Arts and Craft

Before the renaissance, there was no concept of ________.

• artisan

• artist

• the value of objects

• how to make a marble sculpture

Prior to the renaissance, painters were paid on the basis of ___.

• their fame

• their talent

• the square footage of their paintings

• recommendations from friends

Who authored a book in 1550 entitled “Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects”, which rocketed several renaissance artists to fame?

• Giorgio Vasari

• Michelangelo Buonnaroti

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Pablo Picasso

Many cultures of the world, especially non-western cultures, place a high value on __________ visual traditions.

• changing

• destroying

• preserving

• negating

When art historians of the nineteenth century saw that the art of some non-western cultures did not change for thousands of years, they classified the works as ________.

• progressive

• ugly

• primitive

• highly valuable