15th Century - Early Renaissance Art in Italy, I (pgs 445-448 and 503-535

Question 1

_____ was an important manufacturing center, a key center for trade, a major center for international banking

Answer 1

Florence

Question 2

Who controlled the Florentine government, instead of hereditary aristocracy?

Answer 2

Bankers and merchants

Question 3

Economic and social organizations that strengthened the positions of artisans and merchants…..

Answer 3

guilds

Question 4

The governing council of Florence is the…….

Answer 4

Signoria

Question 5

How did Florentines signal their identity as heirs to the ancient Roman Republic?

Answer 5

the Florentine government was a republic

Question 6

In his “In the Praise of Florence”, Leonardo Bruni compared Florence’s virtues to those of

Answer 6

5th century BCE Athens

Question 7

Athens defied the invading Persians, the same way Florence defied the invading

Answer 7

Milanians

Question 8

Why did few women become sculptors, painters, and goldsmiths?

Answer 8

Most women were forbidden entry to most guilds

Question 9

Andrea Pisano completed the ______ ______ for the baptistery of Florence in 1360.

Answer 9

bronze doors

Question 10

A true and sincere study of human works that emphasized rhetoric, literature, history, and moral philosophy……

Answer 10

Renaissance Humanism

Question 11

Intellectuals in Italy believed that they were living in a ……..

Answer 11

NEW AGE

Question 12

How did Italian intellectuals believe they could improve their world?

Answer 12

By reviving the best of the Classical World from Ancient Greece and Rome

Question 13

What technique did the Northern Renaissance have that the South (Italy) did not have yet?

Answer 13

Oil paint

Question 14

What did oil paint allow Northern Europeans to do?

Answer 14

Paint in detail, tons of detail

Question 15

What did the Northern Renaissance lack that the Italian Renaissance have even in the early Renaissance?

Answer 15

1. The linear perspective (control of space)

2. Anatomy of the body

Question 16

Classical LLA rebirth in the Renaissance:

Answer 16

Classical learning, literature, and art

Question 17

Different from the North, where cultural expansion was constructed by _________________________

Answer 17

technical and cultural achievements

Question 18

Why did Renaissance Humanism change the world of science and math?

Answer 18

It inspired new ways of thinking, creating empirical observations, and analytical thinking.

Question 19

How was Renaissance Humanism different from the past?

Answer 19

Medieval universities prized theology.

Question 20

Renaissance Humanism encouraged ______ and promoted _____ ______

Answer 20

individualism; civic duty

Question 21

What did artists study?

Answer 21

the ancient arts, not just the motifs and forms, but how the five elements of design (line, shape, color, texture, space) were used to achieve a form of naturalism.

Question 22

What changed for patrons?

Answer 22

They became informed viewers who studied works as well

Question 23

5 Elements of Design to achieve a naturalism

Answer 23

Line ------
Shape [   ] 
Color (color in)
Texture (sand it)
Space

Question 24

The Medieval tradition relied heavily on the artisans and crafts members of the guild, but what changed in the Renaissance?

Answer 24

The idea of the individual artist emerged (Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rafael)

Question 25

During the early Renaissance in Italy, the Pope returned from Avignon to…..

Answer 25

Rome

Question 26

True or false: Italy was a unified country during the Renaissance.

Answer 26

False - several kingdoms and city-states