Final Questions Flashcards
The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to _________________________.
tell the stories of
the Bible
__________________________________________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.
In a gothic church, the flying buttress
The figure of ______________ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a ______________ position.
Saint Theodore
contrapposto
The Gothic church at Sainte-Chapelle features the highest ratio of _____________.
glass to stone
_______________ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
By the twelfth century, _________ was the center of textile production in the Western world and played a central role in European trade markets.
Florence
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.
Giotto di Bondone
____________ is credited with painting the Masetà (Virgin and Child), which once hung in the council chamber of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico.
Simone Martini
_________________ 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 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
Humanists in Lorenzo’s court would have recognized Venus, in ______________________ as an
allegorical figure representing the highest moral qualities.
Botticelli’s Primavera
Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper is located on the north wall of the refectory of the __________________________________.
Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
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.
Julius II
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 __________________ to symbolize the patronage of Pope Julius II.
della Rovene heraldic
symbols of oak and acorn
_______________ 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
__________________ created the Garden of Earthly Delights.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Isenheim Altarpiece was created by ___________________.
Matthias Grünewald
____________ created The Large Turf, a watercolor depicting the minutest details of nature.
Albrecht Dürer
______________ painted a portrait of England’s King Henry VIII dressed in the clothes he wore when he married Anne of Cleves.
Hans Holbein the Younger
___________________ is a three-part work, or triptych.
The Mérode Altarpiece
The ______________ are depicted in the left panel of the Mérode Altarpiece.
altarpiece’s patrons
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.
Jan van Eyck
The term ____________ was assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.
braghettoni
_______________________, which includes distinct mannerist qualities and is decorous to the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.
El Greco painted the Resurrection
_______________ 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
_________________ 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
_____________ painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles.
Peter Paul Rubens
___________ painted Arcadian Shepherds.
Nicolas Poussin
__________ served as a model for one of the figures featured in Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of the “Medusa”.
Eugene Delacroix
__________ painted Impression: Sunrise, which played a significant role on “giving Impressionism its name.
Claude Monet
___________ “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 Parisians enjoying an island in the Seine River.
Georges Seurat
_____________ utilized a technique known as impasto to create Night Café.
Vincent van Gogh
___________ 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
first position-
heels touching, feet forming a straight line.
second position-
heels wide apart, feet forming a straight line.
third position-
one foot in front of the other with heel against the instep
fourth position-
feet apart, one in front of the other, heels in line
fifth position-
one foot in front of the other with the heel against the joint of the big toe.
