hum2230 ch 14,15 – Flashcards
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Why did the Florentines open a competition for decorating the doors of city's baptistery during the times of Milanese threat to Florentine liberty?
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find a designer
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What biblical scene were the competing artists for baptistery-design to create?
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The Sacrifice of Isaac
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Who won the competition to create a dome for Florence Cathedral?
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Why does Masaccio place the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ's head?
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To identify Christ as the fresco's most important figure
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What distinction does Donatello's David hold
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The first life-size freestanding male nude since antiquity
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Why did Donatello depict his David as a physically frail, naked teenager?
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to symbolize Florence's youthful vitality and ability to conquer tyrants
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How the Medici became the most powerful family in Florence?
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They were bankers to the papacy
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Why did Cosimo de' Medici found the Platonic Academy in Florence?
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To provide a place for the study and discussion of Plato's works
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Why was Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, so interested in Leonardo da Vinci?
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Leonardo could design great machines of war for him
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Why is Leonardo's Last Supper fresco in very bad shape today?
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Leonardo painted dry plaster with oil, which flakes off
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Why did the Florentines drive the Medici family from the city in 1494?
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Piero de Medici formed an unpopular alliance with the French king
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Why was Pope Sixtus IV so eager to restore Rome's splendor?
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To move visitors with extraordinary sights
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What characterizes the rule of Girolamo Savonarola in Florence, 1494-98?
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Piero de Medici formed an unpopular alliance with the French king
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Why did Michelangelo present Mary in his Pietà as young and beautiful instead of middle-aged?
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To make her a timeless image of purity and chastity
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What was Pope Julius II's main source of financing the project of rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica in Rome?
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the Papacy begins severe taxation as well as the sale of indulgences and church offices.
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Why in the School of Athens does Plato point toward the heavens?
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It's the realm of ideal forms
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Why in the School of Athens does Aristotle direct his palm down?
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To indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world
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Why did Machiavelli claim that it was better for a prince to be feared, not loved?
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Fear is a stronger motivator
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What visual effect does Michelangelo's Laurentian Library steps create?
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A cascading waterfall
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Why did Venetian artists begin using oil instead of tempera paint
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To create layers of paint that reflected light
