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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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In the Renaissance, all painting had to be

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c. true to nature.

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During the Renaissance, the theory of the universe was

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a. The heliocentric theory.

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Mantegna’s The Dead Christ illustrates

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d. Foreshortening.

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In Renaissance painting, color is

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d. Brilliantly polychromatic.

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Humanism had its beginnings in the

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c. The Gothic period.

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The Renaissance is often referred to as the age of

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d. Geniuses.

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For the Greeks, humanism focused on

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d. The ideal human.

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The humanistic spirit of the Renaissance connected with

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a. That of the Greeks.

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During the Renaissance, there was a full blooming of

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a. Humanism.

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During the Renaissance, the nude lost its connotation of

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Shame

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The home or center of the financiers was

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Italy

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During the Renaissance, the secondary purpose for art was

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c. To produce art that served religious purposes.

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In the Renaissance period, humanism focused on

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b. The real human.

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Realistic portrayal of the human form led to

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a. Studies in anatomy.

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In Renaissance painting, smooth flowing motion was achieved by the use of

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b. Curvilinear lines.

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16
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Fra Angelico’s Annunciation was

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c. a decoration for a silver chest.

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17
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During the Renaissance, the religious purpose of art was

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a. Secondary.

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18
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Gozzoli’s Journey of the Magi was really

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a. A commemoration of a parade of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

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During the Renaissance, the power of the church

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b. Weakened.

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20
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Boticelli burned some of his painting because

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b. They were on pagan themes.

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21
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During the Renaissance, the single greatest patron of the arts was

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c. The church.

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Boticelli’s Adoration of the Magi was really

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d. Really a way of “adoring” the Medici family.

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The interest in the portrait in the Renaissance was primarily due to

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c. Ego.

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The center of the Renaissance was

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b. Italy.

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During the Renaissance, a new goal in life for many was

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b. The acquisition of wealth.

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The Renaissance artist whose works were almost exclusively sacred in their subject matter was

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d. Fra Angelico.

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Apprentices painted many of his works.

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c. Raphael

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Studied with his father and with Perugino.

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e. Raphael

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29
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Painted a very famous work on a flawed experiment in fresco.

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da Vinci

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30
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Painted the Last Supper.

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da Vinci

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31
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Artistic activities were in Venice.

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Titian

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Worked in Florence.

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da Vinci

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33
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Painted School of Athens.

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Raphael

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34
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Reconciled the Christian and the Pagan in his artwork.

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Raphael

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35
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Painted Venus and Adonis.

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Titian

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36
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Depicted common people in common pursuits.

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d. Pieter Brueghel

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37
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Painted The Small Crucifixion.

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a. Mathias Grunewald

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38
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Painted the Creation.

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Michaelangelo

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His portrayal of Christ was medieval, not Renaissance.

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g. Mathias Grunewald

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Studied with Ghirlandaio.

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Michaelangelo

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41
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Showed individual reactions to the announcement of a betrayal.

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c. Leonardo da Vinci

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42
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The infusion of life in this work produced a pensive facial expression in recognition of the trials and sorrows of the earthly life ahead.

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Michaelangelo

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43
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Painted the Mona LIsa.

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da Vinci

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44
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Performed military duties.

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da Vinci

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45
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The Catholic church was the primary patron.

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e. Mathias Grunewald

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46
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Personally knew Martin Luther.

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e. Albrecht Durer

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47
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Preferred sculpture.

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d. Michaelangelo

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48
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Was a master of the landscape.

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c. Pieter Brueghel

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49
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Lived to be 99 years old.

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f. Titian

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50
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Jesus looks like a festering corpse.

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c. Mathias Grunewald

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51
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Painted The Wedding Dance.

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g. Pieter Brueghel

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52
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Many of his works depict the struggle between Catholics and Protestants.

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g. Pieter Brueghel

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53
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Incorporated the psychological reactions of his subjects in his artwork.

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da Vinci

54
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Lived to be 89 years old.

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f. Michaelangelo

55
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Is most famous for his woodcuts.

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a. Albrecht Durer

56
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In this artwork, Good is undaunted by Evil.

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f. Albrecht Durer

57
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Studied with Verrocchio.

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b. Leonardo da Vinci

58
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Artistic activities were in Rome.

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b. Michaelangelo

59
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Is the quintessential Renaissance artist.

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g. Leonardo da Vinci

60
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Painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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d. Michaelangelo

61
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Is considered a colorist.

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b. Titian

62
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Who sculpted a David after killing Goliath?

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Donatello

63
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Whose David is sculpted before he met and killed Goliath?

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Michelangelo

64
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Monticello shows the influence of

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Palladio

65
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Whose art is more Gothic in spirit than Renaissance?

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d. Riemenschneider

66
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Who sculpted a mature David?

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Michelangelo

67
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Who sculpted peach stones?

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Rossi

68
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The country whose personal residences during the Renaissance were the largest was

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England

69
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Whose sculpture of David expresses movement within tranquility?

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Donatello and Michelangelo

70
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Renaissance architecture was most often patterned after the architecture of which period?

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Greek

71
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Who sculpted in Bronze?

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Donatello

72
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Whose art includes an altar carving?

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c. Riemenschneider

73
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Who sculpted in wood?

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a. Riemenschneider

74
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Whose sculpture of David is 18 feet tall?

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Michelangelo

75
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Who created a bas relief including Joseph and Potiphar’s wife?

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Rossi

76
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Which type of building was most often designed in the Renaissance?

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Villa

77
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Vitruvius was

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b. A Roman architect.

78
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Which ratio is called the Golden Mean?

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3:2

79
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The structure that included the input of 3 different architects was

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St. Peter’s

80
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Who sculpted a youthful David?

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Donatello

81
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Who was a German artist?

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Riemenschneider

82
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Who created art with copper engraving

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Rossi

83
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The architect epitomizing Renaissance architecture was

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Palladio

84
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Which two forms of art were Renaissance artists often equally facile in?

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Sculpture, Painting

85
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The secular “motet” in France was called

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d. The chanson.

86
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The composer whose music has a detached and calm sublimity is

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b. Palestrina.

87
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A flute-like instrument of the Renaissance is the

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b. Recorder.

88
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The greatest English composer was

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b. William Byrd.

89
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Music from the Rennaisance sound foreign to our ears because

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d. It is polyphony written with using the old modal scales.

90
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A virginal is

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c. An early type of keyboard instrument.

91
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Music in the Renaissance moved out of the church and

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b. Into the homes of the aristocracy and upper class.

92
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The secular “motet” in Germany was called

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a. The polyphonic Lied.

93
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Which of the following is true for the texts of sacred music during the Renaissance?

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b. The texts spoke of the anguish, aspirations, and hopes of the human soul.

94
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The primary contribution of the Lutheran church in the Renaissance was

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c. Many chorales.

95
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The composer who was among the first to have music published during his own lifetime was

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b. Josquin Desprez

96
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Secular music during the Renaissance

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c. Generally involved the participation of the gentlemen and ladies.

97
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An example of a secular folk song melody that was also used for religious music is

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a. Innsbruck.

98
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The church that most profoundly influenced the musical development of Western Europe was the

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b. Lutheran church.

99
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The composer whose music was emotionally expressive, despite the complex required compositional rules was

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d. Josquin de Prez.

100
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Which instrument of the Renaissance was as important as the piano of the 19th century?

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a. The lute.

101
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The secular music of Italy was called

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d. The madrigal.

102
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Religious music of the Renaissance

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b. Was always performed in a church.

103
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The composer whose melodies were smooth flowing, limited in range, and with few wide intervals was

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a. Palestrina.

104
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Which of the following statements is true for secular music of the Renaissance?

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d. It was intimate and participatory.

105
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A musical development of the Reformation in England was

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d. The anthem.

106
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Sacred, polyphonic, liturgical music was generally called

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a. A motet.

107
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Lutherans did not compose music in Latin because

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d. It was too popish; too Roman Catholic.

108
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A brass instrument of the Renaissance was the

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b. Sackbut.

109
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Dissonant intervals had to be

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b. Carefully introduced and resolved.

110
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The ideal composer of Catholic liturgical music was

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c. Palestrina.

111
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The first composer to use the English language for music of the liturgy was

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d. Thomas Tallis.

112
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Mannerists were those artists who

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Moved away from the ways the old masters did art.

b. Rigidly imitated the masters of the High Renaissance.

113
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Which of the following is true of the texts of secular songs during the Renaissance?

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b. The texts spoke of the joys and sorrows of this earthly existence.

114
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Which of the following is true for the music of Lutherans and Calvinists.

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c. The music was simpler with German texts.

115
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Which of the following is true about the patronage of music during the Renaissance.

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c. The church was not the sole patron.

116
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Most Renaissance music is

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a. Polyphonic.

117
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Palestrina primarily composed

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c. Sacred music.

118
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Tonality became the primary harmonic system used by composers in the

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c. 17th century.

119
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Fra Angelico’s Annunciation

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polychromatic, dove, blue robe

120
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Botticello’s Birth of Venus

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nonreligious nude, medici, mythology, winds/hours, Savonarola bonfire of the vanities

121
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Mantegna Lamentation of Christ

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close look at dead Christ, human and physical, foreshortening, Byzantine–God is all powerful and not dead

122
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masterpiece

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apprentice makes work accepted by the guild

123
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Titian supplement

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transition to Baroque and anticipated coloring and sensuousness of later painters

124
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Mona Lisa

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eyebrows lost in cleaning, relaxed 3 quarter pose (innovation), pyramidal composition, sfumato is blending, imaginary hazy landscape

125
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Artwork

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Birth of Venus (Boticelli), Journey of the Magi, Adoration of the Magi (Boticelli), Lamentation of Christ (Montegna), Mona Lisa, Venus and Adonis (Titian), Small Crucifixion (Grunewald), landscape and The Wedding Dance (Brughel), Durer’s woodcuts, 2 Davids, Rossi’s bas-relief, Reimenschneider’s wood sculpture, Monticello (infl. by Palladio)

126
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Baldachin

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canopy (st. peter’s)

127
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Palladio’s villa

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4 porches

128
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St. Peter’s architects

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Bramante, Michelangelo, Bernini

129
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Palladio’s best work

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villa rotunda

130
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Michelangelo and Palladio

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Farnese Palace in Rome

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