Exam 12: The Fifteenth Century

What is the subject of The Praise of Folly ?

What Florentine banker founded an academy for the study of Plato?

What two innovations mark European music during the 15^th century?

Who were the two finalists in the 1401 competition for the decoration of the doors of the Florence Baptistery?

Who was the greatest Florentine sculptor of the first half of the 1400s?

Sometimes considered the most important Christian humanist in Europe, ________ was fond of using puns in the titles of his books. 

What early Renaissance artist perfected the International Style of painting, which had emerged in the 1300s?

How was Botticelli's Birth of Venus influenced by Platonic idealism as well as Classical sculpture?

Which artist wrote the first theoretical treatise about creating perspective in art?

What was Brunelleschi's contribution to the Cathedral of Florence?

Who painted Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ?

What is the message of the poem "The Song of Bacchus"?

What was the primary source of the Medici family's wealth?

Which of the following did Pico della Mirandola write?

What was innovative about Donatello's portrayal of David ?

Who painted the manuscript illuminations for the Duke of Berry's prayer book?

According to Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), how did the values and beliefs of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?

What name did Michelangelo give to the east doors of the Florence Baptistery?

What was the subject of Donatello's most famous life-size sculpture?

What was the Pazzi Conspiracy? What was its outcome?