Exam 20: Renaissance Art in Fifteenth-century Italy

As demonstrated in works such as Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro by Piero della Francesca, Italian portraiture of the fifteenth century is distinguished by ______________.

What is the Camera Picta ? Who commissioned it? Who painted it? What is represented? What is remarkable about these images?

In the early part of the fifteenth century, the Italian painter __________ provided new direction for Florentine painting.

How does Nanni de Banco's The Four Crowned Martyrs at Orsanmichele demonstrate a revival of classical artistic tradition?

At the Monastery of San Marco, __________ and his assistants frescoed paintings in the cells of the monks and their community rooms.

In fifteenth-century Italy, wealthy families, such as the __________ in Florence, were powerful and influential patrons of the arts.

The most prolific painting workshop of the later fifteenth century was the workshop of __________.

__________ won the competition to design the new doors for the Baptistery in Florence .

In fifteenth-century Italy, __________ were the men whom a city-state could hire, for a sum of money, to organize and lead an army in its defense.

Donatello's statue of St. George at Orsanmichele was an advertisement for the ________ who commissioned it.

Discuss the context of the Foundling Hospital.

Which sculpture by Donatello embodies the ideal of the condottieri during the Renaissance?

__________ created sculpture out of terra cotta for Florence's Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti) .

The invention of __________ enabled artists to convincingly represent the visible world on a flat, two-dimensional surface.

Reflecting its donor, the subject of Andrea Mantegna's murals in the Camera Picta of the Ducal Palace is _____________.

__________, who originally trained as a goldsmith, designed the dome for Florence Cathedral .

__________ carefully calculated the perspective of his fresco The Last Supper interior to draw the viewer into the scene.

Masaccio used linear perspective in the Trinity with the Virgin to create the illusion _______________.

The sculptor, _________, produced The Four Crowned Martyrs for a niche at Orsanmichele .

Discuss the interpretations for Botticelli's Primavera