Final Flashcards
What was the chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals?
to tell the stories of the Bible.
In a _____ church, the _____ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds
gothic
flying buttress
The figure of _____ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a _____ position.
Saint Theodore
contrapposto
The _____ church at _____ features the highest ratio of glass to stone
Gothic
Sainte-Chapelle
_____ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
By the _____ century, _____ was the center of textile production in the Western world and played a central role in European trade markets.
twelfth
Florence
According to an old story, one day _____ discovered a talented shepherd boy by the name of _____ and tutored him in the art of _____. The pupil soon surpassed the teacher.
Cimabue
Giotto di Bondone
painting
_____ is credited with painting the Masetà (Virgin and Child), which once hung in the _____ of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico.
Simone Martini
council chamber
_____ produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi’s investigation of optics in Arab science also contributed to his understanding, particularly Alhazen’s Perspectiva, which integrated the classical works of:
Euclid
Ptolemy
Galen
In _____, the Apostle Peter appears three times:
Masaccio’s The Tribute Money
Christ tells St. Peter to Catch a fish
St. Peter catching a fish in the Sea of Galilee
St. Peter paying the tax collector
Humanists in Lorenzo’s court would have recognized _____, in _____ as an allegorical figure representing _____.
Venus
Botticelli’s Primavera
the highest moral qualities
_____’s The Last Supper is located on the _____ wall of the _____ of the _____ of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Leonardo de Vinci
north
refectory
Dominican monastery
After being elected pope, _____ commissioned architect _____ to renovate the Vatican Palace and to serve as chief architect to replace Saint Peter’s Basilica with a new church.
Julius II
Donato Barmante
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 mathematical orderliness of its parts
Throughout the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo includes the della Rovene heraldic symbols of _____ to symbolize _____
oak and acorn
the patronage of Pope Julius II.
_____ and _____ are the central figures in Raphael’s School of Athens.
Aristotle and Plato
Many scholars consider _____ the Master of Flémalle and, therefore, the creator of the Mérode Altarpiece
Robert Campin
Who created the Mérode Altarpiece
Robert Campin
Who created the Garden of Earthly Delights?
Hieronymus Bosch
Who created the Isenheim Altarpiece?
Matthias Grünewald
Albrecht Dürer created _____, a watercolor depicting the minutest details of nature.
The Large Turf
Who created The Large Turf?
Albrecht Dürer
_____ painted a portrait of England’s King Henry VIII dressed in the clothes he wore when he married _____
Hans Holbein the Younger
Anne of Cleves
The Mérode Altarpiece is a three-part work, or _____
triptych
What is depicted in the left panel of the Mérode Altarpiece?
altarpiece’s patrons
_____, can be seen in the mirror at the back of the room depicted in the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami
The reflection Jan van Eyck, the artist
The term _____ was assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
braghettoni
_____ painted the Resurrection, which includes distinct mannerist qualities and is decorous to the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.
El Greco
_____ painted The Calling of Saint Matthew for the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio)
_____ painted five separate versions of the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes and was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Design.
Artemisia Gentileschi
What painting is considered a “landscape” painting?
The View of Haarlem from the Dunes of Overveen
_____ was particularly successful with genre scenes, including The Dancing Couple.
Jan Steen
Who painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles?
Peter Paul Rubens
Who painted Arcadian Shepherds?
Nicolas Poussin
_____ served as a model for one of the figures featured in _____’s The Raft of the “Medusa”.
Eugene Delacrois
Theodore Gericault
_____ painted Impression: Sunrise, which played a significant role on “_____”.
Claude Monet
giving Impressionism its name
_____ “preferred to paint the crowd” and created Luncheon of the Boating Party.
August Renoir
_____ depended on a pointillist style to paint a Sunday on La Grand Jatte, which depicts a crowd of _____ enjoying an island in the _____ River.
Georges Seurat
Parisians
Seine
Vincent van Gogh utilized a technique known as _____ to create _____.
impasto
Night Café
_____ painted Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, which became notorious “as an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.
Pablo Picasso
Cubism was born out of collaboration between _____ and _____.
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
What is first position?
heels touching, feet forming a straight line
What is second position?
heels wide apart, feet forming a straight line
What is third position?
one foot in front of the other with heel against the instep
What is fourth position?
feet apart, one in front of the other, heels in line
What is fifth position?
one foot in front of the other with the heel against the joint of the big toe.
