Exam 1

Question 1

Gothic

Answer 1

is a term used by Renaissance scholars to insult the “barbaric” style of art practiced by the “Goths”. It was an architectural style that originated in the monasteries around Paris.

Question 2

Relic

Answer 2

Anything having to do with an important saint or martyr.
Type 1: Physical relic (hair, bones…)
Type 2: Contact relic (the Cross, Staffs)

Question 3

Humanism

Answer 3

Renaissance figures see people as essentially good and rational—capable of making their own decisions

Question 4

Renaissance

Answer 4

Renaissance=rebirth, i.e. rebirth of ancient Greco-Roman culture
Renaissance=rebirth, i.e. rebirth of ancient Greco-Roman culture
Renaissance=rebirth, i.e. rebirth of ancient Greco-Roman culture
rebirth, i.e. rebirth of ancient Greco-Roman culture

Question 5

Hieratic Scale

Answer 5

placing the dynamics of the figures in a foundational manner, all figures build to a center idea or image

Question 6

Tempera

Answer 6

is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size)

Question 7

naturalism

Answer 7

Applying concepts of anatomy to add a more natural and realistic image

Question 8

Usury

Answer 8

is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans

Question 9

Allegorical Figure

Answer 9

refers to figures that symbolize and particularly personify abstract ideas as in allegory

Question 10

reliquary

Answer 10

object that contains a relic

Question 11

contrapposto

Answer 11

the depiction of a sculpture or figure leaning on to one leg

Question 12

Book of Hours

Answer 12

N/A

Question 13

Early Renaissance—late 13th-14th c.

Answer 13

artists attempting to depict optical effects, looking at the world around them rather than at past works of art

Question 14

(Middle) Renaissance—15th c.

Answer 14

artists beginning to work through techniques for convincingly depicting world around them; art is conceived as a window on the world

Question 15

High Renaissance—late 15th-16th

Answer 15

artists have mastered techniques for convincingly depicting world around them and bring them to new heights

Question 16

Mannerism—late 16th c.

Answer 16

(overlaps with High Renaissance)
having mastered the techniques of naturalism and illusionism, many artists turn away from them to create works that are visually illogical in many ways

Question 17

sfumato

Answer 17

without lines or borders