Exam 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520

Where and for whom was Raphael's School of Athens painted? Discuss the subject matter of the painting in relation to Raphael's patron and the function of the room for which it was painted.

The nine main scenes of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling represent scenes from which Biblical book?

Compare Titian's Man with the Glove with Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Include in your discussion observations on chiaroscuro/sfumato, pose, composition, color and background.

Bramante's original plan for the renovated St. Peter's was a

Who designed the dome of St. Peter's?

Discuss the Sistine Chapel ceiling in terms of technique, subject matter, and composition. How does it differ in mood from the scene of Last Judgment behind the altar?

Chiaroscuro is an Italian word meaning:

Where did painters greatly advance the use of oil on canvas?

Compare and contrast Titian's Venus of Urbino and Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. How do you account for the similarities and differences between these two works?

What makes Leonardo's Last Supper such an important work of art that it has surpassed in fame all other representations of this same subject and has been reproduced countless times? Does the answer to this question have more to do with Leonardo himself, what he specifically painted in this work, or a combination of both?

Most of the great achievements that made Rome the center of Italian art during the first quarter of the sixteenth century were influenced by what events and which important patron of the arts?

Discuss Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, Bramante's Tempietto, and Michelangelo's Pietà as three works of the Italian High Renaissance. What underlying artistic characteristics and principles of the age do these three works have in common?