Chapter 24 - The European Renaissance Flashcards
Ch 24: What is the significance of the selection in the beginning of the chapter “Poliphili’s dream of the Strife of Love”?
Describes the mindset of the Renaissance mind.
Ch 24: Who made the bronze panels of the doors of the baptistery of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Ch 24: Who’s design was Il Duomo of Santa Maria del Fiore?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Ch 24: What did Filippo Brunelleschi and several other Renaissance men study which influenced their careers?
They studied classical architecture and orders of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Ch 24: This lion of a Renaissance man introduced volutes and reintroduced decorative pediments.
Leon Battista Alberti
Ch 24: What are volutes?
They are external structures that ease the transition between the wider, taller nave to the shorter, narrower aisles.
Ch 24: During the Renaissance, the architects became more _______; the buildings they designed acquired the ________ that could be identified with the architects.
visibile; traits.
Ch 24: Some of the impetus of Renaissance thought was a contradictory response to the ______ _______.
Middle Ages.
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?
Rhythm; eurythmos
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.
The Quattrocento (15c) and Cinquecento (16c)
Ch 24: What was humanism? What was humanisms role during the Renaissance?
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.
Ch 24: This machine was invented during the Renaissance and had implications that impacted the world and human history.
The printing press.
Ch 24: What is “the Renaissance” in Italian?
Il Rinascimento
Ch 24: Donato Bramante would become known as this city’s greatest architect.
Rome
Ch 24: Il Tempietto, a circular building with a circular porch and a dome located in Rome, was created by this architect.
Donato Bramante
Ch 24: This relative of Donato Bramante made great contributions to integration of art in architecture.
Raphael Sanzino (the Raphael).
Ch 24: This quintessential Renaissance man left behind many interesting architectural drawings, but tragically, there are no buildings attributed to him.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ch 24: The Renaissance man of Renaissance men, he had the greatest skills in all of the visible arts - painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Ch 24: Michelangelo’s most famous artwork?
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
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.
Michelangelo
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).
Bramante
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.
Greek Cross; Latin cross
Ch 24: The most esteemed work of secular Renaissance architecture in Rome is this palace and was completed by this Renaissance man.
Farnese Palace; Michelangelo
Ch 24: How many floors does Farnese Palace have, and what caps it off?
3; a grand cornice that juts out five feet.
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.
Andrea Palladio
Ch 24: Andrea Palladio’s best known works around Vicenza are these structures.
Villas
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.
Villa Capra, also known as La Rotunda.
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.
Minaret; classical
Ch 24: This English architect rebuilt much of London after the Great Fire of London destroyed almost everything.
Christopher Wren
Ch 24: _______ is a style that was part of the High Renaissance.
Mannerism
