Art Histor

Question 1

Volumetric figures rendered with anatomical precision, emotionally charged expression and visual naturalism are formal elements popularized in the Renaissance

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Linear Perspective

Question 2

Extolled the active life of the citizen and praised humanity’s capacity to achieve greatness through knowledge and free will.

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Humanism

Question 3

Who wrote the first critical history of European Art during the Renaissance, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550, 2nd edition 1568) although many of his observations are now considered obsolete.

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Giorgio Vasari

Question 4

What are the two main types of iconography or subject matter found in the Renaissance?

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Religious and Secular

Question 5

Term derived from the Italian manière, meaning simply “style,” and sometimes defined as the “stylish style” for its emphasis on self-conscious artifice over realistic depiction.

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Mannarism

Question 6

The word paper is derived from?

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Papyrus

Question 7

What do we call the style before the Renaissance?

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Middle Ages

Question 8

During the early Renaissance most paintings were produced on?

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Board

Question 9

Generally speaking, what were the two forms of patronage in the Renaissance?

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Public and Private

Question 10

What were three components of an artist/patron contract during the Renaissance?

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What is to be represented/built cost and style?

Question 11

Patterns of this have been linked to each center’s economic and political structure.

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Patronage

Question 12

Most early Renaissance artists mostly worked for themselves. What do we call this type of employment?

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Self Employment

Question 13

Who was commissioned by the Banker’s Guild in Florence to execute St. Matthew for Orsanmichele

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Ghiberti

Question 14

Large public commissions could serve as what for artists and patrons?

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Advertisement

Question 15

This English term comes from the Latin word Patronus, meaning protector of clients or dependents, specifically freedmen.

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Patron

Question 16

Name a wealthy family associated with patronage in Renaissance Florence.

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Medici

Question 17

Name of wealthy female Renaissance patron.

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Isabella d’Este

Question 18

Nursing – associated Mary’s milk with acts of divine nurturing and religious teaching were called?

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Madonna Lactans

Question 19

Name two common Altar piece themes.

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Virgin Mary and the Incarnation of Christ?

Question 20

Triptych

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A whole painting made of three separate pieces

Question 21

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, St. Francis of Assisi, c. 1235, would be categorized a what “thematic” type of altarpiece?

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Saint

Question 22

Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia were most often associated with this type of altarpiece (many-paneled works) with several stages of closing and opening.

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Polyptychs

Question 23

Lilies are typically associated with what Biblical figure

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Virgin Mary

Question 24

Images of Mary nursing are often related to?

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Wisdom

Question 25

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin,1435. The bridge is a symbol of?

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Visual Transmission

Question 26

Jan van Eyck depicts what scene in this panel?

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Annunciation

Question 27

Greek myths come from?

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Oral Tradition

Question 28

What artist painted the Venus of Urbino in 1538?

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Titian

Question 29

Plotinus argued that the artist in creating his work directly imitates the forms of this ideal reality, which are experienced as Beauty.

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Neoplatonism

Question 30

One of the suggested moral lessons of Sandro Botticelli's, Primavera (Spring).

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Lessons for a bride on chastity, submission and procreation?

Question 31

Chloris and Zephyrus (West Wind) in Botticelli's, Primavera has been suggested to represent?

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Rape Scene

Question 32

This artist painted the Birth of Venus about 1482?

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Sandro Botticelli

Question 33

Promoting a local ruler, instructing soldiers, justifying a political decision, marriage are some of the reason these were "recast" during the Renaissance?

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Myths

Question 34

Greeks made gods a perfected form of ______

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Themselves

Question 35

The god's immortality separated them from ______

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Humans

Question 36

The earliest Renaissance portraits were not paintings but rather important inclusions in pictures of?

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Christian subjects

Question 37

Fra Filippo Lippi, Woman with a Man at a Casementca is an example of what type of portrait?

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Profile

Question 38

Domenico Ghirlandaio Portrait of Giovanna Degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, includes (painted) writing on a piece of paper. The Italian term is?

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Cartellino

Question 39

Name one reason a fly (painted) might appear in Renaissance portraiture?

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To represent the transient nature of life

Question 40

Technique perfected by Leonardo da Vinci, a smokey haziness—to soften outlines and create an atmospheric effect around?

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Sfumato

Question 41

Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian (1446), is an example of what kind of portrait?

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3/4 style portrait

Question 42

Lisa Gherardini is thought to be the sitter in what famous portrait?

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The Mona Lisa

Question 43

This type of portrait is considered a (refers to size)

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Half Length

Question 44

During the Renaissance and beyond, miniature portraits were often given as a __________?

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Remembrance

Question 45

Italian Renaissance architects based their theories and practices on?

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Classical Roman examples?

Question 46

Engineered of the dome of Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore, also known as the Duomo)?

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Brunelleschi

Question 47

Credited with redesigning the façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy between 1456 and 1470?

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Alberti

Question 48

This is an example of what type of ceiling?

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Coffered

Question 49

He published I quattro libri dell’architettura (Four Books on Architecture), 1570

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Palladio

Question 50

Villa Rotunda

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Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in northern Italy designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

Question 51

An ancient Roman architect whose work was influential during the Renaissance?

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Vitruvius

Question 52

Name the three basic types of column capitals.

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Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

Question 53

This architect's treatise, Della Pittura, was an essential handbook for artists, explaining the principles behind linear perspective, which Brunelleschi may have first developed.

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Alberti

Question 54

In sculpture what is the term for where the weight is placed on one leg, and the other leg is bent?

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Contrapposto

Question 55

This casting method, used by the Ancient Greeks & Roman became regained popularity during the Renaissance.

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Lost Wax

Question 56

This male biblical figure was seen as a representation of Florence, Italy.

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David

Question 57

The facade design of the Basilica of Sant 'Andrea, Mantua had been linked to what ancient monument?

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Arch of Constantine

Question 58

Credited with inventing movable type in Europe?

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Guttenberg

Question 59

The oldest form of printmaking is a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block.

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Woodcut

Question 60

Medicinal Herbs, Anatomy, & Engineering were topics of what Renaissance art?

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Book Publishing

Question 61

This popular past-time was aided by printing and made the game more universally available.

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Playing Cards

Question 62

This printing intaglio printing process involves gauging out an image on a metal plate.

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Engraving

Question 63

With this intaglio print method, the artist coats the plate with a resin, then draws a design, and inserts the plate in an acid bath.

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Etching

Question 64

Printmaking allowed design styles to be _______ throughout Europe during the Renaissance.

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Disseminated

Question 65

This artist who engraved images of Adam and Eve and St. Jerome in his study was considered "world" famous during his lifetime.

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Durer

Question 66

The description of a subject in the guise of another subject.

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Allegory

Question 67

Some scholars have suggested the figure in agony is an allegory for

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Syphilis

Question 68

Three figures depicted in this panel of Bosch's, Garden or Earthly delights.

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Adam, Eve and God

Question 69

The central panel in Bosch's, Garden of Earthly Delights is often associated with which of the seven deadly sins?

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Lust

Question 70

In this engraving and following in the tradition of allegory, _____ is shown as a naked woman wearing a feather headdress and carrying a club.

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America

Question 71

Allegory of Venus and Cupid

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Bronzino, 1545

Question 72

Ornament Engraving

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Agostino Veneziano

Question 73

Donatello's David

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After the fight 1430-1440 First Nude Since Antiquity

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Michelangelo's David

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Intended for Florence Cathedral 1501-1504 Before the Fight

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Virgin and Child Before Firescreen

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Robert Campin, 1430

Question 76

Lives of Most Excellent Painters, Sculptor's and architechts

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1550 2nd Addition 1568

Question 77

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

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Jan Van Eyck, 1435