Chapter 24 - The European Renaissance

Question 1

Ch 24: What is the significance of the selection in the beginning of the chapter “Poliphili’s dream of the Strife of Love”?

Answer 1

Describes the mindset of the Renaissance mind.

Question 2

Ch 24: Who made the bronze panels of the doors of the baptistery of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence?

Answer 2

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 3

Ch 24: Who’s design was Il Duomo of Santa Maria del Fiore?

Answer 3

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 4

Ch 24: What did Filippo Brunelleschi and several other Renaissance men study which influenced their careers?

Answer 4

They studied classical architecture and orders of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Question 5

Ch 24: Brunelleschi, a goldsmith, lost the competition to create the bronze doors for the baptistery of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to whom?

Answer 5

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 6

Ch 24: This lion of a Renaissance man introduced volutes and reintroduced decorative pediments.

Answer 6

Leon Battista Alberti

Question 7

Ch 24: What are volutes?

Answer 7

They are external structures that ease the transition between the wider, taller nave to the shorter, narrower aisles.

Question 8

Ch 24: During the Renaissance, the architects became more _______; the buildings they designed acquired the ________ that could be identified with the architects.

Answer 8

visibile; traits.

Question 9

Ch 24: Some of the impetus of Renaissance thought was a contradictory response to the ______ _______.

Answer 9

Middle Ages.

Question 10

Ch 24: Sometimes an element is merely repeated, but often an element is contrasted with another element to form a pattern, then the pattern is repeated. What does this refer to, and what was the term that Vitruvius used?

Answer 10

Rhythm; eurythmos

Question 11

Ch 24: These two periods were the most fecund art periods in Italian history, and together they are one of the most important periods ever in the history of art.

Answer 11

The Quattrocento (15c) and Cinquecento (16c)

Question 12

Ch 24: What was humanism? What was humanisms role during the Renaissance?

Answer 12

Intellectual movement that gave greater importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. In the Renaissance, the cultural movement emphasized a balanced interest in religious and secular matters.

Question 13

Ch 24: This machine was invented during the Renaissance and had implications that impacted the world and human history.

Answer 13

The printing press.

Question 14

Ch 24: What is “the Renaissance” in Italian?

Answer 14

Il Rinascimento

Question 15

Ch 24: Donato Bramante would become known as this city’s greatest architect.

Answer 15

Rome

Question 16

Ch 24: Il Tempietto, a circular building with a circular porch and a dome located in Rome, was created by this architect.

Answer 16

Donato Bramante

Question 17

Ch 24: This relative of Donato Bramante made great contributions to integration of art in architecture.

Answer 17

Raphael Sanzino (the Raphael).

Question 18

Ch 24: This quintessential Renaissance man left behind many interesting architectural drawings, but tragically, there are no buildings attributed to him.

Answer 18

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 19

Ch 24: The Renaissance man of Renaissance men, he had the greatest skills in all of the visible arts - painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Answer 19

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Question 20

Ch 24: Michelangelo’s most famous artwork?

Answer 20

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

Question 21

Ch 24: This Renaissance man contributed to St. Peter’s Cathedral, specifically the nave and dome, and they are said to be one fo the masterpieces of religious architecture in all of history.

Answer 21

Michelangelo

Question 22

Ch 24: This Renaissance man was known as Maestro Ruinante because he tore down most of the old church of St. Peter’s Cathedral (in Rome).

Answer 22

Bramante

Question 23

Ch 24: Bramante’s design for the new St. Peter’s Cathedral was a _______ cross. The design was later changed in favor of a ______ cross, much to the dismay of Le Corbusier because it hid Michelangelo’s Duomo.

Answer 23

Greek Cross; Latin cross

Question 24

Ch 24: The most esteemed work of secular Renaissance architecture in Rome is this palace and was completed by this Renaissance man.

Answer 24

Farnese Palace; Michelangelo

Question 25

Ch 24: How many floors does Farnese Palace have, and what caps it off?

Answer 25

3; a grand cornice that juts out five feet.

Question 26

Ch 24: If achievement in the other visible arts - painting and sculpture - is not a factor, then this person is the leading architect of the Renaissance.

Answer 26

Andrea Palladio

Question 27

Ch 24: Andrea Palladio’s best known works around Vicenza are these structures.

Answer 27

Villas

Question 28

Ch 24: Andrea Palladio borrowed the basic form of the Pantheon in Rome (a classical porch and a “Pantheonic” dome in the middle) to create this masterpiece near Vicenza.

Answer 28

Villa Capra, also known as La Rotunda.

Question 29

Ch 24: Andrea Padillo’s Venetian churches feature a bell tower reminiscent of the Islamic ______, and features _______ language that is purely (or nearly purely) decorative.

Answer 29

Minaret; classical

Question 30

Ch 24: This English architect rebuilt much of London after the Great Fire of London destroyed almost everything.

Answer 30

Christopher Wren

Question 31

Ch 24: _______ is a style that was part of the High Renaissance.

Answer 31

Mannerism