Who were the Limbourgs?
artist brothers
In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character of Eve was identified with
Venus
One of the effects of the Renaissance was to change the status of artists in Europe from
skilled crafts workers to intellectuals.
The word renaissance means
rebirth.
The technology of painting with oils was developed
by northern Europeans.
The Renaissance artists from Venice, such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Giorgione, were
especially known for their mastery of
color and light.
The technique of sfumato involves the use of
multiple layers of glazes.
The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from
None of these answers is correct.
________ organization, as seen in Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the
Evangelist, and Donors, was a popular device among Renaissance artists of Italy.
Triangular
Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled
All these answers are correct.
Giorgione's painting The Tempest paved the way for future
landscape paintings.
Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli were all commissioned to make art for
the Medici family.
One of Michelangelo's major achievements was
redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral.
Northern European Renaissance artists began using the system of linear perspective
about 75 years after it was first developed
Artists working in the Early Renaissance period included
Botticelli, Donatello, and Ghiberti
Which 15th-century invention led to the decrease in the practice of illumination by hand?
the printing press.
The Isenheim Altarpiece, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung
a hospital for patients with skin disease.
The movement that divided all of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps is called
the Reformation.
The painting, The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year,
was painted by __________, a 16th-century Netherland painter.
Pieter Brugel the Elder
The sculptor of the panel The Story of Jacob and Esau, and Donatello's teacher, is
Lorenzo Ghiberti.
The iconography of The Tempest, by ___________, is unknown, but the painting made an
important contribution to Renaissance art in the way it was composed.
Giorgione
good example of a Surrealist poetic object is
a. L'Enfant Carburateur by Francis Picabia.
b. Bottle Dryer by Marcel Duchamp.
c. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali.
d. the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer.
e. Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenhe
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