Question | Answer |
Michelangelo's Pieta was made for a French cardinal. Which characteristic of the staue probalbly was a concession to French taste? | Mary's drapery falls in complex folds |
When Michelangelo first started carving the David, where did he think it was going to be placed? | Along the roof line of Florence Cathedral |
The sistine Chapel ceiling | was Michelangelo's first commission for a fresco |
The School of Athens | is one of four paintings representing areas of knowledge |
Raphael's teacher was | Perugino |
Rapheal's Madonna paintings typically | use pyramidal compositions |
Bramante's plan for the rebuilding of St Peter's | was a central plan based on a Greek cross |
Venetian painitng in the early sixteenth century | often shows vouptuous women in a landscape setting |
The artist who painted The Tempest is | Giorgione |
Titian's paintings were most often done | in oil paint on canvas |
Palladio designed | Many villas around Venice, including the villa Rotonda |
Which of the followoing artisits is not usually considered a mannerist? | Veronese |
The later phase of mannerism (form the 1530s and 1540s) | was cool and ploished and appealed to the people in the courts of France and Italy |
Michelangelo's late work | is deeply spiritual |
An artist who was called before the inquistion to defend his work is | Veronese |
Caravaggio's style of painting | used very deep shadows in a technique called tenebrism |
in Italy, the leaders of the Counter-Reformation | reaffirmed the importance of images as a way to teach people about religion |
Artemisia Gentilischi's paintings | often show female heroines |
The Carracci wanted to reform painting because | they felt mannerism had become too far removed from High Renaissance ideals |
Bernini's David | shows more intense emotion than Michelangelo's David |
The Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy | is presented as if it were being renacted on a stage. |
The colonnade around the piazza in front of St. Peter's | seems to represent two arms embracing the oval piazza and the people within it. |
Peter Paul Rubens | was employed by European courts most of his life |
The most important painter in England in the seventeenth century was | the Flemish painter Van Dyck |
Brithish architecture in the seventeenth century | shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance architect Palladio |
El Greco's work is most similar | to italian mannerism |
Zurbaran's painting reflects a form of mysticism called | Quietism |
Velazquez's Las Meninas | is a portrait of the spanish royal family in the artist's studio |
The patrons of most Dutch painting in the seventeenth century were | merchants and businessmen |
Judith Layster's self-portait | displays an exuberant style, similar to Frans Hals' |
Rembrandt's favorite printmaking technique was | etching |
Rembrandt's self-portraits | are always rather glomy because he was often bankrupt |
Vermeer probably experimented with a devisce called | the camera obscura |
Dutch still life paintings | often can be read as allegories of vanity. |
The main lines of the plan of the Palais de Versilles converge at | the Kings bedroom |