Question 1

When the papacy returned to Rome in 1420, popes restored the city in an effort to

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move visitors with its extraordinary sights.

Question 2

In his PietÃ , Michelangelo presents Mary as young and beautiful instead of middle-aged to

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make her a timeless image of purity and chastity.

Question 3

According to the ancient Roman Vitruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the

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human head.

Question 4

Donato Bramante applied the Vitruvian circle inscribed with a square to his church designs to

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symbolize the perfection of God.

Question 5

The people were eager to buy the indulgences that Julius II sold to finance the St. Peter\'s project, because they wanted to

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shorten their stay in purgatory.

Question 6

Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Pope

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( Sixtus IV.)

Question 7

Michelangelo placed The Drunkenness of Noah as the first scene viewers see upon entering the Sistine Chapel because it

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was intended to remind them of their own frailty.

Question 8

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.

Question 9

As inspiration for The Prince, NiccolÃ² Machiavelli studied

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Roman rulers and citizens.

Question 10

Machiavelli saw the role model for his perfect prince in the Florentine ruler

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Cesare Borgia.

Question 11

Josquin des Prez\'s polyphonic compositions for the Sistine Chapel Choir were very popular because of the

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expressiveness of the voices.

Question 12

Early Venetians abandoned the mainland for the swampy lagoon islands to

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(escape the plague that devastated the mainland.)

Question 13

In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the

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Gothic style.

Question 14

The Venetians considered themselves blessed by Saint Mark, because

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his relics resided in Venice\'s cathedral.

Question 15

Venetian artists begin favoring oil paint over tempera, because it

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gave their work more luminosity and realistic details.

Question 16

Giorgio Vasari criticized Venetian artists such as Giorgione and Titian for their

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lack of buon disegno.

Question 17

In Titian\'s Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by

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the nude woman.

Question 18

In Renaissance Italy, the education of women was, to some degree, necessitated by

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he rise of the merchant class.

Question 19

The most influential of the Renaissance women patrons was

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Isabella d\'Este.

Question 20

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.

Question 21

Among Venice\'s most educated citizens and dominating the literary scene was a group of

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\"honest courtesans.\"

Question 22

Villa La Rotunda was modeled upon the

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( Parthenon.)

Question 23

Villa La Rotunda is considered by many to be Andrea Palladio\'s masterpiece because its

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ratio is the same as that of the Parthenon.

Question 24

Bruges became the financial capital of Northern Europe because it

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was home to the Medici banking interests in the region.

Question 25

Unlike in Renaissance Italy, patronage of artists in Northern European cities came from

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the merchant class.

Question 26

Flemish painters favored oil paint because of its

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ability be painted in layers that reflected light.

Question 27

In the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck\'s panels of Adam and Eve hold the distinction of including the

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(first painted representation of a male nude.)

Question 28

In-Depth Study Question: The abundant symbolic elements in Jan van Eyck\'s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami have significance that is

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religious

Question 29

Roger van der Weyden\'s Descent from the Cross displays tension between

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material well-being and spiritual narrative.

Question 30

Hieronymus Bosch\'s famous triptych, the Garden of Earthly Delights, seems to have been intended to

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( provide instruction on the Seven Deadly Sins)

Question 31

What question does Hieronymus Bosch\'s Garden of Earthly Delights seem to ask the viewers to ponder?

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What might the world be like if the Fall had never happened?

Question 32

Marguerite de Navarre modeled her Heptameron on the work of

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Boccaccio.

Question 33

In her Heptameron, Marguerite de Navarre expresses Northern pessimism and doubt about the

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Church.

Question 34

The opened scene of Matthias GrÃ¼newald\'s Isenheim Altarpiece offered patients the promise of

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Salvation

Question 35

In German culture, artist Albrecht DÃ¼rer represented the trend of

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humanism.

Question 36

The frontal pose, bearded face, and intense gaze of Albrecht DÃ¼rer\'s Self-Portrait recall

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traditional images of Christ.

Question 37

In-Depth Study Question: Michelangelo\'s David was the first monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since __________.

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Antiquity

Question 38

In-Depth Study Question: In Titian\'s Venus of Urbino, the nude goddess is brought into the bedroom. In the background, a handmaid leans over a wooden chest that symbolizes __________.

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Marriage

Question 39

In-Depth Study Question: Titian\'s, Assumption of the Virgin

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was the largest oil painting ever produced.

Question 40

In-Depth Study Question: Paolo Veronese\'s, Last Supper

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has an image of a \"buffoon\" (midget) with a parrot on his wrist.

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