Aca Deca: Art S1: Early To Mid-Fifteenth-Century Italian Art

Front 1

What did patrons use art for?

Back 1

to shape the way their contemporaries thought of themselves and their positions in the world

Hint 1

money

Front 2

How did art change?

Back 2

became an intellectual activity rather than simply a craft

Hint 2

genius

Front 3

The sudden snse of pride nad loyalty within city states was known as what?

Back 3

campanilismo

Hint 3

camp

Front 4

What does campanille mean?

Back 4

the bell tower

Hint 4

hunchback

Front 5

What were the most important city states?

Back 5

Venice, Milan, Siena, Rome and the Papal States, and Florence

Hint 5

V, M, S, RPS, F

Front 6

Did most people venture far from their place of birth?

Back 6

no

Hint 6

non

Front 7

What two city states held the majority of seaborne trade?

Back 7

Venice and Genoa

Hint 7

sewers and lunchmeat

Front 8

What city state housed the Catholic church and all of its associated wealth?

Back 8

Rome

Hint 8

rhymes with home

Front 9

What city state was the banking center of Europe and dominated the production of woolen goods?

Back 9

Florence

Hint 9

easy

Front 10

What was the gonernment of Rome and the papal states?

Back 10

pope

Hint 10

popourri

Front 11

What river runs through Tuscany (i.e. Florence)?

Back 11

Arno River

Hint 11

hey ----ld!

Front 12

What building is in the center of the city?

Back 12

Bapistery of San Giovanni

Hint 12

St. John the Basptist

Front 13

What cathedral is next to the bapistery?

Back 13

Santa Maria del Fiore

Hint 13

fire

Front 14

What is another name for the Santa Maria del Fiore?

Back 14

the Duomo

Hint 14

(

Front 15

Who designed and built the dome ontop the cathedral?

Back 15

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)

Hint 15

duh

Front 16

How wide was the opening before the dome?

Back 16

140 feet

Hint 16

70*2

Front 17

What avenue connects the cathedral and the duomo?

Back 17

Via Calzaiuoli

Hint 17

calzone

Front 18

What is the name of the square infront of the city hall in Florence?

Back 18

Piazza della Signoria

Hint 18

9 man pizza

Front 19

What is the name of Florence's city hall?

Back 19

Palazzo della Signoria

Hint 19

9 man palace

Front 20

Who wrote a book dedicated to accomplished and celebrated men?

Back 20

Petrarch

Hint 20

poet

Front 21

What years did Petrarch live?

Back 21

1304-1374

Hint 21

70 years

Front 22

Name three great masters of the Renaissance.

Back 22

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Hint 22

66
37
89

Front 23

Humanist scholars were inspired by the literature and history of classical _____.

Back 23

greece and rome

Hint 23

you shouldnt get this wrong

Front 24

Who copied and preserved many classical texts?

Back 24

monks

Hint 24

bald

Front 25

What monastic orders were highly influential?

Back 25

Dominican and Franciscan

Hint 25

Dom and Fran

Front 26

What di dthe church condemn that made banks give them a lot of money to ensure entrance into heaven?

Back 26

usury

Hint 26

too hard to come up with witty clue

Front 27

What kind of churches that showed their statury were all throughout Florence?

Back 27

Catholic

Hint 27

later dismissed by henry viii

Front 28

What grain market was turned into a church because of an image of the Virgin Mary?

Back 28

Orsanmichele

Hint 28

bear

Front 29

What crafts had guilds?

Back 29

most all, but mostly painters, stoneworkers, goldsmiths, and textiles

Hint 29

brush
rock
metal
wool

Front 30

Who made the two bronze doors for the Baptisery?

Back 30

Ghiberti (c.1378-1455)

Hint 30

bert

Front 31

Who controlled Ghiberti's creation?

Back 31

his guild

Hint 31

yes master

Front 32

Who created the statues outside the orsanmichele?

Back 32

guilds

Hint 32

neopets

Front 33

What did the silk guild help Brunellechi design and build?

Back 33

Ospedale delgi Innocenti
Hospital of the Innocents
Foundlings Hospital
(all mean the same building)

Hint 33

orphanage

Front 34

Waht did individual families decorate their homes with?

Back 34

furniture, sculptures and paintings

Hint 34

sofa, marbles, brushes

Front 35

What family had Dontello's bronze David in their courtyard?

Back 35

Medici

Hint 35

bank

Front 36

What was a cassone?

Back 36

chest for holding clothing, elaboratly carved and painted and presented to a bride before her marriage

Hint 36

gift

Front 37

Did the patron have a significant impact on how the final work of art would look?

Back 37

yes

Hint 37

opposite of no

Front 38

did artists often have to fight for a job by creating models and presenting them to the patron?

Back 38

yes

Hint 38

opposite of no

Front 39

Did artists receive ana education in the liberal arts?

Back 39

no

Hint 39

non

Front 40

At what age did artists usually begin apprenticeships?

Back 40

seven and fifteen

Front 41

How long did an artist stay in the masters workshop?

Back 41

5 years

Front 42

What tasks did an apprentice artist start with?

Back 42

sweeping the floor, preparing materials, observing and practicing the masters techniques

Hint 42

sweep
prep
watch

Front 43

How did women make it into the artists profession?

Back 43

having a family member in the buisness, to receive training without leaving the house

Hint 43

family

Front 44

What were fiteenth centurty artists inspired by?

Back 44

classical Greek and Roman art

Hint 44

classic

Front 45

Why hadnt medieval artists followed the ideas in art of classical antiquity?

Back 45

The believed it to be pagan, and therefore taboo

Hint 45

poly

Front 46

How did Renaissance artists use the classical nude sculptures of pagan deities?

Back 46

adapted them for use in christian imagery

Hint 46

xtian

Front 47

What did medieval artists seek to emphasize in religious figures?

Back 47

spiritual nature

Front 48

What happend to the medieval styles of the human body because of their desire to make religious figures have a strong spiritual nature?

Back 48

became stylized or abstracted

Front 49

Renaissance artist wanted to portray the world around them in a more _______ fashion.

Back 49

naturalistic
wanted to show solidity of the body, material presence of human figure, naturalistic folds of cloth

Hint 49

solids

Front 50

How did renaissance artist represnet human emotions in art?

Back 50

gestures and facial expressions

Hint 50

hands and visage

Front 51

Which artist created the first free standing nude male sculpture since ancient Rome?

Back 51

Donatello (1386-1466)

Hint 51

turtle

Front 52

What year was Donatello's bronze David created?

Back 52

c. 1440

Front 53

What pose was used to illustrate a naturalistic weight shift?

Back 53

contrapposto

Front 54

What did the contrappostso show?

Back 54

human figures readiness to move and act, appears relaxed yet engaged

Front 55

What did artists use to create the illusion that the flat wall or panel like a window into a another world?

Back 55

linear perspective

Hint 55

the trinity

Front 56

What are two strong observations that came before linear perspective?

Back 56

things that further in the distance appear to be smaller than things that are near us

presence of atmosphere makes colors in the distance appear less intense than the color of nearby objects

Hint 56

small, less bright

Front 57

What does the graph of linear perspective consist of?

Back 57

receding parallel lines (orthogonal lines)

vanishing point

Hint 57

point line

Front 58

Who is credited with the development of linear perspective?

Back 58

Filippo Brunelleschi

Hint 58

egg man

Front 59

Who was the first person to actually write about linear perspective in a descriptive tone?

Back 59

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

Hint 59

albert

Front 60

When did Leon Battista write "On Painting"?

Back 60

1435