Italian Renaissance Study Quiz

The Word RENAISSANCE means ___ and was interested in the ideas of What Ancient Culture?

• To Start Over, Mesopotamian

• Rebirth, Ancient Greek and Roman

• To Start Over, Ancient Greek and Roman

• Rebirth, Ancient Mesopotamian

The Humanists were interested in

• Only Art and Sculpture

• The Humanities: Art, Literature, History, Philosophy, Language, etc.

• Treating all human beings with respect and dignity

• An interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome

Linear Perspective was a system of visual measurement credited to

• Masaccio

• Lorenzo Ghiberti

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Donatello

When artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Massacio used Linear Perspective, their vanishing point always landed ___.

• on Jesus

• in the horizon

• off in the distance

• in the mountains

This type of perspective uses hue, value, and intensity to show distance in a work of art.

• whole perspective

• linear perspective

• aerial perspective

• foreshortening

This artist design the dome on the top of the Florence Cathedral

• Donatello

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Lorenzo Ghiberti

• Masaccio

This artist is know for his use of Sfumato, which creates a hazy effect between a figure and the background. He applied this technique in the Mona Lisa.

• Rapheal

• Donatello

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

This is the artist of the Sistine Chapel.

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

This is the first major High Renaissance master of sculpture, and the artist who first applied Contrapposto in Renaissance sculptures. Examples of his work includes St. Mark (1411-13) and St. George (1415-17)

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

When the artist ____ sculpted his very famous David statue, he posed the sculpture in the very lifelike s-curve ___ pose.

• Donatello, Action

• Michelangelo, Contrapposto

• Donatello, Contrapposto

• Michelangelo, Action