Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Stack #142647
Art of the Western World part 2
| 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 |
Created by:
ang888
Popular European History sets