Deck 13: The Early Renaissance

Question 1

Which is least a feature of Brunelleschi's design for the Church of Santo Spirito?

A) Latin cross plan
B) a flat ceiling
C) chapels on three sides
D) stained-glass windows
E) round arches

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The re-discovery of linear perspective was made by

A) Ghiberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Uccello
D) Leonardo

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Ghiberti's style is

A) aligned by orthogonals of true perspective
B) realistic
C) classically inspired
D) all of the choices are correct.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?

A) orthogonals converge at the vanishing point
B) orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane
C) orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space
D) orthogonals are not used

Question 5

The Pazzi Chapel is the gem of the Early Renaissance because it sums up its principles.It is by

A) Brunelleschi
B) Alberti
C) Michelozzo
D) Bramante

Question 6

Leonardo Bruni was

A) a humanist
B) chancellor of Florence
C) a historian
D) none of the choices are correct.
E) all of the choices are correct.

Question 7

Which text goes with which author?

A) Dante -- the Decameron
B) Brunelleschi -- the Commentarii
C) Alberti -- Oration on the Dignity of Man
D) Masaccio -- On Painting
E) Bruni -- Praise of the City of Florence

Question 8

Who of the following was not a condottiere?

A) Federico da Montefeltro
B) Sir John Hawkwood
C) Erasmo da Narni
D) Niccolo da Tolentino
E) Leon Battista Alberti

Question 9

Which is not a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents?

A) arcades
B) round arches
C) Doric colonnettes
D) pediments
E) bays

Question 10

Which best defines "foreshortening?"

A) reduction in scale
B) placing a smaller object in front of a larger object
C) a twist at the waist
D) depicting a form in perspective

Question 11

______________ was able to combine Neo-Platonic ideals and mainline religiosity.

A) Fra Filippo Lippi
B) Mantegna
C) Leonardo
D) Fra Angelico

Question 12

Which two cities were most at the forefront of early humanism?

A) Venice and Rome
B) Florence and Padua
C) Rome and Florence
D) Siena and Florence
E) Siena and Padua

Question 13

The medal of John VIII Paleologus was cast by

A) Alberti
B) Matteo de' Pasti
C) the Byzantine emperor
D) Pisanello

Question 14

Which is not a feature of Bruni's tomb?

A) its sculptor was Marzocco
B) lions are a part of its iconography
C) it merges Christian and Classical motifs
D) the effigy of Bruni lies on a bier

Question 15

The term paradiso as used in reference to Ghiberti's doors means

A) the Garden of Eden
B) the illustration of Dante
C) the space between a cathedral and its baptistry
D) the dome of the cathedral
E) the dome of the baptistry

Question 16

The artist whom Vasari accused of being too obsessed with perspective was

A) Piero della Francesca
B) Mantegno
C) Uccello
D) Masaccio
E) Brunelleschi

Question 17

In the 15^th century,the ____________ of Florence were the great patrons.

A) Urbini
B) Innocenti
C) Popes
D) Medici

Question 18

Brunelleschi did many things,but he did not

A) design the dome of Florence Cathedral
B) take measured drawings of the Roman Forum and develop a theory of perspective
C) work in Florence
D) use the Colosseum as his model for the Ospedale degle Innocenti

Question 19

Which best describes Renaissance humanism?

A) study of human nature
B) human-based culture
C) revival of Classical texts
D) a Christian bias

Question 20

Which are some of the reasons for Ghiberti's victory in the competition of 1401?

A) his relief was less expensive to cast and more monumental than Brunelleschi's
B) his relief was less expensive and more graceful
C) his relief was more expensive, but also more elegant
D) his relief was more monumental, more original, and he had political connections

Question 21

Burgundy

A) was a tributary of the French crown
B) was ruled by relatives of French kings
C) was independent of the French throne
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 22

The Guild of _________ had St.Luke as its patron saint.

A) painters
B) book binders
C) weavers
D) stonemasons

Question 23

The artist who painted portraits of real people was

A) Jan van Eyck
B) Hieronymous Bosch
C) Rogier van der Weyden
D) Cimabue

Question 24

In Mantegna's Parnassus,which god does not appear?

A) Apollo
B) Vulcan
C) Mars
D) Juno
E) Venus

Question 25

The frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi were painted by

A) Fra Filippo Lippi
B) Andrea Mantegna
C) Leonardo
D) Sandro Botticelli

Question 26

Which is not a new,Renaissance feature of Masaccio's Trinity?

A) a barrel-vault with coffers
B) Classical Orders
C) donors
D) a memento mori
E) one-point perspective

Question 27

Masaccio created the barrel vault in the Trinity by using ________________ perspective.

A) atmospheric
B) linear
C) intuitive
D) herringbone

Question 28

____________ was not included in Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece?

A) Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
B) God the Father
C) Christ crucified
D) Adam and Eve

Question 29

Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece has

A) rich colors and a somber mood
B) a confined sense of space
C) a flat, gold background worked with a pattern punch
D) dim colors and a somber mood

Question 30

The Ghent Altarpiece is a __________.

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

Question 31

The frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi were painted for

A) the Duke of Mantua
B) the Duke of Urbino
C) the Medici
D) the Pope

Question 32

The Camera degli Sposi refers to

A) a state bedroom
B) a marriage ceremony
C) a room for a wedding
D) Mantegna's studio

Question 33

Who of the following did not have a studiolo?

A) Federigo Gonzaga
B) Isabella d'Este
C) Federico da Montefeltro
D) Leonello d'Este

Question 34

The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be

A) gradual shading
B) high contrast of light and dark
C) shadow
D) silhouetting

Question 35

Dirk Bouts

A) was an artist in the employ of the Church
B) sculpted in the style of Claus Sluter
C) understood perspective intuitively
D) rivaled Giotto in 15th-century Italy

Question 36

Which do not match?

A) Rimini -- Tempio Malatestiano
B) Brancacci Chapel -- Florence
C) Sant'Andrea -- Mantua
D) Gattamelata -- Ravenna
E) Sir John Hawkwood -- Florence Cathedral

Question 37

Which of the following match?

A) Masaccio -- Famous Men and Women
B) Brunelleschi -- one-point perspective
C) Castagno -- Holy Trinity
D) Alberti -- medal of John VIII Paleologus
E) Mantegna -- Rucellai Palace

Question 38

Masaccio

A) maintained strict monochrome paintings and avoided contrast in light and dark
B) used complex, dramatic settings
C) embellished his scenes with sumptuous drapery
D) clearly defined his light sources so that shadows were logical and realistic

Question 39

Atmospheric perspective depicts near and far according to

A) diminution in size
B) increase in size
C) degrees of clarity
D) haziness in the sky

Question 40

Which is not a 15th-century development?

A) illusionism
B) mythological subject matter
C) one-point perspective
D) an increase in literacy
E) stained-glass windows

Question 41

Which does not appear in Botticelli's Birth of Venus?

A) a scallop shell
B) the mother of Venus
C) waves
D) a nymph
E) flowers

Question 42

Which does not appear in the Arnolfini Wedding?

A) a dog
B) a mirror
C) sandals
D) fruit
E) a vase of lilies

Question 43

The most outstanding examples of the new Flemish style of painting included all of the following except:

A) Giovanni Bellini
B) Jan Van Eyck
C) Hans Memmling
D) Rogier van der Weyden

Question 44

Grisaille means

A) imitation sculpture
B) gesso
C) foreshortening
D) contrapposto
E) imitation architecture

Question 45

The subject of Man in the Red Turban is believed to be:

A) Cosimo de Medici
B) Jan van Eyck
C) Philip the Bold
D) Rogier van der Weyden

Question 46

Match the artist with the work

A) Robert Campin -- The Ghent Altarpiece
B) Botticelli -- The Mérode Altarpiece
C) Rogier van der Weyden -- St. Luke Painting the Virgin
D) Ghirlandaio -- The Portinari Altarpiece