Humanities Flashcards
The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to tell the stories of __
the bible
In a gothic church, the ___ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.
flying butress
The figure of Saint Theodore found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a
___ position.
contrapposto
The Gothic church at_____ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.
Sainte-Chapelle
___ 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 _____, in Botticelli’s Primavera as an
allegorical figure representing the highest moral qualities.
Venus
Leonardo de Vinci’s ___ is located on the north wall of the refectory of the
Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
The Last Supper
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 della Rovene heraldic symbols of oak and acorn to symbolize the patronage of _____
Pope Julius II
________ 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
____ was created by Matthias Grünewald.
The Isenheim Altarpiece
____ created The Large Turf, a watercolor depicting the minutest details of nature.
Albrecht Dürer
Hans Holbein the Younger painted a portrait of ____ dressed in the clothes
he wore when he married Anne of Cleves.
England’s King Henry VIII
____ is a three-part work, or triptych.
The Mérode Altarpiece
The altarpiece’s___ are depicted in the left panel of the Mérode Altarpiece.
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
El Greco painted _____, which includes distinct mannerist qualities and is decorous to
the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.
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
___ from the Dunes of Overveen is considered a “landscape” painting.
The View of Haarlem
_____ 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
Nicolas Poussin painted ____
Arcadian Shepherds.
Eugene Delacroix served as a model for one of the figures featured in Theodore Gericault’s ___
The Raft of the “Medusa”
Claude Monet painted ____ which played a significant role on “giving
Impressionism its name.
Impression: Sunrise
August Renoir “preferred to paint the crowd” and created _____
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Georges Seurat depended on a pointillist style to paint a _____ which
depicts a crowd of Parisians enjoying an island in the Seine River.
Sunday on La Grand Jatte,
_____ 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
____ was born out of collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Cubism
