isenheim Altarpiece is an example of:

A) a diptych
B) an engraving
C) a triptych
D) a wood-cut

Question 7

El Greco was trained in this city before working in Spain:

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

Question 8

What is the subject of genre painting?

A) aristocrats
B) portraits
C) everyday activities of ordinary people
D) religious subject matter

Question 9

The Reformation changed the art of Central Europe by encouraging the destruction of religious art and reducing commissions for religious subjects.

Question 10

Who affixed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door at Wittenberg Castle?

A) Martin Luther
B) Lucas Cranach
C) Hans Holbein
D) Matthias Grünewald

Question 11

Hans Holbein the Younger painted textures, surfaces, and details that continued the tradition of which Northern painter?

A) Jan van Eyck
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) El Greco
D) Masaccio

Question 12

Genre scenes are

A) scenes of everyday life
B) landscapes
C) famous portraits
D) self portraits

Question 13

Which artist was famous for his woodcuts and engravings?

A) Dürer
B) van Eyck
C) Bruegel
D) Grünewald

Question 14

Holbein is well-known for his:

A) portraiture
B) landscape
C) frescoes
D) genre scenes

Question 15

Lucas Cranach's An Allegory of Law and Grace shows the salvation of a

A) Lutheran
B) Catholic
C) Woman
D) Muslim

Question 16

Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece:

A) was painted for St. Peter's basilica
B) was commissioned by Martin Luther
C) was painted on a single wooden panel
D) was painted for a monastery hospital

Question 17

Who defeats the Spanish armada in 1588?

A) England
B) France
C) Germany
D) Italy

Question 18

What word refers to the destruction of images?

A) iconoclasm
B) iconography
C) iconicism
D) iconophilia

Question 19

Who was the portrait painter for King Henry VIII of England?

A) Cranach
B) Holbein the Younger
C) Dürer
D) Bruegel the Elder

Question 20

Gossaert's Neptune and Amphitrite shows

A) The tastes of the patron, Philip of Burgundy
B) A misunderstanding of Italian perspective
C) No interest in the classical past
D) Remarkably accurate scale

Question 21

Discuss the genre quality of Pieter Bruegel the elder's The Return of the Hunters. In your answer, place your discussion of Brueghel's art in relation to other words of northern art from the medieval period through the Renaissance that show similar interest in genre characteristics.

Question 22

Some of the still-life paintings of Pieter Aertsen carry moralizing messages.

Question 23

What impact did the development of graphic arts have on the arts and the ownership and viewing of works of art in the North?

Question 24

Discuss the combination of Italian figural forms and northern symbolism in Dürer's Adam and Eve. Given what we know of Dürer's biography, how do we account for this combination of southern and northern characteristics in this work?

Question 25

What aspects of The Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece contribute to its overall mood? Compare Grünewald's image of Christ to Michelangelo's Christ in the Pietà.

Question 26

Examining El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz, discuss the various Greek, Italian, and Spanish elements of this painting.

Question 27

What impact did the Reformation have on the arts in Germany? Include in your discussion some commentary on Martin Luther's art-related objections to the present state of the Church.

Question 28

How did politics and religion have an impact on Hans Holbein the Younger's career? Compose your answer in relation to Holbein's The Ambassadors.