Renaissance Review
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- 2. The Arena Chapel was commissioned by Scrovengi to expiate the sin of _____________, which his family had committed.
- 3. In Raphael’s School of Athens, the two central figures are ____________ and Aristotle.
- 5. What is the last name of the person who “started” the Protestant Reformation?
- 8. Gesu What is the name (two words) of the mother church of the Jesuits in Rome?
- 9. What Italian artist was enormously popular in Northern Europe, even though he never traveled there?
- 12. New technologies in ____________ made artists internationally popular, and more courted than ever before.
- 14. Who was Botticelli’s teacher?
- 17. Titian’s Venus of Urbino is significant in that it helped establish the tradition of the reclining nude, which became the given for the rest of _________ history.
- 18. Altarpieces in northern Europe during the Renaissance were different from their Italian counterparts in that the northern works fold closed as if they were _____________.
- 20. The prosperous commercial and _________ interests in the affluent trading towns of Flanders stimulated interest in the arts.
- 21. What technique helped emphasize the sensuality and soft glowing flesh in Titian’s Venus of Urbino?
- 22. In the north, religious art was deemphasized and still life, ________, landscape, and portraiture increased in popularity.
- 23. The Entombment of Christ, by Jacopo da Pontormo, departs from High Renaissance painting in that it has exaggerated and _____________ figures.
- 25. Northern European paintings had a fondness for depicting________ unknown in Italian art.
- 28. During the Renaissance in Northern European paintings, typically figures are encased in the rooms they occupy, rather than being ___________ to their surroundings.
- 32. _____ paint produces exceptionally rich colors, preserves well in wet climates, and is not quick-drying, thereby allowing artists to make changes.
- 33. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, the name for the west wind (which carries Chloris the nymph) is called ___________
- 34. Mannerist architecture is known for its more playful style and ____________________ rhythms.
- 36. Art from which area in the early 14th century had a MORE decorative look with thin, elegant figures, and drapery that flowed in ripples? (Siena or Florence)
- 37. The word Renaissance means _____________.
- 40. The Arena Chapel is innovative in the artist’s affinity for human __________ in Christian subject matter.
- 41. The 3 most vital centers of Italian art during the Renaissance were Florence, Rome, and ___________.
- 42. In da Vinci’s Last Supper, the curved pediment above the head of Christ could represent a __________.
- 43. Mori What is the Latin term (two words) for an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death
- 44. The Palazzo Rucellai was designed by __________.
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- 1. Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels reflects the Renaissance’s attitude toward a more __________ and approachable interpretation of heavenly figures.
- 3. Michelangelo’s sculpture, _______________, was commissioned to be placed in Old Saint Peter’s.
- 4. Which word best describes Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? (Curvilinear, asymmetrical, or volumetric)
- 6. What shape was a favorite of High Renaissance painters to layout their composition in?
- 7. In Northern European Renaissance paintings, ground lines tilt up dramatically, as do table tops and virtually any flat surface. High __________ are the norm.
- 10. In the Holy Trinity fresco, who kneels towards the bottom corners?
- 11. What artist differed from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he mistrusted the application of mathematical methods as a guarantee of beauty, instead choosing to believe that the artist’s inspired judgment could identify other pleasing proportions?
- 13. What is the term for a method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture but can also be used as an underpainting?
- 15. Which artist’s work contains the MOST elements/influence of the “Italo-Byzantine”? (Masaccio, Giotto, or Cimabue)
- 16. Michelangelo’s Pieta was critiqued partly for how _________. and beautiful Mary looked.
- 19. The Reformation caused a split within the Christian faith. Germany, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands became ________________.
- 24. Which artist is considered to have launched the Italian Renaissance by painting people who truly appear more 3-dimensional rather than flat?
- 26. In the Last Judgment of the Sistine Chapel, which Saint holds his own skin, a symbol of his martyrdom, and whose skin’s face is also a self-portrait of Michelangelo?
- 27. Andrea Mantegna is noted for skills in creating trompe l’oeil illusions and extreme
- 29. With a Protestant wave of anti-Catholic feeling came an _________ movement attacking paintings and sculptures of holy figures, which only a short while before were considered sacred.
- 30. The first stock exchange was established in __________ in 1460.
- 31. The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ___________?
- 35. Greca What is the Italian term (two words) that refers to a style of painting based on Byzantine models that were popular in Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- 36. Da Vinci is known for his technique of _______________ which results in shading that has a hazy look to it.
- 38. Northern European artists were heavily influenced by __________ Gothic painting, a courtly elegant art form, begun by Italian artists such as Simone Martini in the fourteenth century.
- 39. Although __________ can be seen in virtually any work of art in any historical period, it seems to be particularly a part of the fabric of Northern European painting.