Deck 12: Early Renaissance Art

Question 1

What is the setting for Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece?

A)a Classical basilica in Rome
B)a fifteenth-century Flemish home
C)a Gothic church in France
D)a landscape in Italy

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Michael Wolgemut's and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff's The City of Nuremberg is an example of __________.

A)an engraving
B)an illumination
C)a woodcut
D)an intaglio

Answer 2

C

Question 3

At the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi,the first story is distinguished from the two upper stories by the __________.

A)rusticated stone blocks
B)sgraffito decoration
C)pilasters of pietra serena
D)rounded aedicula

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following characteristics of Northern Renaissance art is embodied by the portrait-like faces and scrupulously described contemporary dress of the figures in Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition?

A)disguised symbolism
B)calm Classicism
C)detailed realism
D)rational space

Question 5

In A Goldsmith in His Shop by Petrus Christus,the belt curling across the counter may symbolize the __________.

A)success of the couple's business
B)upcoming marriage of the couple
C)wealth and skill of the goldsmith
D)vocation of the shop owner

Question 6

The birthplace of the ideas that blossomed into the Italian Renaissance was __________.

A)Rome
B)Siena
C)Venice
D)Florence

Question 7

In the illumination of February from the Très Riches Heures,the cutaway view of the house that shows both the interior and exterior illustrates how early Northern Renaissance art __________.

A)was highly naturalistic
B)maintained Gothic conventions
C)employed linear perspective
D)imitated the Italian Renaissance style

Question 8

The printmaking technique in which lines are cut into a plate with a burin and the low areas are inked is called __________.

A)majolica
B)engraving
C)woodcut
D)fresco

Question 9

The Unicorn is Found is an example of __________.

A)a tapestry
B)a woodblock print
C)an oil painting
D)a fresco

Question 10

Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes is an example of __________.

A)a tapestry
B)a woodcut
C)a fresco
D)an engraving

Question 11

Which of the following is an advantage of using oil paint?

A)It dries very quickly.
B)It produces a matte surface.
C)It creates jewel-like colors.
D)It features opaque tones.

Question 12

The printmaking technique in which a gouge is used to create a high relief design that is then inked to transfer the image onto paper is called __________.

A)intaglio
B)fresco
C)engraving
D)woodcut

Question 13

In the church of San Lorenzo,each nave arch springs from __________.

A)an aedicula
B)a loggia
C)an impost block
D)a balustrade

Question 14

The style of Hugo van der Goes's artworks demonstrates the influence of __________.

A)Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden
B)Petrus Christus and the Limbourg brothers
C)Martin Schongauer and Antonio del Pollaiuolo
D)Masaccio and Fra Angelico

Question 15

The intaglio technique of engraving may have developed from the techniques used in __________.

A)sculpture
B)manuscript illumination
C)oil painting
D)metalworking

Question 16

How is Ghiberti's Sacrifice of Isaac different from Brunelleschi's Sacrifice of Isaac?

A)It depicts Isaac as an idealized Classical figure.
B)Isaac's awkward pose conveys his fear.
C)It was cast using multiple pieces of bronze.
D)The composition depicts a wrenching struggle.

Question 17

The Flemish style of painting became influential due to the patronage of __________.

A)wealthy merchants and bankers
B)the pope and the papal court
C)the average European citizen
D)Italian civic leaders

Question 18

During the fifteenth century,the present-day lands of western Belgium,the southwestern Netherlands,and a small part of northern France were called __________.

A)Florence
B)Nuremberg
C)Flanders
D)Tournai

Question 19

Martin Schongauer's Temptation of St.Anthony demonstrates how __________.

A)engraving can achieve finer lines and sharper details than woodcutting
B)woodcuts can be painted by hand with color to enhance the appearance
C)Northern Renaissance artists adopted poses from Classical sources
D)Italian Renaissance artists set figures within rationally ordered space

Question 20

Northern Renaissance art demonstrates an interest in __________.

A)the achievements of the Middle Ages
B)the revival of ancient Roman classicism
C)capturing the appearance of the natural world
D)representing the beliefs of Italian humanists

Question 21

Which of the following artworks was painted in the corridor of a monastery to inspire private meditation?

A)Masaccio's The Tribute Money
B)Fra Angelico's Annunciation
C)Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition
D)Andrea Mantegna's Camera Picta

Question 22

A section of fresh plaster that could be prepared and painted in one day is called __________.

A)pietra serena
B)an aedicula
C)sgraffito
D)a giornata

Question 23

In the Camera Picta,Mantegna created the illusion of figures projecting into space by using __________.

A)foreshortening
B)linear perspective
C)pietra serena
D)atmospheric perspective

Question 24

Which of the following artists began a long tradition of illusionistic ceiling painting?

A)Masaccio
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Jan van Eyck
D)Piero della Francesca

Question 25

The central image of Botticelli's Birth of Venus is derived from __________.

A)Masaccio's The Expulsion
B)a Classical Greek statue
C)the iconography of the Virgin Mary
D)Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes

Question 26

Which of the following is an early example of the use of linear perspective in Italian painting?

A)Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin,St.John the Evangelist,and Donors
B)Workshop of the Master of Flémalle's Mérode Altarpiece
C)Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece
D)Giovanni Bellini's St.Francis in Ecstasy

Question 27

A framed niche in a wall is called __________.

A)a loggia
B)an impost block
C)a balustrade
D)an aedicula

Question 28

Little boys that are often shown naked and winged are called __________.

A)giornata
B)sgraffito
C)doges
D)putti

Question 29

Which of the following draws on the Classical tradition of heroic nudity?

A)Brunelleschi's Sacrifice of Isaac
B)Bellini's St.Francis in Ecstasy
C)Donatello's David
D)van der Weyden's Deposition

Question 30

Which of the following aspects of Piero della Francesca's Battista Sforza and Federico Da Montefeltro demonstrates the influence of Flemish painting?

A)the profile view of the figures
B)the figures' psychological disengagement
C)the luminous and vast landscape
D)the underlying geometry of the forms

Question 31

Which of the following characteristics of Italian Renaissance art is evident in the panels of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise?

A)rationally organized space
B)disguised symbolism
C)detailed surface realism
D)sgraffito decoration

Question 32

Who established a new direction in Florentine painting in the fifteenth century?

A)Jan van Eyck
B)Paolo Uccello
C)Lorenzo Ghiberti
D)Masaccio

Question 33

Which of the following is considered a classicizing element that gave the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi an aura of dignity and stability?

A)the sgraffito frieze
B)the rusticated stone facade
C)the octagonal dome
D)the fresco wall paintings

Question 34

Which of the following artists studied Alberti's theoretical treatises and wrote his own on mathematics and perspective?

A)Sandro Botticelli
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Rogier van der Weyden
D)Piero della Francesca

Question 35

The center of Italian art shifted from Florence to Rome because of __________.

A)the patronage of merchants
B)papal commissions
C)the commercial seaport
D)the invention of the printing press