Title: The Renaissance beli
1. The Renaissance belief that humankind was not worthless in the eyes of God as the Church had taught during the Middle Ages has come to be known as which of the following?
a. Mannerism
b. Protestantism
c. Inquisition
d. patronage
*e. Humanism
Title: Renaissnace Meaning
2. Renaissance means ______, when the art of ______was being revived.
A. renewal/the Etruscans
*B. rebirth/the Greeks and Romans
C. reconnaissance/Giotto
D. reclamation/the Babylonians
E. relationships/the Middle Ages
Title: Renaissance Meaning 2
3. The word renaissance means
a. "to know something thoroughly."
*b. "rebirth."
c. "to create something from nothing."
d. "to reinvent."
e. "celebration."
Title: General Renaissance
4. One of the things that distinguished Renaissance artists was that they were
A. unaware of their greatness
B. wishing they were back in ancient Rome
*C. self-conscious
D. selfish
E. trying to continue Gothic traditions
Title: Renaissance emphasis
5. Unlike the art of the Gothic era, the Renaissance emphasized
A. architecture
B. sculpture
C. illuminated manuscripts
D. tapestries
*E. painting
Title: Renaissance – art should reflect physical world
6. Renaissance artists felt that art should
*A. reflect the physical world
B. reflect the metaphysical world
C. reflect the spiritual world
D. reflect the intellectual world
E. reflect an imaginary world
Title: Renaissance artists respected
7. In the Renaissance, artists for the first time were respected ______
A. as great craftspeople
B. for the class into which they were born
C. because they didn't need patrons
*D. because of what they could do
E. because they were great imitators
Title: Renaissance artists intellectuals
8. One of the effects of the Renaissance was to change the status of artists in Europe from
*a. skilled crafts workers to intellectuals.
b. observers of nature to designers.
c. shamans to documentarians.
d. monks to nobility.
e. none of the above
Title: Ghiberti- Gates
9. One great sculptor of the era was ______, who did ______.
A. Masaccio/The Tribute Money
B. Verocchio/Goliath
*C. Ghiberti/The Gates of Paradise
D. Bellini/St. Francis
E. Colleoni/St. Mark
Title: Botticelli- The Birth of Venus
10. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus is a Renaissance painting because of its ______and ______.
A. beauty/depth
*B. nudity/pagan subject matter
C. modesty/decorative flat sea
D. emphasis on religion/outlining
E. tempera paint/symbolism
Title: Botticelli- The Birth of Venus 2
11. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus is an Early Renaissance painting because of its
A. emphasis on mythological figures
*B. shallow surface plane
C. three-dimensional depth
D. sexual frankness
E. oil paint and deep colors
Title: The Renaissance arti
12. The Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci created a mural that has been restored by Dr. Pinan Brambilla; this mural takes as its subject what event?
a. a meeting of the Roman Senate
b. a view of an ideal city
c. a group of famous Renaissance artists
*d. the last supper
e. the madonna and child among relatives
Title: Michelangelo was the 2
13. Michelangelo was the architect and sculptor of the Cornaro Chapel in Rome.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Michelangelo created
14. Michelangelo created a monumental statue of what religious figure to serve as a symbol of the new Florentine republic?
a. Noah
b. Adam
c. Pope Julius II
*d. David
e. St. Paul
Title: Michelangelo conside
15. Michelangelo considered himself always to be by nature a ______.
a. painter
b. architect
*c. sculptor
d. muralist
e. poet
Title: The term sfumato in
16. The term sfumato in a painting, as exemplified by the Mona Lisa, refers to ______.
a. the smile on the model's face
b. a type of linear perspective
c. the kind of oil paint used
d. the sitter's pose
*e. a hazy, cloudy atmosphere
Title: Sfumato
17. The technique of sfumato involves the use of
*a. multiple layers of glazes.
b. multiple vanishing points.
c. elongated figures and compressed space.
d. burnt charcoal.
e. all of the above
Title: Sfumato
18. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa demonstrates his mastery of the technique of sfumato, which means
A. ignudi
B. impasto
C. fresco
*D. like smoke
E. continuous narrative
Title: Giorgione-Tempest
19. ______'s painting The Tempest placed more emphasis on the landscape than on the people in it.
A. Titian
B. Raphael
C. Leonardo
D. Bellini
*E. Giorgione
Title: Anguissola- The Chess Game
20. Anguissola's The Chess Game differs from Raphael's Pope Leo X in that the people portrayed by Anguissola
A. are very formal
*B. interact with each other
C. are shown with dignity
D. are not fully realized portraits
E. are not saints
Title: Sofonisba Anguissola
21. Sofonisba Anguissola was the first female artist known to have become famous among her contemporaries.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Holbein
22. Holbein's portraits combine a realistic physical appearance with
A. careful attention to details of clothing
B. three-dimensional landscape vistas
C. genre scenes
*D. character analysis
E. definite religious overtones
Title: Holbein- court painter to Henry VIII
23. The German artist Hans Holbein was court painter to
a. Eleanora of Toledo.
b. Philip II of Spain.
c. the Hapsburgs.
*d. King Henry VIII of England.
e. Frederick the Wise of Saxony.
Title: Mannerism- El Greco- Tintoretto
24. Two famous ______artists are El Greco and Tintoretto.
A. High Renaissance
B. Early Renaissance
*C. Mannerist
D. Baroque
E. Counter-Reformation
Title: Mannerism enlongated
25. Among the characteristics of Mannerism are
A. an emphasis on genre scenes
B. use of linear perspective
*C. elongated figures
D. a rejection of religion
E. an emphasis on pattern and details
Title: Limbourgs
26. Who were the Limbourgs?
a. a Protestant religious sect
b. a powerful ruling family of monarchs and popes
*c. artist brothers
d. members of the blacksmiths' guild in France
e. leaders of the Counter-Reformation
Title: Vasari
27. Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, a biography of Renaissance artists published in 1550, was written by
a. Michelangelo.
b. Leonardo.
c. Ghiberti.
*d. Vasari.
e. Donatello.
Title: Giorgio Vasari, the
28. Giorgio Vasari, the 16th-century biographer, referred to what artist as "an artist as talented as he was gracious."
*a. Raphael
b. da Vinci
c. Michelangelo
d. Dürer
e. Grien
Title: Neo-Platonic- Eve is Venus
29. In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character Eve was identified with
*a. Venus.
b. autumn.
c. evil.
d. the night.
e. motherhood.
Title: Oil paint invented
30. The technology of painting with oils was developed
a. by Mannerist painters.
b. during the Late Renaissance.
*c. by northern Europeans.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Title: Renaissance- Venice- Color and light
31. The Renaissance artists from Venice, such as Titian and Giorgione, were especially known for their mastery of
a. linear perspective.
b. tempera paint.
*c. color and light.
d. sunken relief.
e. the illumination of manuscripts.
Title: High Renaissance period
32. The era known as the High Renaissance encompasses a time period of about ______years.
a. one thousand
b. two hundred
c. one hundred fifty
*d. twenty-five
e. twelve
Title: Masaccio's Trinity- triangular composition
33. ______organization, as seen in Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, was a popular device among Renaissance artists of Italy.
a. Accidental
b. Diagonal
c. Informal
*d. Triangular
e. all of the above
Title: Although Masaccio wa
34. Although Masaccio was primarily a painter and sculptor, he turned his hand to architecture in old age.
a. True
*b. False
Title: was an early Renaiss
35. ______was an early Renaissance sculptor who served as assistant to Lorenzo Ghiberti. The young sculptor's freestanding statue of St. Mark in Florence contributes to his reputation as the first modern sculptor.
a. Sluter
*b. Donatello
c. Michelangelo
d. Bernini
e. Leonardo
Title: Leonardo
36. Besides being an artist ______was also an architect, engineer, inventor, scientist, mathematician, and musician. His notebooks, written in an eccentric "mirror" handwriting, continue to fascinate scholars.
*a. Leonardo Da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
c. Raphael
d. Titian
e. Giorgione
Title: Mona Lisa
37. The Mona Lisa was painted by Michelangelo.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Leonardo
38. Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled
a. engineer.
b. inventor.
c. painter.
d. architect.
*e. all of the above
Title: chiaroscuro
39. The term "chiaroscuro" means______.
a. personal magnetism
*b. light/dark
c. clarity of colors
d. a fresco technique
e. a hazy or misty effect
Title: Besides being an art
40. Besides being an artist, ______was also an architect, engineer, inventor, scientist, mathematician, and musician. Who is this artist who, perhaps more than any other, represents the ideal Renaissance Man?
a. Michelangelo
b. Raphael
c. Titian
d. Giorgione
*e. Leonardo da Vinci
Title: In The Last Supper L
41. In The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci used linear perspective to create a sense of ______.
*a. deep space in the banquet hall
b. religious mystery
c. impending disaster
d. claustrophobia
e. resurrection
Title: Renaissance not draw primary imagery form Gothic
42. Artists of the Renaissance found their chief source of inspiration in the Gothic styles from northern Europe.
a. True
*b. False
Title: The term "proto-Rena
43. The term “proto-Renaissance” refers to the transitional period between the Classical Era and the Renaissance.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Leonardo delivered t
44. Leonardo delivered the Mona Lisa to her husband before he left Italy.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Donatello was the pr
45. Donatello was the principal sculptor of the famous bronze doors known as the “Gates of Paradise. ”
a. True
*b. False
Title: Giorgione- Tempest
46. Giorgione's painting The Tempest shows the influence of his teacher,
a. Ghiberti.
b. Titian.
c. Botticelli.
*d. Bellini.
e. Masaccio.
Title: Medici
47. Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli were all commissioned to make art for
a. King Louis XIV.
b. the silversmiths guild.
*c. the Medici family.
d. Pope Leo X.
e. the Duke of Berry.
Title: "Pietà," a standard s
48. "Pietà," a standard subject in Christian art, depicts the mother of Jesus holding her son's body.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Raphael's School of
49. Raphael's School of Athens was created in what medium?
a. gouache
b. mosaic
*c. fresco
d. watercolor
e. acrylic
Title: Raphael painted a sp
50. Raphael painted a splendid portrait of Pope Leo X posed with his nephews, both cardinals of the church.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Michelangelo- St Peters
51. One of Michelangelo's major achievements was
a. inventing a prototype of the helicopter.
*b. redesigning St. Peter's cathedral.
c. painting the frescoes in Pope Julius II's private library.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Title: Michelangelo not architect for Medici Chapel
52. Michelangelo was the architect and sculptor of the Medici Chapel in Rome.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Michelangelo
53. Michelangelo considered himself primarily to be a(n) ______.
a. Painter
b. Architect
*c. Sculptor
d. Muralist
e. Poet
Title: Michelangelo'- David
54. Michelangelo's David is a Renaissance statue because
A. it is a copy of a Greek statue
B. it has a calm expression on its face
*C. it shows tension and facial expression
D. it makes use of contrapposto
E. it shows a pagan subject
Title: Michelangelo- Sistine
55. The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from
a. scenes of everyday life.
b. the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
c. the story of the artist's life.
d. Plato's Republic.
*e. none of the above
Title: Michelangelo- Sistine
56. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is Michelangelo's attempt to
*A. combine Classical culture with Christianity
B. portray the New Testament
C. flatter the pope
D. give visual form to angels
E. show Jesus Christ and the Apostles
Title: Northern Renaissance Perspective
57. Northern European artists began using the system of linear perspective
a. before anyone else.
b. much earlier than the Italians did.
*c. about 75 years after it was first developed.
d. simultaneously with its development elsewhere.
e. during the Middle Ages.
Title: Early Renaissance Artists
58. Artists working in the Early Renaissance period include
a. Bronzino, Anguissola, and Raphael.
b. Bellini, Titian, and Tintoretto.
c. Grünewald, Donatello, and Michelangelo.
d. Leonardo, Dürer, and Giorgione.
*e. Botticelli, Donatello, and Ghiberti.
Title: Printing Press
59. Which 15th century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?
*a. the printing press
b. the system of linear perspective
c. the camera obscura
d. the technology of oil painting
e. all of the above
Title: Isenheim Altarpiece
60. The Isenheim Altarpiece, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung in
*a. a hospital for patients with skin disease.
b. the Duke of Berry's castle.
c. the pope's private library in the Vatican.
d. a catacomb.
e. none of the above
Title: Reformation
61. The movement that divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps is called
a. the Renaissance.
*b. the Reformation.
c. the Crusades.
d. Neo-Platonism.
e. the Pazzi Conspiracy.
Title: Perugia-stole Mona Lisa
62. Vincenzo Perugia was
a. Pope Julius II's architect.
*b. a thief.
c. a Mannerist sculptor.
d. Botticelli's primary art patron.
e. a biographer of Renaissance artists.
Title: contrapposto
63. The word ______is used to describe sculptures in which the figure is portrayed in a natural, relaxed, S-curve suggestive of motion.
a. frontality
b. sinuous
c. flexible
d. relief
*e. contrapposto