| Question |
Answer |
| Flying buttresses are | open, arched supports on the exterior of a Gothic cathedral. |
| Buon Fresco uses | paint made of pigment suspended in water and painted on wet plaster |
| The artist who painted the Arena Chapel is | Giotto |
| Italian painting in the fourtheenth centruy is most like | Byzantine painting |
| Duccio's most famous painting is | th Maest'a, a double-sided altarpiece |
| Who was the first person to demonstrate linear perspective? | Brunelleschi |
| The italian Renaissance started in which city? | Florence |
| Atmospheric perspective refers to | A hazy quality given to objects in the distance |
| Lorenzo Ghiberti | won the competition for the Florence Baptistery doors |
| the most important patrons of art in fifteenth-century Flornce were | the medici |
| A typical Italian Renaissance palace is | a three-story rectangualr building wih regularly spaced windows |
| Donatello's David | stands in contrapposto |
| Brunelleschi solved the problem of putting a dome on Florence Cathedral by | using the structural principles of Gothic architecture |
| The artist who painted the Tribute Money is | Masaccio |
| The Birth of Venus | quotes a classical statue, can be interpreted as a Neoplatonic allegory, and was commissioned by a member of the Medici family |
| A common compositional form in the early Italian Rnaissance was | a triangle |
| Alberti thought a good painting should include | enough variety to make it interesting, but not too much so that it is crowded |
| Donatello's Gattamelata is modeled after which classical sculpture? | Marcus Aurelius |
| The international style of the fifteenth century | has elegant figures and many sumptuous details |
| The Limbourg Brothers are best known for their | manuscript illuminations showing activities in each month of the year |
| tha Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini(?) and his Wife, Giovanna Cenami(?) | is a sighned work by Jan Van Eyck |
| The M'erode Altarpiece | shows objects like candles and mousetraps that have symbolic meanings. |
| The artist traditionally said to be the inventor of the glazing technique in oil painting is | Jan Van Eyck |
| What is grisaille? | painting is shades of gray to imitate the appearance of sculpture |
| The garden of Earthly Delights | shows naked people cavorting amid gigantic birds and berries |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder often painted | scenes of peasants working |
| Albercht Durer | was a great admirer of Italian art |
| A print made by cutting lines into a copper plate with a burin is called | an engraving |
| Grunewald's Isenheim Alterpiece | was made for the community of St. Anthony whose hospital specialized in treating people with skin deseases. |
| The greatest effect that the protestant Reformation had on art in northern Europe was that | commissions for larg-scale religoius works practiaclly disappeared |
| Durer's four Apostles | was painted for the city hall of Nuremberg |
| which range of dates best corresponds to when the Italian High Renaissance took place? | 1500-1520 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | often experimented with techniques |
| The following is not true of Leonardo's Last supper | Judas can be identified by the look of shock on his face |
| The Mona Lisa | shows Leonardo's use of sfumato |
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