Renaissance Related Arts Quiz

Question 1

Botticelli”s depiction of — was one of the first large-scale depictions of classical mythology since antiquity

Answer 1

Venus

Question 2

Wealthy Citizens who sometimes held public office but more often wielded power from behind the scenes

Answer 2

Merchant Princes

Question 3

Florence’s greatest architect

Answer 3

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 4

Illusion of depth by blurring trees

Answer 4

Atmospheric perspective

Question 5

Impression of space

Answer 5

linear perspective

Question 6

Song set in 4 parts; each part is performed by one singer

Answer 6

Madrigal

Question 7

Donatello’s —

Answer 7

David

Question 8

Michelangelo’s —

Answer 8

David and pieta

Question 9

Masterpiece of world political theory for Italian princes

Answer 9

Machiavelli’s The Prince

Question 10

Across the [Mona Lisa] is a hazy aura created by the use of —

Answer 10

sfumato

Question 11

Renaissance musicians migrated to the courts of patrons such as —

Answer 11

Maximilian

Question 12

The greatest composer of the high renaissance

Answer 12

Josquin des Prez

Question 13

— spent his last years devoted to architechture

Answer 13

Michaelangelo

Question 14

The construction a new — revealed the renaissance spirit at its best and worst

Answer 14

St. Peter’s Cathedral

Question 15

Popular young painter and artist

Answer 15

Raphael

Question 16

Pious monk who set off a religious revolution in 1517

Answer 16

Martin Luther

Question 17

Religious revolt that divided western Christianity into Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths

Answer 17

Reformation

Question 18

Martin Luthers major rejections of the Catholic church (communion, penance, matrimony)

Answer 18

Sacraments

Question 19

A humanist and generous patron of the arts, — negotiated with — to establish the Collége de France

Answer 19

Francis I, Eramus

Question 20

Designed by an Italian architect for a French king, — symmetrical and unified plan was marked by round turrets at the corners

Answer 20

Château de Chambord

Question 21

the era of prosperity of the Elizabethan theater began in 1576, when — was built

Answer 21

theater in london/Globe Theater

Question 22

Most acclaimed dramatist of the English language

Answer 22

Shakespeare

Question 23

A dance that called for males to lift their partners on their thighs

Answer 23

Volta

Question 24

Catholic church’s effort to reform itself and mount a religious offensive against protestantism

Answer 24

Counter-Reformation