Art History Renaissance Exam Questions with Complete Solutions
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Art History Renaissance Exam Questions with Complete Solutions
How were relationships amongst Renaissance artists best described? - Answer-Competitive yet appreciative
What was possible with the invention and use of oil paint? - Answer-Minute detail and high reflective surfaces
What did Ital...
Art History Renaissance Exam
Questions with Complete
Solutions
How were relationships amongst Renaissance artists best described? - Answer-
Competitive yet appreciative
What was possible with the invention and use of oil paint? - Answer-Minute detail and
high reflective surfaces
What did Italian artists and patrons appreciate about northern Renaissance paintings? -
Answer-Their ability to capture and express human emotion and their incredible detail
and naturalism
What did Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci have in common?
A. Both observed and sketched directly from nature
B. Both excelled in more than one medium
C. Both were learned in ancient philosophy, culture and art
D. All of the above - Answer-All the above
What did Raphael paint? - Answer-Madonna in the meadow, and school of Athens
What did Michelangelo paint? - Answer-Pieta, David, Moses, night tomb of Giuliano
Medici, last judgment, st. Peters
What did Jan van Eyck paint? - Answer-Man in a red turban, Giovanni Arnolfini, Ghent
altarpiece
What did rogier van der paint? - Answer-Portrait of a lady, deposition,
Hugo van der Goes what did he paint? - Answer-Potrinari altarpiece
What did Martin schongauer paint? - Answer-St anthony tormented by demons
What did titan & Giorgione paint together? - Answer-Concert champetre
What did Titian paint? - Answer-Venus of urbino
Classical art - Answer-Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
, Where/when did the Renaissance start? - Answer-Florence, Italy 1300 started from the
Medicis
Stigmata - Answer-Marks of the crucifixion wounds of Christ on hands, feet, and side
Maesta - Answer-Italian name for painting of the masons & child enthroned in majesty
I.e surrounded by celestial court of saints and angels
What medium did they use before renaissance art? - Answer-Tempera
Time period for art - Answer-Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Middle Ages/medieval
period, Italian renaissance
Chiaroscuro curo - Answer-In painting, the manipulation of light and shadow to give the
effect of modeling
Contraposto - Answer-A pose in which one part of the body is twisted in an opposite
direction
Panni Tartarical - Answer-Tartar cloth
Byzantine icons - Answer-A small, portable panel in painting of Christ, The Virgin &
Child or Saints; produced for Greek or Russian orthodox christians from the 6th century
to the present day
aerial perspective - Answer-An artistic technique by which distance is indicated by
gradation in tone and sharpness of focus
Perspective - Answer-The convincing illusion of depth or the appearance of a reccesion
of space
Refectory - Answer-A room used for communal meals or refresgment. Especially in an
education or religous institution
Patron - Answer-One who commisions an artwork
tromp l'oeil - Answer-Deception of the eye, an illusion, specifically in art with regard to
the material reality of the object(s) represented. Intended to give illusion of reality
Relief - Answer-Sculpture with forms projecting from a ground
linear perspective - Answer-Method of presenting an illusion of the 3-D world on a 2
dimensional surface. In linear perspective all parallel lines or surface edges converge
on 1,2, or 3 vanishing points located with reference 2 the eye level of the viewer. &
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