Module 5.2

Question 1

• Began after the Bubonic plague in the 14th and 15th centuries and was fueled by soldiers returning from the Crusades.
• There was a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art.
• Human beings were included in artwork.
• Artwork was no longer just depictions in holy topics.

Answer 1

Renaissance Period

Question 2

• This was a time of rebirth, revival of learning, and renewed cultural awareness mostly in Europe.
• The focus of study shifted from Theology (symbolic) to Humanities(emotion-filled)

Answer 2

Renaissance

Question 3

• This family helped with the rebirth of
  Europe.

Answer 3

Medici Family

Question 4

• Invented by Filippo Brunelleschi, it is a mathematical system used to create the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface.
• Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi demonstrated its principles.

Answer 4

Linear Perspective

Question 5

• Created the first free-standing statues of the Renaissance, independent of architecture or decoration.

Answer 5

Donatello

Question 6

• In the mid 15th century, the Renaissance movement had spread throughout Europe.
• However, Italy was still at the heart of this cultural rebirth and it continued to produce ingenious artists like Mantegna, Antonella da Messina, and Botticelli

Answer 6

NOTE

Question 7

• Is one of the champions when it comes to perspectives

Paintings:
- St. James Led to His Execution
- San Sebastian
- Lamentation Over the Dead Christ

Answer 7

Andrea Mantegna

Question 8

• Made his portraits so perfect that they give the illusion of life.
• Particularly careful of perspective, His painting is characterized by strong colors and precision of architectural forms

Paintings:
Portrait of a Man

Answer 8

Antonella da Messina

Question 9

• Had a sophisticated understanding of perspective, anatomy and humanism.
• His Birth of Venus (circa 1485) and Primavera (1477-78) are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance.

Answer 9

Sandro Boticelli

Question 10

• The essential feature of this period of art was its unity
• Paintings invoked increasing dramatic force with human forms becoming so life-like

Answer 10

High Renaissance

Question 11

• He is known as a sculptor and his two greatest works are the Pieta and David.
• Things changed for the sculptor when he was asked by Pope Julian II to do fresco on the ceiling of the
  Sistine chapel.

Answer 11

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Question 12

• He epitomized the renaissance humanistic ideal
• He wanted to know the working of everything he saw in nature and filled more than 4,000 pages of notebooks with detailed diagrams and observations

Answer 12

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 13

• A method of using hue, value, and intensity to show distant objects in landscape painting
• To make it look three dimensional, objects farther back in space overlap each other.
• They also appear bluer, lighter, and duller than the objects close at hand

Answer 13

Atmospheric Perspective

Question 14

Famous paintings During Renaissance

Da Vinci’s Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, Wife of Francesco del Giocondo is considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait.

Answer 14

Mona Lisa

Question 15

Famous paintings During Renaissance

A painting (1505) that is truly “classical” in the sense that it has served countless generations as a standard of perfection.

Answer 15

Madonna del Granduca

Question 16

• She is best known for her Portraiture
• Typical to her work are the natural pose, expressive eyes and the fine details
• Her paintings were said to be so lifelike that the only thing lacking is speech.

Answer 16

Sofonisba Anguissola

Question 17

• He was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges
• He is one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting
• He is one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.

Answer 17

Jan van Eyck

Question 18

• It was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
• It all started when Martin Luther created the 95 theses, which contained all the propositions against the Catholic Church

Answer 18

Protestant Reformation

Question 19

• An artist who also stirred far from theological themes.

Answer 19

Peter Paul Rubens

Question 20

• His paintings focuses on emotionally-charged subjects, and made more exciting by the use of dramatic lightning.
• His technique of painting is called Chiaroscuro

Answer 20

Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 21

As the Renaissance began, they were able to establish the three
forms of drama:

Answer 21

Tragedy
Comedy
Pastoral

Question 22

When the protagonist does not achieve his goal.

Answer 22

Tragedy

Question 23

When the protagonist is able to achieve his goal

Answer 23

Comedy

Question 24

Stories about love affairs of shepherds, nymphs, satyr, and the like in a rural setting

Answer 24

Pastoral

Question 25

-Tried to recreate Greek tragedies, through the form of a chorus and solo singing, dancing, and deriving plots from mythology.

Answer 25

Florentine Camerata

Question 26

• believed that the chants of the gods were sung

Answer 26

Camerata Academy

Question 27

new form of Art

Answer 27

Opera

Question 28

• During this period, artists were asked to create works that would bring about a renewal of religious spirit.
• They responded with a new style of art that featured action and drama
• It is an art style that emphasized movement, contrast and variety

Answer 28

Baroque Art

Question 29

• Is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church

Answer 29

Baroque Architecture

Question 30

• These painting became a trend during the seventeenth century. Most of them manifest contemporary scenes such as the buildings, river craft, modern means of land transportation, etc.

Answer 30

Landscape paintings

Question 31

• one of the most gifted painters of still life during this period
• His sense of composition was no less sure that his illusionistic skill, enabling him to create sumptuous, restful harmonies of shapes, colors, textures, reflections and transparencies.

Answer 31

Willem Kalf