Ch16 Full Test Bank The Renaissance

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 16 The Renaissance

1) Who were the Limbourgs?

A) A Protestant religious sect

B) A powerful ruling family of monarchs and popes

C) Artist brothers

D) Members of the blacksmiths' guild in France

E) Leaders of the counter-Reformation

2) Neo-Platonic thought reconciled the Classical beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome with what disparate culture?

A) Christianity

B) Mannerism

C) Reformation

D) Counter-reformation

E) Baroque

3) How did the role of artists change, from pre-Renaissance to after? 

A) Skilled crafts workers to intellectuals

B) Observers of nature to designers.

C) Shamans to documentarians

D) Monks to nobility

4) What does the word renaissance mean?

A) "To know something thoroughly"

B) "Rebirth"

C) "To create something from nothing"

D) "To reinvent"

E) "Celebration"

5) Who was an early master of oil painting?

A) Hans Holbein

B) Albrecht Dürer

C) Robert Campin

D) Tintoretto

6) What were Venetian artists of the Renaissance, such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Giorgione, especially known for?

A) Linear perspective

B) Tempera paint

C) Color and light

D) Marble sculpture

E) The illumination of manuscripts

7) What characteristics are associated with Northern European artists during the Renaissance?

A) Decoration

B) Precise detail

C) Structure

D) Linear perspective

E) Visual texture

8) From where does the theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes come?

A) Scenes of everyday life

B) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

C) The story of the artist's life.

D) Plato's Republic.

E) The Old Testament

9) ________ organization, as seen in Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, was a popular device among Renaissance artists of Italy.

A) Accidental

B) Diagonal

C) Informal

D) Triangular

10) In what area did Leonardo da Vinci NOT show his talents?

A) Engineering

B) Inventing

C) Painter

D) Architect

E) Business

11) As with much Venetian Renaissance art, Titian's Venus of Urbino demonstrates what quality?

A) Sensuality

B) Intuitive perspective

C) Illumination

D) Restraint

12) Who was a patron for Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli?

A) King Louis XIV

B) The Silversmiths Guild

C) The Medici family

D) Pope Leo X

E) The Duke of Berry

13) What was one of Michelangelo's major achievements?

A) Study of Human Proportions

B) Redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral

C) Helping begin the Reformation

D) Developed the Mannerist style

14) When did Northern European Renaissance artists begin using the system of linear perspective?

A) During the Middle Ages

B) Much earlier than the Italians

C) About 75 years after it was first developed

D) Simultaneously with its development in Rome

15) What artists are identified with the style of the Early Renaissance?

A) Donatello

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Masaccio

D) Sandro Botticelli

E) Raphael

16) Which 15th-century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?

A) The printing press

B) The system of linear perspective

C) The camera obscura

D) The technology of oil painting.

17) What characteristic in Grünewald's depiction of the Crucifixion in the Isenheim Altarpiece demonstrated the way Northern European artists treated this subject matter?

A) Extreme physical agony

B) Emphasis on sensuality

C) Reference to Classical mythology

D) Allegory

18) What movement divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps?

A) The Renaissance

B) The Reformation

C) The Crusades

D) Neo-Platonism

19) The painting The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by ________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.

A) Roger van der Weyden

B) Robert Campin

C) Hans Holbein

D) Pieter Brugel the Elder

20) Who was known as an eminent architect in the early Renaissance?

A) Leon Battista Alberti

B) Massaccio

C) Robert Campin

D) Albrecht Dürer

E) Agnolo Bronzino

21) As seen in Adoration of the Shepherds, by ________, Renaissance Venetian artists took advantage of oil paint's glazes to build luminous layers of color.

A) Giovanni Bellini

B) Titian

C) Giorgione

D) Raphael

E) Agnolo Bronzino

22) Define the terms Renaissance, Humanism, and Protestant Reformation. Explain at least three ways in which these movements led to broad changes in European life.

23) Compare and contrast the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance, discussing specific artists and works to support your statements.

24) Discuss changes during the Renaissance in the visual arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, along with changes in attitudes about the arts, explaining several ways in which the public's perception of artists changed. How did these new perceptions and attitudes affect the social, economic, and creative lives of artists, including their newly defined relationships with their patrons? 

25) Consider da Vinci's Last Supper and Tintoretto's The Last Supper. These paintings depict the same biblical event in very different ways. Compare the two styles and the interpretations of this event by each artist. Identify and comment upon the formal elements and principles of design as they relate to the styles of these works.

26) Consider Botticelli's Primavera. Identify the subject and medium of this painting. Explain how the structure and form of this composition, as well as its content, reveal changes that are representative of Renaissance art. 

27) Consider Holbein's The Ambassadors. This painting highlights human achievement and institutions as personified by these men and the symbolic instruments on the shelves behind them. Identify the subjects and discuss the symbolism of the objects in this work. How does the distorted object in the foreground transform the painting's meaning?

28) When and where did Mannerism begin? Using the Allegory painting by Bronzino as an example, discuss the characteristics of the Mannerist style.  

29) Discuss the effect of the Reformation on religious images and the resulting shift in subject matter for Northern European artists. How did the response by the Catholic Church change artistic trends in Italy at the time?