The rebirth of art

Question 1

The renaissance period came after the ___________________.

Answer 1

middle ages

Question 2

This country played a pivotal role in the emergence of the Renaissance style of visual and decorative art in the last part of the 14th century.

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

Also known to reflect the splendor of individual experience and beauty of nature.

Answer 3

Renaissance

Question 4

Renaissance art became a major inspiration for the Grand tour, and it was a dominant style until ___________________ and the ________________ challenged its dominance.

Answer 4

Pablo Picasso and Cubist movement

Question 5

The early forms of Renaissance art evident in the late ___ and ___ centuries were called “____________________.”

Answer 5

13th, 14th, proto-renaissance

Question 6

Both of these writers had high regard for languages, values, and intellectual traditions that went stagnant long after the Roman empire fell in the sixth century.

Answer 6

Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 7

A painter from Florence, was the most noteworthy Proto-renaissance artist. He became famous for his advanced techniques and realistic representations of the human body.

Answer 7

Giotto di Bondone

Question 8

The frescoes in the cathedrals at Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples was claimed to be Giotto’s works. True or False?

Answer 8

False. Giotto having made these frescoes remain to be unverified up to this day.

Question 9

It became the site of a renewed interest for philosophy, religion, and art reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.

Answer 9

Florence

Question 10

He became famous for his frescoes of a church and a chapel in Florence, Holy trinity in the Church of Santa Maria Novella and the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine.

Answer 10

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni “Masaccio” di Simone

Question 11

In the latter part of the 17th century, Florence was slowly losing its position as the principal center of Renaissance art in Italy. True or False?

Answer 11

False. It was during the latter part of the 15th century.

Question 12

He was also known for his mastery of oil painting.

Answer 12

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 13

He was probably the finest painter of the High Renaissance.

Answer 13

Raffaello “Raphael” Sanzio da Urbino

Question 14

Known for his illusionistic Assumption of the Virgin at the Parma Cathedral.

Answer 14

Antonio da Correggio

Question 15

The leading architect during the High Renaissance.

Answer 15

Donato Bramante

Question 16

He made a name for himself for his murals found at some portions of the Sistine Chapel and for his frescoes at the Orvieto Cathedral.

Answer 16

Luca Signorelli

Question 17

He was believed to be a great influence on Michelangelo.

Answer 17

Luca Signorelli

Question 18

High Renaissance was “the culmination of all Italian art, a process that began with Giotto in the late 13th century.” Who wrote this and what book was this written in?

Answer 18

Author: Giorgio Vasari
Book: Lives of the most Eminent painters, sculptors, and architects

Question 19

This artistic style focused on artificiality, as opposed to the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art.

Answer 19

Mannerism

Question 20

Mannerist style, as described by Vasari, is merely “a bridge between idealized style of _________________ and the dramatic theatricality of the ________.

Answer 20

Renaissance art, Baroque

Question 21

The effect that is achieved through ________________ can be likened by looking through a window and painting what you see on the window pane exactly how you see it.

Answer 21

Linear perspective

Question 22

This refers to the point at which parallel lines appear to converge far in the distance, often on the horizon line.

Answer 22

Vanishing point

Question 23

This may be understood as the line representing the viewer’s eye level.

Answer 23

Horizon line

Question 24

_________ was observable in architectural forms and specific shapes, and styles were used that characterized the period.

Answer 24

Symmetry

Question 25

He participated in a competition on designing the new set of doors for the baptistery of the cathedral of Florence and became one of the masters of sculpture during his time.

Answer 25

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 25

It created soft and almost unnoticeable transitions between tones and colors.

Answer 25

fine shading or sfumato

Question 26

Reminiscent of the Classical period, _________ was a primary indicator of beauty, as Renaissance architects valued harmony between human proportions and the structures they built.

Answer 26

proportion

Question 27

He was famous for the naturalism evident in his Madonna pieces.

Answer 27

Raphael

Question 28

Who made the Ognissanti Madonna?

Answer 28

Giotto di Bondone

Question 29

Who made the Gates of paradise?

Answer 29

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 30

Who made the Holy Trinity fresco?

Answer 30

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni “Masaccio” di Simone

Question 31

Who made the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer 31

Michelangelo

Question 32

Who made the Madonna of the Pinks or La Madonna dei Garofani?

Answer 32

Raphael

Question 33

Who made the illusionistic Assumption of the Virgin at the Parma Cathedral?

Answer 33

Antonio da Correggio

Question 34

Who made the San Zaccaria Altarpiece?

Answer 34

Giovanni Bellini