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- 3. 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. Michelangelo’s Pieta was critiqued partly for how _________. and beautiful Mary looked.
- 11. Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels reflects the Renaissance’s attitude toward a more __________ and approachable interpretation of heavenly figures.
- 12. 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.
- 13. Altarpieces in northern Europe during the Renaissance were different from their Italian counterparts in that the northern works fold closed as if they were _____________.
- 16. What shape was a favorite of High Renaissance painters to layout their composition in?
- 17. In Raphael’s School of Athens, the two central figures are ____________ and Aristotle.
- 21. What is the term for a method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture but can also be used as an underpainting?
- 22. What technique helped emphasize the sensuality and soft glowing flesh in Titian’s Venus of Urbino?
- 26. Gesu What is the name (two words) of the mother church of the Jesuits in Rome?
- 27. Andrea Mantegna is noted for skills in creating trompe l’oeil illusions and extreme
- 28. The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ___________?
- 30. In da Vinci’s Last Supper, the curved pediment above the head of Christ could represent a __________.
- 32. The Arena Chapel is innovative in the artist’s affinity for human __________ in Christian subject matter.
- 33. The Arena Chapel was commissioned by Scrovengi to expiate the sin of _____________, which his family had committed.
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- 1. 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?
- 2. Which word best describes Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? (Curvilinear, asymmetrical, or volumetric)
- 4. Which artist is considered to have launched the Italian Renaissance by painting people who truly appear more 3-dimensional rather than flat?
- 5. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, the name for the west wind (which carries Chloris the nymph) is called ___________
- 6. Da Vinci is known for his technique of _______________ which results in shading that has a hazy look to it.
- 7. In the Holy Trinity fresco, who kneels towards the bottom corners?
- 8. The 3 most vital centers of Italian art during the Renaissance were Florence, Rome, and ___________.
- 10. Who was Botticelli’s teacher?
- 14. Michelangelo’s sculpture, _______________, was commissioned to be placed in Old Saint Peter’s.
- 15. 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)
- 18. 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?
- 19. The Entombment of Christ, by Jacopo da Pontormo, departs from High Renaissance painting in that it has exaggerated and _____________ figures.
- 20. The word Renaissance means _____________.
- 23. The Palazzo Rucellai was designed by __________.
- 24. Mori What is the Latin term (two words) for an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death
- 25. Which artist’s work contains the MOST elements/influence of the “Italo-Byzantine”? (Masaccio, Giotto, or Cimabue)
- 29. Mannerist architecture is known for its more playful style and ____________________ rhythms.
- 31. What is the last name of the person who “started” the Protestant Reformation?