gateways to art 3.6 – Flashcards
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which of tho following terms means rebirth and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the classical world of Greece and Rome?
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renaissance
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which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in western europe a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?
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Baroque
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Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid- to late-sixteenth-century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal?
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Mannerism
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Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts?
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The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects
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Giorgio Vasari believed that ________.
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Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.
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Architect
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Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?
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Linear perspective is used to ________.
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represent the illusion of three dementional space in two dementions.
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Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting of The Last Supper by ________.
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All the answers
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Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________.
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sfumato
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Which of the following statements is true of Michelangelo?
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The painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a ________.
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self portrait of michelangelo as st Barthilomews flayed skin
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The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is ________.
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fresco
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Raphael's The School of Athens contains:
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ancient scholars looking like seventeenth century artists
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The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?
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the northern renaissance
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What does the dog in The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize?
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that the couple are wealthy and faithful
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Which of the following artworks was made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
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a landscape filled with ordinary people, which humorously depicts everyday proverbs
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Which of the following artworks is a very graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion?
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Isenheim altarpiece
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Dürer's print The Last Supper reflects the ideas of ________.
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the protestant reformation
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Sofonisba Anguissola was part of which of the following movements?
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mannerism
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The Last Supper by Tintoretto ________.
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An important feature of late-Renaissance artwork, compared to art created during the early and high Renaissance, is ________.
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The overall composition and the facial expressions in Pontormo's Deposition create an atmosphere of ________.
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instability, chaos, and disorder
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El Greco was ________.
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a Greek artist who worked in italy and spain during the renaissance
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Donatello's David is made in what medium?
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bronze
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Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?
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caravaggio
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Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement?
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baroque
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Nicolas Poussin promoted which of the following approaches?
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only including settings, clothing and characters from the ancient past
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Who is Phocion in Nicolas Poussin's painting of The Funeral of Phocion?
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an athenian general wrongly accused of treason
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In Rubens's The Raising of the Cross, how is the viewer's attention focused on Christ's body?
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the lighting and placement
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Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of:
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Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light?
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caravaggio and rembrandt
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Without the patronage of the Catholic Church, many incredible Renaissance works of art would not have been made.
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true
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Tintoretto's Last Supper has a very similar symmetrical composition to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the same subject.
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false
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Bernini depicts his David at exactly the same moment in the story as the versions by his predecessors Donatello and Michelangelo.
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false
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Peter Paul Rubens worked with many assistants in his studio.
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Michelangelo's David
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high renaissance
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Donatello's David
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early renaissance
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Bernini's David
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baroque
