Deck 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe

Question 1

Which of the following artists was most famous for his woodcuts?

A) Grünewald
B) Bruegel
C) Holbein
D) Dürer

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Het Schilderboeck is

A) the title of a painting
B) the title of a book
C) the title of an etching
D) the title of a poem

Answer 2

B

Question 3

"P.M." in Erasmus's satire on Julius II refers to

A) Prime Minister
B) Pontifex Maximus
C) Saint Peter
D) Prime Mover

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Adagia was written by

A) Martin Luther
B) Bosch
C) van Mander
D) Erasmus

Question 5

Kramer and Sprenger were the authors of

A) "Sermon on Indulgences"
B) "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
C) The Witches' Hammer
D) The Praise of Folly

Question 6

__________ was one of the first painters to show people working out in the countryside.

A) Bellini
B) Grünewald
C) Pieter Bruegel
D) Holbein

Question 7

Knight,Death,and the Devil is Dürer's picture of

A) the Christian armed in faith
B) the devil
C) the image of Virtue
D) the Christian armed in faith and the devil

Question 8

Match the work with the correct artist.

A) Bosch -- Netherlandish Proverbs
B) Bruegel -- The Table Top of the Seven Deadly Sins
C) Holbein -- Henry VIII
D) Dürer -- the Peasant Dance
E) Cranach -- Melencolia I

Question 9

Match the region,city,or country with the individuals.

A) Erasmus -- Amsterdam
B) Luther -- Germany
C) Bosch -- Belgium
D) Dürer -- Dresden

Question 10

The Isenheim Altarpiece is a __________.

A) diptych
B) panel
C) polyptych
D) triptych

Question 11

Astrology is best described as

A) a form of black magic
B) a heresy
C) a pseudo-science
D) a moral philosophy

Question 12

Cranach's Judgment of Paris is set in

A) Saxony
B) Troy
C) Mycenae
D) Italy
E) France

Question 13

Printmaking refers to

A) woodcuts, engravings, and editions
B) woodcuts, drawings, and painting
C) engravings, editions, and painting
D) woodcuts, intaglio, and drawings

Question 14

Grünewald's Crucifixion has two saints in the side panels.They are

A) Sebastian and John the Evangelist
B) Anthony and Mary Magdalene
C) John the Baptist and John the Evangelist
D) Anthony and Sebastian
E) Sebastian and Jerome

Question 15

Mandates of the Counter-Reformation encouraged Baroque art.They were arrived at in the

A) Diet of Worms
B) Convocation of Rome
C) Council of Nicea
D) Council of Trent

Question 16

Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece shows

A) musical angels
B) various depictions of martyrdom
C) profound religious emotion
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 17

___________ created the woodcut of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

A) Dürer
B) Cranach the Elder
C) Holbein
D) Vermeer

Question 18

The artist who specialized in portraiture was __________.

A) Grünewald
B) Hans Holbein
C) Albrecht Dürer
D) Pieter Bruegel

Question 19

The textual source of Dürer's Four Horsemen is

A) the Metamorphoses
B) the Moriae encomium
C) the Book of Revelations
D) the Ship of Fools

Question 20

The closest northern equivalent of Vasari in the 16^th century was

A) Erasmus
B) van Mander
C) Luther
D) Sprenger and Kramer
E) Tetzel

Question 21

Which is the best match?

A) Hubris -- folly
B) alchemy -- melancholy
C) etching -- painting
D) proverbs -- myths

Question 22

The word "melancholy" is derived from which two Greek words?

A) choleros meaning "anger" and bilas meaning "bile"
B) melas meaning "black" and ira meaning "anger"
C) chola meaning "depression" and melas meaning "bile"
D) cholas meaning "bile" and melas meaning "black"

Question 23

Holbein was born in

A) England
B) Antwerp
C) Augsberg
D) Nüremburg
E) Rotterdam

Question 24

In the myth of Icarus,who made the wings?

A) Icarus
B) Zeus
C) Breugel
D) Daedalos
E) the plowman

Question 25

Holbein obtained a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas More from __________.

A) Martin Luther
B) Antwerp
C) Henry VIII
D) Albrecht Dürer
E) Erasmus

Question 26

__________ is thought to have visited Italy.

A) Pieter Bruegel
B) Hans Holbein
C) Albrecht Dürer
D) Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht Dürer

Question 27

The Peasant Dance must have been done in Northern Europe because of

A) the happiness
B) the hidden symbolism
C) the fact that there are peasants
D) the energy

Question 28

Holbein's Erasmus rests his hands on a book of

A) the Bible
B) the Moriae encomium
C) the Adagia
D) the Metamorphoses
E) the Labors of Herakles

Question 29

In which work is there a Pool of Lust?

A) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
B) The Alchemist
C) The Judgment of Paris
D) the Garden of Earthly Delights
E) Netherlandish Proverbs

Question 30

What carries the inscription "Melencolia" in Dürer's engraving?

A) a mouse
B) an angel
C) a dog
D) a toad
E) a bat