Renaissance/Baroque Midterm

Question 1

Answer 1

Simone Martini

Annunciation

panel

1333

Original location: Siena Cathedral, chapel of S. Ansano (part of program of narrative polyptychs)

City State of Siena

Question 2

Answer 2

Giotto

Scenes from the lives of the Virgin and Christ.

Fresco,

c. 1303-9.

Location: Arena Chapel, Padua.

Commissioner: Enrico Scrovegni

Question 3

Answer 3

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Allegory of Good Government

Fresco

1338-39.

Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)

Commissioner: city state or commune.

Question 4

Answer 4

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Effects of Good Government in the City

Fresco

1338-39.

Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)

Commissioner: city state or commune.

Question 5

Answer 5

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Effects of Good Government in the Country

Fresco

1338-39.

Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)

Commissioner: city state or commune.

Question 6

Answer 6

Brunelleschi

Santo. Spirito, Florence. (Ground plan and interior)

Designed mid 1430s; built 1446 to late 15th century.

Patron: Augustinian monks.

Question 7

Answer 7

Donatello

St. Mark

Marble

1411-13.

Location: Orsanmichele, Florence.

Patron: guild of Linaiuoli (Linen Drapers)

Question 8

Answer 8

Donatello

David.

Bronze

c. 1440.

Location: Courtyard of Medici Palace.

Patron: Cosimo de Medici

Question 9

Answer 9

Masaccio

Trinity.

Fresco

c. 1428.

Location: Santa Maria Novella, Florence (fictive tomb chapel in side aisle)

Patron: Member of Lenzi family, standard-bearer of Florentine Republic, who died in 1426 and is buried in floor in front of fresco.

Question 10

Answer 10

Masaccio

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Fresco

c. 1425.

Location: Brancacci Family Chapel, Santa Maria
del Carmine, Florence.

Patron: Probably Carmelite Monks using the funds donated by a member of the Brancacci family in the 14th century

Question 11

Answer 11

Leon Battista Alberti

Sant’Andrea, Mantua

begun 1470.

Patron: Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga

Question 12

Answer 12

Filippo Lippi

Annunciation.

Tempera on panel

c.1440.

Location: San Lorenzo, Florence.

Patron: Martelli family

Question 13

Answer 13

Domenico Veneziano

Virgin and child with Saints (St. Lucy Altarpiece)

Tempera on panel

c. 1445.

Location: High altar, Santa Lucia, Florence.

Patron: unknown

Question 14

Answer 14

Fra Angelico

Descent from the Cross

Tempera on panel

late 1430s [date differs from Hartt].

Location: Sacristy, Santa Trinita, Florence

Patron: Palla Strozzi

Question 15

Answer 15

Mantegna

Dead Christ (Lamentation)

Tempera on panel

After 1466.

Location: unknown (probably Gonzaga Palace, Mantua).

Patron: probably Lodovico Gonzaga

Question 16

Answer 16

Uccello

The Battle of San Romano

Tempera on panel

c. 1445

Location: Medici Palace

Patron: Medici Family

Question 17

Answer 17

Jan Van Eyck

Ghent Altarpiece

Oil on panel

1432

Location: Cathedral of St.Bavo, Ghent.

Patron: Jodocus Vyd, Ghent

Question 18

Answer 18

Master of Flemalle (Robert Campin?)

Annunciation (Merode altarpiece)

oil on panel

c.1425-26

Patron: Inghelbrechts, Mechelen

Question 19

Answer 19

Jan Van Eyck

Chancellor Rolin kneeling before the Virgin and child

Oil on panel

c. 1433-34

Location: Notre Dame, Autun

Patron: Chancellor Rolin

(Not an altarpiece)

Question 20

Answer 20

Rogier van der Weyden

Descent from the Cross

Oil on panel

c.1435

Location: Church of Notre Dame, Louvain.

Patron: Crossbowmen’s Guild, Louvain.

(Probably the central panel of a triptych; figures include St. Joseph of Arimethea and St. Nicodemus)

Question 21

Answer 21

Jan Van Eyck

Portraits of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife.

Oil on panel

1434.

Commissioned by Giovanni, a Florentine silk merchant living in Bruges.

Location unknown but probably Arnolfini’s house

Question 22

Answer 22

Botticelli

Birth of Venus.

Tempera on canvas

after 1482.

Patron: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco del Medici.

Location: Lorenzo’s country villa

Question 23

Answer 23

Pollaiuolo

Hercules and Antaeus

Bronze

1470s

Location: Medici Palace, Florence.

Patron: Medici family

Question 24

Answer 24

Piero della Francesca

Portraits of Federigo da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza.

Tempera and oil on panel

mid 1470s

Patron: Duke Federigo.

Location: Federigo’s palace in Urbino.

Question 25

Answer 25

Mantegna Camera degli Sposi (Painted Room). Frescoes 1465-74 Patron: Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. Location: Lodovico's room in his Castle, Mantua

Question 26

Answer 26

Castagno Last Supper. Fresco c. 1445-50 Location: Refectory, Convent of S.Appollonia, Florence. Patrons: Benedictine nuns

Question 27

Answer 27

Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper. Fresco 1495-98 Patron: Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Location: Refectory, Domenican Monastery of S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Question 28

Answer 28

Leonardo da Vinci Battle of Anghiari. Fresco 1503-6 Location: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (Town Hall). Patron: Government of Florence. Destroyed in 16th century, and studied in 17th century copy by Rubens.

Question 29

Answer 29

Leonardo da Vinci Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Panel c. 1501-13. Patron and intended location unknown (Altarpiece)

Question 30

Answer 30

Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Lisa Gherardini. known as Mona Lisa. Oil on Panel 1503-6 Patron: her husband, Francesco del Giocondo Original intended location: His Palace, but painting remained with artist

Question 31

Answer 31

Michelangelo David. Marble 1501-4 Intended location: tribune, Cathedral, Florence. Eventual location: in front of Palazzo Vecchio (Town Hall), Florence Patron: Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Overseers)

Question 32

Answer 32

Michelangelo Crossed leg Slave Marble 1527-28. Unfinished. Location: for the Papal Tomb of Julius II. Patron: Della Rovere family.

Question 33

Answer 33

Ghirlandaio Birth of the Virgin. Fresco 1485-90. Location: choir, S. Maria Novella, Florence. Patron: Giovanni Tornabuoni

Question 34

Answer 34

Perugino (Raphael's Master) Donation of Keys to St. Peter Fresco 1481 Location: One of a mural cycle with scenes from the Lives of Christ and Moses, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Patron: Pope Sixtus IV

Question 35

Answer 35

Michelangelo Vault of the Sistine Chapel Frescoes 1508-12 Location:Commissioned by Pope Julius II for the Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace, Rome, that had been built by his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV in the 1470s. (See detail images)

Question 36

Answer 36

Raphael Disputa (Theology) Frescoes 1509-11. Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Papal Library), Vatican Palace, Rome. Patron: Pope Julius II (view detail images)

Question 37

Answer 37

Raphael School of Athens (Philosophy) Frescoes 1509-11 Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Papal Library), Vatican Palace, Rome. Patron: Pope Julius II (view detail images)

Question 38

Answer 38

Raphael Sistine Madonna. Oil on canvas (altarpiece) 1513 Location: S. Sisto, Piacenza. Patron: Pope Julius II

Question 39

Answer 39

Raphael Galatea. Fresco (villa decoration) c. 1513 Location: Villa Farnesina, Rome Patron: Agostino Chigi, Pope's Banker

Question 40

Answer 40

Raphael Portrait of Pope Leo X del Medici with his nephews. Cardinals Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi. Panel c. 1517. Location: unknown (either Vatican Palace or Medici Palace) Patron: Pope Leo X