Chapter 16: The Renaissance – Flashcards
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The painting, The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by __________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.
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Pieter Brugel the Elder
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The Isenheim Altarpiece, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung in
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a hospital for patients with skin disease
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The Renaissance artists from Venice, such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Giorgione, were especially known for their mastery of
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color and light
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In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character of Eve was identified with
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Venus
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The technology of painting with oils was developed
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by Northern Europeans
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Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli were all commissioned to make art for
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the Medici family
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The movement that divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps is called
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the Reformation
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Artists working in the Early Renaissance period included
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Botticelli, Donatello, and Ghiberti
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The word renaissance means
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"rebirth"
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The iconography of The Tempest, by ___________, is unknown, but the painting made an important contribution to Renaissance art in the way it was composed.
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Giorgione
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The technique of sfumato involves the use of
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multiple layers of glaze
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One of Michelangelo's major achievements was
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redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral.
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Which 15th-century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?
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the printing press
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The sculptor of the panel The Story of Jacob and Esau, and Donatello's teacher, is
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Who were the Limbourgs?
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the artist brothers
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________ 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.
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Triangular
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One of the effects of the Renaissance was to change the status of artists in Europe from
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skilled crafts workers to intellectuals
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Giorgione's painting The Tempest paved the way for future
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landscape paintings
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Northern European Renaissance artists began using the system of linear perspective
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about 75 years after it was first developed
