Ch 202 Exam 1

Front 1

In secular architecture ________, of which that at Chambord (fig. 14.16) is a good example, served as a means of expressing power and prestige.

Back 1

chateaux or castles

Front 2

________, artist of the Sistine Ceiling (fig. 13.28), believed beauty was found in the imagination and not, as Leonardo asserted, in nature.

Back 2

Michaelangelo

Front 3

Petrarch's Canzoniere (Songbook) contains 366 poems: sonnets, ballads, sestinas, madrigals, and canzoni. True or false?

Back 3

True

Front 4

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a ________.

Back 4

comedy

Front 5

The Saltcellar of Francis I (fig. 13.43) and the Perseus (fig. 13.44) reflect the Mannerist style of the artist ________.

Back 5

Benvenuto Cellini

Front 6

The argument that rather than revolving around the earth, the earth and the other planets orbit the sun, was put forth by ________.

Back 6

Copernicus

Front 7

The humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is best known for his rejection of all elements of classical civilization. True or false?

Back 7

False

Front 8

The technique found in Lorenzo Ghiberti's The Creation of Adam and Eve (fig. 13.8) in which events are presented simultaneously that took place sequentially is called ________.

Back 8

continuous narration

Front 9

A madrigal is a vocal composition for a small group of singers, usually without accompaniment. True or false?

Back 9

True

Front 10

________ grew up in Bologna, the child of an artist, and specialized in portraits, such as Portrait of a Noblewoman (fig. 13.42).

Back 10

Lavinia Fontana

Front 11

Angnolo Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid (fig. 13.38) is typically Mannerist in its ambiguity and complexity. True or false?

Back 11

True

Front 12

________ was a Neoplatonic philosopher who wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man.

Back 12

Pico della Mirandola

Front 13

In 1401, Leonardo Bruni sponsored a competition to determine who would make the doors of Florence Cathedral's baptistery which ________ won.

Back 13

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Front 14

In music, featuring a single melody with harmonic support is called ________ texture.

Back 14

homophonic

Front 15

________, an English castle designed by Robert Smythson, is a model of the massiveness and symmetry typical of Elizabethan architecture.

Back 15

Hardwick Hall

Front 16

One of the most virulent attacks on religious objects occurred in England where King Henry VIII ordered the destruction of monasteries in 1535. His systematic destruction of architecture associated with religion is an example of ________.

Back 16

iconoclasm

Front 17

Sfumato, which means "smoky," is a technique developed by Tintoretto. True or false?

Back 17

False

Front 18

The Primavera (fig. 13.17) is one of Titian's most famous works. True or false?

Back 18

False

Front 19

All of the following were architects for St. Peters, Rome (fig. 13.33) except ________.

Back 19

Leonardo da Vinci

Front 20

The ________ is a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer.

Back 20

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Front 21

The composer ________ is most closely associated with the "new Rome" of the High Renaissance.

Back 21

Josquin des Pres

Front 22

The famous text The Prince by ________ encapsulates the view that humankind is "basically selfish, deceitful, greedy, and gullible" and, thus, he advocates that rulers should use this fact to their advantage.

Back 22

Niccolo Machiavelli

Front 23

The systematic destruction of religious icons that were considered to violate the prohibition against worship of "idolatrous images" is called ________.

Back 23

iconoclasm

Front 24

"Lorenzo the Magnificent" was a member of the Medici family of Florence. True or false?

Back 24

True

Front 25

________ created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess that displays Elizabeth's love of learning by representing books.

Back 25

Levina Bening Teerling

Front 26

________ proposed the scientific method.

Back 26

Francis Bacon

Front 27

Donatello created all of the following sculptures except ________.

Back 27

The Creation of Adam and Eve

He did create:
David
Mary Magdalene
Feast of Herod

Front 28

________ was the first great figure of Italian Renaissance letters.

Back 28

Petrarch

Front 29

In linear perspective the horizon point at which all receding lines appear to converge and disappear is called the ________.

Back 29

vanishing point

Front 30

________ wrote The Book of the Courtier which is a text that memorializes, celebrates, and idealizes life at Renaissance courts.

Back 30

Baldassare Castiglione

Front 31

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville's Moby Dick were affected by the teachings of the Protestant reformer ________.

Back 31

John Calvin

Front 32

Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece (fig. 14.1) is the earliest example in which the Annunciation was depicted as taking place in a ________.

Back 32

home

Front 33

The Northern Renaissance painters favored egg tempera over the newly developing oil medium. True or false?

Back 33

False

Front 34

The ________ has two extraordinary features: a town on the roof that is complete with winding streets, squares, and turrets; and an interior double-spiral staircase built with a circle of 30 feet in diameter whose spiral staircases intertwine but do not meet.

Back 34

Chateau of Chambord

Front 35

The city of ________ is celebrated in Vittore Carpaccio's Lion of St. Mark (fig. 13.34).

Back 35

Venice

Front 36

The falling and rising notes that correspond to words in Thomas Weelkes' "As Vesta Was Descending" exemplifies ________, a popular way of showing sensitivity to the words in musical compositions.

Back 36

word painting

Front 37

The richness of Titian's paintings can be attributed in some measure to his use of a red bolus underpainting instead of the more customary green-black. True or false?

Back 37

True

Front 38

________ are examples of the secular music that became increasingly popular in the Renaissance and which are characterized by lyrics written in the vernacular.

Back 38

madrigals

Front 39

Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing. True or false?

Back 39

True

Front 40

________ painted a number of frescoes in the monastery of San Marco, Florence, including an Annunciation (fig. 13.16).

Back 40

Fra Angelico

Front 41

In Tintoretto's version of The Last Supper (fig. 13.39) ________ helps draw our attention to Christ.

Back 41

light

Front 42

________ wrote Ninety-five Theses, which became a rallying cry for the Reformation, in the form of a disputation or debate.

Back 42

Martin Luther

Front 43

Madrigals are often about ________.

Back 43

love and frivolity

Front 44

Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece (fig. 14.1) is an example of the ________ medium.

Back 44

oil

Front 45

The Essays written by ________ are a stunning example of Renaissance individualism grounded in humanism.

Back 45

Montaigne

Front 46

The ________ by Botticelli moves from the right to left with its figures connected by lines of sight that spiral continually to the left.

Back 46

Primavera

Front 47

The central panel in Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece (fig. 14.1) depicts the ________.

Back 47

Annunciation

Front 48

The composer ________ significantly shaped Early Renaissance music.

Back 48

Guillame Dufay

Front 49

The philosophy of ________ asserts that the psyche is trapped within the body, and that philosophical thought is the only way to ascend from the material world to union with the single, higher source of existence.

Back 49

Neoplatonism

Front 50

This anti-classical style known as ________ began around 1527 during a time of political and religious unrest.

Back 50

mannerism

Front 51

Although it has long been assumed that the viewer is witnessing a marriage in Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (fig. 14.4), recent arguments suggest, however, that it is a(n) ________.

Back 51

engagement

Front 52

________ is(are) unattainable in Petrarch's sonnets.

Back 52

Laura

Front 53

Blank verse refers to rhyming couple, each line of which has fourteen syllables. True or false?

Back 53

False

Front 54

________ was the first architect to detail the principles of linear perspective in his treatise De pictura.

Back 54

Leon Battista Alberti

Front 55

In The Last Supper (fig. 13.20), Leonardo da Vinci found ________ the most difficult to paint.

Back 55

Judas and Jesus

Front 56

________ was the most important satirical work of the Renaissance.

Back 56

Erasmus's The Praise of Folly