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Test Bank For Gardners Art Through The Ages A Concise Global History 4th Edition
Test Bank For Gardners Art Through The Ages A Concise Global History 4th Edition
1. _____ were an especially popular art form in Flanders in the early 15th century.
a. Oil paintings
b. Stained-glass windows
c. Mosaics
d. Intarsia cabinets
ANSWER: a
2. The subject of Rogier van der Weyden’s image of Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin was especially appropriate for the
_____, which probably commissioned it.
a. crossbowman’s guild
b. painter’s guild
c. order of the rosary
d. mayor of Ghent
ANSWER: b
3. The new economic system, _____, emerged in its early phase in the 15th century.
a. feudalism
b. mercantilism
c. capitalism
d. imperialism
ANSWER: c
4. Philip the Bold’s most extensive artistic commission was the _____.
a. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
b. Ghent Altarpiece
c. Retable de Champmol
d. Chartreuse de Champmol
ANSWER: d
5. Which region used canvases to a greater extent because of the high humidity?
a. Venice
b. Flanders
c. Rome
d. Burgundy
ANSWER: a
10. Used for the reciting of prayers, _____ were prized possessions of the aristocracy.
a. Books of Hours
b. carved fountains
c. carved retables
d. diptychs
ANSWER: a
12. What suggests that beyond its religious meaning Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych had a personal dimension?
a. Angels surround the Virgin.
b. Saints are present.
c. The Virgin is a portrait of the king’s mistress.
d. Two different styles are shown.
ANSWER: c
13. Tilman Riemenschneider created a sense of fluid motion in his Assumption of the Virgin through _____.
a. a pyramidal composition
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14. _____ is the intaglio process that involved dipping the plate with its exposed lines into an acid bath.
a. Etching
b. Woodcut
c. Relief
d. Engraving
ANSWER: a
15. The humanist interests in Italy contributed to the popularity of _____ subject matter.
a. religious
b. classical or mythological
c. abstract
d. astronomical
ANSWER: b
17. Although Ghiberti won the competition for the doors of the Florence baptistery on his stylistic principles, his _____
may have also helped him win.
a. relationship to the Pope
b. father
c. connections to the Medici
d. more inexpensive technique
ANSWER: d
18. Aspects of the narrative and creation of depth of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise were based on ideas from
_____.
a. Leon Battista Alberti’s On Painting
b. Giotto di Bondone
c. northern art
d. Byzantine art
ANSWER: a
19. Along with the doors of Florence’s baptistery, the decoration of _____ was a major artistic project in 15th-century
Florence.
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20. Donatello carved his Saint Mark on Or San Michele for the _____.
a. Duke of Burgundy
b. Medici
c. guild of linen makers and tailors
d. painter’s guild
ANSWER: c
21. _____ introduced the classical principle of weight shift into Renaissance statuary.
a. Gentile da Fabriano
b. Jan van Eyck
c. Antonio del Pollaiuolo
d. Donatello
ANSWER: d
22. Donatello’s _____ was the first nude statue since ancient times.
a. David
b. Well of Moses
c. Gattamelata
d. Abraham
ANSWER: a
23. The portrait of the famed condottiere _____ was the first to rival imperial mounted portraits.
a. Federico da Montefeltro
b. Gattamelata
c. Leon Battista Alberti
d. Ludovico Sforza
ANSWER: b
24. _____ was the leading master of the International Gothic style in Quattrocento Italy.
a. Donatello
b. Andrea Mantegna
c. Gentile da Fabriano
d. Filippo Brunelleschi
ANSWER: c
25. _____, who invented the science of perspective, may have collaborated with Masaccio on his Holy Trinity.
a. Rogier van der Weyden
b. Girolamo Savonarola
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c. Martin Shongauer
d. Brunelleschi
ANSWER: d
26. Fra Angelico’s Annunciation was made for the _____ of San Marco in Florence.
a. Dominican monastery
b. Palazzo della Signoria
c. baptistery
d. Piazza del Santo
ANSWER: a
27. The figures in Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child reflect the use of _____.
a. Byzantine sources
b. live models
c. classical figures
d. northern art
ANSWER: b
28. The Medici and their humanist scholars had a passionate interest in _____.
a. landscape
b. trade
c. the Greco-Roman world
d. Christian traditions
ANSWER: c
29. The imagery of _____ suggests that it was made for the occasion of Lorenzo de Medici’s wedding.
a. Ghiberti’s Isaac and His Sons
b. Lippi’s Madonna and Child
c. Pollaiuolo’s Battle of Ten Nudes
d. Botticelli’s Primavera
ANSWER: d
30. The artist _____ focused on showing human figures in violent action.
a. Antonio del Pollaiuolo
b. Fra Angelico
c. Claus Sluter
d. Sandro Botticelli
ANSWER: a
31. The _____ is the first building to embody the Renaissance style.
a. Sant’Andrea
b. Ospedale degli Innocenti
c. San Lorenzo
d. Louvre
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ANSWER: b
33. _____ was a Dominican preacher who denounced the Medici and the materialistic culture in Florence.
a. Tommaso Portinari
b. Erasmo da Narni
c. Jodocus Vijd
d. Girolamo Savonarola
ANSWER: d
34. Perugino and Botticelli contributed to Pope Sixtus IV’s fresco program in the _____.
a. Sistine Chapel
b. Or San Michele
c. Herrgottskirche
d. Camera Picta
ANSWER: a
36. _____ is the architect credited with breaking from the Christian building tradition that had been established for a
thousand years in his design for Sant’Andrea.
a. Robert Campin
b. Filippo Brunelleschi
c. Leon Battista Alberti
d. Lorenzo Ghiberti
ANSWER: c
37. In the _____, Andrea Mantegna completed the first consistently illusionistic decoration of an entire room.
a. baptistery of Florence
b. Or San Michele
c. Pazzi Chapel
d. Camera Picta
ANSWER: d
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38. What does the fountain created by Claus Sluter for the cloister of Chartreuse de Champmol symbolize?
a. Redemption
b. Judgment
c. Sanitation
d. Hope
ANSWER: a
SLIDE IDENTIFICATION
39. (Figure 8-16)
a. Alberti
b. Ghiberti
c. Donatello
d. Brunelleschi
ANSWER: b
54. What benefits did the Chartreuse de Champmol provide for its patron, Philip the Bold?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
55. What is the overall theme of the Ghent Altarpiece, and which motifs contribute to the theme?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
56. How were portraits commonly featured in 15th-century artworks, and what was their function within them?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
57. How does Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife underscore the painter’s self-consciousness?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
58. How does the Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by the Limbourg Brothers demonstrate the growing interest in
naturalism in northern European art?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
61. Describe how humanist interests and art intersected in quattrocento Italy.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
63. How does Botticelli’s style depart from his contemporaries, and why is it likened to poetry?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
64. What effect did Girolamo Savonarola’s teaching have on Florence and its artistic production?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
65. Describe the structural relationship between the facade and interior of Alberti’s Sant’Andrea in Mantua.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
SLIDE QUESTIONS
66. How does this pay tribute to the painting profession?
ANSWER: Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (8-1)
67. How do these figures differ from the French Gothic style?
ANSWER: Claus Sluter, Well of Moses (8-2)
69. What was the traditional interpretation of this painting, and how has it changed?
ANSWER: Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (8-6)
70. Which elements of this painting were especially influential on Italian artists?
ANSWER: Hugo van der Goes, Adoration of the Shepherds (8-8)
71. How do the Limbourg Brothers celebrate Jean of Berry and his possessions?
ANSWER: Limbourg Brothers, October, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (8-9)
73. What significance did this subject hold for the Medici family?
ANSWER: Donatello, David (8-18)
74. Which earlier artist’s figure style is recalled here? How did he create the bulky appearance of his figures?
ANSWER: Masaccio, Tribute Money (8-21)
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Essay
77. Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin touches on many aspects of 15th-century northern art.
Identify the issues that it addresses and how it addresses them.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
78. What were the two dominant painting techniques used in the 15th century? Compare and contrast the method of
application and the visual effects produced by each. Which one became the preferred medium?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
79. Describe the different printmaking techniques and the visual effects that each created. Which artists excelled at
printmaking?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
80. One of the facets of humanism was the renewed interest in classical culture and art. Using specific examples, explain
how artists demonstrated a dependency on classical art or subject matter.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
81. Flemish art developed distinctive stylistic qualities and methods for presenting its subjects. Using examples, identify
the hallmark characteristics of northern European art in the 15th century.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
82. In 15th-century Italy, artists introduced new ways of creating the illusion of depth. Citing examples, explain which
techniques they employed. Please consider both painting and sculpture.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
83. Select five artists and identify the hallmarks of their artistic style.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
84. Describe the importance of Brunelleschi and Alberti as architects. To what extent were they influenced by classical
architecture? How were they innovative?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
85. Evaluate Donatello’s contribution to the sculpture of the 15th century. Use examples to support your essay.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
86. Contrast the styles of 15th-century Burgundian, Flemish, and Italian painting. How are they similar? How are they
different? Use examples to support your essay.
ANSWER: Answers may vary
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