Civ Quizzes 12-14 – Flashcards
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The word "Renaissance" means
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rebirth
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Lorenzo Ghiberti's winning design for the doors of the Florence Baptistery differs from Filippo Brunelleschi's in that the
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main action is on the side, not in the center
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The victor of the 1418 competition to create a dome for Florence Cathedral was
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Masaccio places the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ's head to
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identify Christ as the fresco's most important figure
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The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence from 1418 to 1494, because they
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were bankers to the papacy
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In Mona Lisa, Leonardo achieved the sfumato effect by
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building up color with many layers of transparent oil paint
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Why did Medici supporters hurl stones at Michelangelo's David as it was moved through the streets?
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They understood David's symbolism of the city standing up to tyrants
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Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, was interested in Leonardo da Vinci because he
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could design great machines of war for him
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According to the ancient Roman Virtruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the
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human head
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The people were eager to buy the indulgences that the pope sold to finance the St Peter's project, because they wanted to
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shorten their stay in purgatory
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Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Pope
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Julius II
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In the School of Athens, Raphael represents Plato pointing upward to signify the location of
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the realm of ideal forms
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Machiavelli saw the role model for his perfect prince in the Florentine ruler
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Cesare Borgia
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In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the
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Gothic Style
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The role of most women in Renaissance Italy was to
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manage domestic affairs
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The patron saint of Venice, to whom the cathedral is dedicated, is saint
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Mark
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Unlike in Renaissance Italy, patronage of artists in Northern European cities came from
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the merchant class
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A particularly distinctive feature of Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece is the
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setting of the Annunciation in an ordinary, middle-class Flemish home
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Flemish painters favored oil paint because of its
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ability to be painted in layers that reflected light
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Marguerite de Navarre modeled her Heptameron on the work of
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Boccaccio
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In his landscape study The Large Turf, Albrecht Durer blended hi Northern European interest in minute detail with an Italian Renaissance interest in
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the natural world
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Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece underscores the Northern European preoccupation with
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death
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A major advantage of tapestries as decorations is that they
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were highly transportable
