Exam 17: The Renaissance

Explain how artists from the second half of the sixteenth century through the beginning of the seventeenth century all broke away in one way or another from the Renaissance tradition.

Explain how Titian uses color as a compositional device in his Venus of Urbino.

Because Cimabue and Giotto's paintings combine Late Gothic and Early Renaissance styles,they are classified as __________.

The May calendar page of Les Très Riches Heures was a page from a __________,rendered in an ornate,courtly style known as __________.

Identify the three great masters of the High Renaissance in Italy.

In Jan van Eyck's strikingly detailed double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,which of the following is not a symbolic reference in the painting? 

The young artist Raphael painted numerous canvases of the Madonna and Child,but some of his most impressive compositions,like The School of Athens,were executed for __________.

The German Renaissance artist Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is unusual and powerful for its __________.

List the characteristics that separate Mannerist art from the art of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Describe the social and economic changes that occurred which brought about the Renaissance.

In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling,Michelangelo created the most __________ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.

Jacopo Pontormo's Mannerist Entombment depicts all of the following except __________.

Explain the differences found in the Renaissance art of Florence and Rome,of Siena,and of Venice.

The forms and composition of Titian's Venus of Urbino were evolved primarily from __________.

Northern Renaissance artists tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using __________.

The word __________ is derived from the French and means rebirth.

As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper,his __________ anticipate(s)the Baroque style.

Compare and contrast Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned with Giotto's Madonna Enthroned.

Compare and contrast Leonardo's The Last Supper with Tintoretto's The Last Supper.