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which of tho following terms means rebirth and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the classical world of Greece and Rome? |
renaissance |
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which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in western europe a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks? |
Baroque |
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Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid- to late-sixteenth-century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal? |
Mannerism |
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Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts? |
The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects |
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Giorgio Vasari believed that ________. |
All of the other answers |
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Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________. |
Architect |
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Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money? |
All of the other answers |
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Linear perspective is used to ________. |
represent the illusion of three dementional space in two dementions. |
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Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting of The Last Supper by ________. |
All the answers |
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Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________. |
sfumato |
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Which of the following statements is true of Michelangelo? |
all the answers |
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The painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a ________. |
self portrait of michelangelo as st Barthilomews flayed skin |
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The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is ________. |
fresco |
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Raphael’s The School of Athens contains: |
ancient scholars looking like seventeenth century artists |
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The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art? |
the northern renaissance |
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What does the dog in The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize? |
that the couple are wealthy and faithful |
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Which of the following artworks was made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder? |
a landscape filled with ordinary people, which humorously depicts everyday proverbs |
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Which of the following artworks is a very graphic depiction of Christ’s crucifixion? |
Isenheim altarpiece |
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Dürer’s print The Last Supper reflects the ideas of ________. |
the protestant reformation |
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Sofonisba Anguissola was part of which of the following movements? |
mannerism |
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The Last Supper by Tintoretto ________. |
all of the other answers |
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An important feature of late-Renaissance artwork, compared to art created during the early and high Renaissance, is ________. |
all of the other answers |
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The overall composition and the facial expressions in Pontormo’s Deposition create an atmosphere of ________. |
instability, chaos, and disorder |
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El Greco was ________. |
a Greek artist who worked in italy and spain during the renaissance |
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Donatello’s David is made in what medium? |
bronze |
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Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist? |
caravaggio |
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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement? |
baroque |
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Nicolas Poussin promoted which of the following approaches? |
only including settings, clothing and characters from the ancient past |
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Who is Phocion in Nicolas Poussin’s painting of The Funeral of Phocion? |
an athenian general wrongly accused of treason |
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In Rubens’s The Raising of the Cross, how is the viewer’s attention focused on Christ’s body? |
the lighting and placement |
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Rembrandt’s painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of: |
all the previous answers |
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Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light? |
caravaggio and rembrandt |
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Without the patronage of the Catholic Church, many incredible Renaissance works of art would not have been made. |
true |
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Tintoretto’s Last Supper has a very similar symmetrical composition to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the same subject. |
false |
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Bernini depicts his David at exactly the same moment in the story as the versions by his predecessors Donatello and Michelangelo. |
false |
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Peter Paul Rubens worked with many assistants in his studio. |
true |
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Michelangelo’s David |
high renaissance |
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Donatello’s David |
early renaissance |
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Bernini’s David |
baroque |
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