Who were the Limbourgs?
a Protestant religious sect
a powerful ruling family of monarchs and popes
artist brothers
members of the blacksmiths' guild in France
leaders of the counter-Reformation
artist brothers
In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character of Eve was identified with
Venus.
autumn.
evil.
the night.
motherhood.
venus
One of the effects of the Renaissance was to change the status of artists in Europe from
skilled crafts workers to intellectuals.
observers of nature to designers.
shamans to documentarians.
monks to nobility.
None of these answers is correct.
skilled crafts workers to intellectuals
The word renaissance means
to know something thoroughly.
rebirth.
to create something from nothing.
to reinvent.
celebration.
rebirth
The technology of painting with oils was developed by
Mannerist painters.
during the Late Renaissance.
northern Europeans.
the Chinese.
accidentally
northern europeans
The Renaissance artists from Venice, such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Giorgione, were especially known for their mastery of
linear perspective.
tempera paint.
color and light.
sunken relief.
the illumination of manuscripts.
color and light
The technique of sfumato involves the use of
multiple layers of glazes.
multiple vanishing points.
elongated figures and compressed space.
burnt charcoal.
All these answers are correct.
multiple layers of glazes
The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from
scenes of everyday life.
the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
the story of the artist's life.
Plato's Republic.
None of these answers
none of these
________ 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.
Accidental
Diagonal
Informal
Triangular
All these answers are correct
triangular
Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled
engineer.
inventor.
painter.
architect.
All of these
all of these
Giorgione's painting The Tempest paved the way for future
iconographic works.
portrait painters.
patron-seeking artists.
landscape paintings.
Gothic Mother and Child paintings.
landscape paintings
Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli were all commissioned to make art for
King Louis XIV.
the silversmiths guild.
the Medici family.
Pope Leo X.
the Duke of Berry.
the medici family
One of Michelangelo's major achievements was
inventing a prototype of the helicopter.
redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral.
painting the frescoes in Pope Julius II's private library.
All of these are major achievements of Michelangelo's
None of these answers is correct.
redesigning st peters cathedral
Northern European Renaissance artists began using the system of linear perspective
before anyone else.
much earlier than the Italians did.
about 75 years after it was developed.
simultaneously with its development elsewhere.
during the Middle Ages.
about 75 years after it was developed
Artists working in the Early Renaissance period included
Bronzino, Anguissola, and Raphael. (BAR)
Bellini, Titian, and Tintoretto. (BTT)
Grünewald, Donatello, and Michelangelo. (GDM)
Leonardo, Dürer, and Giorgione. (LDG)
Botticelli, Donatello, and Ghiberti. (BDG)
BDG
Which 15th-century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?
the printing press.
the system of linear perspective.
the camera obscura.
the technology of oil painting.
All these answers are correct.
the printing press
The Isenheim Altarpiece, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung in
a hospital for people with skin diseases
the Duke of Berry's castle.
the pope's private library in the Vatican.
a catacomb.
None of these answers is correct.
a hospital for people with skin diseases
The movement that divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps is called
the Renaissance.
the Reformation.
the crusades.
Neo-Platonism.
the Pazzi Conspiracy.
the reformation
The painting, The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by __________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.
Roger...
Robert...
Hans...
Pieter...
None of these answers are correct.
Pieter
The sculptor of the panel The Story of Jacob and Esau, and Donatello's teacher, is
(FIRST NAME)
Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Massaccio.
Leon Battista Alberti.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Michelangelo.
Lorenzo
The iconography of The Tempest, by ___________, is unknown, but the painting made an important contribution to Renaissance art in the way it was composed.
Giovanni Bellini
Titian
Giorgione
Raphael
Agnolo Bronzino
giorgione
Because many European monarchs of the 17th and 18th centuries ruled with near-dictatorial power, this period is often referred to as
the Golden Mean.
the Royal Era.
the Gilded Age.
the Age of Kings.
the Rule of the Monarchs.
the age of kings
Gianlorenzo Bernini was
a sculptor.
an architect.
a dramatist.
a composer.
All of these
all of these
Paintings depicting scenes of everyday life are known as ________ paintings.
trompe l'oeil
vanitas
history
genre
still-life
genre
What nationality was Peter Paul Rubens?
Spanish
Italian
French
English
Flemish
flemish
In Baroque architecture, wall surfaces often protrude into the viewer's space. In Baroque painting, this same effect is created through the use of
collage.
three-dimensional canvases.
dramatic lighting.
ornamentation.
All these answers are correct.
dramatic lighting
The Baroque painting Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes depicts a story from
ancient Greek mythology.
The Tale of Genji.
Beowulf.
the Bible.
Dante's Inferno
the bible
The following characteristics are all typical of Italian Baroque art EXCEPT
ornamentation.
theatricality.
classic simplicity.
movement.
emotion.
classic simplicity
The following is true about Rembrandt EXCEPT
he was born in the Dutch city of Leiden.
he was a master of multiple types of painting, including portraits, landscapes, and religious scenes.
he painted self-portraits throughout his career.
he achieved financial success
he was the son of a miller.
he achieved financial success
The Palace of Versailles was home to
(FIRST NAME)
Philip IV of Spain.
Maria Theresa of Austria.
Louis XIV of France.
Julius II of Rome.
Jean Paul Marat.
Louis
________ helped shape the Neoclassical style.
The Catholic Counter-Reformation
The invention of photography
The American Civil War
The ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum
None of these answers is correct.
the ancient pompeii and herculaneum
Unlike Baroque art from Catholic countries, Dutch Baroque art focused upon
the community.
business life.
the family and home.
all of these
None of these answers is correct.
all of these
St.Teresa in Ecstasy is an excellent example of
Baroque sculpture.
Mannerist allegory.
Neoclassical portraiture.
Renaissance illumination.
Rococo painting.
baroque sculpture
Among the following artists, whose innovation was it to create group portraits in the setting of an activity, rather than posing the subjects formally?
Van Ruisdael
Poussin
Rembrandt
Vigée-Lebrun
Copley
rembrandt
Which of the following was court painter to King Philip IV?
(FIRST NAME)
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Artemisia Gentileschi
Francesco Borromini
Jacques-Louis David
Diego Velázquez
diego
Which artists intentionally used their work to shape the public's view of prominent figures?
(LAST WORD)
Gentileschi and Caravaggio
Vigée-Lebrun and David
Van Ruisdael and Leyster
Borromini and Poussin
Fragonard and Watteau
david
For some two hundred years, many of the works of Judith Leyster were
(FIRST WORD)
locked away in an attic and forgotten.
mistakenly identified as the work of Frans Hals.
virtually ignored while decorating the walls of a hospital.
painted over, because they had been sold for their canvas alone after her death.
buried in the Leyster family crypt.
mistakenly
Typical of Dutch landscape paintingwas the work of
(FIRST WORD)
Jacob van Ruisdael.
Judith Leyster.
Frans Hals.
Rembrandt.
Nicolas Poussin.
Jacob
One of the most influential buildings of the architect Francisco Borromini was
St. Peters.
San Carlo
Cornaro Chapel.
Palace of Versailles.
Amlienburg.
San Carlo
Foremost among French painters of the 17th century was ___________ who painted _________.
Nicolas Poussin; The Ashes of Phokion (NP)
Judith Leyster; Carousing Couple (JL)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Marie Antoinette (EVL)
Jacques Louis David; Death of Marat (JLD)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard; The Pursuit (JHF)
NP