WorksheetsArt History Test 2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is a painting done on damp plaster?
woodblock print
fresco
paper mache
freesia
What empire was the eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived after being overrun by barbarian tribes?
Roman
Greek
Byzantine
Etruscan
Who disapproved of icons, gained power, and destroyed all icons they could find? Known as image breakers
Iconoclasts
Frescos
Icons
Monks
What type of paint is pigment mixed with fresh egg yolk and water?
Oil
Watercolor
Acrylic
Tempera
Monks copied books by hand onto a fine type of parchment (animal skin) known as ________.
Vellum
Papyrus
Fiber
Illumination
Thin sheets of gold stuck on paintings or illuminated manuscripts and sometimes had a pattern pressed into them?
fresco
foil
gold leaf
tempera
What was the time of greatest artistic achievement and meant rebirth or revival?
Mannerism
Renaissance
Impressionism
Baroque
What is a form of textile art that was woven to create and show pictures that told stories?
tapestry
quilt
paper mache
portrait
What Italian artist became famous for doing paintings that looked much more real than other paintings of his time?
Jerome Bosch
Giorgio Vasari
Pieter Brugel
Giotto
What were wooden paneled pictures often in 3 sections that told a story from the Bible?
diptych
pentatych
triptych
octaptych
What often show Bible stories as well as patterns using colorful glass and lead?
frescos
triptychs
murals
stained glass windows
Where in Italy did the Renaissance begin?
Rome
Florence
Venice
Flanders
What were a set of scientific rules was worked out to make things appear far away?
perspective
gridding
triptych
printing
What were unreal painted images of saints and holy people against gold backgrounds were called?
iconoclasts
gold leaf
icons
portraits
Painted portraits became popular and were often done in _______, or side view.
fresco
perspective
symmetry
profile
What did Giotto use to make his people life-like and look more solid?
shading
symmetry
perspective
tempera
What painter used stories and characters from myths and history of Ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration?
Vincent van Gogh
Lorenzo de Medici
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Who was one of the first artists to use perspective?
Giotto
Masaccio
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Which word best describes the emotion associated with the Pieta?
piety
joy
determination
grief
Most paintings were specially ___ by a ___, who could be a nobleman, a churchman, a merchant or some other wealthy man.
bought, artist
commissioned, patron
hung, monk
constructed, apprentice
Who was one of the most famous patrons of the arts during the Renaissance?
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Jan van Eyck
Lorenzo de Medici
What type of architecture is our St. Mark’s Cathedral?
Gothic
Edwardian
Romanesque
Modern
While Italian artists used tempera paint, Flemish painters used what type of paint?
tempera
acrylic
watercolor
oil
Who was the Flemish painter who was famous for painting the Arnolfini portrait?
Raphael
Jan van Eyck
Jerome Bosch
Albrecht Durer
What Flemish painter crammed his paintings with strange details of what he thought certain places might look like?
Jerome Bosch
Albrecht Durer
Pieter Brugel
Giorgio Vasari
How many finished paintings of da Vinci’s actually exist today?
7
4
217
15
Where were Flemish painters from?
Venice
Flanders
Rome
Monasteries
Instead of painting on wood panels, painting on ______ became popular.
canvas
paper
stone
vellum
Famous Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect known to have written many biographies of famous artists?
Albrecht Durer
Jerome Bosch
Giorgio Vasari
Pieter Bruegel
What family was one of the most important families in Florence during the Renaissance?
Vinci
Fettuccini
Triptych
Medici
Who painted scenes from everyday life of ordinary, often ugly, people at work or enjoying life?
Pieter Bruegel
Jerome Bosch
Albrecht Durer
Raphael
A picture that stood behind the alter that was useful for teaching and reminding people about stories from the Bible?
stained glass
vellum
altarpiece
canvas
To become a painter a boy had to become an ______ to a ____ in a workshop.
helper, painter
apprentice, master
prince, king
master, apprentice
During the High Renaissance _______ replaced ________ as the most important center for artists.
Florence, Rome
Rome, Greece
Europe, Egypt
Rome, Florence
What 3 artists stood out above all the rest during the Renaissance?
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael
Pieter Bruegel, Jerome Bosch, Albrecht Durer
Titian, Jan van Eyck, Rembrandt
Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Masaccio
What is Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting?
Starry Night
Sistine Chapel
Mona Lisa
David
What is the blurring of outlines which gives the effect of seeing things through a slight haze is called?
clouding
glazing
blending
sfumato
What did Titian help to make fashionable?
profile portraits
landscapes
full length portraits
woodblock prints
Not all the Italian artists were Mannerists. In Venice, artists were more interested in ?
form and value
color and light
pattern and line
size and shape
Michelangelo’s best known painting is the fresco on the _______ of the _________.
stanze, Vatican
floor, Sistine Chapel
ceiling, St. Mark's Cathedral
ceiling, Sistine Chapel
How many years did it take Michelangelo to finish painting the Sistine chapel ceiling?
4
7
11
2
How does Michelangelo’s David differ from other artists’ versions?
Others showed Goliath beating David; Mich.'s showed David beating Goliath
Others depicted David as a giant; Michelangelo’s was much smaller
Others used paint on canvas to show the fight; Michelangelo used marble
Others showed David after his fight; Michelangelo showed him before
What patron were Michelangelo and Raphael working for?
King
Pope
Monarch
Leonardo da Vinci
Which painting by Raphael did he show what he imagined Ancient Greek scholars and thinkers would have looked like?
"Mona Lisa"
"School of Athena"
"Arnolfini Portrait"
"School of Athens"
What artistic style distorted the figures & space in their pictures, making them look very dramatic?
perspective
realism
mannerism
rebelionism
What German artist was one of the first engravers?
Pieter Bruegel
Albrecht Durër
Jerome Bosch
Raphael
What part of a portrait might reveal historical information about the person being depicted?
the person's posture
the person's face
the colors used by the artist
the background
Who was the most brilliant and famous of all the Venetian artists?
Giotto
Titian
Pieter Bruegel
Jan van Eyck
Which of these people could best be described as a “Renaissance Man”?
A musician who is considered the best in the world at his instrument
A Painter whose work is studied hundreds of years after his death
Novelist who wins both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize
A celebrated musician who is also a successful painter and author
In what way are frescoes different than other types of painting?
they take 4 years to complete
the deal with religious themes
their colors are more vibrant
they're painted directly onto walls
