1. The Tempietto was a
A) martyrium
B) little temple
C) baptistry
D) mausoleum
2. Which is not a feature of the Tempietto?
A) a Doric peristyle
B) a balustrade
C) a dome
D) an Ionic frieze
E) a cella
3. Which is not a feature of Raphael's Betrothal of the Virgin?
A) round arches
B) an angry suitor
C) a bearded priest
D) a pseudo-peripteral temple
E) a pediment
4. Who were two important figures in Raphael's School of Athens?
A) David and Goliath
B) Venus and Adonis
C) Plato and Aristotle
D) Alexander the Great and Socrates
5. Which is not true of Leonardo da Vinci?
A) he made anatomical drawings
B) he was a uomo universale
C) he wrote backwards
D) he made more paintings than drawings
E) he made more paintings than sculptures
6. Some experts say that the pyramidal style of the High Renaissance first emerges in the cartoon of __________.
A) Raphael's Galatea
B) Michelanglo's Sybils
C) Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne*
D) Masaccio’s Trinity
7. Which of the following is the best match?
A) Leonardo's Last Supper -- Milan
B) Bramante's Tempietto -- Florence
C) The Sistine Chapel -- Siena
D) The Mona Lisa -- Rome
8. Which is not by Leonardo?
A) Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
B) Mona Lisa
C) Moses
D) Vitruvian Man
9. The term sfumato refers to:
A) the fashion of smoking while painting adopted soon after the discovery of America
B) a smoky haze to convey depth and distance
C) aerial perspective
D) the style in imitation of the candle-smoke darkened walls of Roman churches
10. The pyramid was
A) the echo of ancient Egypt in the piazzas of Rome
B) a compositional arrangement much favored by High Renaissance artists
C) a stable, hierarchical structure for arranging figures in a composition
D) b and c
11. Terribilità refers to
A) Leonardo’s painting style
B) traits of stubbornness and firmness Michelangelo shared with pope Julius
C) Fra Angelico’s subtle messages
D) Raphael’s violent imagery in his Stanza della Segnatura
12. Michelangelo approached the stone he was to carve
A) looking to bring out the forms hidden within
B) with great fasting and prayer
C) imposing his will on it from all sides in a demonstration of terribilità
D) trying to get inspiration from the stone’s outward shape
13. Which does not appear in the Sistine Ceiling frescoes?
A) Prophets
B) Christ
C) Sibyls
D) Jeremiah
E) Adam
14. __________ commissioned Michelangelo to create his most famous works.
A) Lorenzo de' Medici
B) the Duke of Mantua
C) Julius II
D) Francis I of France
15. Michelangelo was inspired by
A) Leonardo da Vinci’s single-minded dedication to sculpture
B) Classical mythology
C) Neo-Platonic idea of the Medici Circle
D) The rough and tumble life he found in Renaissance Rome
16. The High Renaissance is usually dated
A) 1495 – 1527
B) 1460 – 1564
C) 1500 – 1535
D) 1500 – 1600
17. The High Renaissance was centered in
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) Urbino
18. Which work matches the correct patron?
A) Sistine Chapel Ceiling -- Sixtux IV
B) Tempietto -- Ferdinand and Isabella
C) School of Athens -- Agostino Chigi
D) Mehmet II -- Giovanni Bellini
E) Venus of Urbino -- Philip II of Spain
19. The patron saint of Venice is
A) Saint Mark
B) Saint Peter
C) Saint Matthew
D) Saint Sebastian
E) Saint John the Evangelist
20. Which best describes the stigmata?
A) an outcast
B) the Flagellation
C) the arrows of Saint Sebastian
D) the wounds of Christ
E) a painting by Giotto
21. Michelangelo's self-portrait appears in
A) the Moses
B) the Last Judgment
C) the Last Supper
D) the Creation of Adam
E) the Flood
22. Giorgione demonstrated the superiority of painting over sculpture by
A) a description in his autobiography
B) painting a nude man with reflections from two sides
C) making a sculpture and a painting of a man
D) dictating a comparison to Vasari
23. The surface details in 16th-century Venetian painting show influence from
A) Flanders
B) Naples
C) the International Style
D) Byzantium
24. Which is true?
A) Titian painted the Tempesta
B) There are crowds of figures in the Tempesta
C) The main colors of the Tempesta are gray and black
D) The subject of the Tempesta is a matter of debate
25. Col Tempo refers to
A) an Italian proverb
B) a book by Aretino
C) a painting by Giorgione
D) a painting by Titian
26. The two Venetian artists who painted reclining nudes are
A) Giovanni and Gentile Bellini
B) Titian and Giovanni Bellini
C) Giorgione and Gentile Bellini
D) Titian and Giorgione
27. The vernacular refers to
A) Italian
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) the Dialogues of Plato
28. Which are by Titian?
A) Charles V at Mühlberg, the Rape of Europa, and Saint Francis in Ecstasy
B) The Tempesta, the Allegory of Prudence, and the Sleeping Venus
C) the Allegory of Prudence, the Venus of Urbino, and the Pesaro Madonna
D) The Tempesta, the Rape of Europa, and the Venus of Urbino
29. The theme of the Allegory of Prudence is
A) the relationship of humans to animals
B) time
C) portraiture
D) history
30. Which painting is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses?
A) the Rape of Europa
B) the Allegory of Prudence
C) the Venus of Urbino
D) the Sleeping Venus