Deck 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism

Question 1

The city of __________ is celebrated in Vittore Carpaccio's Lion of St.Mark .

A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) London
E) Venice

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The composer __________ significantly shaped Early Renaissance music.

A) Guillaume Dufay
B) Gilles Birchois
C) Alexander Agricola
D) Nicolas Gombert
E) Adrian Willaert

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Saltcellar of Francis I and the Perseus reflect the Mannerist style of the artist __________.

A) Giambologna
B) Pietro Francavilla
C) Bartolommeo Bandinelli
D) Benvenuto Cellini
E) none of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

__________ symbolizes the Republic of Florence itself, free from foreigners, papal domination, and Medici rule.

A) Donatello's image of the Feast of Herod
B) Michelangelo's Pieta
C) Brunelleschi's dome of the Florence cathedral
D) Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
E) Michelangelo's David

Question 5

Many consider __________ to be the greatest architect of the Early Renaissance in Italy.

A) Donato Bramante
B) Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
C) Filippo Brunelleschi
D) Leon Battista Alberti
E) Carlo Maderno

Question 6

The famous text The Prince by __________ encapsulates the view that humankind is "basically selfish, deceitful, greedy, and gullible" and, thus, he advocates that rulers should use this fact to their advantage.

A) Baldassare Castiglione
B) Niccolò Machiavelli
C) Marsilio Ficino
D) Pico della Mirandola
E) Francois Villon

Question 7

__________ was the first great figure of Italian Renaissance letters.

A) Dante Alighieri
B) Petrarch
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) none of the above

Question 8

The major landmark of Florence, the __________, was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.

A) Ponte Vecchio bridge
B) Loggia of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
C) Sistine Chapel
D) Dome of the Florence Cathedral
E) Tempietto

Question 9

A composer using an ascending line with soprano voices to express joy is making use of __________.

A) dissonance
B) homophony
C) word painting
D) cantus firmus
E) polyphony

Question 10

__________ is(are) unattainable in Petrarch's sonnets.

A) God
B) The self
C) Laura
D) His parents
E) Salvation

Question 11

Donatello created all of the following sculptures except __________.

A) David
B) The Creation of Adam
C) Mary Magdalene
D) Feast of Herod
E) both A and D

Question 12

__________ founded the Platonic Academy of Philosophy in Florence.

A) Pico della Mirandola
B) Lorenzo the Magnificent
C) Savonarola
D) Marsilio Ficino
E) Cosimo de' Medici

Question 13

In the painting __________, beauty is caught between passion and reason.

A) Botticelli's Birth of Venus
B) Botticelli's Primavera
C) Fra Angelico's Annunciation
D) Masaccio's The Tribute Money
E) Piero della Francesca's Battista Sforza

Question 14

One of the first examples of what we call a "Renaissance" man was __________.

A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Dante Alighieri
E) Francis I

Question 15

__________ painted a number of frescoes in the monastery of San Marco, Florence, including an Annunciation .

A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Piero della Francesca
D) Masaccio
E) Fra Angelico

Question 16

The composer __________ is most closely associated with the "new Rome" of the High Renaissance.

A) Guillaume Dufay
B) Antonio da Cividale
C) Josquin des Pr?s
D) Antonius Romanus
E) Leonel Power

Question 17

__________ is known as the father of humanism.

A) Bocaccio
B) Raphael
C) Petrarch
D) Lorenzo the Magnificent
E) Cosimo de' Medici

Question 18

Which of the following does not characterize Renaissance art and culture?

A) Naturalism of the arts
B) Interest in classical values
C) Frivolous subject matter
D) Rise of humanism
E) Linear perspective

Question 19

__________ was the first architect to detail the principles of linear perspective in his treatise De pictura.

A) Antonio da Sangallo
B) Donato Bramante
C) Leon Battista Alberti
D) Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
E) Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 20

In 1401, Leonardo Bruni sponsored a competition to determine who would make the doors of Florence Cathedral's baptistery which __________ won.

A) Donatello
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Filippo Brunelleschi
D) Leon Battista Alberti
E) Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 21

What is Neoplatonism and who are its two most significant figures?

Question 22

"Lorenzo the Magnificent" was a member of the Medici family of Florence.

Question 23

__________ was a Neoplatonic philosopher who wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man.

A) Savanarola
B) Pico della Mirandola
C) Marsilio Ficino
D) Petrarch
E) Francois Villon

Question 24

Wealthy Florentines of the Renaissance often hired architects to create fortress-like palaces that served as emblems of their power.

Question 25

Marsilio Ficino translated both Plato and Plotinus into Latin and wrote the Theologia Platonica.

Question 26

Petrarch's Canzoniere (Songbook) contains 366 poems: sonnets, ballads, sestinas, madrigals,
and canzoni.

Question 27

Angnolo Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid is typically Mannerist in its ambiguity and complexity.

Question 28

The richness of Titian's paintings can be attributed in some measure to his use of a red bolus underpainting instead of the more customary green-black.

Question 29

In The Last Supper , Leonardo da Vinci found __________ the most difficult to paint.

A) John and Peter
B) Judas and Jesus
C) the table
D) the arrangement of the five segments
E) the windows in the background

Question 30

Provide a detailed example of how "Renaissance architecture reflects a renewed interest in ancient Roman models for mathematically derived proportions as well as logic of construction."

Question 31

Define the word "renaissance" and explain why it has been applied to this period in Europe.

Question 32

A baptistery is a sacred structure used for celebrating the Eucharistic ceremony.

Question 33

List some of the ways in which the Medici family "led Florence to its unrivaled position as the cultural center of Renaissance Europe in the fifteenth century."

Question 34

The technique found in Lorenzo Ghiberti's The Creation of Adam and Eve in which events are presented simultaneously that took place sequentially is called __________.

A) verisimilitude
B) vanishing point
C) chiaroscuro
D) continuous narration
E) sfumato

Question 35

__________ grew up in Bologna, the child of an artist, and specialized in portraits, such as Portrait of a Noblewoman .

A) Sofonisba Anguissola
B) Properzia de' Rossi
C) Lavinia Fontana
D) Caterina dei Vigri
E) Fede Galizia

Question 36

Define linear perspective and give an example of its use in one sculptural and one painted work.

Question 37

__________ wrote the Book of the Courtier.

A) Petrarch
B) Benvenuto Cellini
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) Vittoria da Colonna

Question 38

In Tintoretto's version of The Last Supper __________ helps draw our attention to Christ.

A) glaze
B) geometry
C) color
D) light
E) people pointing

Question 39

Sfumato, which means "smoky," is a technique developed by Tintoretto.

Question 40

Properzia de' Rossi was from Cremona.

Question 41

How did Guillaume Dufay shape "the musical language of the Early Renaissance."

Question 42

List at least two poetic forms found in Petrarch's Canzoniere and explain what theme these poems espouse that became dominant in Renaissance lyric poetry.

Question 43

Summarize the program of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Question 44

What does Noccolo Machiavelli's The Prince suggest about the political arena of Renaissance Italy?
Essay

Question 45

Provide the names of three Renaissance women artists and the name of one work by one of
these women.

Question 46

Benton and DiYanni make an implicit link between the "tense and disturbing" aspects of Mannerist art and the political and religious unrest of the time in which Mannerism began.What works of art can one use to support this notion?

Question 47

Compare and contrast how the Renaissance revived the classical past by analyzing two works from each period.

Question 48

Define humanism and analyze three works in different media that are paradigmatic of this concept.