Humanities 1301 Quiz 8 – Flashcards
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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.
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Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Pope
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( Sixtus IV.)
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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.
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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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As inspiration for The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli studied
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Roman rulers and citizens.
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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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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.
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Early Venetians abandoned the mainland for the swampy lagoon islands to
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(escape the plague that devastated the mainland.)
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In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the
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Gothic style.
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The Venetians considered themselves blessed by Saint Mark, because
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his relics resided in Venice's cathedral.
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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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Giorgio Vasari criticized Venetian artists such as Giorgione and Titian for their
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lack of buon disegno.
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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 Renaissance Italy, the education of women was, to some degree, necessitated by
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he rise of the merchant class.
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The most influential of the Renaissance women patrons was
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Isabella d'Este.
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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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Among Venice's most educated citizens and dominating the literary scene was a group of
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"honest courtesans."
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Villa La Rotunda was modeled upon the
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( Parthenon.)
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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.
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Bruges became the financial capital of Northern Europe because it
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was home to the Medici banking interests in the region.
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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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Flemish painters favored oil paint because of its
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ability be painted in layers that reflected light.
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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.)
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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
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Roger van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross displays tension between
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material well-being and spiritual narrative.
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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)
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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?
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Marguerite de Navarre modeled her Heptameron on the work of
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Boccaccio.
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In her Heptameron, Marguerite de Navarre expresses Northern pessimism and doubt about the
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Church.
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The opened scene of Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece offered patients the promise of
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Salvation
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In German culture, artist Albrecht Dürer represented the trend of
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humanism.
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The frontal pose, bearded face, and intense gaze of Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portrait recall
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traditional images of Christ.
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In-Depth Study Question: Michelangelo's David was the first monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since __________.
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Antiquity
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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
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In-Depth Study Question: Titian's, Assumption of the Virgin
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was the largest oil painting ever produced.
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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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