Art History II Exam #1

A financial supporter of the arts

• humanism
• patron
• Petrarch
• Leonardo

In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries?

• France

• Germany

• Spain

• Italy

During the Renaissance, there was a revival of interest in

• the flatness of forms

• individual achievement

• spiritualism

• supernaturalism

The most devastating natural disaster in Europe during the late 1300's was which of the following?

• mad cow disease

• the collapse of the linen market

• the Black Death

• the failure of the Medici banks

Individual movement that focused on education and the classics

• perspective
• supernaturalism
• humanism
• patron

The politics of the Italian city-states were turbulent and violent. Governments were overthrown and reinstated. The Sienese government commissioned a series of frescoes offering a new view, the need for a fair and just administration. The artist of note for this series is which of the following?

• Pietro Cavallini

• Giotto

• Duccio

• Ambrogio Lorenzetti

How is nudity used in this piece?

• To cause a scandal among the nobles of Florence
• To exemplify the humiliation of original sin
• to celebrate human beauty
• to make the viewer uncomfortable

He restored the naturalistic approach to painting as practiced in Antiquity. He inaugurated a method of pictorial expression based on observation. He revealed nature and its visible order. This describes which of the following artists?

• Duccio

• Pietro Cavallini

• Cimabue

• Giotto

What are confraternities?

• Political action groups

• Protectors of the king

• papal guards

• lay people dedicated to strict religious observance

The nudity in Donatello’s David

• Was Donatello’s response in sculpture to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
• Is a natural evolution of High Gothic jamb figures
• Shows the sculptor executing the exact proportions expressed in Polykleitos’ canon
• Is one of the first attempts since antiquity to glorify the nude male figure as a symbol of beauty