HOA2 (Quiz 1-4)

Question 1

It is considered the birthplace of the
Renaissance.

Answer 1

Florence

Question 2

Donato Bramante designed the Tempietto to
embody both the Platonic preference for
ideal form and Christian reverence for
tradition, in this case, reverence for the
circular martyrium of the early church.

Answer 2

T

Question 3

A part of the Florence Cathedral that acts as a weight on top of the dome

Answer 3

cupola

Question 4

What are the three Vitruvian virtues?

Answer 4

Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas

Question 5

An illustration of the human body is inscribed in the circle and the square is derived from a passage about geometry and human

Answer 5

Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci

Question 6

What are classical orders used in designing
Renaissance buildings?

Answer 6

Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian,
Composite

Question 7

A new world view that celebrated rationality and mankind’s ability to make and act upon empirical observations of the physical world.

Answer 7

Humanism

Question 8

Filippo Brunelleschi codified the principles of
geometrically accurate linear perspective,
making possible the exact representation of
a 4-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional
surface.

Answer 8

F (3-dimensional object)

Question 9

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian author,
artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist,
philosopher, cryptographer, and general
Renaissance humanist polymath. Which among the choices were part of his
masterpieces?

Answer 9

The Palazzo Rucellai, San Maria Novella, Basilica of Sant’Andrea

Question 10

He was an Italian architect, who introduced
Renaissance architecture to Milan and the
High Renaissance style to Rome, where his
plan for St. Peter’s Basilica formed the basis
of the design executed by Michelangelo.

Answer 10

Donato Bramante

Question 11

The Plans in Renaissance buildings are

usually square, asymmetrical appearance in
which proportions are usually based on a module.

Answer 11

F (symmetrical appearance)

Question 12

Who is the Architect/Designer of the
Florence Cathedral?

Answer 12

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 13

A popular decorative treatment of the
Renaissance palazzo, a masonry wall is
textured rather than smooth

Answer 13

Rustication

Question 14

A Roman writer, architect, and engineer,

active in the 1st century BC. He is best
known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura (“On Architecture”)

Answer 14

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Question 15

St. Peter’s Basilica also called New St. Peter’s
Basilica, the present basilica of St. Peter in
Vatican City (an enclave in Rome), was begun
by Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in
1615 under Paul V. It is designed as a three-
aisled Latin cross with a dome at the
crossing, directly above the high altar, which
covers the shrine of St. Peter the Apostle.
Who are the twelve architects of St. Peter’s
Basilica?

Answer 15

Donato Bramante
Giuliano da Sangallo
Fra Giocondo
Raphael Sanzio
Baldassare Peruzzi
Antonio da Sangallo
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Giacomo della Porta
Domenico Fontana
Giacomo da Vignola
Carlo Maderna
Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Question 16

What is the complete name of the famous

Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter,
architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development
Simoni
of Western art?

Answer 16

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti

Question 17

Domes are used frequently, both as a very
large structural feature that is visible from
the exterior.

Answer 17

T

Question 18

What are the two famous sculptures by
Michaelangelo?

Answer 18

The Statue of David
La Pieta

Question 19

A cultural movement that spanned roughly
from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning
in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.

Answer 19

The Renaissance