ProtoRenaissance
Art in Northern Europe
Early Italian Renaissance
Medium
Vocabulary
100
This artist was commissioned to paint the interior of the Scrovegni Chapel located in Padua.
Who is Giotto di Bondone?
100
The Italians thought this Flemish painter practiced "black magic".
Who is Jan van Eyck?
100
This sculptor carved the statue of St. Mark for the facade of Orsanmichele.
Who is Donatello?
100
A gironata can be found in this type of painting.
What is a fresco.
100
This red drawing is the preliminary sketch or drawing for a fresco.
What is a sinopia?
200
This Florentine painter was the mentor/teacher to Giotto.
Who is Duccio?
200
This artist is responsible for painting the triptych titled "The Merode Altarpiece".
Who is Robert Campin?
200
This painter/engraver/sculptor is the earliest known artist to perform human dissections.
Who is Antonio Pollaiuoulo?
200
This medium in painting allows the artist to create bright/luminous images that are packed with detail.
What is oil?
200
"The Tribute Money" painted by Masaccio and the "Natvity, Annunciation and Adoration" by Nicola Pisano both display this technique.
What is a simultaneous/continuous narrative?
300
Pietro Lorenzetti was the first artist to show what in his painting of "The Last Supper".
What are shadows?
300
Flemish artists pioneered the use of oil as a medium, printmaking and this approach in portraiture.
What is frontal or 3/4 view?
300
After returning from a 14 year stay in Rome, Brunelleschi won the commission of this artistic project.
What is the dome for Santa Maria del Fiore/Florence Cathedral?
300
Donatello's sculpture of David is made using this technique.
What is lost-wax bronze casting?
300
These smaller painted images are located at the bottom of an altar painting.
What are predellas?
400
In 1348 this deadly virus spread throughout much of Europe killing thousands of people.
What is the Bubonic Plague or Black Death?
400
This painter never signed any of his works and little is known about him.
Who is Rogier van der Weyden?
400
This artist is responsible for creating the beautiful gold doors, titled "The Gates of Paradise", located on the baptistery in Florence.
Who is Lorenzo Ghiberti?
400
Martin Schongauer's printed image of "The Temptations of St. Anthony" is a great example of this printmaking technique.
What is engraving (intaglio)?
400
A painting that has four or more panels hinged together is called this.
What is a polyptych?
500
The image of "Fortitude" located on Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in the Baptistery of Pisa displays this stance that was commonly used in antiquity.
What is contrapposto.
500
This individual is responsible for inventing the first printing press in Mainz, Germany in 1455.
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
500
Masaccio's painting known as "La Trinita" or "The Trinity" is the first painted image to properly show this technique.
What is one point perspective/linear perspective.
500
Tempera paint is created by mixing together these main ingredients.
What is egg yolk, pigment and water?
500
In architecture these rectangular columns that slightly project from the surface of a wall are merely ornamental.
What are pilasters?
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