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Question #1

Who was Lorenzo Ghiberti?

A An architect

B A novelist

C A composer

D A goldsmith

Question #2

Who was Andrea del Verrocchio?

A A Florentine sculptor

B The first artist to master Brunelleschi’s new spacial device

C Painter of The Alba Madonna, circa 1510.

D The inventor of linear perspective

Question #3

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

A Jan Van Eyck

B Leonardo da Vinci

C Raphael

D Leonardo da Vinci

Question #4

THIS is “the means of representing distance that relies on the imitation of the ways atmosphere affects the eye — outlines are blurred, details lost, contrasts of light and shade diminished, hues bluer, and colors less vivid.” What is THIS?

A “magnificent” perspective

B alabaster perspective

C aerial perspective

D optical perspective

Question #5

THIS is “a vernacular song, usually composed for three to six unaccompanied voices”

A a madrigal

B a contrapposto

C an oratoria

D a volute

Question #6

THIS is “a stringed keyboard instrument widely used between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; when the player presses down on a key. a brass tangent or blade rises and strikes a string.” What is THIS instrument?

A a clavichord

B a hurdy gurdy

C a lute

D a harpsichord

Question #7

The painting, “The School of Athens is a portrait gallery of Renaissance artists whose likeness [HE] borrowed to depict his Classical heroes.” Who painted The School of Athens?

A Masaccio

B Leonardo da Vinci

C Raphael

D Michelangelo

Question #8

He writes [here in an English translation], “the eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding may most fully and abundantly appreiciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second inasmuch as it aquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things which the eye has seen.” What is the name of the artist who wrote this?

A Leonard da Vinci

B Filippo Brunelleschi

C Jan Van Eyck

D Giorgione

Question #9

HE “wrote one of the first treaties on the art of dancing. He emphasized the importance of grace, the memorization of fixed steps, and the coordination of music and motion. [HE] also choreographed a number of lively dances or balli — the italian word from which the French ballet derived.” This person, who lived from 1439-1482, was “the dance master at the court of Urbino” and “wrote one of the first treaties on the art of dancing.” Who was this person?

A Domenico da Placencza

B Antonio Cornazano

C Saltarelli

D Guglielmo Ebreo

Question #10

HE “went on to establish his reputation in Florence at the age of twenty-seven, when he undertook to carve a freestanding larger-than-life satue of the biblical David from a gigantic block of Carrara marble that no other sculptor had dared to tackle.” WHO carved this David (1501-1504)?

A Michelangelo

B Jacopo della Quercia

C Andrea del Verrocchio

D Lucca della Robbia

Question #11

Fiero writes “while early Renaissance artists usually represented their sitters in domestic interiors, High Renaissance masters prefererred to situate them in plein-air” settings. What is meant by plein air?

A outdoor

B by the water

C with a painted backdrop

D under an arch

Question #12

Fiero writes “during the sixteenth century, the female nude — often bearing the name of a Classical goddess — became a favorite subject of patrons seeking sensuous or erotic art for private enjoyment. The most famous of such commissions, the so-called Venus of Urbino, was painted for Guidobaldo della Rovera, the Duke of Urbino, during the last stage of [HIS] artistic career.” Who painted Venus of Urbino?

A Giorgione

B Raphael

C Jan Van Eyck

D Titian

Question #13

According to Fiero HE “shared the Neoplatonic believe that the soul, imprisoned in the body, yearned to return to its sacred origins. In his last works of art, as in his impassioned sonnets, he explored the conflict between flesh and spirit that had burdened many humanists, including Petrarch.” WHO was Fiero writing about?

A Donato Bramante

B Michelangelo

C Leonardo da Vinci

D Tiziano Vecelli

Question #14

“In his Four Books on Architecture, published in Venice in 1570, [HE] defended symmetry and centrality as the controlling element of architectural design. He put his ideas into practice in a number of magnificent country houses he built for patrons in northern Italy.” Who is this person?

A Leon Battista Alberti

B Filipio Brunelleschi

C Andrea Palladio

D Leonardo da Vinci

Question #15

THIS IS “a term used for the music of fourteenth-century Europe to distinguish it from that of the old art (ars antigua); it featured new rhythms, new harmonies, and more complicated methods of musical notation.” What is THIS?

A Ars nova

B The Renaissance

C Pilaster

D Picaresque

Question #16

The Italian Renaissance Art You Tube video, presented by Raluca Ghican and Ally Martine, states “Aristotle and Plato are seen in conversation at the center of School of Athens. The gesture which Plato is making with his upward pointing finger is symbolic: he is pointing to the source of higher inspiration, the realm of ideas. Aristotle on the other hand is gesturing downward toward” SOMETHING. What is this SOMETHING?

A “the ending point of all thinkers”

B “the starting point of all natural sciences.”

C “the axis point of the world”

D “Socrates”

Question #17

According to WebMuseum, Paris – the link is found in the modules – “In common with other artists of his day, [HE] lacked the technical knowledge of anatomy and perspective that later painters learned. Yet what he possessed was infinitely greater than the technical skill of the artists who followed him. He had a grasp of human emotion and of what was significant in human life. In concentrating on these essentials he created compelling pictures of people under stress, of people caught up in crises and soul-searching decisions.” WHO IS THIS PERSON?

A Giotto

B Masaccio

C Leonardo da Vinci

D Raphael

Question #18

Who wrote The Nobility and Excellence of Woman and the Defects and Vices of Men

A Christine de Pisan

B Lavinia Fontana

C Lucretia Marinella

D Laura Cereta

Question #19

What is a sonnet?

A “a complete poem, consisting of four lines of verse.”

B “a fourteen-line poem with a fixed scheme of rhyming”

C “a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba)”

D “an epic poem, usually written in Latin”

Question #20

What is a condottiere (plural condottieri)?

A “a professional soldier; a mercenary who typically served the Renaissance city-state”

B “the effect or tendency to combine or reconcile different beliefs”

C “the use of exclusively gray tones in painting or drawing”

D “a lively fourteenth-century Italian muscial form that deals with everyday subjects, such as hunting and fishing’

Question #21

This man, often called the “father of humanism,” according to Fiero “devoted his life to the recovery, copying, and editing of Latin manuscripts.” His favorite poetic for was the sonnet. Who was he?

A Marsilio Ficino

B Leon Battista Alberti

C Thomas Aquinas

D Francesco Petrarch

Question #22

Fiero writes, “while Renaissance Italy flourished in the soil of ancient Rome, its political circumstances had much in common with” THIS. What is THIS?

A Mesopotamia

B ancient Greece

C ancient Egypt

D A ninth century feudal society

Question #23

Fiero writes that THIS “movement to recover and revive Greco-Roman culture, was the phenomenon that gave the Renaissance (the word literally means “rebirth”) its distinctive, secular stamp.” What was THIS MOVEMENT?

A Marinellan vision

B Machiavellian vision

C Syncretism

D Classical humanism

Question #24

Fiero writes that HIS most “original literary contribution (and that for which he was best known in his own time) was his treatise On the Family.” Who was this 15th century humanist?

A Francesco Petrarch

B Baldassare Castiglione

C Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

D Leon Battista Alberti

Question #25

According to Fiero THIS PERSON’S “Book of the Courtier established a modern educational ideal in the person of l’uomo universale — the well-rounded individual.” Who wrote The Book of the Courtier?

A Baldassare Castiglione

B Lavinia Fontana

C Cassandra Fedele

D Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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