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T1 Test 1 Questions REVIEW Gerard Bowles ARTH U106, History of Western Art rev. 1/20/03 |
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Ch. 14 1. ____ Nicola Pisano 2. ____ Giovanni Pisano 3. ____ Dante 4. ____ Duccio 5. ____ Ambrogio Lorenzetti 6. ____ Simone Martini Ch. 15 7. ____ Book of Hours 8. ____ Deposition 9. ____ dog 10. ____ genre 11. ____ Robert Campin 12. ____ shoes not on feet 13. ____ sink or basin and towel 14. ____ triptych 15. ____ woodcut Ch. 16 16. ____ chiaroscuro 17. ____ contrapposto 18. ____ engraving 19. ____ foreshortening 20. ____ linear perspective 21. ____ Medici 22. ____ pilaster 23. ____ vanishing point 24. ____ Vitruvius Add. From Lectures: 25. ____ Mary 26. ____ Giotto 27. ____ drolleries 28. ____ illuminator 29. ____ fresco |
a. helped form International Style b. painted the Arena chapel c. symbol of holy ground d. symbol of the purity of the Virgin e. graphic technique particularly popular in Germany f. painted the Maesta Altarpiece g. carved pulpit of Pisa Cathedral. Art historian Giorgio Vasari credits artist with first stage of Renaissance sculpture h. Helped in bridging the gap between the goddesses and Christianity, attracting new converts. i. place on the horizon where all parallel lines appear to converge j. from Gothic art, figures half human, half beast--return in contemporary media k. A person who decorates manuscripts. Contemporary: "illustrator" l. Bosch's famous Garden of Earthly Delights is painted on 3 panels called a ... m. Christ taken down from the cross n. 15th c. Flemish artist, called Master of Flemalle o. painted government fresco cycle for the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena p. use of light and dark to create modeling q. wrote the Divine Comedy r. technique of depicting space in which all parallel lines converge at a point on the horizon s. carved pulpit of Sant' Andrea, Pistoia t. ancient Roman architect and theoretician whose works had a profound influence on Renaissance architects, including Alberti u. In this stance the body relaxes, a knee is bent so weight is on one leg, and the resulting tilt of the hips results in a tilt of the shoulders, giving a natural and movement appearance, as in Donatello's David v. incising into a metal plate or a print made from the plate w. contains prayers for various times of day x. a flat, rectangular, vertical member projecting from the wall of which it is a part y. portraying an object as extending diagonally, therefore becoming smaller into space, and things are larger toward the viewer, as in Mantegna's Dead Christ. z. Florentine family who supported many artists and writers. Some became popes. aa. symbol of fidelity bb. painting using wet colored pigment applied to fresh plaster cc. scenes of everyday life |
| MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS. Select the response that best answers the question or completes | |
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| 30. ____ The late Gothic sculptor whose work showed the greatest influence of the forms of Classical antiquity was | a. Nicola Pisano, b. Berlinghieri, c. Pietro Cavallini, d. Licce Bologna |
| 31. ____ Giotto's revolution in painting was important because he | a. restored the naturalistic approach of the ancients, b. established pictorial experiment through observation, c. stressed the preeminence of sight as a way of knowing, d. a, b, and c |
| 32. ____ Characteristic of the work of Simone Martini was | a. use of elegant flowing contour, b. emphasis on drama, c. bold modeling of the figures |
| 33. ____ The International Gothic style is characterized by | a. bright, jewellike colors, b. intricate patterns, c. weightless figures, d. a, b and c |
| 34. ____ Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government fresco was commissioned by the city fathers for the Palazzo Pubblico of | a. Florence, b. Rome, c. Siena, d. Tuscany |
| 35. ____ The communal governments of many fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian cities were dominated by | a. the nobility, b. guilds of merchants and bankers, c. guilds of weavers and dyers, d. the clergy |
| 36. ____ The integration of idealism with both the use of linear perspective and the emotive quality of naturalism, is evident in the painting |
A. The Expulsion from Paradise (Masaccio). B. The Holy Trinity (Masaccio). C. St. Francis Drives Away the Demons from Arezzo, (Giotto). D. The Rout of San Romano (Uccello). [Kissick] |
| 37. ____ Together, these two attributes form the basis of Late Renaissance art theory: |
A. Realism and Empiricism B. Idealism and Empiricism C. Idealism and Realism D. Naturalism and Idealism [Kissick] |
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| 38. ____ The artist who secularized portraiture was | a. Bosch, b. Hugo van der Goes, c. Jan van Eyck |
| 39. ____ The Ghent Altarpiece is a | a. diptych, b. polyptych, c. triptych |
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| 40. ____ The Classical principle of contrapposto, or weight shift, was reintroduced into Western art by the sculptor | a. Donatello, b. Verrocchio |
| 41. ____ Which of Brunelleschi's buildings approximates the centralized plan so loved by Renaissance architects? | a. Ospedale degli Innocenti, b. Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, c. Pazzi Chapel, d. Santo Spirito |
| 42. ____ Which Italian city played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early fifteenth century? | a. Venice, b. Florence, c. Rome |
| 43. ____ The Renaissance architect who wrote influential treatises on painting, sculpture and architecture was | a. Brunelleschi, b. Alberti |
| 44. ____ Which of the following departed from the rule of frontality that dominated sculpture since the Middle Ages? | a. Piero della Francesca, b. Paolo Uccello, c. Pollaiuolo, d. Andrea del Castagno |
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| 45. ____ How do we recognize that the mousetrap in the Merode Altarpiece should be interpreted symbolically? | a. the careful painting of the details, b. it has a long history of use as a symbol, c. its inappropriate inclusion suggests such an interpretation [HWJ] |
| 46. ____ Which is true of the Merode Altarpiece? | a. it has a fairy-tale quality typical of International Gothic style, b. it is the best documented painting of its time, c. everyday objects have become the subject of art [HWJ] |
| 47. ____ The Adam and Eve of the Ghent Altarpiece are: | a. definitely Hubert van Eyck's painting b. unusual on account of their nudity c. shown as simulated sculpture [HWJ] |
| 48. ____ What is unusual about Bosch's Garden of Delights? | a. there is no donor portrait, b. the landscape lS based on that of his native Holland, c. the theme is of sin rather than of redemption, d. it is unusually small [HWJ] |
| 49. ____ The provocative sensuousness of Donatello's David indicates a turning point in | a. Christian art, b. secular art, c. porn |
| 50. ____ The "invention" of linear perspective (scene viewed through a hole), in traditional academic history, is generally credited to | a. Donatello, b. Brunelleschi, c. Uccello, d. Ghiberti, e. all of these |
| 51. ____ Linear perspective is today considered... | a. accurate, b. inaccurate [Kissick] |
| 52. ____ What c. 1441-1445 painting by Fra Angelico shows the Madonna sitting on a porch of an affluent urban home, which was made fun of until archaeologists in the last five years have proven the friar's depiction is very likely possible. | a. Madonna and Child with Angels, b. Annunciation |
| 53. ____ In the Renaissance, one justification for a show of wealth as in portraits, was morally justified against the earlier teachings of poverty and humility, was | a. that a better standard of living provided a more humane organization of society, b. wealth indicated the ability to give more to the church, c. no justification was necessary |
| 54. ____ Alberti's style of architecture was based on the architecture of ancient | a. Rome, b. Florence, c. Constantinople |
| 55. ____ Today, what early Renaissance print is most often displayed in the inner office of a conservative businessman. | a. Pollaiuolo's, Battle of (10) Naked Men, b. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus |
| 56. ____ Botticelli's Birth of Venus is nude primarily | a. to show the beauty of past classical art, b. as an allegory to Christianity's Mary and her purity, c. to help start the Renaissance, d. for Lorenzo de' Medici's new calandar |
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| 57. Name the artist whose work was most influential in the formation of the International style. ______________________________ | |
| 58. What painting technique did Lorenzetti use to create the scene of Good Government at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena? ______________________________ | |
| 59. What is meant by the term "humanism"? | |
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| 60. List three contributions that Duccio made to the development of Italian Gothic art. | |
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| 61. What was portrayed in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes in Siena? | |
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| 62. What impact did the Hundred Years War have on French art? | |
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| 63. What made the portraits of Jan van Eyck significant? | |
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| 64. Why is Les Tres Riches Heures ("The Very Sumptuous Hours of the Duke of Berry") unique? | |
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| 65. Name two fifteenth-century Italian artists who were particularly interested in depiction of the nude. _______________________ , _______________________ | |
| 66. Describe the difference between aerial and linear perspective. | |
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| 67. Name three fifteenth-century artists who were very much interested in linear perspective. _______________________ , _______________________ , _______________________ | |
| 68. Name two fifteenth-century sculptors. _________________________ , _________________________ | |
| 69. Who was considered the greatest patron of art in fifteenth-century Florence? ______________________________ | |
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WORKS OF ART RECOGNITION (important) Write in the number of the matching artwork. | |
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70. ____ Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ, c. 1501. 71. ____ Duccio, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, principal panel of the Maesta Alterpiece, 1308-1311 72. ____ Brunelleschi and Giuliano da Maiano, Pizzi Chapel, c. 1440-61* 73. ____ Jan Van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 74. ____ Jan Van Eyck, (1390-1440) The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434, Oil on Wood. 75. ____ Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305. Fresco. Arena Chapel 76. ____ Donatello's David, 1408-1432, Bronze, Ht. 5'2" 77. ____ Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus. c. 1480. Tempra on canvas 78. ____ Robert Campin, Merode Alterpiece, Annunciation scene, center panel, 1425-28 79. ____ Gentile da Fabriano. Adoration of the Magi. 1423. Tempera on wood panel. 80. ____ Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Ten Nudes, c. 1465. Engraving. 81. ____ Giotto, Madonna Enthroned, c. 1310, Tempera on wood. 82. ____ Sluter, Claus, Well of Moses, 1395-1406. Monastery of Champmol, Dijon, France 83. ____ Alberti, Leon Battista, Sant' Andrea at Mantua, west facade, designed c. 1470. 84. ____ Weyden, Rogier van der (1400-64. Flem.): Portrait of Lady, 15th c.. Washington Natl. Gall. For Mod. art. 85. ____ Hieronymus Bosch, Hell, right panel, Garden of Earthly Delights, c1510. Oil on wood. Museo del Prado, Madrid 86. ____ Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, c. 1441-1445. 7' 1' x 10' 6". Museum, Monastary of San Marco, Florence 87. ____ Weyden, Rogier v”n der, Descent from the Cross (Escorial Deposition). Oil on wood, 102x86¾. Museo del Prado, Madrid 88. ____ Masaccio, Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise (Eden), 1427. Fresco, 7' x 2'11". Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine. *Dates may vary slightly from author to author | |