Art 2313 Test 2 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
An economic system pursuing market freedom and profit is called _____ - answer✔capitalism
a term for lifelikeness or nearness to truth is _____ - answer✔verisimilitude
______ is the rational portrayal of spatial depth through linear or atmospheric means -
answer✔perspective
_____ is a type of low comedy characterized by slapstick
A.) Commedia dell'arte - answer✔farce
_____ means, among other things, rebirth - answer✔renaissance
"The Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata" is perhaps _____ greatest achievement -
answer✔Donatello
Ghiberti used perspective to bring a new sense of deep space to _____ - answer✔relief
sculpture
_____ believed that art was easier for the ancients because they had clear models to imitate -
answer✔Leon Alberti
Italy gained nearly a half-century of peace when the Peace of __________ was established. -
answer✔Lodi
the focal point of Donatello's "The Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata" is the _____ -
answer✔person, not horse
The subject of Ghiberti's relief sculpture for the Florence Cathedral's Baptistery is the _____ -
answer✔the sacrifice of isaac by his father abraham
Alberti believed the best example of the new Renaissance architecture was the _____ of the
Florence Cathedral. - answer✔dome
Important patrons of the arts, the ______ family ruled Florence for a number of generations. -
answer✔Pazzi
Pope __________ oversaw the construction of the Sistine Chapel. - answer✔Sixtus iv
Lorenzo de' Medici established a senate in Florence called the _____. - answer✔council of
seventy
_______ proposed nine hundred theses that he believed summed up all of human knowledge. -
answer✔Picco della Mirandola
Renaissance sculptors depicted figures in a(n) __________ manner. - answer✔individual
Commissioning art was often a means of acquiring of prestige for __________. -
answer✔individuals
In general, Renaissance art can be best described as finding delight in __________ things. -
answer✔worldly
The Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence contains highly
influential __________ by Masaccio - answer✔frescoes
Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money depicts a scene from the __________. - answer✔new
testament story from matthew (fish)
The orthogonal lines of mechanical perspective recede to a spot called the ______ -
answer✔vanishing point
Botticelli's La Primavera (or Spring) displays __________. - answer✔allegory of Venus with the
Virgin Mary (or lyricism)
Mantegna creates unsettling drama in his St. James Led to Execution by placing the __________
below the lower edge of the painting. - answer✔horizon line
Renaissance artists such as Donatello revived the __________ tradition of the nude. -
answer✔classical
Alberti's Palazzo Recellai is clearly influenced by the Roman __________. - answer✔colosseum
The Florentine Foundling Hospital is by __________. - answer✔Filippo Brunelleschi
The early Spanish colonizers of the New World are called __________. - answer✔conquistadors
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