Baroque quiz 1

Melozzo da Forli
1480
Fresco
Vatican Museum

Who painted the Ascension (list dates, medium and where it is)

Apollo Belvedere
Marble copy
2nd century

Laocoon and His Sons
1 century AD
marble
Athenodorous (sculptor)

Belvedere Torso
Marble
Apollonius
60 BC

School of Athens
Raphael
1509-1511
Fresco

Disputation, Raphael
1509-1510
Fresco

Parnassus
Raphael
1509-1511
Fresco

Heliodoros
Raphael
1511-1513
Fresco

Liberation of St. Peter
Raphael
1511-1513
fresco

Miracle at Bolsena
Raphael
1511-1513
Fresco

Last Judgement
Michelangelo
1534-1541
Fresco

Sistene Chapel Vault
Michelangelo
15018-1512
Fresco

Purification of Leper
Boticelli
1483
Fresco

Delivery of the Keys
Perugino
1482
Fresco

Separation of Light and Dark
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Creation of the Sun, Moon and Vegetable life
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Creation of Man
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Temptation and Fall of Man
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Drunkeness of Noah
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Jonah
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Libyan Sibyl
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

Delphic Sibyl
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Fresco

The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water

Fresco

to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.

Foreshorten

Emerged during the baroque period to describe a type of architectural ceiling painting (which had been going on for centuries) an artist would paint fictitious architecture on to what was, essentially, a flat surface. The end results looked three-dimensio

Quadratura

a term most commonly used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more relaxed and less stiff appearance.

Contrapposto

Strictly speaking, a small three-dimensional sketch in wax or clay made by a sculptor in preparation for a larger and more finished work. By extension, a rapid sketch in oil, made as a study for a larger picture.

Bozzetto

In classical rhetoric and in art, the use of a style that is appropriate to a subject, situation, speaker, or audience.

Decorum

From the Italian chiaro meaning light and scuro meaning dark, it is the use of light and shade to create the illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface.

Chiaroscuro

an upward snakelike spiral movement to be examined from all sides

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