Deck 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Question 1

Mannerism involved

A) twisted forms
B) strange colors
C) ambiguous space
D) all of the choices are correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The patron of the Saltcellar was

A) Francis I
B) Cosimo I de' Medici
C) Eleonora of Toledo
D) Federigo Gonzaga

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which is not a meaning related to the Mannerist style?

A) affectation
B) mannered
C) to the manner born
D) stylized
E) bizarre

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Giambologna was born in

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

Question 5

El Greco was born

A) in the Greek mainland
B) in Venice
C) in Constantinople
D) in Toledo
E) in Crete

Question 6

Martin Luther was

A) an American civil rights leader
B) a 16^th-century monk
C) an artist
D) a member of the Council of Trent

Question 7

Who wrote "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror?"

A) Parmigianino
B) Ashbery
C) Clement VII
D) Carlo Ridolfi

Question 8

Vasari's account of women artists is a reflection of

A) his feminism
B) his humanism
C) his patriarchal view of art
D) his political correctness

Question 9

One of the great ceiling painters of Mannerism

A) Tintoretto
B) Correggio
C) Michelangelo
D) El Greco

Question 10

A significant influence on the development of El Greco's style was

A) Tintoretto
B) Titian
C) Byzantine style
D) High Renaissance style

Question 11

The exterior of the Palazzo del Tè contains

A) triglyphs
B) metopes
C) keystones
D) rustication
E) all of the choices are correct.

Question 12

Match the work with its artist

A) Parmigianino -- the Allegory
B) Bronzino -- Saltcellar
C) Cellini -- Narcissus
D) Giambologna -- Palazzo del Tè

Question 13

Veronese satisfied the Inquisition by

A) repainting his picture
B) renaming his picture
C) putting his picture in storage
D) destroying his picture
E) sending his picture out of the country

Question 14

Tintoretto painted

A) dynamic compositions
B) strong diagonals
C) serpentine curves
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 15

Indulgences refer to

A) liberal child-rearing practices
B) credits against one's sins
C) the 95 theses of Martin Luther
D) the rules of the Council of Trent

Question 16

Important Counter-Reformation authors include

A) Ridolfi, Teresa, and Ignatius
B) Luther, Clement VII, and Teresa
C) Teresa, John of the Cross, and Clement VII
D) John of the Cross, Teresa, and Ignatius

Question 17

____________ was not a Mannerist painter.

A) Pontormo
B) Parmigianino
C) Correggio
D) Michelangelo

Question 18

Serpentinata refers to

A) Cellini's lizard
B) the salamander of Francis I
C) a Mannerist pose
D) Bronzino's iconography

Question 19

Autobiographies were written in 16^th-century Italy by

A) Tintoretto and Cellini
B) Vasari and Ridolfi
C) Aretino and Giorgione
D) Vasari and Cellini

Question 20

Palladio used the ancient texts of

A) Vitruvius
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Suetonius

Question 21

The first Italian guidebook was written by

A) Vasari
B) Cellini
C) Palladio
D) Vitruvius
E) Ridolfi

Question 22

Match the work with the patron

A) the Gesù -- Palladio
B) Bronzino's Eleonora of Toledo -- the king of Spain
C) Palazzo del Tè -- Federigo Gonzaga
D) Villa Rotonda - Pythagoras

Question 23

The design of the Gesù was planned to

A) accommodate large congregations
B) satisfy the humanist tastes of the patron
C) reflect the Greek cross plan
D) show the importance of Alberti's churches

Question 24

What problem did Palladio solve in the façade of San Giorgio Maggiore?

A) how to deal with the fact that it is on an island
B) how to reconcile a high nave with lower side aisles
C) how to combine a dome with a Greek portico
D) how to relate the building to its environment