Exam 12: Early Renaissance Art

Who changed Florentine painting more than anyone since Giotto?

Which is a process in which lines are cut into a plate with a burin and the low areas are printed?

Which is the name of Brunelleschi's added element,like a section of entablature,above the capital and below the springing of the arch?

Give examples and explain how ordinary objects are used as disguised religious symbols in the Mérode Altarpiece.

Which of the following is an advantage of using oil paint versus tempera?

What was the area of western Belgium,southwestern Netherlands,and a small part of northern France called in the fifteenth century?

Explain the composition of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Jacob and Esau panel from the "Gates of Paradise." Describe the narrative as it is told through relief.

Which of the following is defined as a line running back into the represented space of a picture that converges with other lines that are parallel in reality?

Which is the term for a little boy often shown naked and with wings?

Which is used at the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi to visually separate the three different stories?

How did fourteenth-century Humanists view the "middle" ages?

Discuss the iconographic meaning of The Unicorn Is Found and its meaning in contemporary fifteenth-century society.

What is the significance of the belt curling across the counter in A Goldsmith in His Shop by Petrus Christus?

Which is the term for a framed niche in the wall?

Who began the long tradition of illusionistic ceiling painting?

Which of the following aspect of Très Riches Heures created by the Limbourg brothers is a Gothic convention?

What makes Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition of special importance?

Which is the basis for Botticelli's Venus?

What is the term for art that has been created using a gouge to make high-relief areas for the image?

What is the setting for Robert Campin's Annunciation?