Annotated Mona Lisa (Renaissance and Baroque)

Question 1

Top Four breakthroughs of Renaissance

Answer 1

1. Oil on stretched canvas
2. Perspective
3. Use of light and shadow
4. Pyramid Configuration

Question 2

3 famous artists in Early Renaissance

Answer 2

1. Masaccio (painter)
2. Donatello (sculptor reintroduces naturalism to art)
3. Botticelli (painter)

Question 3

Showed mastery of perspective and used a single, constant source of light that cast accurate shadow. Nicknamed “Sloppy Tom”

Answer 3

Masaccio

Question 4

His “Mary Magdalen” captured brutal naturalism. Recaptured classical sculpture style contrapposto. His “David” was the first life-sized, freestanding nude sculpture since the Classical period

Answer 4

Donatello

Question 5

Used decorative linear style resembling Byzantine art. His nudes epitomize the Renaissance and his “Birth of Venus” marks the rebirth of Classical mythology

Answer 5

Botticelli

Question 6

3 famous artists in Italian High Renaissance

Answer 6

1. Leonardo
2. Michelangelo
3. Raphael

Question 7

4 Italian Renaissance Architects

Answer 7

1. Alberti
2. Brunelleschi
3. Bramante
4. Palladio

Question 8

The earliest known painting in which the sitter looked at the spectator

Answer 8

“Man in a Red Turban” by Eyck

Question 9

3 artists of the German High Renaissance

Answer 9

1. Griinewald
2. Durer
3. Holbein

Question 10

Court painter for Henry VIII

Answer 10

Holbein

Question 11

Used dense lines to render differences in texture and tone. First to use printmaking as a major medium for art

Answer 11

Durer

Question 12

Time period when artists abandoned realism. Figures twist in unnecessary contrapposto. lurid colors, high tension movement and unreal lighting.

Answer 12

Mannerism (Late Renaissance)

Question 13

5 Mannerists

Answer 13

1. Pontormo
2. Rosso
3. Bronzino
4. Parmigiano
5. Benvenuto Cellini