Deck 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Question 1

The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore was:

A) based on the round Roman arch
B) a Gothic ribbed octagonal dome
C) topped with an open oculus
D) covering the central-plan church

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The first time accurate mathematically based one-point linear perspective was used in a painting was:

A) The Holy Trinity by Masaccio
B) The Delivery of the Keys by Perugino
C) The Last Supper by Leonardo
D) S. Lorenzo by Brunelleschi

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who wrote Treatise on Architecture?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Sangallo
C) Palladio
D) Alberti

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?

A) Orthogonals converge toward the vanishing point.
B) Orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane.
C) Orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space.
D) Orthogonals meet at two different points on the picture plane.

Question 5

What was the first freestanding life-size nude since classical antiquity?

A) Four Saints by Nanni di Banco
B) David by Donatello
C) Hercules and Antaios by Pollaiuolo
D) St. George by Donatello

Question 6

Who wins the commission to sculpt the so-called Gates of Paradise?

A) Ghiberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Donatello
D) Michelangelo

Question 7

Which Florentine painter fused Christian faith with pagan mythology in his works?

A) Titian
B) Masaccio
C) Botticelli
D) Raphael

Question 8

Scientific perspective was probably invented by which sculptor and architect?

A) Brunelleschi
B) Ghiberti
C) Mantegna
D) Botticelli

Question 9

The painter Bellini worked mainly in Florence.

Question 10

To create the illusion of pictorial depth of space, the principle of parallel lines converging toward a single vanishing point is called:

A) chiaroscuro
B) aerial perspective
C) linear perspective
D) atmospheric perspective

Question 11

For what building were the Gates of Paradise made?

A) the Florence Cathedral
B) the Brancacci Chapel
C) S. Lorenzo
D) The Florence Baptistery

Question 12

Which was an important manufacturing town, a key point for trade, and a major center for international banking?

A) Florence
B) Rome
C) Siena
D) Naples

Question 13

Which pope commissioned the building and initial decoration of the Sistine Chapel?

A) Sixtus IV
B) Julius II
C) Innocent III
D) Pius XII

Question 14

The altarpiece in which Florentine Chapel echoes the Portinari Altarpiece and reflects the impact of Netherlandish innovations?

A) Sassetti Chapel
B) Sistine Chapel
C) Brancacci Chapel
D) Arena Chapel

Question 15

There was no single political entity called Italy in the fifteenth century.

Question 16

Patronage for art in fifteenth century Florence consisted of:

A) the Catholic church.
B) wealthy patrons.
C) guilds.
D) all of the above.

Question 17

Who was an important patron of the Florentine Renaissance?

A) Julius II
B) Abbot Suger
C) Botticelli
D) Cosimo de' Medici

Question 18

Atmospheric or aerial perspective is a method of showing depth through the use of color.

Question 19

Which the architect designed the dome for the Florence Cathedral?

A) Alberti
B) Michelangelo
C) Brunelleschi
D) Ghiberti

Question 20

What mode of painting reflects the expanding interest in secular themes and an interest in the individual in 15th-century Florence?

A) Portraiture
B) Landscape
C) Pieta
D) Books of hours

Question 21

How does the Renaissance style that first manifested itself in Florence reverberate in the works of Piero della Francesca, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini?

Question 22

Why was the design of a dome for the Florence Cathedral a challenge? What was innovative about Brunelleschi's solution?

Question 23

How are aspects of the Florentine Renaissance reflected in Donatello's St. Mark?

Question 24

How does Ghiberti create the illusion of spatial depth in his panels? Where are the panels located? What material was used to make the doors?

Question 25

Antonello da Messina, a painter from southern Italy, may have learned about oil painting in Flanders and passed that knowledge on to Venetian artists.

Question 26

Why is the David by Donatello pivotal in its subject matter and in the presentation of the figure? What characteristics does it derive from the ancient sculpture? Why is David a symbol for Florence as well as for the Christian faithful?

Question 27

Mantegna made paintings influenced by his interest in archaeology and perspective.

Question 28

Discuss innovations seen in the works of Masaccio.

Question 29

What were the social conditions that encouraged the development of the Renaissance in fifteenth century Florence?