Deck 17: The Renaissance

Question 1

The May calendar page of Les Très Riches Heures was a page from a __________,rendered in an ornate,courtly style known as __________.

A) ​Gospel book; Baroque 
B) ​Psalter; the Madonna style 
C) ​Breviary; the Florentine style 
D) ​Missal; the Flemish style 
E) ​Book of Hours; the International Style

Answer 1

  E

Question 2

The realism,symbolism,and complicated imagery found in Northern Renaissance paintings originated in and was influenced by __________.

A) ​mosaics 
B) ​classical sculpture 
C) ​migration carvings 
D) ​manuscript illumination 
E) ​stained glass

Answer 2

  D

Question 3

The forms and composition of Titian's Venus of Urbino were evolved primarily from __________.

A) ​a virtuoso use of line 
B) ​sculptural modeling 
C) ​an emphasis on patterning 
D) ​the scientific use of linear perspective 
E) ​interactions of colors and contrasts of textures

Answer 3

  E

Question 4

As evidenced in The Birth of Venus,Sandro Botticelli loved,above all else,to paint __________.

A) ​Madonnas 
B) ​portraits 
C) ​seascapes 
D) ​mythological themes 
E) ​religious themes

Question 5

The word __________ is derived from the French and means rebirth.

A) ​Mannerism 
B) ​Renaissance 
C) ​Baroque 
D) ​Archaic 
E) ​Resurrection

Question 6

As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper,his __________ anticipate(s)the Baroque style.

A) ​unusual use of color 
B) ​loose brushwork and dramatic white spotlighting 
C) ​calm, balanced compositions 
D) ​use of line and linear perspective 
E) ​use of mathematics and geometric forms

Question 7

For his bronze statue of David,the first life-size nude since classical times,Donatello chose __________ as a prototype.

A) ​an Archaic Greek kouros boy 
B) ​a classical Greek athlete 
C) ​Polykleitos's Doryphoros 
D) ​Augustus of Primaporta 
E) ​A barely adolescent boy

Question 8

In his Adam and Eve engraving,the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer emphasizes the __________.

A) ​Tree of Knowledge 
B) ​serpent, or Satan 
C) ​idealized beauty of the human body 
D) ​slight build and refined facial features of the North 
E) ​admonition against sin

Question 9

Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism are to be found in the __________ of Leon Battista Alberti.

A) ​paintings 
B) ​books 
C) ​sculpture 
D) ​engravings 
E) ​architecture

Question 10

In Jan van Eyck's strikingly detailed double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,which of the following is not a symbolic reference in the painting? 

A) The vase of lilies​ 
B) ​The oranges 
C) ​The whisk broom 
D) ​The bedpost finial 
E) ​The dog

Question 11

The Renaissance began in 1401 with a competition for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence.The subject of the entry panels was __________.

A) ​Rebecca at the Well 
B) ​Moses and the Ten Commandments 
C) ​Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 
D) ​The Sacrifice of Isaac 
E) ​Cain and Abel

Question 12

During the Renaissance period,there was a revival of all of the following except __________.

A) ​Classical themes in art and literature 
B) ​realism and naturalism 
C) ​spirituality and otherworldliness 
D) ​the Greek philosophy of humanism 
E) ​delight in beauty for its own sake

Question 13

When Michelangelo was only 27,he carved the 13½-foot statue of David from __________.

A) ​two blocks of limestone 
B) ​a single block of granite 
C) ​a hillside of living rock 
D) ​a single piece of almost unworkable marble 
E) ​three odd-shaped blocks of Carrara marble

Question 14

The young artist Raphael painted numerous canvases of the Madonna and Child,but some of his most impressive compositions,like The School of Athens,were executed for __________.

A) ​the Medici family 
B) ​the papal apartments in the Vatican 
C) ​the Borgia family 
D) ​Ludovico Sforza 
E) ​the Basilica of St. Peter

Question 15

Piero della Francesca's Resurrection fresco was based on __________.

A) ​a humanist philosophy 
B) ​Neoplatonism 
C) ​mathematical and geometric order 
D) ​the idealization of the human figure 
E) ​ancient Greek models

Question 16

As was typical in Northern Renaissance paintings,the setting of Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece is __________.

A) ​a church 
B) ​a contemporary Flemish home 
C) ​a rural hamlet 
D) ​a contemporary Venetian home 
E) ​heaven

Question 17

In The Burial of Count Orgaz,the __________ painter El Greco's heavenly figures appear __________.

A) ​Italian; sculptural and three-dimensional 
B) ​French; ghostly 
C) ​Spanish; extremely attenuated 
D) ​Flemish; unemotional and calm 
E) ​Venetian; distressed

Question 18

Considered a true Renaissance man,__________ excelled in engineering,the natural sciences,anatomy,music,and technological prototypes,not to mention creating some of the world's best loved paintings.

A) ​Leonardo da Vinci 
B) ​Michelangelo 
C) ​Raphael 
D) ​Bramante 
E) ​Piero della Francesca

Question 19

In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling,Michelangelo created the most __________ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.

A) ​incredible sense of three-dimensionality 
B) ​intense moment 
C) ​dramatic negative space 
D) ​anticlimatic moment 
E) ​spiritual experience

Question 20

Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco,Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the architectural space of the church by painting a(n)__________.

A) ​illusionistic ceiling depicting heaven 
B) ​barrel-vaulted chapel with holy and common figures 
C) ​deep niche with sculptural figures 
D) ​throne chair depicting the Holy Trinity 
E) ​archway depicting a "who's who" of Classical Greece

Question 21

Northern Renaissance artists tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using __________.

A) ​iconology 
B) ​symbolism 
C) ​artistic tricks 
D) ​color 
E) ​text

Question 22

Compare and contrast Donatello's David with Verrocchio's David.

Question 23

Compare and contrast Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned with Giotto's Madonna Enthroned.

Question 24

Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding is an excellent example of __________.

A) ​the International Gothic style 
B) ​a group portrait 
C) ​a trompe l'oeil painting 
D) ​a genre painting 
E) ​a triptych

Question 25

Explain how Titian uses color as a compositional device in his Venus of Urbino.

Question 26

Because Cimabue and Giotto's paintings combine Late Gothic and Early Renaissance styles,they are classified as __________.

A) ​Pre-Renaissance 
B) ​Post-Gothic 
C) ​Post-Medieval 
D) ​Gothic transitional 
E) ​Proto-Renaissance

Question 27

Explain the differences found in the Renaissance art of Florence and Rome,of Siena,and of Venice.

Question 28

Describe the social and economic changes that occurred which brought about the Renaissance.

Question 29

What two things likely influenced Venetian painters of the High and Late Renaissance periods?

Question 30

Using the Madonna of the Rocks as an example,trace the changes that occurred in the representation of the Virgin and Child from the proto-Renaissance to the High Renaissance.

Question 31

Explain how artists from the second half of the sixteenth century through the beginning of the seventeenth century all broke away in one way or another from the Renaissance tradition.

Question 32

List the characteristics that separate Mannerist art from the art of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Question 33

Identify the three great masters of the High Renaissance in Italy.

Question 34

Discuss the symbolism in Raphael's The School of Athens and why it was appropriate for its location.

Question 35

Compare and contrast Leonardo's The Last Supper with Tintoretto's The Last Supper.

Question 36

The German Renaissance artist Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is unusual and powerful for its __________.

A) ​melancholy depiction of the Virgin and Child 
B) ​use of classically inspired figures 
C) ​dramatic use of spotlighting 
D) ​tormented and dramatic depiction of the Crucifixion 
E) ​use of Italianate sculptural modeling

Question 37

Identify the two most significant areas of Europe for the arts during the Renaissance.

Question 38

Jacopo Pontormo's Mannerist Entombment depicts all of the following except __________.

A) ​figures pressed against the picture plane 
B) ​robes composed of odd hues 
C) ​limbs long and slender compared to the torsos 
D) ​composition with an otherworldly feeling 
E) ​faces that are calm and display no emotion

Question 39

Describe the classical design of Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai.