Renaissance Art History Test Review

studied the works of da Vinci and Michaelangelo and combined the elements in his own artworks

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Michaelangelo

• Botticelli

a representation of the human body in which the weight is shifted onto one leg, shoulder, and hip to create an uneven balance to the figure

• Linear Perspective

• Pieta

• Humanism

• Contrapposto

used perspective by elongating the torso so that when viewed from below they did not appear short and awkward

• Botticelli

• Donatello

• Michaelangelo

• Raphael

a graphic system that showed artists how to create the illusion of depth and volume on a flat surface

• Linear Perspective

• Contrapposto

• Aerial Perspective

• Humanism

studied human anatomy by dissecting cadavers, which aided him in creating lifelike artworks

• Botticelli

• Michaelangelo

• Masaccio

• da Vinci

discovered linear perspective.

• Masaccio

• Ghiberti

• Brunelleschi

• Botticelli

where the slanting horizontal lines in creating perspective meet.

• Linear Perspective

• Aerial Perspective

• Contrapposto

• Vanishing point

a growing interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.

• Humanism

• Pieta

• Vanishing point

• Contrapposto

uses hue, value, and intensity to show distance in a painting.

• Linear Perspective

• Aerial Perspective

• Contrapposto

• Vanishing point

a work showing Mary mourning over the body of Christ.

• Humanism

• Pieta

• Vanishing point

• Contrapposto