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The Renaissance
Early Renaissance, Michelangelo, late Renaissance
Question | Answer |
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Name four pieces of work by Michelangelo and give their date parameters | The Pieta (c. 1498-1500), David (1501-1504), The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-1512), The Last Judgement (1538-1541) |
What was the biggest influence on Michelangelo? | Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures |
What is meant by humanism? | An intellectual and cultural revival that was based on the re-evaluation and rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman art, literature civilisation |
What is meant by Renaissance? | Means rebirth and was a period of art and culture between the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe that was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans |
Define fresco | paint that is applied to wet plaster and once the plaster is dry the piece is finished (or atleast that section of it is) |
Explain proportion | The size of objects alone or part of a whole compared to one another |
Explain perspective | Representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface to provide the correct height, width, depth and position to eachother |
Name two Early Renaissance artists (give rough dates) | Giotto (1300's) Masaccio (1400's) |
Name five High Renaissance artists (give date parameters) | Donatello (1386-1466), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Michelangelo (1475-1564), Raphael (1483-1520), Sandro Botticelli (1446-1510) |
Name five Northern Renaissance artists (give date parameters) | Jan Van Eyke (1390-1441), Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Hans Holbien (1497-1543), Hieryonomous Bosch (1450-1516), Pieter Brughel (1525-1569) |