Test 3 Speedback Flashcards
Which of the following is not true of da Fabriano’s Joseph’s Flight into Egypt?
It includes a depiction of a window that functions as the vanishing point for the composition.
It actually attempts to capture the light of a specific time of day.
It is one of the first realistic landscapes in Western art.
It exists as part of a predella underneath an altarpiece.
It includes a depiction of a window that functions as the vanishing point for the composition.
Which of the following is not a feature of Masaccio’s Holy Trinity?
an architectural frame
three dimensional space
pyramid shapes
placing deity near a body of water
classical motifs like Roman barrel vaulting
placing deity near a body of water
Which of the following is not one of the reasons that Donatello’s St. George Slaying the Dragon is a turning point in Western art?
He created the illusion of receding space.
He created a sculptural scene that showed Christ in a Byzantine-like imperial palace.
He created a horizon, not a flat wall.
He painted with stone, creating something that was optical instead of tactile.
He created a sculptural scene that showed Christ in a Byzantine-like imperial palace.
Which of the following is not a feature of the renaissance that emerged in the early 1400s?
the spread of knowledge (helped by Gutenberg’s printing invention)
renewed interest in Classical texts
the return of an art focused on the hierarchical, symbolic, and non-realistic
the championing of human individuality
a new embrace of the secular and temporal to go along with the sacred and the celestial
the return of an art focused on the hierarchical, symbolic, and non-realistic
Which of the following is not one of the features of the Limbourg Brothers’ Très Riches Heures?
close attention paid to the life of the lower classes
depiction of chateaus and agricultural life
close attention paid to worldly details
depiction of manuscripts based on the passing of civic laws
depiction of manuscripts based on the passing of civic laws
Which of the following is not a feature of Brunelleschi’s Foundling Hospital?
The exterior is lavish, with rich marble, stone, and seashell decorations.
Various proportional relationships (1:2, 1:5, and 2:5) reflect the desire to combine faith and rationality.
The exterior is austere, with gray sandstone stucco.
The overall structure is low slung, horizontal, and symmetrical.
The overall structure is based on a simple geometrical module, demonstrating mathematical order.
The exterior is lavish, with rich marble, stone, and seashell decorations.
Which of the following is true about Dufay’s Nuper rosarum flores?
It contains medieval elements, for example voices moving at different rates of speed.
The harmonies are consonant (third based).
It contains technical complexities and mathematical proportions designed to relate to Brunelleschi’s dome of the Florence Cathedral.
All of the above.
All of the above.
Which of the following is not true about Dufay’s Missa L’homme armé?
It uses a pre-existing melody in the tenor to unify the composition.
It features an a cappella choral sound.
It uses “equal-voiced” polyphony.
It uses nervous, bumpy rhythms and energetic syncopations.
It uses nervous, bumpy rhythms and energetic syncopations.
Which of the following is not one of the new traits heard in Dunstable’s Quam pulchra es?
The lines all move at generally the same rate of speed.
The lowest line is a drone.
The music is strikingly consonant (based on thirds).
The singers sing the same text, annunciating the same syllables together.
The melodic lines are all equally melodic in personality.
The lowest line is a drone.
Which of the following is not true about Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks?
He focused on graceful, intimate interactions among the figures.
He broke his contract to paint a different scene than his patrons wanted.
He eliminated any sort of landscape or botanical detail.
He took his inspiration from the Song of Songs.
He introduced a new kind of light.
He put baby John and Jesus in a cave.
He eliminated any sort of landscape or botanical detail.
The significance of The Courtier is that it champions secular temporal values instead of medieval celestial ones.
True
False
True
Which of the following is not a piece of advice given in The Courtier?
behave with sprezzatura
males: balance letters, music, and drawing with athletics and soldiering
females: be bold in public, do not take secondary position with respect to men, and claim your worth on the world stage
speak frankly to princes
speak and write properly
females: be bold in public, do not take secondary position with respect to men, and claim your worth on the world stage
Read the excerpt then answer the question:
Nothing uses itself up as fast generosity; as you practice it, you lose the power to practice it, and grow either poor and despised or grasping and hated. Yet the most important danger a wise prince guards himself against is being despised and hated; and generosity brings you to both of them. So it is wiser to accept the name of tightwad, which produces reproach without hatred, than by trying for the name of free-spender to incur the name of extortioner, which produces reproach with hatred.
Which of the following applies to the passage quoted above?
It was written to declare the importance of man in the universe.
It was written as a way of urging fathers to raise better families.
It was written as a means of advising princes how to rule.
It was written by Castiglione.
It was written as a means of advising princes how to rule.
Which is not true about Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling?
The central panels come from Genesis.
He began in reverse chronological order.
Parts of the ceiling that actually look like architectural objects (cornices and ribs) were actually painted on.
The figure of God starts out static, ends up dynamic.
The first figures were small, the later ones much bigger.
The climactic scene occurs in the center-most panel, with Venus turning into Flora.
The climactic scene occurs in the center-most panel, with Venus turning into Flora.
Which of the following is not true of Raphael’s Philosophy (School of Athens)?
It shows Plato and Aristotle walking together in the middle of a vast building.
The building it shows looks very much like a Christian basilica (maybe even the new St. Peter’s).
It consciously refers to Greco-Roman classicism by using barrel vaulting, coffered ceilings, Greek meander patterns, and figures dressed in togas.
It shows Plato and Aristotle outdoors, on a darkened Golgotha, in order to harmonize Christian with pagan elements.
It shows Plato and Aristotle outdoors, on a darkened Golgotha, in order to harmonize Christian with pagan elements.
Which of the following is not true of Raphael’s Madonna of the Meadows?
Its style is especially calm and ordered.
The figures embody a quiet spiraling energy.
Important structure components are the oval and the triangle.
The Madonna is placed in a civic setting, to stress a pagan Roman connection.
The Madonna is placed in a civic setting, to stress a pagan Roman connection.
Which of the following is not true about Leonardo’s Last Supper?
It focused on a static and strictly symbolic presentation of Christian ideology.
It used a new kind of paint that quickly deteriorated.
It was designed to capture a split-second, dynamic human moment.
It focused on mathematical relationships that symbolize elements in Christian scripture.
It focused on a static and strictly symbolic presentation of Christian ideology.
Read the excerpt then answer the question:
Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone nor any function peculiar to thyself have we given them, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgment thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form, and what functions thou thyself shalt desire.
Which of the following is not true about the above passage?
It was written by Pico.
It argues a position that was also strongly supported by the church.
It argues that man was created to occupy a central, dynamic place in the universe.
It argues a position that was also strongly supported by the church.
Which of the following is not true about Michelangelo’s David?
It was carved from a twice-abandoned marble block.
It was embraced by contemporaries more as an emblem of republican virtues than as a religious figure.
It was originally intended to stand in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.
It was originally intended to stand on top of the Florence Cathedral.
It was originally intended to stand in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.
