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What might the dog represent in Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride?
fidelity
What are the three styles that influenced Late Medieval and early Renaissance art in Italy?
Medieval/Gothic, Byzantine, Classical |
Why would a city want their civic buildings like the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena look like a fortress?
to show authority and power
Who was considered the most powerful family in Italy during the Renaissance?
Medici |
What semi-precious material did Giotto use to create the blues in his fresco at the Arena Chapel?
lazuli lapis
The Hundred Years War primarily involved which two kingdoms?
England and France
Which of these is a main characteristic of Italian Renaissance art?
balanced composition
What did Brunelleschi study when he went to Rome after the competition of 1401?
architecture |
What was one of the most important inventions of the 15th century regarding printmaking and books?
The Gutenberg Printing Press
The Ghent Altarpiece in Belgium is what type of altarpiece?
Polyptych
Which city in Italy played a major role in the the rise in humanism and what would develop into the Renaissance?
Florence |
Who won the "Competition of 1401"?
Ghiberti
____ are portraits of individuals that accompany religious scenes and became very popular in the 15th century; usually showing who paid for the artwork to be done.
Donor portraits |
How did Brunelleschi reduce the weight of the dome of the Florence Cathedral?
created a dome with 2 shells/layers |
Who is attributed with perfecting linear perspective?
Brunelleschi |
What is the goal in using the technique chiaroscuro?
to show realistic shadows/shading |
Why was it popular for the wealthy to commission portraits like Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride?
to show their wealth |
What is the overall theme of the Ghent Altarpiece?
salvation
What does the rise of humanism focus on in the early Renaissance?
the creative individual |
For relief printmaking, where is the printing area? Where does the ink go on the wood block?
raised from the surface |
In the Creation of Adam, Michelangelo fashioned the conception of God after ____.
Greco/Roman Deities & Ancient philosophers |
In Leonardo's Last Supper, how did the artist break with traditional iconography?
By placing Judas on the same side as Christ and the other disciples |
Michelangelo deviated from earlier representations of David in his rendition by portraying ____.
the encounter before the battle |
The chief architect of the Venetian Republic from 1570 until his death was ____.
Palladio |
The major centers for artistic development in the High Renaissance were ____ and _____.
Rome, Florence |
Who commissioned the fresco, Philosophy (School of Athens)?
Pope Julius II |
One of the main features of Mannerism is that the figures are ________.
Elongated |
The charismatic Dominican monk, Savonarola, orchestrated what came to be known in Florence as the __________ in which anything deemed sinful or extravagant was destroyed.
"bonfire of the vanities"
16th century Venetian painters, including Titian were known for their use of ____________.
rich colors |
What is the timeline or overall theme that Michelangelo painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Creation to Last Judgement
Northern European scholars studied humanism.
True |
What is Genre painting?
scenes of everyday life |
Choose a correct description of relief printmaking.
the ink goes on a raised design |
What is the selling of indulgences?
selling someone's way out of purgatory
Who was considered one of the best N. European portraitists, painting royals such as Henry VIII?
Hans Holbein the Younger |
Who painted the first known self-portrait of a woman in N. Europe?
Caterina van Hemessen |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder incorporated an Italian style to his paintings.
False |
What style will be reminiscent of Bosch's around 400 years after The Garden of Earthly Delights?
Surrealism
What type of altarpiece arrangement is the Garden of Earthly Delights?
triptych
What is the anamorphic shape seen in The French Ambassadors?
a skull
One example of a Northwest style native mask is a transformation mask. What makes it "transformational"?
it can open and close between animal and man |
What is the main theme of the detail of the kiva mural painting from the Kuaua Pueblo in New Mexico?
fertility of the earth
Which group of people at Tenochtitlan surprised the Spanish the most?
the priests
Which one of these gods was honored at the Aztec Great Temple?
Huitzilopochtli
Who were the two teams of Tlingit artists that would make Chilkat blankets?
male designers, female weavers |
Who are the descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans?
Hopi and Zuni
What type of masonry did the Inka use to create buildings such as the Temple of the Sun?
Ashlar masonry
How were the Inka able to maintain such a large empire?
incredibly organized administration
What types of symbols are shown on the colassal sculpture of Coatlicue?
sacrificial death |
What type of artwork continued to flourish amongst the Great Plains peoples after resettlement?
beadwork and ledger paintings
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