Humanities QUIZ Flashcards
Florentines came to watch the construction of the dome. One of the things that amazed them was Brunelleschi’s use of the classical order of _______ which hadn’t been used since the fall of Rome.
Classical Orders of Architecture
Brunelleschi also devised a way to alter the ________ on pulleys so the oven could pull the 1700 pound sandstone beams 250 feet into the air and return them to the ground without changing direction.
gears
brunelleschi was jailed and froced to stop work on II Duomo (the dome) when his patron was found guilty of treason against________.
Florence
Cosimo de Medici’s patronage of Baldesari Crossa paid off wen Cossa became Pope ___________
Pope John XXIII
Marcello Fantoni: “Patronage is great from the production of art but totally irrational from an economic review. _______ is a politcal strategy…. high political competition.
Patronage
florence was proud to be the only _______ in Europe; but the governement was often corrupt.
republic
brunelleschi also invented __________. According to Jeremy Botton, this invention changed the way we see, creating a modern way of looking at the world.
linear perspective
the bronze sculpture of David by ______ was the first free-standing statue created since Rome.
Donatello
When cosimo was finally asked to return to Florence, he was even more power and prestige. the medici banks became the most imporant banks in europe as they collected money for the ________
pope
popes could excommunicate Christians guilty of _______, which was believing anything other than waht the church preached.
heresy
Although Brunelleschi examined the construction of the dome of the Roman Pantheon, he couldn’t use the same techniques becuase of the size of the dome and because the receipe for making _______ had been lost
concrete
who built the dome of Flornece Cathedral, was both architect and engineer
brunelleschi
cosimo escaped from the tower that was his prison by ______ the guards
bribing
Seventy percent of all reinassance _______ lived and worked in Florence
artists
True or False- Lorenzo de Medici married Clarice Orsini because she was beautiful and he was in love with her.
false
True or False- The system of patronage used by the Medici family to operate florenc eand tuscany, in which people are personally loyal to a family that looks out for them in return, was similar to the system used by the mafia to control southern italy
true
True or False-the pazzi, a rival banking family, tried to have lorenzo and his siter killed easter sunday 1478 in the florentine cathedral.
false
True or False- lorenzo survived, and his upporter shange dthe conspirators, including two relative of the pope from the government building windows
true
True or False- when lorenzo returned to florence, he was named II Magnifico and asked to take over the government of florence, he agreed
false
True or False- for 20 years, the florentine benefitted from lorenzos public generosity, his spending virtuously on buildings, art, festivals, and entertainments
true
moks hired by the pazzi killed guiliano by shooting him to death
false
True or False- in the bonfires of the vanities, savonarola and his followers burned books, makeup, clothes, wigs, art, and jewelry
true
True or False- botticellis paintings like the birth of venus are religious rather than humanistic
false
True or False- girolamo savonarola was a domican priest who worked for lorenzo de medici
false
