Art History Quiz Study Guide

Who made the large globe “Mappa Mundi” at the center of the room of Guardaroba inside of Palazzo Vecchio?

Egnazio Danti

Inside Palazzo Vecchio of the Salone dei Cinquecento consists of 42 panels representing the Great Episodes of life by who?

Cosimo I

What metaphorical representation is decorated in the studiolo of Francesco I in Palazzo Vecchio?

The four elements

Hall of the 500-The two huge frescoes covering the earlier works of Michelangelo and Leonardo and the false ceiling on the Salone dei Cinqueccento was completed by who?

Vasari

What did Francesco I dedicate his life to?

Alchemy

What does this painting represent?

Nature and Prometheus

Which Medici is represented in this painting?

Cosimo I

What do you associate the world view expressed by the image with?

Aristotle

The “Battle of Angiari” is:

A painting by Leonardo

When did Vasari live?

In the 16th century

True or False: Friar Savonarola was burned and hanged in Piazzaa del Signoria in the 16th century?

True

When was Piazzale Michelangelo built?

In the 19th century, when Florence was the capital of Italy

What is located in the middle of Piazzle Michelangelo?

A copy in bronze of Michelangelo’s marble David

San Miniato al Monte church is one of the finest what?

Romanesque basilica in Tuscany

San Miniato was:

An Armenian prince killed by the Romans under Emperor Decius

The construction of San Miniato Basilica was financed by the Florentines…

Arte di Calimala (cloth’s merchants’ guild), symbolized by the eagle which crowns the façade

In the San Miniato church, the centre of the nave is dominate by:

The freestanding Cappella del Crocefisso (Chapel of the Crucifix), designed by Michelozzo in 1448

Who depicted the altarpiece in the Chapel of the Cardinal Giacomo?

Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo

Defensive walls surround the whole complex of San Miniato (originally built hastily by Michelangelo during the siege and in 1553 expanded into a true fortress by Cosimo I de’Medici) which now enclose what?

A large cemetery, the Porte Sante, laid out in 1854

Who is the architect responsible for the façade of the Santa Maria Novella church?

Leon Battista Alberti

Who financed the construction of the Santa Maria Novella church?

Dominican Order

Who is the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who placed two astronomical instruments on the Santa Maria Novella church façade, which he used to study the apparent motion of the sun?

Eganzio Danti

What are the scientific instruments on the Santa Maria Novella façade? Where are they located?

A quadrant and two equinoctial armillae. On the façade of the church of santa Maria Novella

In the second half of the 16th century, mathematician and geographer to the Grand Duke, Egnazio Danti, built an astronomical dial and two equinocial circles to study the apparent motion of the sun. Egnazio Danti’s calculations were important to what?

Correcting the calendar and reforming the measurement of time, leading to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar