Deck 27: Art of Renaissance and Baroque Europe 1400-1750

Question 1

Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________.

A) sfumato
B) chiaroscuro
C) fresco
D) tenebrism
E) modeling

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Linear perspective is used to ________.

A) represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions
B) replicate the appearance of great expanses of space
C) teach printmakers the steps of their process
D) make maps more effectively
E) all of the other answers

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Only one artist in the Renaissance and Baroque periods ever painted the subject of The Last Supper.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Brunelleschi's design for the dome of Florence Cathedral was a triumph over adversity because ________.

A) it had to be made of wood
B) it was very small
C) there was plenty of space around the outside of the building
D) building such an enormous dome was a technological challenge
E) none of the other answers

Question 5

Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.

A) painter
B) sculptor
C) printmaker
D) architect
E) musician

Question 6

Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?

A) linear perspective
B) naturalism
C) atmospheric perspective
D) continuous narrative
E) all of the other answers

Question 7

To make their artworks appear realistic, Renaissance artists sometimes distorted the way certain objects and elements looked.

Question 8

Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?

A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Enlightenment
D) Mannerism
E) none of the other answers

Question 9

Which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Western Europe, a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?

A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Enlightenment
D) Mannerism
E) none of the other answers

Question 10

The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?

A) the Italian Renaissance
B) the northern Renaissance
C) the Mannerist
D) the Baroque
E) the Gothic

Question 11

Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid- to late-sixteenth-century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal?

A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Enlightenment
D) Mannerism
E) none of the other answers

Question 12

Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts?

A) On Painting
B) Experiments with Colors
C) The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
D) Shadows and Light
E) He was an artist who never wrote any books

Question 13

Raphael's The School of Athens contains:

A) accurate portraits of ancient scholars and writers
B) accurate portraits of sixteenth-century scholars and writers
C) ancient scholars looking like sixteenth-century artists
D) contemporary scholars looking like ancient artists
E) only people the artist knew personally

Question 14

Which of the following statements is of Michelangelo?

A) he preferred the medium of sculpture to painting
B) he painted two very important commissions in the Sistine Chapel
C) he loved to depict the nude body
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 15

The painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a ________.

A) portrait of Leonardo da Vinci looking like Plato
B) self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi as Judith
C) portrait of Pontormo's uncle as Laocoön
D) self-portrait of Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin
E) portrait of Dürer surrounded by bats

Question 16

Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting of The Last Supper by ________.

A) locating Christ at the center of the composition
B) creating a stable triangular form for Christ, in contrast to the activity of the other figures
C) framing Christ's head with light from the windows behind
D) arranging the vanishing point directly behind Christ's head
E) all of the other answers

Question 17

Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?

A) because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art
B) because there were no longer any deities during the Renaissance
C) because the artist was Greek
D) because the huge flowers the artist wanted to carve fell apart
E) none of the other answers

Question 18

Without the patronage of the Catholic Church, many incredible Renaissance works of art would not have been made.

Question 19

The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is ________.

A) stone relief
B) fresco
C) oil on canvas
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D) marble
E) tempera on panel

Question 20

Giorgio Vasari believed that ________.

A) artists needed to have intellectual ability
B) artists were elevated above the position of manual laborers
C) artists should be considered creative geniuses
D) an artist's talent might be divinely inspired
E) all of the other answers

Question 21

Which of the following artworks was made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

A) an altarpiece graphically depicting Christ's suffering
B) a woodblock print of the Last Supper
C) a detailed painting of his sisters playing chess
D) a gigantic sculpture of David
E) a landscape filled with ordinary people, which humorously depicts everyday proverbs

Question 22

The Last Supper by Tintoretto ________.

A) makes Christ the focal point
B) has dramatic lighting contrasts
C) conveys a dynamic sense of motion
D) features many ordinary people
E) all of the other answers

Question 23

The story of Laocoön takes place during ________.

A) a gladiatorial combat
B) the Trojan War
C) the Middle Ages
D) the Thirty Years War
E) World War II

Question 24

St. Anthony, depicted on the right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece, is the patron saint of sufferers from skin disease.

Question 25

Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess displays which of the following characteristics?

A) solid forms and harmonious proportions
B) bold outlines and garish colors
C) extremely bright light and dynamic poses
D) a dark background and classical architecture
E) an emphasis on emotion and heightened realism

Question 26

Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?

A) Masaccio
B) Caravaggio
C) Sofonisba Anguissola
D) Nicolas Poussin
E) all of the other answers

Question 27

Of the three sculptures of the biblical hero David in this chapter, the one by Michelangelo makes the identity of the figure the most obvious.

Question 28

Sofonisba Anguissola was part of which of the following movements?

A) Gothic
B) northern Renaissance
C) Mannerism
D) Baroque
E) none of the other answers

Question 29

The artist of Christ in the House of Levi had to change the painting's name because ________.

A) church officials objected to Christ being shown with clowns, dwarves, and dogs at this key moment in the gospels
B) it did not contain enough Classical architecture
C) the composition was not balanced and stable
D) the painting was seen as very reverent
E) the artist was from Verona

Question 30

A woodcut allows an artist to do which of the following?

A) paint a unique artwork on a wall
B) sculpt in marble
C) etch using acid
D) make multiple prints of an image
E) sleep later than usual

Question 31

The overall composition and the facial expressions in Pontormo's Deposition create an atmosphere of ________.

A) calm, reason, and order
B) instability, chaos, and disorder
C) joy, health, and harmony
D) renewal, victory, and accomplishment
E) all of the other answers

Question 32

Tintoretto's Last Supper has a very similar symmetrical composition to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the same subject.

Question 33

Which of the following artworks is a very graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion?

A) Isenheim Altarpiece
B) Netherlandish Proverbs
C) Tribute Money
D) St. Bartholomew's Skin
E) all of the other answers

Question 34

An important feature of late-Renaissance artwork, compared to art created during the early and high Renaissance, is ________.

A) an increase in imaginative elements as opposed to strict believability
B) more dynamic compositions and subjects
C) greater emotional intensity
D) a greater emphasis on dissonance over harmony
E) all of the other answers

Question 35

Dürer's print The Last Supper reflects the ideas of ________.

A) the Protestant Reformation
B) the Counter-Reformation
C) Buddhism
D) his friend Michelangelo
E) the Pope

Question 36

A "deposition" scene shows which of the following?

A) the birth of Jesus
B) Jesus being crucified on the cross
C) Jesus's body being removed from the cross
D) the resurrection of Jesus
E) a deposition does not include Jesus at all

Question 37

What does the dog in The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize?

A) that the couple hope to have children
B) that the man is worldly and the woman more domestic
C) that the room the couple stand in is sacred
D) that the artist is present in the room with the couple
E) that the couple are wealthy and faithful

Question 38

Bernini depicts his David at exactly the same moment in the story as the versions by his predecessors Donatello and Michelangelo.

Question 39

El Greco was ________.

A) an Italian artist who worked in Greece during the Renaissance
B) a Roman artist who worked in France during the Renaissance
C) a Greek artist who worked in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance
D) an Italian artist who worked in Greece during the Baroque period
E) a Greek artist who worked in France during the Baroque period

Question 40

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement?

A) early Renaissance
B) Mannerism
C) Baroque
D) Medieval
E) Classical Greek

Question 41

Nicolas Poussin promoted which of the following approaches?

A) only including settings, clothing, and characters from the ancient past
B) dressing his subjects in clothing from his own day
C) making the light in his paintings look supernatural
D) only depicting religious scenes
E) applying paint in a thick way that revealed the hand of the artist

Question 42

Peter Paul Rubens worked with many assistants in his studio.

Question 43

Who is Phocion in Nicolas Poussin's painting of The Funeral of Phocion?

A) the owner of the house in the background
B) an especially ruthless tax collector
C) an Athenian general wrongly accused of treason
D) one of the men carrying the body
E) an artist who was executed for painting poorly

Question 44

Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light?

A) Artemisia Gentileschi and Filippo Brunelleschi
B) Caravaggio and Rembrandt
C) Michelangelo and Gianlorenzo Bernini
D) Giorgio Vasari and Pieter Bruegel the Elder
E) all of the other answers

Question 45

Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of:

A) chiaroscuro
B) tenebrism
C) dramatic lighting
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 46

In Rubens's The Raising of the Cross, how is the viewer's attention focused on Christ's body?

A) the lighting and placement
B) the blue sky and clouds around him
C) a hawk that has landed on his shoulder
D) he is the only figure without a halo
E) arrows point to his body

Question 47

Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch was commissioned by ________.

A) Queen Maria de'Medici
B) the Duke of Burgundy
C) Giorgio Vasari
D) an unknown nobleman
E) the civic militia