Renaissance Art Quiz

Renaissance is a French word meaning

• Rotten

• Re-birth

• Re-educate

• Restore

The order of different historical ages is:

• medieval, renaissance, classical

• renaissance, medieval, classical

• classical, renaissance, medieval

• classical, medieval, renaissance

Sfumato means:

• drawing clear outlines

• when paint cracks because it is old

• blending colours together

• painting with the colour of a tomato

A fresco is a painting on a wall on

• wet plaster

• dry plaster

• a sticking plaster

• brick

The paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are by:

• Donatello

• Raphael

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

Linear perspective is a way of

• Making a pot

• Creating blurred lines

• Creating the illusion of space on a flat surface

• Creating a picture which looks unreal