Deck 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition

Question 1

Who were the two most famous competitors in the 1401 competition for the decoration of the doors of the Florence Baptistery?

A)Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
B)Michelangelo and Leonardo
C)Donatello and Masaccio
D)Botticelli and Mirandola

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What Florentine banker founded an academy for the study of Plato?

A)Cosimo de Medici
B)Lorenzo de' Medici
C)Piero de'Medici
D)Savonarola

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What famous painting of Sandro Botticelli celebrates the spring?

A)The Birth of Venus
B)Madonna of the Rocks
C)La Primavera
D)Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What were seen as the advantages of humanist education and learning?

A)It would perfect and ennoble man.
B)It would provide entertainment.
C)It would satisfy humanity's basest desires.
D)It would leave to a life of solitary religious devotion.

Question 5

What did Pico della Mirandola write?

A)Oration of the Dignity of Man
B)The Praise of Folly
C)Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
D)The Prince

Question 6

Who was the greatest Florentine sculptor of the first half of the 1400s?

A)Donatello
B)Michelangelo
C)Masaccio
D)Botticelli

Question 7

Who invented printing with movable type?

A)Girolamo Savonarola
B)Johannes Gutenburg
C)Aldus Manutius
D)Leonardo da Vinci

Question 8

What was Brunelleschi's contribution to Florence Cathedral?

A)He painted the interior frescoes.
B)He designed the dome.
C)He designed the transept.
D)He created the artwork for the nave.

Question 9

What two earlier "renaissances" were there in the 800s and 1100s?

A)Ninth-century Venice and the Byzantine Renaissance
B)Twelfth-century Paris and the Carolingian Renaissance
C)The eleventh-century Spanish and Netherlandish Renaissances
D)The Roman and Sicilian Renaissances of the eleventh century

Question 10

What was innovative about Donatello's portrayal of David?

A)He portrayed the character as an old king.
B)He used a completely new artistic medium.
C)He combined a classical form with a Christian subject.
D)He showed the figure with an element of tension in his expression.

Question 11

What is the message of The Song of Bacchus?

A)Always proceed with an eye toward the future.
B)Don't underestimate the power of music.
C)Enjoy the present moment.
D)Respect your elders.

Question 12

Which composer was one of Dufay's most prominent pupils?

A)Fra Savonarola
B)Lorenzo de' Medici
C)Guillaume de Machaut
D)Johannes Ockeghem

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT designed by Brunelleschi?

A)The dome of Florence Cathedral
B)Palazzo Rucellai
C)The loggia of Ospedale degli Innocenti
D)Pazzi Chapel

Question 14

What was the primary source of the Medici family's wealth?

A)shipping
B)banking
C)wool trade
D)agriculture

Question 15

What name did Michelangelo give to East Doors of the Florence Baptistery?

A)The Archway of Angels
B)The Portal of Bliss
C)The Blessed Doorway
D)The Gates of Paradise

Question 16

Which Dominican monk preached against Florentine art and culture?

A)Pico della Mirandola
B)Piero de' Medici
C)Fra Savonarola
D)Giorgio Vasari

Question 17

Which city was the most important center of the early Italian Renaissance?

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

Question 18

What was most revolutionary about Masaccio's painting?

A)Its two-dimensionality
B)Its expressive force and realism
C)Its juxtaposition of "warm" and "cool" colors
D)Its mastery of the oil-on-wood medium

Question 19

Which artist wrote the first theoretical treatise about creating perspective in art?

A)Piero della Francesca
B)Paolo Uccello
C)Fra Angelico
D)Masaccio

Question 20

What was the subject of Donatello's most famous near-life size sculpture?

A)Adam
B)Moses
C)Abraham
D)David

Question 21

_______________________ Renaissance system of learning and reform

Question 22

_______________________ The period named after Lorenzo de' Medici's accomplishments

Question 23

How was Botticelli's Birth of Venus influenced by Platonic idealism as well as the Christian view of the Virgin Mary?

Question 24

In the 1500s, who was the most important Christian humanist in Europe?

A)Aldus Manutius
B)Niccolò Machiavelli
C)Desiderius Erasmus
D)Giorgio Vasari

Question 25

_______________________ Humorous or amorous poem set to music

Question 26

From what class did most women who received a humanistic education come? What pressures did women scholars confront? Who in the text exemplifies the pressures women faced?

Question 27

According to Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860), how did the values and beliefs of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?

Question 28

_______________________ Flemish painter of Giovanni and His Wife

Question 29

_______________________ Famous book by Machiavelli

Question 30

_______________________ Books that included psalms and passages to be recited at certain times during the day

Question 31

What is the subject of The Praise of Folly?

A)A celebration of the comedic arts
B)A satirical criticism of society
C)A call to live for the moment
D)An account of a traveling actors' troupe

Question 32

Who was the most famous composer of the fifteenth century?

A)Guillaume de Machaut
B)Guillaume Dufay
C)Cosimo de' Medici
D)Marsilio Ficino

Question 33

_______________________ Four-lobed frame used in the Baptistery competition

Question 34

What is the frottola?

A)A Venetian secular ode to court life
B)A Florentine amusing or romantic song
C)A Roman religious hymn
D)A Sienese devotional poem

Question 35

_______________________Artistic style of Fabriano's paintings

Question 36

What two innovations were made to European music during this period?

A)The perfection of organ-playing and the elaboration of Gregorian Chant
B)The development of musical notation and the invention of the harpsichord
C)The invention of the trombone and trumpet
D)The secularization of the motet and the use of folk tunes

Question 37

Which book of Machiavelli is often considered the first purely secular study of political theory? According to Machiavelli, what was the role of morality in the exercise of power? What justification did he offer for the use of cruelty or hypocrisy?

Question 38

_______________________ Lines that converge on a single point in a painting

Question 39

_______________________ Collection of ancient Jewish learning

Question 40

Do you think Donatello's David emphasizes physical beauty or religious truth? Explain.