Renaissance Florence
The most powerful family of Renaissance Florence generated wealth through this profession.
Extra credit: The meaning of this family's name.
These three elements are needed to achieve linear perspective.
1. Horizon line
2. Orthogonal lines
3. Vanishing point
His bronze David was the first freestanding nude since antiquity.
Donatello
This Pre-Classic civilization is associated with colossal stone heads and jade figures.
The Olmec
These crops grew in the andenes of Machu Picchu.
Corn & Potatoes
This Florentine architecture engineered the largest brick dome in the world.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leonardo used this technique to soften transitions between colors.
Sfumato
This artist produced more than 13,000 pages of notes and drawings.
Leonardo da Vinci
This civilization created enormous geoglyphs by removing dark surface rocks to expose lighter earth beneath them.
The Nasca
This daughter of Inti accompanied her brother in the legendary foundation of Cusco.
Mama Ocllo
The 1401 competition for the Florence Baptistery doors required artists to depict this biblical story in bronze within a quatrefoil frame.
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Extra Credit: The number of frames in the doors once completed.
A sculpture projecting only slightly from its background uses this technique.
Low relief
This patron summoned Raphael to Rome to decorate the papal apartments.
Pope Julius II
These Post-Classic people produced monumental warrior-shaped columns at Tula.
The Toltecs
Extra Credit: The columns at Tula are named after this mythological figure.
The Coricancha served as the center of this system.
Ceque system
Extra Credit: Sites associated with the ceque system lines.
This artist's Holy Trinity functions as a "memento mori."
Masaccio
The Inca employed this precisely fitted stone construction technique.
Ashlar masonry
This artist depicted David before his victory over Goliath.
Michelangelo
The Codex Zouche-Nuttall belongs to this Post-Classic culture, known for the vibrant Mixtec-Puebla painting style used in manuscripts and murals.
The Mixtecs
At Machu Picchu, the Main Temple and the Temple of the Three Windows form part of this important ceremonial area in the Upper City.
Sacred Plaza
The number of times that Peter appears in Masaccio's Tribute Money.
Three
This experimental technique was used to create The Last Supper.
Dry technique (tempera and oil on dry plaster)
In The School of Athens, Raphael used the likenesses of Da Vinci and Michelangelo to portray these two philosophers.
Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) and Heraclitus (Michelangelo)
Extra Credit: These are traits of Heraclitus.
Coatlicue, whose name means "Snakes for Skin," is a monumental basalt sculpture associated with this culture.
Extra Credit: The intended view(s) of the sculpture.
These three realms are represented by these three animals.
Celestial (Condor)
Earthly (Puma)
Underworld/Inner World (Snake)