Deck 14: The High Renaissance in Italy

Question 1

Which is not by Leonardo?

A) Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
B) Mona Lisa
C) Moses
D) Vitruvian Man

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The pyramid was

A) the echo of ancient Egypt in the piazzas of Rome
B) a compositional arrangement much favored by High Renaissance artists
C) a stable, hierarchical structure for arranging figures in a composition
D) a compositional arrangement much favored by High Renaissance artists and a stable, hierarchical structure for arranging figures in a composition

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which does not appear in the Sistine Ceiling frescoes?

A) Prophets
B) Christ
C) Sibyls
D) Jeremiah
E) Adam

Answer 3

B

Question 4

__________ commissioned Michelangelo to create his most famous works.

A) Lorenzo de' Medici
B) the Duke of Mantua
C) Julius II
D) Francis I of France

Question 5

The term sfumato refers to:

A) the fashion of smoking while painting adopted soon after the discovery of America
B) a smoky haze to convey depth and distance
C) aerial perspective
D) the style in imitation of the candle-smoke darkened walls of Roman churches

Question 6

Which of the following is the best match?

A) Leonardo's Last Supper -- Milan
B) Bramante's Tempietto -- Florence
C) The Sistine Chapel -- Siena
D) The Mona Lisa -- Rome

Question 7

Michelangelo was inspired by

A) Leonardo da Vinci's single-minded dedication to sculpture
B) Classical mythology
C) The Neo-Platonic ideals of the Medici Circle
D) The rough and tumble life he found in Renaissance Rome
E) Classical mythology and the Neo-Platonic ideals of the Medici Circle

Question 8

Who were two important figures in Raphael's School of Athens?

A) David and Goliath
B) Venus and Adonis
C) Plato and Aristotle
D) Alexander the Great and Socrates

Question 9

Raphael learned at the elbow of

A) Leonardo
B) Perugino
C) Fra Angelico
D) Michelangelo

Question 10

Which is not a feature of the Tempietto?

A) a Doric peristyle
B) a balustrade
C) a dome
D) an Ionic frieze
E) a cella

Question 11

Leonardo was apprenticed to

A) Bramante
B) Verrocchio
C) Donatello
D) Botticelli
E) Raphael

Question 12

Which was completed earliest?

A) Raphael's School of Athens
B) Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling
C) Michelangelo's Last Judgment
D) Leonardo's Last Supper

Question 13

Which is not true of Leonardo da Vinci?

A) he made anatomical drawings
B) he was an uomo universale
C) he wrote backwards
D) he made more paintings than drawings
E) he made more paintings than sculptures

Question 14

Michelangelo approached the stone he was to carve

A) looking to bring out the forms hidden within
B) with great fasting and prayer
C) imposing his will on it from all sides in a demonstration of terribilità
D) trying to get inspiration from the stone's outward shape

Question 15

Some experts say that the pyramidal style of the High Renaissance first emerges in the cartoon of __________.

A) Raphael's Galatea
B) Michelangelo's Sibyls
C) Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
D) Masaccio's Trinity

Question 16

Terribilità refers to

A) Leonardo's painting style
B) traits of stubbornness and firmness Michelangelo shared with Pope Julius
C) Fra Angelico's subtle messages
D) Raphael's violent imagery in his Stanza della Segnatura

Question 17

Which is not a feature of Raphael's Betrothal of the Virgin?

A) round arches
B) an angry suitor
C) a bearded priest
D) a pseudo-peripteral temple
E) a pediment

Question 18

Which is the correct chronological sequence of works by Michelangelo?

A) Moses, the Rome Pietà, David, the Sistine Ceiling
B) David, the Rome Pietà, the Sistine Ceiling, Moses
C) the Rome Pietà, David, the Sistine Ceiling, Moses
D) David, Moses, Saint Peter's, the Sistine Ceiling

Question 19

Who advertised his services by saying: "In time of peace I believe I can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in architecture and the composition of buildings."?

A) Bramante
B) El Greco
C) Michelangelo
D) Leonardo da Vinci

Question 20

The Tempietto was a

A) martyrium
B) little temple
C) baptistry
D) mausoleum

Question 21

Match the artist with his place of birth

A) Giorgione -- Castelfranco
B) Michelangelo -- Siena
C) Leonardo -- Padua
D) Raphael -- Milan
E) Bramante -- Venice

Question 22

Which is true?

A) Gentile Bellini had two sons, Jacopo and Giovanni
B) Giovanni Bellini had two sons, Gentile and Jacopo
C) Jacopo Bellini was the father of Gentile, Giovanni, and Mantegna
D) Jacopo Bellini had two sons and one daughter

Question 23

Michelangelo's self-portrait appears in

A) the Moses
B) the Last Judgment
C) the Last Supper
D) the Creation of Adam

Question 24

Col Tempo refers to

A) an Italian proverb
B) a book by Aretino
C) a painting by Giorgione
D) a painting by Titian

Question 25

Gentile Bellini's rich textures and ability to convey character appealed to

A) the ruler of Venice
B) the Sultan in Constantinople
C) the Byzantine Patriarch
D) the Pesaro family

Question 26

The vernacular refers to

A) Italian
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) the Dialogues of Plato

Question 27

Which work matches the correct patron?

A) Sistine Chapel Ceiling -- Sixtus IV
B) Tempietto -- Ferdinand and Isabella
C) School of Athens -- Agostino Chigi
D) Mehmet II -- Giovanni Bellini
E) Venus of Urbino -- Philip II of Spain

Question 28

The surface details in 16^th-century Venetian painting show influence from

A) Flanders
B) Naples
C) the International Style
D) Byzantium

Question 29

The Venetian artist who most influenced Giorgione and Titian was

A) Jacopo Bellini
B) Andrea Mantegna
C) Gentile Bellini
D) Giovanni Bellini

Question 30

Giorgione demonstrated the superiority of painting over sculpture by

A) a description in his autobiography
B) painting a nude man with reflections from two sides
C) making a sculpture and a painting of a man
D) dictating a comparison to Vasari

Question 31

The High Renaissance was centered in

A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) Urbino

Question 32

The Campidoglio

A) was a piazza based on an ancient Roman space
B) illustrated Michelangelo's interest in urban planning
C) demonstrated the Popes' ambitious plans for making Rome beautiful
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 33

Who was not a Renaissance pope?

A) Julius II
B) Paul III
C) John Paul II
D) Clement X

Question 34

Titian's self-portrait appears in

A) the Rape of Europa
B) the Pesaro Madonna
C) the Galatea
D) the Allegory of Prudence
E) the Tempest

Question 35

Jacopo Bellini's style is best known today from his

A) drawings
B) paintings
C) autobiography
D) etchings
E) biography

Question 36

The patron saint of Venice is

A) Saint Mark
B) Saint Peter
C) Saint Matthew
D) Saint Sebastian
E) Saint John the Evangelist

Question 37

Which best describes the stigmata?

A) an outcast
B) the Flagellation
C) the arrows of Saint Sebastian
D) the wounds of Christ
E) a painting by Giotto

Question 38

The High Renaissance is usually dated

A) 1495 - 1527
B) 1460 - 1564
C) 1500 - 1535
D) 1500 - 1600

Question 39

Which are by Titian?

A) Charles V at Mühlberg, the Rape of Europa, and Saint Francis in Ecstasy
B) The Tempesta, the Allegory of Prudence, and the Sleeping Venus
C) the Allegory of Prudence, the Venus of Urbino, and the Pesaro Madonna
D) The Tempesta, the Rape of Europa, and the Venus of Urbino

Question 40

The two Venetian artists who painted reclining nudes are

A) Giovanni and Gentile Bellini
B) Titian and Giovanni Bellini
C) Giorgione and Gentile Bellini
D) Titian and Giorgione

Question 41

The theme of the Allegory of Prudence is

A) the relationship of humans to animals
B) time
C) portraiture
D) history