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1. Which best
describes Renaissance humanism?
a. study of human nature
b. human-based culture
c. revival of Classical texts
d. a Christian bias
2. Leonardo Bruni was
a. a humanist
b. chancellor of Florence
c. a historian
d. none of the above
e. all of the above
3. Which two cities were most at the forefront of early humanism?
a. Venice and Rome
b. Florence and Padua
c. Rome and Florence
d. Siena and Florence
e. Siena and Padua
4. In the 15th century the ____________ of Florence were the great
patrons.
a. Urbini
b. Innocenti
c. Popes
d. Medici
5. Which is not a feature of Bruni's tomb?
a. its sculptor was Marzocco
b. lions are a part of its iconography
c. it merges Christian and Classical motifs
d. the effigy of Bruni lies on a bier
6. Who of the following was not a condottiere?
a. Federico da Montefeltro
b. Sir John Hawkwood
c. Erasmo da Narni
d. Niccolo da Tolentino
e. Leon Battista Alberti
7. Which text goes with which author?
a. Dante -- the Decameron
b. Brunelleschi -- the Commentarii
c. Alberti -- Oration on the Dignity of Man
d. Masaccio -- On Painting
e. Bruni -- Praise of the City of Florence
8. Which are some of the reasons for Ghiberti's victory in the competition
of 1401?
a. his relief was less expensive to cast and more monumental than Brunelleschi's
b. his relief was less expensive and more graceful
c. his relief was more expensive, but also more elegant
d. his relief was more monumental, more original, and he had political
connections
9. Ghiberti’s style is
a. aligned by orthogonals of true perspective
b. realistic
c. classically inspired
d. all of the above
10. Which best defines "foreshortening?"
a. reduction in scale
b. placing a smaller object in front of a larger object
c. a twist at the waist
d. depicting a form in perspective
11. Which is not a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents?
a. arcades
b. round arches
c. Doric colonnette
d. pediments
e. bays
12. ______________ was able to combine Neo-Platonic ideals and mainline
religiosity.
a. Fra Filippo Lippi
b. Mantegna
c. Leonardo
d. Fra Angelico
13. The Pazzi Chapel is the gem of the Early Renaissance because it
sums up its principles. It is by
a. Brunelleschi
b. Alberti
c. Michelozzo
d. Bramante
14. Brunelleschi did many things, but he did not
a. design the dome of Florence Cathedral.
b. take measured drawings of the Roman Forum and develop a theory of perspective
c. work in Florence.
d. use the Colosseum as his model for the Ospedale degle Innocenti
15. Which is least a feature of Brunelleschi's design for the Church
of Santo Spirito?
a. Latin cross plan
b. a flat ceiling
c. chapels on three sides
d. stained-glass windows
e. round arches
16. The re-discovery of linear perspective was made by
a. Ghiberti
b. Brunelleschi
c. Uccello
d. Leonardo
17. Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?
a. orthogonals converge at the vanishing point
b. orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane
c. orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space
d. orthogonals are not used
18. The artist whom Vasari accused of being too obsessed with perspective
was
a. Piero della Francesca
b. Mantegno
c. Uccello
d. Masaccio
e. Brunelleschi
19. The term paradiso as used in reference to Ghiberti's doors means
a. the Garden of Eden
b. the illustration of Dante
c. the space between a cathedral and its baptistry
d. the dome of the cathedral
e. the dome of the baptistry
20. The medal of John VIII Paleologus was cast by
a. Alberti
b. Matteo de' Pasti
c. the Byzantine emperor
d. Pisanello
21. Which is not a new, Renaissance feature of Masaccio's Trinity?
a. a barrel-vault with coffers
b. Classical Orders
c. donors
d. a memento mori
e. one-point perspective
22. Masaccio
a. maintained strict monochrome paintings and avoided contrast in light
and dark
b. used complex, dramatic settings
c. embellished his scenes with sumptuous drapery
d. clearly defined his light sources so that shadows were logical and
realistic
23. Masaccio created the barrel vault in the Trinity by using ________________
perspective.
a. atmospheric
b. linear
c. intuitive
d. herringbone
24. The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be
a. gradual shading
b. high contrast of light and dark
c. shadow
d. silhouetting
25. Atmospheric perspective depicts near and far according to
a. diminution in size
b. increase in size
c. degrees of clarity
d. haziness in foreground
26. Which of the following match?
a. Masaccio -- Famous Men and Women
b. Brunelleschi -- one-point perspective
c. Castagno -- Holy Trinity
d. Alberti -- medal of John VIII Paleologus
e. Mantegna -- Rucellai Palace
27. Which do not match?
a. Rimini -- Tempio Malatestiano
b. Brancacci Chapel -- Florence
c. Sant’Andrea -- Mantua
d. Gattamelata -- Ravenna
e. Sir John Hawkwood -- Florence Cathedral
28. Which is not a 15th-century development?
a. illusionism
b. mythological subject matter
c. one-point perspective
d. an increase in literacy
e. stained-glass windows
29. The Camera degli Sposi refers to
a. a state bedroom
b. a marriage ceremony
c. a room for a wedding
d. Mantegna's studio
30. The frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi were painted by
a. Fra Filippo Lippi
b. Andrea Mantegna
c. Leonardo
d. Sandro Botticelli
31. The frescoes of the Camera degli Sposi were painted for
a. theDuke of Manua
b. the Duke of Urbino
c. the Medici
d. the Pope
32. In Mantegna's Parnassus, which god does not appear?
a. Apollo
b. Vulcan
c. Mars
d. Juno
e. Venus
33. Who of the following did not have a studio?
a. Federigo Gonzaga
b. Isabella d'Este
c. Federico da Montefeltro
d. Leonello d'Este
34. The artist who painted portraits of real people was
a. Jan van Eyck
b. Hieronymous Bosch
c. Rogier van der Weyden
d. Cimabue
35. Burgundy
a. Was a tributary of the French crown
b. Was ruled by relatives of French kings
c. Independent of the French throne
d. All of the above
36. Dirk Bouts
a. was an artist in the employ of the Church
b. sculpted in the style of Claus Sluter
c. understood perspective intuitively
d. rivaled Giotto in 15th-century Italy
37. ____________ was not included in Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece?
a. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
b. God the Father
c. Christ crucified
d. Adam and Eve
38. The Guild of _________ had St. Luke as its patron saint.
a. painters
b. book binders
c. weavers
d. stonemasons
39. Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece has
a. rich colors and a somber mood
b. a confined sense of space
c. a flat, gold background worked with a pattern punch
d. dim colors and a somber mood
40. The Ghent Altarpiece is a __________.
a. diptych
b. panel
c. polyptych
d. triptych
41. The subject of Man in the Red Turban is believed to be:
a. Cosimo de Medici
b. Jan van Eyck
c. Philip the Bold
d. Rogier van der Weyden
42. The most outstanding examples of the new Flemish style of painting
included all of the following except:
a. Giovanni Bellini
b. Jan Van Eyck
c. Hans Memmling
d. Rogier van der Weyden
43. Match the artist with the work
a. Robert Campin -- The Ghent Altarpiece
b. Botticelli -- The Mérode Altarpiece
c. Rogier van der Weyden -- St. Luke Painting the Virgin
d. Ghirlandaio -- The Portinari Altarpiece
44. Which figure or figures do not appear in the Ghent Altarpiece?
a. crusaders
b. angels
c. Joseph
d. John the Baptist
e. Mary
45. Grisaille means
a. imitation sculpture
b. gesso
c. foreshortening
d. contrapposto
e. imitation architecture
46. Which does not appear in the Arnolfini Wedding?
a. a dog
b. a mirror
c. sandals
d. fruit
e. a vase of lilies
47. Botticelli was influenced by
a. Marsilio Ficino
b. Neo-Platonism
c. The Medici Circle
d. all of the above
48. Which does not appear in Botticelli's Birth of Venus?
a. a scallop shell
b. the mother of Venus
c. waves
d. a nymph
e. flowers
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