Renaissance Review

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  1. 2. The Arena Chapel was commissioned by Scrovengi to expiate the sin of _____________, which his family had committed.
  2. 3. In Raphael’s School of Athens, the two central figures are ____________ and Aristotle.
  3. 5. What is the last name of the person who “started” the Protestant Reformation?
  4. 8. Gesu What is the name (two words) of the mother church of the Jesuits in Rome?
  5. 9. What Italian artist was enormously popular in Northern Europe, even though he never traveled there?
  6. 12. New technologies in ____________ made artists internationally popular, and more courted than ever before.
  7. 14. Who was Botticelli’s teacher?
  8. 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.
  9. 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 _____________.
  10. 20. The prosperous commercial and _________ interests in the affluent trading towns of Flanders stimulated interest in the arts.
  11. 21. What technique helped emphasize the sensuality and soft glowing flesh in Titian’s Venus of Urbino?
  12. 22. In the north, religious art was deemphasized and still life, ________, landscape, and portraiture increased in popularity.
  13. 23. The Entombment of Christ, by Jacopo da Pontormo, departs from High Renaissance painting in that it has exaggerated and _____________ figures.
  14. 25. Northern European paintings had a fondness for depicting________ unknown in Italian art.
  15. 28. During the Renaissance in Northern European paintings, typically figures are encased in the rooms they occupy, rather than being ___________ to their surroundings.
  16. 32. _____ paint produces exceptionally rich colors, preserves well in wet climates, and is not quick-drying, thereby allowing artists to make changes.
  17. 33. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, the name for the west wind (which carries Chloris the nymph) is called ___________
  18. 34. Mannerist architecture is known for its more playful style and ____________________ rhythms.
  19. 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)
  20. 37. The word Renaissance means _____________.
  21. 40. The Arena Chapel is innovative in the artist’s affinity for human __________ in Christian subject matter.
  22. 41. The 3 most vital centers of Italian art during the Renaissance were Florence, Rome, and ___________.
  23. 42. In da Vinci’s Last Supper, the curved pediment above the head of Christ could represent a __________.
  24. 43. Mori What is the Latin term (two words) for an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death
  25. 44. The Palazzo Rucellai was designed by __________.
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  1. 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.
  2. 3. Michelangelo’s sculpture, _______________, was commissioned to be placed in Old Saint Peter’s.
  3. 4. Which word best describes Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? (Curvilinear, asymmetrical, or volumetric)
  4. 6. What shape was a favorite of High Renaissance painters to layout their composition in?
  5. 7. In Northern European Renaissance paintings, ground lines tilt up dramatically, as do table tops and virtually any flat surface. High __________ are the norm.
  6. 10. In the Holy Trinity fresco, who kneels towards the bottom corners?
  7. 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?
  8. 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?
  9. 15. Which artist’s work contains the MOST elements/influence of the “Italo-Byzantine”? (Masaccio, Giotto, or Cimabue)
  10. 16. Michelangelo’s Pieta was critiqued partly for how _________. and beautiful Mary looked.
  11. 19. The Reformation caused a split within the Christian faith. Germany, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands became ________________.
  12. 24. Which artist is considered to have launched the Italian Renaissance by painting people who truly appear more 3-dimensional rather than flat?
  13. 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?
  14. 27. Andrea Mantegna is noted for skills in creating trompe l’oeil illusions and extreme
  15. 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.
  16. 30. The first stock exchange was established in __________ in 1460.
  17. 31. The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ___________?
  18. 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.
  19. 36. Da Vinci is known for his technique of _______________ which results in shading that has a hazy look to it.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.