Artists
Titles
Periods: Early, High, or Late?
Techniques
Potpourri
100
He created the equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni.
Who is Donatello?
100
Jesus tells his followers that one of them will betray him in this famous Leonardo fresco.
What is the Last Supper?
100
Linear perspective was discovered and the freestanding nude brought back from antiquity.
What is the Early Italian Renaissance?
100
This painting technique involves applying paint to a wet plaster wall.
What is Buon Fresco?
100
The term Renaissance translates to this.
What is Rebirth?
200
He created a fresco that depicts the great philosophers of ancient Athens.
Who is Raphael?
200
Michelangelo and Donatello both sculpted version of this Old Testament heroic youth.
What is David?
200
Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael belong to this period.
What is the High Italian Renaissance?
200
This painting technique involves painting on a dry plaster wall; definitely not as durable as Leonardo's frescos need so much restoration.
What is Fresco Secco?
200
This is the term that defines the Italian Renaissance; it was a focus on secular life and learning, unlike the religious superstition of the middle ages.
What is Humanism?
300
He created frescos like the Holy Trinity and the Tribute Money.
Who is Masaccio?
300
This portrait depicts a wealthy couple in their Northern home surrounded by symbolic objects such as a single candle, shoes, fruit, and even the little dog too.
What is The Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife?
300
Oil paint, extreme details, except in the use of realistic space; linear perspective hadn't made it's way here yet.
What is the Early Northern Renaissance?
300
This technique allows a painter to create a realistic illusion of space on a 2D surface; you need a horizon line, vanishing point, and orthogonal lines.
What is Linear Perspective?
300
This allows an artist to create a realistic illusion of space by making things that are further away less detailed, hazier, and bluer.
What is Atmospheric perspective?
400
He created a very surreal triptych depicting the garden of Eden, earthly pleasures, and a frightening hellscape.
Who is Hieronymus Bosch?
400
Your neck might hurt looking at this piece, which depicts the creation of Adam and Eve, their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and the story of Noah.
What is the Sistine Ceiling?
400
The Late Italian Renaissance was also called "this" - the figures were exaggerated and distorted.
What is Mannerism?
400
If you use the fresco technique, the you need one of "these" - a full scale drawing of your finished project from wish you transfer your image to the wall.
What is a Cartoon?
400
He wrote the 95 Theses on the Efficacy of Indulgences in 1517, starting the most significant moment in the history of Christianity.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
He was the official court painter to Henri VIII and painted portraits of many important people, such as two ambassadors from France.
Who is Hans Holbein?
500
This work by Albrecht Durer entitled The Fall of Man depicts Adam and Eve surrounded by animals, which are symbolic of this theory of ancient medicine.
What are the Four Humors?
500
The art of the Late Northern Renaissance was influenced by this significant moment in history and lead to a prohibition of overtly religious subjects in art.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500

Albrecht Durer used a stylus to inscribe his images on to a metal plate called an engraving, a printing technique known as this.

What is Intaglio?

500
This is a painting technique meant to mimic grey sculpture or architecture.
What is Grisaille?
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