The word ____ is derived from the French and means rebirth.
Renaissance
During the Renaissance period, there was a revival of all of the following except ____.
spirituality and otherworldliness
The realism, symbolism, and complicated imagery found in Northern Renaissance paintings originated in and was influenced by ____.
manuscript illumination
The May calendar page of Les Tr�s Riches Heures was a page from a ____, rendered in an ornate, courtly style known as ____.
Book of Hours; the International Gothic style
As was typical in Northern Renaissance paintings, the setting of Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece is ____.
a contemporary Flemish home
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 vase of lilies
In his Adam and Eve engraving, the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht D�rer emphasizes the ____.
classically inspired beauty of the human body
The Renaissance began in 1401 with a competition for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence. The subject of the entry panels was ____.
The Sacrifice of Isaac
For his bronze statue of David, the first life-size nude since classical times, Donatello chose ____ as a prototype.
an underdeveloped adolescent boy
Piero della Francesca's Resurrection fresco was based on ____.
mathematical and geometric order
As evidenced in The Birth of Venus, the Medici family prot�g� Sandro Botticelli loved, above all else, to paint ____.
mythological themes
Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism are to be found in the ____ of Leon Battista Alberti.
architecture
Considered a true Renaissance man, ____ excelled in engineering, the natural sciences, anatomy, music, and technological prototypes, not to mention creating some of the world's best loved paintings.
Leonardo da Vinci
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 papal apartments in the Vatican
Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco, Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the architectural space of the church by painting a(n) ____.
barrel vaulted chapel with holy and common figures
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.
dramatic negative space
When Michelangelo was only 27, he carved the 13 1/2-foot statue of David from ____.
a single piece of almost unworkable marble
The forms and composition of Titian's Venus of Urbino were evolved primarily from ____.
interactions of colors and contrasts of textures
As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper, his ____ anticipate(s) the Baroque style.
loose brushwork and dramatic white spotlighting
In The Burial of Count Orgaz, the ____ painter El Greco's heavenly figures appear ____.
Spanish; extremely attenuated
Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding is an excellent example of ____.
a genre painting
Jacopo Pontormo's Mannerist Entombment depicts all of the following except ____.
faces that are calm and display no emotion
Northern Renaissance artists "married" religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using ____.
symbolism
The German Renaissance artist Matthias Gr�newald's Isenheim Altarpiece is unusual and powerful for its ____.
tormented and dramatic depiction of the Crucifixion
Because Cimabue and Giotto's paintings combine Late Gothic and Early Renaissance styles, they are classified as ____.
Proto-Renaissance