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41 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is a mark of mannerism style of painting? |
Refined elegance |
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What was the motive of the Council of Trent? |
Internal church discipline |
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How did the Catholic reform affect the arts? |
Artist had to refrain from the sensuous |
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What criticism did Michael Angelo's Last Judgement garner from the poet Pietro for depicting a nude Christ |
He rates art higher than faith |
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Which of the groups of mystics is recognizable in El Greco's resurrection? |
Alumbrados |
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What features define it as belonging to mannerism? |
Distorted artificial poses mysterious and obscure settings and very often elongated proportions |
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What institution did Henry VIII found? |
Anglican Church |
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Hans Holbeins the Ambassadors is a testament to strike a balance between |
Catholic and Protestant interests |
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What was the central theme of morality plays? |
Personification |
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What does the Donnelly portrait of Elizabeth 1 reflected the English taste in painting? |
Decorative patterning |
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What essential lesson about human nature to Shakespeare's Hamlet in part to us? |
Knowing anything is difficult |
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How did Queen Elizabeth support the arts? |
She encouraged the literary life as an admirable and worthy pursuit. She was also an accomplished poet very well educated fluid and four languages and was a musician |
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What is the effect of the foreshortening technique and Lorenzo Ghiberti sacrifice of Isaac? |
It suggests that forms are sharply receding |
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What is the motivation for Renaissance arts to develop respective and painting and wrong? |
Because Renaissance artists desired to reflect nature accurately |
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Scientific, or linear perspective eventually became the basis for what? |
Good design |
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what solution did Brunelleschi provide for the technical difficulties in building the Dome of the Florence Cathedral? |
He designed ribs and horizontal bands within the dome |
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What are the components of platonic love, as inspired by Plato's symposium? |
Good, true, beautiful |
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What does the allegorical figure of Venus representing Primavera by Sandra Bocelli? |
highest moral qualities |
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What is the metaphor of Christ pose in Michelangelo's Pieta? |
Spiritual rebirth |
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What do the Circle in the Square in Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man symbolize? |
perfection of the human figure |
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What is the implication of the scene Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel? |
God will infuse him with energy, soul and will give him life and the future of mankind |
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What was the foundation of the Renaissance humanistic enterprise? |
Philosophy |
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What do the two women represent in Titians Sacred and Profane love? |
They are two aspects of the same woman |
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Which northern Flemish city rival the southern Italian city states in both art and commerce? |
Bruges |
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The autumn of the Middle Ages by, Johan Huizinga, describes the mood of Northern Renaissance as? |
Pessimistic |
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Which one of the following is a major difference between the Patriots of the northern and southern Renaissance? |
The patrons in the south or politically powerful families, while the patrons in the north where the new business class |
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In Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna, the subject of the painting is |
Marriage vows |
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The hostility between the peasant class and the aristocracy led the aristocrats to think of the peasant class as |
Ungodly |
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Which of the following art forms was highly transportable for the French and the Burgundian royalty? |
Tapestries |
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What late 15th century European sentiment did Albrecht Durer's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse capture? |
Apocalyptic fervor |
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Who was responsible for the Reformation movement? |
Martin Luther |
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For Martin Luther, how did monistic vows conflict with faith? |
faith was stand alone, requiring nothing else |
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What did John Calvin believe about pre destination? |
God elects people to salvation prior to coming into the world |
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What 15th century invention further the Reformation? |
The printing press |
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What is the technique employed in Albrecht Durer's Adam and Eve? |
Engraving |
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The image of Coatlicue makes clear the Aztec connection of blood to _______? |
Fertility |
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What symbolism did the Portuguese initially carry for the people of Benin? |
Mudfish |
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What differentiates a fetish from a cultural artifact? |
A fetish has magical powers |
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Mughal paintings, such as Jahangir Darbar, reflect the Mughals taste for _________ portraiture? |
English |
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While Ming porcelains were popular, the Persian cobalt ore enhanced the porcelain by_____ ? |
Adding a richness of color |
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What do the pebbles symbolize in a Zen garden? |
Passage of time |
