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in Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong, from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century, the peacock symbolizes
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the Chinese emperor
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The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa, a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
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Baroque
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The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is?
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El Greco
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Which of the following is an example of High Renaissance painting?
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Botticelli's The Birth of Venus
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Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
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The Baroque can be characterized as/by?
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17th century theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
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Coatlicue is a deity from which culture?
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Aztec
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The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry signified the return of what, lost in art since antiquity?
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cast shadows
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In the 1330s, Petrarch conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages, literature, history, and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the?
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humanities
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Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance in a large part due to?
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the Medici family.
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What sets northern European artists apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in?
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rendering believable space in realistic detail.
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Michelangelo's painting, The Last Judgment, for the Sistine Chapel, typifies a style that came to be known as?
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Mannerism
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Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for?
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developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
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The "Big 3" of the Italian High Renaissance were?
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DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
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his turbulent compositions
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What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
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he sculpted nude figures
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Leonardo was known in his time for his work as an artist and as a(n)?
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military engineer and weapons-designer
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Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno, drawing and delineation of forms, while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized?
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the sensuousness of light and color.
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Teotihuacan was an important cultural center for which Mesoamerican culture?
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It is not known which culture used it.
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Machu Picchu was a "getaway" for which culture's rules?
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Inca
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Who was the most influential artist of the Baroque period in Europe?
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Caravaggio
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