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Art History Test 2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a painting done on damp plaster?

a)

woodblock print

b)

fresco

c)

paper mache

d)

freesia

2.

What empire was the eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived after being overrun by barbarian tribes?

a)

Roman

b)

Greek

c)

Byzantine

d)

Etruscan

3.

Who disapproved of icons, gained power, and destroyed all icons they could find? Known as image breakers

a)

Iconoclasts

b)

Frescos

c)

Icons

d)

Monks

4.

What type of paint is pigment mixed with fresh egg yolk and water?

a)

Oil

b)

Watercolor

c)

Acrylic

d)

Tempera

5.

Monks copied books by hand onto a fine type of parchment (animal skin) known as ________.

a)

Vellum

b)

Papyrus

c)

Fiber

d)

Illumination

6.

Thin sheets of gold stuck on paintings or illuminated manuscripts and sometimes had a pattern pressed into them?

a)

fresco

b)

foil

c)

gold leaf

d)

tempera

7.

What was the time of greatest artistic achievement and meant rebirth or revival?

a)

Mannerism

b)

Renaissance

c)

Impressionism

d)

Baroque

8.

What is a form of textile art that was woven to create and show pictures that told stories?

a)

tapestry

b)

quilt

c)

paper mache

d)

portrait

9.

What Italian artist became famous for doing paintings that looked much more real than other paintings of his time?

a)

Jerome Bosch

b)

Giorgio Vasari

c)

Pieter Brugel

d)

Giotto

10.

What were wooden paneled pictures often in 3 sections that told a story from the Bible?

a)

diptych

b)

pentatych

c)

triptych

d)

octaptych

11.

What often show Bible stories as well as patterns using colorful glass and lead?

a)

frescos

b)

triptychs

c)

murals

d)

stained glass windows

12.

Where in Italy did the Renaissance begin?

a)

Rome

b)

Florence

c)

Venice

d)

Flanders

13.

What were a set of scientific rules was worked out to make things appear far away?

a)

perspective

b)

gridding

c)

triptych

d)

printing

14.

What were unreal painted images of saints and holy people against gold backgrounds were called?

a)

iconoclasts

b)

gold leaf

c)

icons

d)

portraits

15.

Painted portraits became popular and were often done in _______, or side view.

a)

fresco

b)

perspective

c)

symmetry

d)

profile

16.

What did Giotto use to make his people life-like and look more solid?

a)

shading

b)

symmetry

c)

perspective

d)

tempera

17.

What painter used stories and characters from myths and history of Ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration?

a)

Vincent van Gogh

b)

Lorenzo de Medici

c)

Sandro Botticelli

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

18.

Who was one of the first artists to use perspective?

a)

Giotto

b)

Masaccio

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Raphael

19.

Which word best describes the emotion associated with the Pieta?

a)

piety

b)

joy

c)

determination

d)

grief

20.

Most paintings were specially ___ by a ___, who could be a nobleman, a churchman, a merchant or some other wealthy man.

a)

bought, artist

b)

commissioned, patron

c)

hung, monk

d)

constructed, apprentice

21.

Who was one of the most famous patrons of the arts during the Renaissance?

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Lorenzo de Medici

22.

What type of architecture is our St. Mark’s Cathedral?

a)

Gothic

b)

Edwardian

c)

Romanesque

d)

Modern

23.

While Italian artists used tempera paint, Flemish painters used what type of paint?

a)

tempera

b)

acrylic

c)

watercolor

d)

oil

24.

Who was the Flemish painter who was famous for painting the Arnolfini portrait?

a)

Raphael

b)

Jan van Eyck

c)

Jerome Bosch

d)

Albrecht Durer

25.

What Flemish painter crammed his paintings with strange details of what he thought certain places might look like?

a)

Jerome Bosch

b)

Albrecht Durer

c)

Pieter Brugel

d)

Giorgio Vasari

26.

How many finished paintings of da Vinci’s actually exist today?

a)

7

b)

4

c)

217

d)

15

27.

Where were Flemish painters from?

a)

Venice

b)

Flanders

c)

Rome

d)

Monasteries

28.

Instead of painting on wood panels, painting on ______ became popular.

a)

canvas

b)

paper

c)

stone

d)

vellum

29.

Famous Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect known to have written many biographies of famous artists?

a)

Albrecht Durer

b)

Jerome Bosch

c)

Giorgio Vasari

d)

Pieter Bruegel

30.

What family was one of the most important families in Florence during the Renaissance?

a)

Vinci

b)

Fettuccini

c)

Triptych

d)

Medici

31.

Who painted scenes from everyday life of ordinary, often ugly, people at work or enjoying life?

a)

Pieter Bruegel

b)

Jerome Bosch

c)

Albrecht Durer

d)

Raphael

32.

A picture that stood behind the alter that was useful for teaching and reminding people about stories from the Bible?

a)

stained glass

b)

vellum

c)

altarpiece

d)

canvas

33.

To become a painter a boy had to become an ______ to a ____ in a workshop.

a)

helper, painter

b)

apprentice, master

c)

prince, king

d)

master, apprentice

34.

During the High Renaissance _______ replaced ________ as the most important center for artists.

a)

Florence, Rome

b)

Rome, Greece

c)

Europe, Egypt

d)

Rome, Florence

35.

What 3 artists stood out above all the rest during the Renaissance?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael

b)

Pieter Bruegel, Jerome Bosch, Albrecht Durer

c)

Titian, Jan van Eyck, Rembrandt

d)

Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Masaccio

36.

What is Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting?

a)

Starry Night

b)

Sistine Chapel

c)

Mona Lisa

d)

David

37.

What is the blurring of outlines which gives the effect of seeing things through a slight haze is called?

a)

clouding

b)

glazing

c)

blending

d)

sfumato

38.

What did Titian help to make fashionable?

a)

profile portraits

b)

landscapes

c)

full length portraits

d)

woodblock prints

39.

Not all the Italian artists were Mannerists. In Venice, artists were more interested in ?

a)

form and value

b)

color and light

c)

pattern and line

d)

size and shape

40.

Michelangelo’s best known painting is the fresco on the _______ of the _________.

a)

stanze, Vatican

b)

floor, Sistine Chapel

c)

ceiling, St. Mark's Cathedral

d)

ceiling, Sistine Chapel

41.

How many years did it take Michelangelo to finish painting the Sistine chapel ceiling?

a)

4

b)

7

c)

11

d)

2

42.

How does Michelangelo’s David differ from other artists’ versions?

a)

Others showed Goliath beating David; Mich.'s showed David beating Goliath

b)

Others depicted David as a giant; Michelangelo’s was much smaller

c)

Others used paint on canvas to show the fight; Michelangelo used marble

d)

Others showed David after his fight; Michelangelo showed him before

43.

What patron were Michelangelo and Raphael working for?

a)

King

b)

Pope

c)

Monarch

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

44.

Which painting by Raphael did he show what he imagined Ancient Greek scholars and thinkers would have looked like?

a)

"Mona Lisa"

b)

"School of Athena"

c)

"Arnolfini Portrait"

d)

"School of Athens"

45.

What artistic style distorted the figures & space in their pictures, making them look very dramatic?

a)

perspective

b)

realism

c)

mannerism

d)

rebelionism

46.

What German artist was one of the first engravers?

a)

Pieter Bruegel

b)

Albrecht Durër

c)

Jerome Bosch

d)

Raphael

47.

What part of a portrait might reveal historical information about the person being depicted?

a)

the person's posture

b)

the person's face

c)

the colors used by the artist

d)

the background

48.

Who was the most brilliant and famous of all the Venetian artists?

a)

Giotto

b)

Titian

c)

Pieter Bruegel

d)

Jan van Eyck

49.

Which of these people could best be described as a “Renaissance Man”?

a)

A musician who is considered the best in the world at his instrument

b)

A Painter whose work is studied hundreds of years after his death

c)

Novelist who wins both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize

d)

A celebrated musician who is also a successful painter and author

50.

In what way are frescoes different than other types of painting?

a)

they take 4 years to complete

b)

the deal with religious themes

c)

their colors are more vibrant

d)

they're painted directly onto walls