Exam 12: Renaissance Ideals and Realities,c.1350–1550

According to Machiavelli,the ideal form of government for his native city of Florence was:

Bellini and Titian were members of the so-called:

Machiavelli admired Cesare Borgia for his:

The Renaissance intellectual ideal may be summarized in the term humanism.

Michelangelo's David was created to celebrate Florentine civic ideals.

Unlike most other Italian intellectuals of his age,Niccolò Machiavelli was:

How was Utopia a critique of sixteenth-century society?

What differences separated the twelfth-century Renaissance from the Italian Renaissance?

The painting of the Northern Renaissance differed from the painting of the previous era by its commitment to capturing the essence of human individuality as evidenced by:

After 1525,most Christian humanists:

Francesco Landini was a Renaissance:

Machiavelli,in his book Discourses on Livy,attempted to show why the form of government of the old Roman Republic was unsuited to the Europe of his time.

Leonardo da Vinci's basic approach to painting was to:

Which of the following Renaissance artists was most deeply influenced by the art of classical Greece?

In Botticelli's Birth of Venus,the pagan goddess Venus was interpreted by some contemporary viewers as:

The first freestanding nude sculpture in western Europe since antiquity was created by the Florentine artist:

Renaissance architects favored the Romanesque style,mistakenly believing it to be Roman and not medieval in origin.

Painting in oil rather than fresco gave the artist more time to work slowly and incorporate more complexities into a painting,as drying time was longer.

One important difference between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance that followed was the northern:

In the Renaissance,classics were never thought of as superseding Christian faith.