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Art of the Western World part 2

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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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