HUMANITIES 151 Name _________________________

Ch8 Study Guide

PART 1. SLIDE IDENTIFICATION (5 points each)

(Write as much as you can in the information section)

Slide #1.
1. Date or Cultural Time Period _______________________________________________

2. Title/Description_________________________________________________________

3. Medium/Made out of ___________________________________________________

4,5&6 = 3 or more specific details of historical importance, cultural significance, content/meaning of the work,
medium or methods of construction

4.__________________________________________________________________________

5.__________________________________________________________________________

6. _________________________________________________________________________

Slide #2
1. Date or Cultural Time Period _______________________________________________

2. Title/Description_________________________________________________________

3. Medium/Made out of ___________________________________________________

4,5&6 = 3 or more specific details of historical importance, cultural significance, content/meaning of the work,
medium or methods of construction

4.__________________________________________________________________________

5.__________________________________________________________________________

6. _________________________________________________________________________

Slide #3
1. Date or Cultural Time Period _______________________________________________

2. Title/Description_________________________________________________________

3. Medium/Made out of ___________________________________________________

4,5&6 = 3 or more specific details of historical importance, cultural significance, content/meaning of the work,
medium or methods of construction

4.__________________________________________________________________________

5.__________________________________________________________________________

6. _________________________________________________________________________
PART 2. SLIDE QUESTIONS
(Circle the letter that best fits what should go in the space)

1. These panels in the doors of the Baptistery are made out of ____________________.
a. Plaster
b. Gilt bronze
c. Copper
d. Wood

2. This painting is an early example of __________________ a technique invented by Leonardo de Vinci that blurs the
edges of the subject to mimic natural sight.
a. Chiaroscuro
b. Grisaille
c. Sfumato
d. Linear perspective

PART 3. FILL IN THE BLANK

(Circle the letter that best fits what should go in the space)

1. _____________________ is a painting technique described as the dramatic use of high contrasts of dark and light.
a. Sfumato
b. Pointillism
c. Chiaroscuro
d. Intaglio

2. A printmaking process that makes recessed lines on wood is called __________.

a. Engraving
b. Woodcut
c. Intaglio
d. All of the above

3. The new medium of graphic art started with the invention of ________________________.
a. Oil paints
b. The printing press
c. Manuscript illumination
d. The Beautiful style

PART 4. TRUE FALSE

(Circle T or F for the best answer)

1. T F Early linear perspective used vanishing points located in the middle of the painting.

2. T F The sculptor Brunelleschi devised a design using a double shell with internal braces to finally build a gigantic
dome on the Florence Cathedral.

3. T F Donatello made the first life-size bronze nude and equestrian statues since antiquity.

4. T F Atmospheric and one-point perspective are the same.

5. T F Michelangelo used distortion in the hands & head sizes of his sculpture David to express the Humanistic
philosophy of the day as well as enhance the meaning of the work of art.