HUM2210 Western Humanities:Ancient to Renaissance- Part 3 – Flashcards
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All of the following are desired of Baldassare Castiglione's l'uomo universale EXCEPT
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charity to the less fortunate.
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The humanists in Lorenzo's court have viewed Venus in Botticelli's Primavera as
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an allegory for the highest moral qualities.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by
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using foreshortening
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It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely over a half century earlier, the city had witnessed
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as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death.
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According to Pico della Mirandola in the Oration on the Dignity of Man, humans are "the most fortunate of living things," because of their great gift of
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free will.
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Dufay's Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to
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mirror the proportions of Solomon's Temple and the Florence Cathedral.
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How did Filippo Brunelleschi construct his dome without temporary wooden scaffolding?
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The dome's ribs function as support, so scaffolding is part of the design.
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Cosimo de' Medici founded Florence's Platonic Academy to
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provide a place for the study and discussion of Plato's works
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Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo de Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because
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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.
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Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper fresco is unique for its
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psychological realism.
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In Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by
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the nude woman.
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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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In Renaissance Italy, the education of women was, to some degree, necessitated by
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the rise of the merchant class.
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In the School of Athens, Aristotle directs his palm down to
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indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world.
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Villa La Rotunda was modeled upon the
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Pantheon.
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In The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, Lucretia Marinella claims that men who denigrate women are motivated by
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anger and envy.
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According to the ancient Roman Vitruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the
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human head.
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Donato Bramante applied the Vitruvian circle inscribed with a square to his church designs to
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symbolize the perfection of God
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Michelangelo placed the Separation of Light from Darkness at the far end of the Sistine Chapel over the altar, because it
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was intended to symbolize the viewers' distance from creation's goodness and truth
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Venetian artists begin favoring oil paint over tempera, because it
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gave their work more luminosity and realistic details.
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Why in his later years did Martin Luther claim that the Jews were devils and blasphemers?
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Jews did not willingly convert in great numbers to the reformed Christianity.
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At the heart of Martin Luther's outrage at the Church's "salvation for sale" was
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class inequity and injustice.
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Satire aims to convey the contradiction between
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real and ideal situations
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Ulrich Zwingli launched his program of iconoclasm in Zurich to
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protest the excesses of the Vatican.
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Martin Luther rebelled against the Church mandate about celibacy for those in a religious vocation, because
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faith, to him, equalized everyone, including the clergy.
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Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More revived the Classical literary genre of
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satire.
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The first major work that Johannes Gutenberg published using his printing press was
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The Forty-Two Line Bible.
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The Roman Catholic Church condemned François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel for
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attacking medieval theology's dogmas and sacraments.
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Michel de Montaigne invented the
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personal essay.
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Why did many Northern European artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes?
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The market for religious art was diminishing.
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Which of the following is NOT one of William Byrd's reasons for people to learn to sing?
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It makes people more pleasant.
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What in Dr. Faustus would become a standard feature of the Elizabethan stage?
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blending of tragic and comedy
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English families agreed to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587
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in exchange for land.
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England sought to establish a colonial foothold in the Americas to
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counter the powerful Hispanic Catholic presence there.
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Which Elizabethan writer used the English sonnet form so successfully that it has been given his name?
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William Shakespeare
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In an English sonnet, the resolution or explanation is the last
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couplet.
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in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, the skull between the two ambassadors represents
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the fate that awaits us all
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Publication of what work directly inspired sacred music during the Elizabethan age?
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The First Book of Common Prayer
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Henry VIII wrote a tract condemning Martin Luther and his religious reforms to
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earn a "Defender of the Faith" title from the pope.
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For John Smith and the English people, Pocahontas symbolized the
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Jamestown colony's civilizing mission.
