Hum Chapter 8 Renaissance & Reformation – Flashcards
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A three-paneled, hinged painting is called a(n)
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Triptych
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What subject is depicted in the central panel of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece (Figure 8.3)?
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The Annunciation
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For what offense was Martin Luther excommunicated?
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Heresy
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Which symbol in van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini nad His Wife Giovanna Cenami (Figure 8.6) is traditionally understood as a sign of fidelity?
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the dog
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet is an example of what type of play common in the fifteenth century?
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a revenge play
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What detail of Hans Hobein the Younger's The Ambassadors (Figure 8.19) appears distorted as an anamorphic projection?
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the skull
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Although the meaning is not fully understood, what subject dies Hieronymus Bosh seem to most prominently address in the Garden of Earthly Delights (Closer Look)?
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Adam and Eve and the notion of sin
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What doctrine posits that God elects people to salvation prior to their birth and those people live self-evidently in a way that pleases God?
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Predestination
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All of the following are similarities between Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus EXCEPT
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They used satire and irony to communicate their opinions
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Which artwork was widely distributed across Europe in the sixteenth century?
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Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Fig. 8.11)
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What contributed most to London's growth in the sixteenth century?
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Henry VIII's Dissolution Art of 1536
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What led to the sack of Rome in 1527?
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Charles V not being able to pay his soldiers for their service
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How did the growth of wealthy merchant class affect the development of art in Northern Europe?
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It fostered an economic market for artistic production and trade.
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All of the following were characteristic of theater during the Elizabethan period EXCEPT
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Elaborate costumes and stage settings
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Once the printing press was developed, what text became most popular in Europe?
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the Bible
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What was a key issue in the election of Ulrich Zwingli as the Great Minister of the Church in Zurich?
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priests' vows of celibacy
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Which of the following best reflects the focus on individualism that emerged in the sixteenth century?
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the popularity of portraits
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What oervasuve theme in Northern Reniassance culture is implicit in Albrecht Altdorfer's The Battle of Issus (Figure 8.12)?
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anxiety over imminent threat
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What allowed fifteenth-century Northern Europe artists such as Jan Van Eyck to create such detailed textures and visual effects in painting?
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oil paint
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The subject of which of the following works most underscores the Northern European preoccupation with death and alludes to the recurrence of the plague?
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Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Alterpiece (Figs. 8.8 and 8.9)
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What religious movement in Northern Europe was a precursor for ideas popularized by the Reformation?
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(Most likely) the Brothers and Siter of the Common Life
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What distinguishes Albrecht Dürer's artistic approach from that of Northern European artists such as Matthias Grünewald?
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his interest in humanism
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What was the primary commodity in the city of Bruges?
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cloth
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How does Jan Van Eyck add religious meaning to otherwuse secular subject Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (Fig. 8.6)?
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the use of symbolic details
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The popular desire for political and economic liberation led to the Peasant War in what country?
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Germany
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What new technology, introduced in the mid-fifteenth century, contributed significantly to the widespread effect of the Reformation?
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the printing press
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Albrecht Dürer intentionally modeled his Self-Portrait (Figure 8.10) on what historical figure?
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Jesus Christ
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In Desiderius Erasmus's In Praise of Folly, who is Folly?
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an allegorical figure who plays the fool
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Holbein's portrait Henry VIII in Wedding Dress (Figure 8.20) suggests the power of the king through all of the details EXCEPT for the
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king's hat
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This painting by fifteenth-century artist Petrus Christus demonstrates the region's artistic style in all of the following ways EXCEPT its
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obvious religious content
