Check-In on Early Renaissance Art

The Medici were also connected to Fra Filippo Lippi in that they

• insisted that he use their grandchildren as models

• prevented his excommunication from the church

• arranged for him to serve in the administration of the pope

• commissioned him to design their new Tuscan villa

Lippi creates a sense of naturalism in Madonna and Child with Two Angels through the use of all of the following EXCEPT

• elongated, graceful forms

• almost invisible halos

• atmospheric perspective in the background

• Florentine people as models for divine figures

Lippi's employment of fluid and sensuous lines is continued in the later work of his student

• Donatello

• Michelangelo

• Botticelli

• Alberti

Donatello's David (left) relates to Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in all of the following aspects EXCEPT the

• figure's contrapposto stance

• figure's nudity

• use of attached architectural supports

• use of the lost-wax casting technique

Opposed to Michelangelo's David (right), Donatello created a work which emphasized

• the figure's sensuality

• Florentine pride

• Renaissance Classicism

• the sculpture's autonomy

The battle of David and Goliath was symbolic to the

• unification of Florentine guilds against the merchant class

• resurgence of polytheism in the Renaissance

• Medici's dominance within the Papal Court

• divinely approved defeat of Milan by the Florentines

While the sculpture on the left was eventually displayed in Florence's town hall, or the Palazzo della Signoria, it originally stood

• in the meeting hall of the Council of Ten

• on top of Dante's grave

• within the garden of the Medici palace

• at the entrance of the Duomo

Unlike other Renaissance works which emphasize naturalism, Sandro Botticelli focused on beauty through all of the following EXCEPT

• the figures' elegant poses

• decorative patterning

• the subject matter

• the illusion of depth

Venus's pose most likely suggests

• modesty as its modeled after the Roman Venus pudica

• horrific shame similar to the medieval depictions of Eve

• anguish along with the heightened pain of her facial expression

• joy since Cosimo de Medici had just regained political power

Some scholars believe that Birth of Venus represents Neoplatonic ideas in the viewer's

• self-realization of on'e inevitable death

• respect of love as an essential force in life and society

• understanding of divine beauty through physical beauty

• dismissal of hedonism so as to live more humbly