Chapter 21 Art
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HUMANISM AND THE ALLURE OF ANTIQUITY
FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN ART
TEXT PAGES 572-611
1. List three tenants that underlay Italian Humanism:
a.
b.
c.
2. What fifteenth-century German invention facilitated the distribution of books and the knowledge they contained?
3. What was the basis of the wealth of the Medici family?
4. List four roles played by the arts in 15th century Italian princely courts.
a.
b.
c.
d.
FLORENCE
1. Name the two finalists for the commission of the north doors of the Baptistry of Florence and briefly describe their styles: Name Style a.
b.
.
2. List three elements that constitute the greatness of Donatello’s art,
a.
b.
c.
3. Donatello’s Feast of Herod (FIG. 21-3), done in 1425, marked the advent of
4. The invention of linear prerspective is generally attributed to:
5. Define the following and draw and label a diagram if appropriate:
Atmospheric perspective:
Linear perspective:
Orthogonals
Horizon line:
Vanishing point:
6 The artist who created the doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral that best demonstrate the new principles of linear perspective was
What name did Michelangelo give to the doors?
7. Viewers identified saints from their symbolic attributes. Write the names of the following saints after the appropriate description: Augustine, Francis of Assisi, George, Jerome, Peter, Stephen.
Has a stigmata and wears a long robe, tied at the waist:
Young knight in armor with a cross on his shield, slaying a dragon:
Carries keys:
Scholar at his desk or a hermit in the wilderness:
Holds a stone:
Wears a bishop’s vestments and mitre:
8. Name the patrons and the artists who created the following figures for Or San Michele: Artist Patron
Saint George
Saint Mark:
Quattro Santi Coronati (4 crowned saints)
9. In what figure did
HUMANISM AND THE ALLURE OF ANTIQUITY
FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN ART
TEXT PAGES 572-611
1. List three tenants that underlay Italian Humanism:
a.
b.
c.
2. What fifteenth-century German invention facilitated the distribution of books and the knowledge they contained?
3. What was the basis of the wealth of the Medici family?
4. List four roles played by the arts in 15th century Italian princely courts.
a.
b.
c.
d.
FLORENCE
1. Name the two finalists for the commission of the north doors of the Baptistry of Florence and briefly describe their styles: Name Style a.
b.
.
2. List three elements that constitute the greatness of Donatello’s art,
a.
b.
c.
3. Donatello’s Feast of Herod (FIG. 21-3), done in 1425, marked the advent of
4. The invention of linear prerspective is generally attributed to:
5. Define the following and draw and label a diagram if appropriate:
Atmospheric perspective:
Linear perspective:
Orthogonals
Horizon line:
Vanishing point:
6 The artist who created the doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral that best demonstrate the new principles of linear perspective was
What name did Michelangelo give to the doors?
7. Viewers identified saints from their symbolic attributes. Write the names of the following saints after the appropriate description: Augustine, Francis of Assisi, George, Jerome, Peter, Stephen.
Has a stigmata and wears a long robe, tied at the waist:
Young knight in armor with a cross on his shield, slaying a dragon:
Carries keys:
Scholar at his desk or a hermit in the wilderness:
Holds a stone:
Wears a bishop’s vestments and mitre:
8. Name the patrons and the artists who created the following figures for Or San Michele: Artist Patron
Saint George
Saint Mark:
Quattro Santi Coronati (4 crowned saints)
9. In what figure did