Chapter 7 Flashcards
The _____ family was heavily involved in the _____ industry thus resulting in their becoming the most powerful family in Florentine affairs from 1418 until 1494.
Medici
banking
_____ was considered to be the most preeminent Italian city-state in the fifteenth century.
Florence
The Sacrifice of Isaac, a story from the Hebrew Bible was the assigned topic for the competition to create a new set of doors for the north entrance to the _____ at _____.
Baptistery
Florence’s Duomo
_____ produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral
Filippo Brunelleschi
Pope _____ is credited with establishing the Sistine Chapel Choir
Sixtus IV
______ composed the Pange lingua mass
Josquin des Prez
In the book, The Prince, Machiavelli writes that the prince’s chief preoccupation and primary duty was to _____
wage war
Machiavelli argues that the prince, once engaged in war, has three alternatives for controlling a state once he has conquered it:
-he can devastate it
-live in it
-Allow it to keep his own laws
The lion is the symbol of the _____
Venetian republic
The Lombards forced the local populations of the Po River delta to _____ that would later become the city of Venice
flee to the swampy lagoon islands
Vince considered itself blessed by _____, whose relics resided in the cathedral of _____
Saint Mark
The Contarini family is associated with _____
Venice’s Ca’ d’Oro
According to Vasari, Giorgione ____ for his paintings
did not make preliminary drawings
The painting, Pastoral Concert, includes…
a fully clothed nobleman playing a lute while a nude woman plays a flute
The painting, Venus of Urbino, includes…
a dog sleeping on white sheets
_____ was the first professional woman composer to see her own compositions in print
Madalena Casulana
_____ housed the “Ensemble of Ladies,” which attracted many of the most prominent _____ of the day
madrigal composers
_____ served as choirmaster of St. Marks in Venice
Adrian Willaert
Adrian Willaert set to music in the madrigals of New Music the sonnets of Petrarch
The toccata is also known as a “_____,” designed to feature both the _____ and the _____
virtuoso prelufe
range of the organ
dexterity of the organist
_____ was a careful student of _____, sharing an interest with Leonardo
Palladio
Vitruvius
_____ produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral
Filippo Brunelleschi
When composing the _____, a motet reflecting “ideal proportion,” _____ had the _____ in Jerusalem in mind.
Nuper rosarum flores
Guillaume Dufay
Temple of Solomon
Brunelleschi’s investigation of optics in Arab science also contributed to his understanding, particularly Alhazen’s Perspectiva, which integrated the classical works of:
Euclid
Plolemy
Galen
In Masaccio’s The Tribute Money, the Apostle Peter appears three times:
Christ tells St.Peter to catch a fish
St. Peter catching a fish in the Sea of Galilee
St. Peter paying the tax collector
The Medici family supported the rebuilding of the old monastery of San Marco for the Dominican Order, the sections added were _____, _____, _____, ______, and _____
a library, cloister, chapter room, bell tower, and alter piece
_____ is credited for coining the term “platonic love”
Marsilio Ficino
Lorenzo, grandson of _____ was known as II Magnifico - “The Magnificent”
Cosimo Medici
Humanists in _____’s court would have recognized venus in _____’s Primavera as an allegorical figure representing the ______
Lorenzo
Botticelli
highest moral qualities
_____, humanist composer of Lorenzo Medici, taught music to Lorenzo’s sons, served as organist and choirmast at Florence Cathedral, and before he knew it, found himself collaborating with Lorenzo writing songs for popular festivals
Heinrich Isaac
_____ is the author of oration on the Dignity of Man, which is considered one of the greatest manifestos of humanism
Pico della Mirandolla
_____ financed his lifestyle as a mercenary soldier who was a valuable and highly ally to whoever could afford both him and his army
Federigo de Montefeltro
The _____ by Baldassare Castiglione recounts conversations and debates among humanists in the Montefelro court
Book of the Courtier
Leonardo de Vinici’s the Last Supper is located _____
on the north wall of the refectory of the Domincan monastery of the Santa Maria della Grazie
_____ is credited with bringing the papacy back to Rome for good, it became something of a papal duty to restore the city to its former greatness
Pope Martin V
After being elected pope, _____ commissioned architect _____ to renovate the Vatican Palace and to serve as chief architect to replace St. Peter’s Basillica with a new church
Julius II
Donato Barmante
Even though located in Rome, _____ in Montorio is associated with the nation of Spain
San Pietro
The Tempietto was designed by _____
Bramante
The _____ was built on the site of Saint _____ martyrdom
Tempietto
Peter’s
The characteristics that contributed to the making of the Tempietto are:
-it’s classical reference
-it’s incorporation of original
classical Roman columns into its
architectural scheme
-the mathmatical orderliness of
its parts
How did Pope Julius II finance the construction of the new Saint Peter’s Basilica
by selling indulgences
Why did Martin Luther launch to Protestant Reformation in Germany
in protest against the sale of indulgences
In the city of _____, _____ Savonarolo organized troops of children to collect the city’s “_____” which were burned at giant bonfires
Florence
Girolamo
vanities
The city of Florence commissioned _____ to create a freestanding statue of David using a huge _____
michaelangelo
cracked block of marble
Throughout the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo includes the _____
della Rovene heraldic symbols of oak
_____ hired _____ to paint his private rooms in the Vatican palace
Pope Julius II
Raphael
_____ and _____ are the central figures in Raphael’s School of Athens
Aristitle and Plato
who was known as II Magnifico - “The Magnificent”
Lorenzo, grandson of Cosimo Medici
