ARTS - The Rebirth of Art

Question 1

It is the period of “reawakening” or “rebirth”.

Answer 1

Renaissance

Question 2

When did the Renaissance period come, which brought about the development of new technologies such as the printing press amidst a politically stable and prosperous Europe?

Answer 2

Middle Ages

Question 3

What are the three things that flourished around the Middle Ages due to a growing passion to discover and explore new things?

Answer 3

(1) Philosophy
(2) Literature
(3) Art

Question 4

It played a pivotal role in the emergence of the Renaissance style of visual and decorative art in the last part of the 14th century.

Answer 4

Italy

Question 5

When did the Renaissance style reach its peak?

Answer 5

15th and early 16th centuries

Question 6

Who are the three Italian artists who were part of the masterpieces of the Renaissance style?

Answer 6

(1) Leonardo da Vinci
(2) Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(3) Raffaello “Raphael” Sanzio da Urbino

Question 7

It is also known to reflect the splendor of individual experience and beauty of nature.

Answer 7

Renaissance Art

Question 8

Who challenged the dominance of the Renaissance style/art?

Answer 8

(1) Pablo Picasso
(2) Cubist Movement

Question 9

It had less interest in religious and secular dogma, and it celebrated the core values of dignity and individual worth.

Answer 9

Humanism

Question 10

What are the three Renaissance periods?

Answer 10

(1) Proto-Renaissance Art (c.1200-1400)
(2) Early Renaissance Art (1401-1490s)
(3) High Renaissance Art (c.1530-1600)

Question 11

It is the early forms of Renaissance art evident in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Answer 11

Proto-Renaissance Art (c.1200-1400)

Question 12

During the Proto-Renaissance, who were the Italian writers who celebrated the classical Roman culture, and had high regard for the languages, values, and intellectual traditions that went stagnant long after the Roman empire fell in the sixth century.

Answer 12

(1) Petrarch (1304-1774)
(2) Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 13

He was a painter from Florence who was the most noteworthy Proto-Renaissance artist, and he became famous for his advanced techniques and realistic representations of the human body.

Answer 13

Giotto di Bondone

Question 14

What was the painting Giotto di Bondone made?

Answer 14

Ognissanti Madonna

Question 15

What century did the Proto-Renaissance art slowly diminish?

Answer 15

End of the 14th century

Question 16

It became the site of a renewed interest for philosophy, religion, and art reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.

Answer 16

Florence

Question 17

He was a sculptor with his prize-winning set of bronze doors in 1401, who also won a competition on designing a new set of doors for the baptistery of the cathedral of Florence.

Answer 17

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Question 18

What was the artwork Lorenzo Ghiberti made?

Answer 18

Gates of Paradise

Question 19

They eventually became masters of early Renaissance sculpture.

Answer 19

(1) Filippo Brunelleschi
(2) Donato di Niccolo “Donatello” di Betto Bardi

Question 20

He was also a renowned early Renaissance artist who became famous for his frescoes of a church and a chapel in Florence.

Answer 20

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni “Masaccio” di Simone

Question 21

What was the artwork of Masaccio made?

Answer 21

Holy Trinity

Question 22

Where was the new center of Renaissance art in Italy?

Answer 22

Rome

Question 23

Who headed the Renaissance art in Rome, Italy?

Answer 23

Pope Leo X

Question 24

He was known for his mastery of oil painting.

Answer 24

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 25

He was a famed sculptor and fresco painter.

Answer 25

Michelangelo

Question 26

He was probably the finest painter of the High Renaissance art.

Answer 26

Raphael

Question 27

What was the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci?

Answer 27

Mona Lisa

Question 28

What was the artwork of Michelangelo?

Answer 28

Ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel

Question 29

What was the artwork of Raphael?

Answer 29

The Madonna of the Pinks

Question 30

He was a painter during the High Renaissance, who is known for his illusionistic Assumption of the Virgin at the Parma Cathedral.

Answer 30

Antonio da Correggio

Question 31

He was the leading architect during this period.

Answer 31

Donato Bramante

Question 32

He made a name for himself for his murals found at some portions of the Sistine Chapel and for his frescoes at the Orvieto Cathedral.

Answer 32

Luca Signorelli

Question 33

TRUE OR FALSE
Signorelli was a great influence on Michelangelo.

Answer 33

TRUE

Question 34

It became widespread in the late 1500s, when this artistic style focused on artificiality, as opposed to the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art.

Answer 34

Mannerism

Question 35

This can be likened to looking through a window and painting what you can see on the window pane exactly how you see it.

Answer 35

Linear Perspective

Question 36

This may be understood as the line representing the viewer’s eye level.

Answer 36

Horizon Line

Question 37

This refers to the point at which parallel lines appear to converge far in the distance often on the horizon line.

Answer 37

Vanishing Point

Question 38

It is tan example of the manipulation of shadows and light without regard to color.

Answer 38

Chiaroscuro

Question 39

It is the fine shading, which creates soft and almost unnoticeable transitions between tones and colors.

Answer 39

Sfumato

Question 40

What are the two defining characteristic of a Renaissance painting?

Answer 40

(1) Realism
(2) Naturalism

Question 41

It was still the major theme of many Renaissance sculptures as observed in churches that have elaborately carved tabernacles, pulpits, tombs, altars, baptismal fonts, and statues.

Answer 41

Religion

Question 42

It is the concept of balanced proportions and was observable in architectural forms and specific shapes, and styles were used that characterized the period.

Answer 42

Symmetry

Question 43

It was inspired by the Classical architecture displayed by the ruins of ancient buildings and by the writings of Vitruvius.

Answer 43

Order