Deck 16: The Renaissance

Question 1

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

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Northern European Renaissance 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.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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 these answers is correct.

Question 5

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 these are major achievements of Michelangelo's: invention of a helicopter prototype, redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral, and painting of frescoes in Pope Julius II's private library.
E) None of these answers is correct.

Question 6

In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character of Eve was identified with

A) Venus.
B) autumn.
C) evil.
D) the night.
E) motherhood.

Question 7

Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled

A) engineer.
B) inventor.
C) painter.
D) architect.
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 8

The painting, The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by __________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.

A) Roger van der Weyden
B) Robert Campin
C) Hans Holbein
D) Pieter Brugel the Elder
E) None these answers are correct.

Question 9

Artists working in the Early Renaissance period included

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.

Question 10

The technology of painting with oils was developed

A) by Mannerist painters.
B) during the Late Renaissance.
C) by northern Europeans.
D) by the Chinese.
E) accidentally.

Question 11

Giorgione's painting The Tempest paved the way for future

A) iconographic works.
B) portrait painters.
C) patron-seeking artists.
D) landscape paintings.
E) Gothic Mother and Child paintings.

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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 these answers is correct.

Question 14

The word renaissance means

A) "to know something thoroughly."
B) "rebirth."
C) "to create something from nothing."
D) "to reinvent."
E) "celebration."

Question 15

The sculptor of the panel The Story of Jacob and Esau, and Donatello's teacher, is

A) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
B) Massaccio.
C) Leon Battista Alberti.
D) Leonardo da Vinci.
E) Michelangelo.

Question 16

The Renaissance artists from Venice, such as Giovanni Bellini, 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.

Question 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 these answers are correct.

Question 18

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 these answers is correct.

Question 19

________ 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 these answers are correct.

Question 20

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 these answers are correct.

Question 21

Discuss the effect of the Reformation on religious images and the resulting shift in subject matter for Northern European artists.

Question 22

Discuss changes during the Renaissance in the visual arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, along with changes in attitudes about the arts, explaining several ways in which the public's perception of artists changed. How did these new perceptions and attitudes affect the social, economic, and creative lives of artists, including their newly defined relationships with their patrons?

Question 23

The iconography of The Tempest, by ___________, is unknown, but the painting made an important contribution to Renaissance art in the way it was composed.

A) Giovanni Bellini
B) Titian
C) Giorgione
D) Raphael
E) Agnolo Bronzino

Question 24

Consider da Vinci's Last Supper and Tintoretto's The Last Supper. These paintings depict the same biblical event in very different ways. Compare the two styles and the interpretations of this event by each artist. Identify and comment upon the formal elements and principles of design as they relate to the styles of these works.

Question 25

Consider Botticelli's Birth of Venus. Identify the subject and medium of this painting. Explain how the structure and form of this composition, as well as its content, reveal changes that are representative of Renaissance art.

Question 26

Compare and contrast the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance, discussing specific artists and works to support your statements.

Question 27

Define the terms "Renaissance," "Humanism," and "Protestant Reformation." Explain at least three ways in which these movements led to broad changes in European life.

Question 28

Consider Holbein's The Ambassadors. This painting highlights human achievement and institutions as personified by these men and the symbolic instruments on the shelves behind them. Identify the subjects, and discuss the symbolism of the objects in this work. How does the distorted object in the foreground transform the painting's meaning?

Question 29

Identify a late-Renaissance style in Italy, and discuss the characteristics of this style considering the Allegory painting by Bronzino.