Final Questions

Question 1

The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to _________________________.

Answer 1

tell the stories of
the Bible

Question 2

__________________________________________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.

Answer 2

In a gothic church, the flying buttress

Question 3

The figure of ______________ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a ______________ position.

Answer 3

Saint Theodore
contrapposto

Question 4

The Gothic church at Sainte-Chapelle features the highest ratio of _____________.

Answer 4

glass to stone

Question 5

_______________ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.

Answer 5

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Question 6

By the twelfth century, _________ was the center of textile production in the Western world and played a central role in European trade markets.

Answer 6

Florence

Question 7

According to an old story, one day Cimabue discovered a talented shepherd boy by the name of ______________ and tutored him in the art of painting. The pupil soon surpassed the teacher.

Answer 7

Giotto di Bondone

Question 8

____________ is credited with painting the Masetà (Virgin and Child), which once hung in the council chamber of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico.

Answer 8

Simone Martini

Question 9

_________________ produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral.

Answer 9

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 10

Brunelleschi’s investigation of optics in Arab science also contributed to his understanding,
particularly Alhazen’s Perspectiva, which integrated the classical works of:

Answer 10

Euclid
Ptolemy
Galen

Question 11

In Masaccio’s The Tribute Money, the Apostle Peter appears three times:

Answer 11

 Christ tells St. Peter to Catch a fish
 St. Peter catching a fish in the Sea of Galilee
 St. Peter paying the tax collector

Question 12

Humanists in Lorenzo’s court would have recognized Venus, in ______________________ as an
allegorical figure representing the highest moral qualities.

Answer 12

Botticelli’s Primavera

Question 13

Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper is located on the north wall of the refectory of the __________________________________.

Answer 13

Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.

Question 14

After being elected pope, _____________ commissioned architect Donato Barmante to renovate the
Vatican Palace and to serve as chief architect to replace Saint Peter’s Basilica with a new church.

Answer 14

Julius II

Question 15

The characteristics that contributed to the making of the Tempietto are:

Answer 15

 It’s classical reference
 It’s incorporation of original classical Roman columns into its architectural scheme
 The mathematical orderliness of its parts

Question 16

Throughout the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo includes the __________________ to symbolize the patronage of Pope Julius II.

Answer 16

della Rovene heraldic
symbols of oak and acorn

Question 17

_______________ are the central figures in Raphael’s School of Athens.

Answer 17

Aristotle and Plato

Question 18

Many scholars consider __________ the Master of Flémalle and, therefore, the creator of the Mérode Altarpiece.

Answer 18

Robert Campin

Question 19

__________________ created the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Answer 19

Hieronymus Bosch

Question 20

The Isenheim Altarpiece was created by ___________________.

Answer 20

Matthias Grünewald

Question 21

____________ created The Large Turf, a watercolor depicting the minutest details of nature.

Answer 21

Albrecht Dürer

Question 22

______________ painted a portrait of England’s King Henry VIII dressed in the clothes he wore when he married Anne of Cleves.

Answer 22

Hans Holbein the Younger

Question 23

___________________ is a three-part work, or triptych.

Answer 23

The Mérode Altarpiece

Question 24

The ______________ are depicted in the left panel of the Mérode Altarpiece.

Answer 24

altarpiece’s patrons

Question 25

The reflection ___________, the artist, can be seen in the mirror at the back of the room depicted in the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami.

Answer 25

Jan van Eyck

Question 26

The term ____________ was assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.

Answer 26

braghettoni

Question 27

_______________________, which includes distinct mannerist qualities and is decorous to the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.

Answer 27

El Greco painted the Resurrection

Question 28

_______________ painted The Calling of Saint Matthew for the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.

Answer 28

Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio)

Question 29

_______________ painted five separate versions of the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes and was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Design.

Answer 29

Artemisia Gentileschi

Question 30

_________________ is considered a “landscape” painting.

Answer 30

The View of Haarlem from the Dunes of Overveen

Question 31

________ was particularly successful with genre scenes, including The Dancing Couple.

Answer 31

Jan Steen

Question 32

_____________ painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles.

Answer 32

Peter Paul Rubens

Question 33

___________ painted Arcadian Shepherds.

Answer 33

Nicolas Poussin

Question 34

__________ served as a model for one of the figures featured in Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of the “Medusa”.

Answer 34

Eugene Delacroix

Question 35

__________ painted Impression: Sunrise, which played a significant role on “giving Impressionism its name.

Answer 35

Claude Monet

Question 36

___________ “preferred to paint the crowd” and created Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Answer 36

August Renoir

Question 37

_____________ depended on a pointillist style to paint a Sunday on La Grand Jatte, which depicts a crowd of Parisians enjoying an island in the Seine River.

Answer 37

Georges Seurat

Question 38

_____________ utilized a technique known as impasto to create Night Café.

Answer 38

Vincent van Gogh

Question 39

___________ painted Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, which became notorious “as an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.

Answer 39

Pablo Picasso

Question 40

Cubism was born out of collaboration between _____________ and _____________.

Answer 40

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Question 41

first position-

Answer 41

heels touching, feet forming a straight line.

Question 42

second position-

Answer 42

heels wide apart, feet forming a straight line.

Question 43

third position-

Answer 43

one foot in front of the other with heel against the instep

Question 44

fourth position-

Answer 44

feet apart, one in front of the other, heels in line

Question 45

fifth position-

Answer 45

one foot in front of the other with the heel against the joint of the big toe.