Early Renaissance
Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael
Vocabulary
Portraiture



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PotPourri Category
100
He painted himself in one of his paintings of the Adoration of the Magi.
Who is Botticelli?
100
He changed the scale of Mary in this sculpture.
What is Michelangelo's Pieta?
100
An extreme form of chiaroscuro.
What is sfumato?
100
La Giaconda
What is the Mona Lisa?
100
Atmospheric, Linear, intuitive are this
What is perspective?
200
He created the first fully nude sculpture since antiquity.
Who is Donatello?
200
He was one of the first Italian painters to use oil paint.
Who was Leonardo?
200
The lines going away from the picture plane.
What are orthagonals?
200
The Dead Christ
What is the painting by Mantegna?
200
The ideal that is depicted in the Venus painting
What is Classical beauty?
300
They helped artists become more “famous” and involved in the community.
Who are patrons?
300
His was larger than Donatello’s and Verrocchio’s.
What is Michelangelo's David.
300
They sit on the painted architecture of the Sistine Chapel between the central panels, holding sashes attached to gold medallions.
What are ignudi?
300
Cimabue, Giotto and Duccio all painted her.
Who is Mary Madonna Enthroned?
300
A Middle Eastern mathematician sitting amongst philosophers in the school of Athens.
Who is Al Walid Ibn Rushd? - (Averroe)
400
He benefited out of his loss for the Baptistry doors competition.
Who is Brunelleschi?
400
It flaked the paint off because he experimented with the composition of the paint.
What is Leonardo's Last Supper?
400
The method of painting that extremely "real looking".
What is trompe l'oeil?
400
Jan Van Eyck painted himself wearing one of these.
What is a Red Turban?
400
The center painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
What is the Creation of Adam?
500
During the early renaissance, this is one of the most common techniques to show depth in pantings.
What is aerial perspective?
500
The Roman philosopher on whom Leonardo based his drawing of human proportion.
Who is Vitruvius?
500
The triangular shapes between the pendentives in the Sistine Chapel.
What are spandrels?
500
Leonardo used St. John the Baptist as a model to portray this famous philosopher.
Who is Plato?
500
The technique used to draw figures to create the illusion that they are receding into space
What is foreshortening?
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