Deck 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a printmaking technique?

A) woodcut
B) etching
C) drypoint
D) diptych

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What did the Limbourg Brothers produced for the Duke of Berry?

A) A Book of Hours
B) An altarpiece
C) A large fresco
D) a detailed woodcut

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck shows all of the following EXCEPT:

A) much symbolism
B) much detail
C) oil glazes
D) landscape featured prominently

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Jan van Eyck signed The Arnolfini Portrait with the words, "Jan van Eyck was here, 1434."

Question 5

Which fifteenth century artist was well known for his engravings?

A) Jan van Eyck
B) Rogier van der Weyden
C) Robert Campin
D) Martin Schongauer

Question 6

Who was one of the most powerful men of the fifteenth century?

A) Philip the Good of Burgundy
B) Jean Fouquet of France
C) Claus Sluter of Dijon
D) Ambrogio Lorenzetti of Siena

Question 7

With what tone has Claus Sluter imbued the figures in the Well of Moses?

A) Thoughtful and meditative
B) Active and violent
C) Benign and passive
D) Fanciful and playful

Question 8

Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights:

A) is optimistic and playful
B) honors mankind's essential dignity and worth
C) is a celebration of nature
D) shows mankind doomed by its carnal appetites

Question 9

A diptych is a work of art with two panels; a triptych has three panels.

Question 10

Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights is a:

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

Question 11

Who was the leading French Renaissance painter?

A) Jean Fouquet
B) Michael Pacher
C) Robert Campin
D) Master of Flémalle

Question 12

All of the following are typical of the art of the Late Gothic style EXCEPT:

A) intense realism
B) much symbolism
C) scientifically based one-point linear perspective
D) extreme detail

Question 13

Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece demonstrates the international character of the businessmen of Florence because its patron was from:

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

Question 14

How were the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Angel Gabriel depicted in the Mérode Triptych?

A) in the Holy Lands in Biblical times
B) in ancient Rome
C) in ancient Greece
D) in a fifteenth-century Flemish household

Question 15

Jean Fouquet worked as a court painter to which patron?

A) Charles VII
B) Philip the Good
C) Philip the Bold
D) Cosimo de Medici

Question 16

Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece makes use of

A) Atmospheric perspective
B) Fresco paint
C) Intaglio technique
D) Consistent scale

Question 17

The Garden of Earthly Delights was at one point owned by which king?

A) Philip II of Spain
B) Louis XIV of France
C) Charles II of England
D) Queen Elizabeth of England

Question 18

There is no evidence of the use of oil paints before Jan van Eyck.

Question 19

The detail and sharp focus of Late Gothic painting was an outgrowth of:

A) medieval tympanums
B) illuminated manuscripts
C) Protestantism
D) the printing press

Question 20

Which medium is primarily used to make multiple copies of an image?

A) printmaking
B) painting
C) sculpture
D) drawing

Question 21

Explain the meaning of each of the three panels of Bosch's Garden of Delights. Include discussion of symbolism in your answer. What seems to be suggested in this work about humankind's potential?

Question 22

Compare and contrast tempera, fresco and oil painting. Include in your discussion the technique, the working time and the final appearance.

Question 23

Michael Pacher's St. Wolfgang Altarpiece remains in its original setting, the pilgrimage church of Saint Wolfgang, Salzkammergut, Austria.

Question 24

Hugo van der Goes Portinari Altarpiece was produced for a patron and a location in Flanders.

Question 25

Describe both the appearance and likely meaning of Robert Campin's Mérode Triptych. Discuss both the obvious imagery and meaning as well as the use of disguised symbolism in your answer.

Question 26

What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?

Question 27

What do you imagine might have been the purpose or purposes of Jan van Eyck's painting The Arnolfini Portrait? Discuss his use of detail and his use of symbolism, both religious and secular.

Question 28

Compare Robert Campin's Mérode Triptych with Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait. What do these two works communicate about northern European culture in the early fifteenth century?