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Art Exam- 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An economic system pursuing market freedom and profit is called | capitalism |
| A term for lifelikeness or nearness to truth is | versimilitude |
| ________ is the rational portrayal of spatial depth through linear or atmospheric means | perspective |
| ________ is a type of low comedy characterized by slapstick | farce |
| Commedia dell'arte is an example of what kind of comedy | farce |
| _______ means, among other things, "rebirth" | renaissance |
| The Equestrian Monument to Gattamelate is perhaps _______ greatest achievements | Donatello's |
| Ghiberti used perspective to bring a new sense of deep sapce to _______ | relief sculpture |
| ________ believed that art was easier for the ancients because they had clear models to imitate | Alberti |
| Italy gained nearly a half-century of peace when the ________ was established | Peace of Lodi |
| The subject of Ghiberti's relief sculpture for the Florence Cathedral's Baptistery is the - (2 things) | Sacrifice of Isaac & The Gates of Paradise |
| Alberti believed the best example of the new Renaissance architecture was the _______ of the Florence Cathedral | dome |
| Important patrons of the arts, the _______ family ruled Florence for a number of genrations | Medici |
| Which Pope oversaw the construction of the Sistine Chapel? | Sixtus IV |
| Lorenzo de' Medici established a senate in Florence called the - | Council of Senevty |
| Who proposed nine hundred theses that he believed summed up all of human knowledge? | Pico |
| Renaissance scupltors depicted figures in what kind of manner? | individual/humanistic |
| Commissioning art was often a means of aquiring prestige for _______ | wealth |
| The Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence contains highly influential ________ by Masaccio | frescoes |
| Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money depicts a scene from what | new testament |
| The orthogonal lines of mechanical perspective recede to a spot called the - | vanishing point |
| Mantegna creates unsettling drama in his St. James Led to Execution by placing what below the lower edge of the painting? | horizontal line |
| Renaissance artists such as Donatello revived the _______ tradition of the nude | classical |
| Alberti's Palazzo Recellai is clearly influenced by the - | Roman Colosseum |
| The Florentine Foundling Hospital is by _________ | Brunelleschi |
| The early Spanish colonizers of the New World are called ___________ | conquistadors |
| What is the word used to describe "smoky" gradiations of light and shade in paintings such as those of Leonardo | sfumato |
| ________ is a movenment in art characterized by an affected appearance of subjects | Mannerism |
| _________ is a Renaissance theatre type performed by troupes of actors wearing masks and employing improvised plots and stock characters | Commedia dell'arte |
| The time from around 1495 until around 1520 is called the - | High Renaissance |
| In 1497, Vasco ga Gama proved a sea route to _______ existed | India |
| The capital of the Aztec Empire was called - | Tenochtitlan |
| The source of much of the gold in Europe is ______ | Spain |
| A "picture-frame stage" is referred to as a - | proscenium |
| What is a polyphonic choral work | motet |
| What is a setting of lyric poetry for several voices called | madrigal |
| A _________ is a polyphonic choral work set to a Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass | Renaissance Motet |
| Castiglione's book became an important guide to "goodly manners," the book is called - | "El Cortegiano" Or "The Courtier" |
| In the 16th century, what kind of music began to develop independence from vocal music | instrumental |
| The poetic form of the ________ became particularly important during the High Renaissance, as evidenced in the work of Michelangelo | human |
| ______ was the center of patronage during the High Renaissance | Rome / courts of Italian Princes |
| Giovanni de Bologna's Mercury is clearly _______ in style | mannerist |
| Michelangelo's David was originally intended to be seen from ________ | distance |
| The use of atmpsphere to create a sense of deep space is called ______ | aerial perspective |
| The establishment of Protestant sects within the Christian Church is called the - | Reformation |
| Two imaged hinged together are called a - | diptych |
| German secular songs are referred to as- | Lieder |
| A government run by religious leaders is called a - | Theocracy |
| A work of art portraying the removal of Christ's body from the cross is called a - | deposition scene |
| A type of hymn tune important in this period is called a - | chorale |
| Aerial perspective is another term for ________ perspective | atmospheric |
| The ________ helped spread the ideas of the Reformation | Christians |
| Shakespeare's plays fall into three genres being - | comedies, tragedies, and histories |
| Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great established ________ as the convention of later Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights | blank verse |
| The quote "Here I stand- I cannot do otherwise," are the well-known words of who's before his inquistion? | Martin Luther's |
| Ulrich Zwingli condemned what 4 things? | pilgrimages, fasts, papal supremacy, and transubsantiation |
| Who is an example of a Christian humanist? | John Calvin |
| Universal access to education is one part of Thomas More's ________ | utopianism |
| Flemish painters were interested in- | oil paint |
| Albrecht Durer has been called the Leonardo of the - | northern Renaissance |
| Hans Holbein the Younger served as a court painter to - | Henry VII |
| Shakespeare's tragedy, _______, is based on a mythical English king | King Lear |
| Christopher Marlow's best-known play is - | Doctor Faustus |
| The ______ courts were particularly influential for their patronage of music | Flemish |
| The ______ helped spread music and identify composers as indivudiuals | printing press |
| The most important musical contribution of the Reformation was the - | chorale |
| For what reasons did the Church of England seperate from the Roman Catholic communion | political reasons |
| The _______ of Flemish painting seperated it from the Gothic style and connected it to the Italian Renaissance | naturalism |
| A mode of inquiry that reaches conclusions by moving from the general to the specific is called- | induction |
| The work of _______ is baroque in style | Caravaggio |
| _______ is a government with power vested in the handds of an absolute monarch | Absolutism |
| The mid-sixteenth century movement for reform in the Roman Catholic Church is called the - | counter-reformation |
| The Counter-Reformation involved a reinstatement of the medieval ______ | mysticism |
| The modern scientific method is based on _______ | induction |
| The philosophy of _______ was based on the premise "doubt everything" | Descurtes |
| ________ refers to the attempt of a government ot control and arbitrate art and taste | Academicism |
| Who asserts that reason is a better path to knowledge than exerience or observation? | El Greco |
| The dramatic use of light and shade in Baroque painting is called- | chiaroscuro |
| John Locke believed that each person is born _____ | good |
| What style exalted intuition, inspiration, and the genius of human creativity | Baroque |
| The work of the Roman baroque painter _________ turned away from idealized religious scenes in favor of mundane scenes | Corauggro |
| Which Spanish baroque painter is associated with the mystical and inward-looking nature of the Counter-Reformation | El Greco |
| The work of Peter Paul Rubens is an example of the _______ baroque | aristocratic |
| The corpulent cupids found in Rubens' paintings are called ______ | putti |
| Poussin often chose subjects from classical literature and emphasized - | antiquity |
| The work of Rembrandt is associated with the _______ baroque style | bourgeois |
| Rembrandt became the first _______ artist | capitalist |
| Which monarch embodied the baroque age | Louis XIV |
| One of the principle developments of baroque theatre was French ________ | neoclassicism |
| The "court masque" was developed in - | Elizabethan England |
| The ______ was invented during the baroque period | novel |
| Antonio Vivaldi is known as a master of ________ | Bitornello |
| The plots for French ballets came from | classical mythology |
| Operas grew out of _____ | Italy |
| The development of the _________ included fictional biographies of people with whom the reader would identify | subsequent novels |
| Writers who culled thought from great books and translated it into more accessible terms are called - | philloophes |
| The work of _______ is an example of Pre-Romantic style | Rousseau |
| The political philosophy of _______ was particularly attractive to the new middle class | rationalism |
| Works of art dealing with every day life and common subject matter are called- | genre |
| Frederick II is an example of a - | Enlightened despot |
| "Physiocrats" saw _______ as the single source of all wealth | nature |
| After the French Revolution, baroque and ______ styles faded | rococo |
| Enlightenment politics tended to be _________, wishing to elevate the downtrodden | humanitarian |
| Voltaire famously wrote criticisms of the - | contemporary insitution |
| The writings of Mary Wollstonecraft mark the beginning of modern ______ | feminism |
| Decorative and delicately superficial ______ painting was the art of the waning aristocracy | rococo |
| Many of he paintings of _______ were made into prints and sold to the public | Hogarth |
| Jacques-Louis David's work is- | neoclassicm |
| Laugier believed architects should turn to what for models and inspiration | the ancient world |
| The most popular theatre form in early eighteenth-century London was - | Ballan Opera |
| What are particularly important in Kabuki plays | narrator & chorus |
| When was the first recorded American theatre built? | 1716 |
| The expressive style of music came from - | Germany |
| Classical music typically has a memorable, tuneeful ______ | melody |
| The most important movement form in the classical period of music is the _______ | sonata |
| The rise of the ______ was an important componenet of dance during this period | minute & trio |
| Ballet d'action emphasized - | drama |
| The rococo style in literature produced much ______ | satire |
| Who was a slave, possibly of Fulani origin, who wrote poems in a neoclassical style? | Phillis Wheatley |
| In the work of __________ ordinary occurrences appear as symbols of a higher reality | contemporary literature |
| The Sturm und Drang movemnet is considered- | German Manifesto |
| Johann Gottfried von herder sought to revive ______ through the use of the "national language" in schools, books, and newspapers | nationalism |
| The hymn "Ode to Joy" was written by- | Friedrich Schillers |
| Jacques-Louis David's painting Oath of the Horatii sought to inspire - | French Patriotism |
| Antonio _______ sculpture Pauline Borghese as Venus Victrix used Napoleon's sister for a model | Canova |
| Botticelli's La Primavera (or Spring) displays - | Venus with the Virgin Mary |
| The typical Renaissance state was _______ | papal |
| The sculptures of ______ are exemplary of the baroque aesthetic | Bernini |
| What combines a sacred subject with a narrative poetic text? | oratorio |
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