Stupid Vocab Test

Question 1

Emblem bearing a coat of arms

Answer 1

Escutcheon

Question 2

Florentine family who supported many artists and writers

Answer 2

Medici

Question 3

Perspective technique of showing from below

Answer 3

di sotto in su

Question 4

Technique of depicting space in which all parallel lines converge at a point on the horizon

Answer 4

linear perspective

Question 5

Family who commissioned Brunelleschi to build a chapel

Answer 5

Pazzi

Question 6

The part of a building above the capitals and columns and below the roof or upper story

Answer 6

entablature

Question 7

deceives the eye

Answer 7

trope l’oeil

Question 8

modest Venus

Answer 8

Venus pudica

Question 9

Apparent visual contraction on a plane that is not perpendicular to the line of sight

Answer 9

foreshortening

Question 10

a flat rectangular vertical member projecting from the wall of which it is a part

Answer 10

pilaster

Question 11

technique of beveling the edges of stones to make the stonework appear rough

Answer 11

rustification

Question 12

nickname for Erasmo Di narni

Answer 12

Gattamelata

Question 13

Use of light and dark to create modeling

Answer 13

chiaroscuro

Question 14

Renaissance ideal of a man who was good at many things

Answer 14

l’uomo universale

Question 15

principle of weight shift in which the body is counter positioned around a central axis

Answer 15

contrapposto

Question 16

A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane that seems to recede toward the vanishing point

Answer 16

orthogonal

Question 17

lord of Rimini who commissioned Alberti to build a temple-tomb for the great humanist scholars

Answer 17

Sigismondo Malatesta

Question 18

Neo-Platonic philosopher

Answer 18

Marsillio Ficino

Question 19

Italian military leader

Answer 19

condottiere

Question 20

plave on th horizon where all parallel lines appear to converge

Answer 20

vanishing point

Question 21

ancient Roman architect and theoretician whose works had profound influence on Renaissance architects

Answer 21

Vitruvius

Question 22

horizontal molding usually marking an interior division

Answer 22

stringcourse

Question 23

incising into a metal plate or a print made from the pate

Answer 23

engraving

Question 24

framework supporting the deceased

Answer 24

catafalque

Question 25

Reformist monk who became virtual dictator of Florence

Answer 25

savonarola

Question 26

illness caused by ergot fungus

Answer 26

ergotism

Question 27

French castle

Answer 27

Chateau

Question 28

sixteenth century French sculptor

Answer 28

Jean Goujon

Question 29

sixteenth century German artist

Answer 29

Durer

Question 30

patron saint to ward off disease

Answer 30

St. Sebastian

Question 31

personification of knowledge lacks ability to act

Answer 31

Melancholy

Question 32

radical Protestants

Answer 32

Anabaptists

Question 33

Danube style

Answer 33

Donaustil

Question 34

engraving tool

Answer 34

Burin

Question 35

active life

Answer 35

vita activia

Question 36

multipaneled altarpiece

Answer 36

polyptych

Question 37

nickname for Jan Gossaert

Answer 37

Mabuse

Question 38

corroding design onto metal surface

Answer 38

etching

Question 39

German reformer

Answer 39

Martin Luther

Question 40

a style based on delicate execution of ornament

Answer 40

Plateresque

Question 41

Martin Luther’s epithet for Roman Catholic church

Answer 41

“whore of Babylon”

Question 42

graphic technique popularized by Durer

Answer 42

woodcut

Question 43

hub of economic activity for Low Countries

Answer 43

Antwerp

Question 44

sixteenth century French palace

Answer 44

Fontainebleau