Europe pt 3

Question 1

Sistine Chapel

Answer 1

Italy
Michelangelo
ceiling and alter wall frescoes
nine stories from the Book of Genesis
realistic

Question 2

School of Athens

Answer 2

Raphael
Fresco
formal beauty and thematic

Question 3

Isenheim altarpiece

Answer 3

Grunewald
Oil on wood
emphasis of he suffering of Mary

Question 4

Entombment of Christ

Answer 4

Jacopo da Pontormo
oil on wood
flattened space
composition dips towards Jesus

Question 5

Allegory of Law

Answer 5

Grace Lucas Cranach the Elder
woodcut letter press
characters and images have symbolic meaning

Question 6

Venus of Urbino

Answer 6

Titan
oil on canvas
uses color contrast to depict the perfect renaissance woman

Question 7

Frontispiece of the Codex

Answer 7

Mendoza
New Spain
ink and color on paper
power of Aztecs by showing two soldiers on a hierarchic scale

Question 8

Il Gesù including the Triumph and the Name of Jesus

Answer 8

Rome
fresco
Jesuit church: large nave and laterally placed pulpit

Question 9

Hunters in the Snow

Answer 9

Pieters Bruegel the Elder
oil on wood
harsh conditions and temperature of winter

Question 10

Mosque of Selim III

Answer 10

Turkey
Sinan
Brick and Stone
masterwork of Ottoman architect Sinan