Northern Renaissance
A patron of a work of art, who is often portrayed in that work.
What is a donor?
What is Donatello's David?
The center of artistic production during the High Renaissance period.
What is Rome, Italy?
A title generally reserved for master painters of the Renaissance period.
Who are the Old Masters?
Nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
What are ignudi?
The most common type of art in the Northern Renaissance, typically for private devotion.
What is an altarpiece?
A system of creating the illusion depth on a two-dimensional surface, primarily through the use of orthogonals and a vanishing point.
What is linear perspective?
This man commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Pope Julius II?
This Belgian artist's experimentation with oil painting led to the medium's soaring popularity during the Northern Renaissance.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
What is a triptych?
A region that refers to Flanders (Belgium) and Holland (Netherlands).
What are the "Low Countries"?
A system of thought centering on the autonomy and achievement of man.
What is humanism?
This painting is the first instance of entirely secular art during the Renaissance.
What is the Birth of Venus?
This artist was an Italian friar who was notorious for his scandals, including monetary forgery and the abduction of a nun.
Who is Fra Filippo Lippi?
A flattened column attached to a wall with a capital, a shaft, and a base (usually as a visual support rather than functional).
What is a pilaster?
Invented in 15th century Germany, this device revolutionized the exchange of ideas and the way that people interacted with art across Europe.
What is a printing press?
The architect who designed the Pazzi Chapel.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
This major event marks the abrupt ending of the High Renaissance period.
What is the Sack of Rome?
The painter of the Isenheim alterpiece.
Who is Matthias Grunewald?
A painting done in neutral shades of gray to simulate the look of sculpture.
What is grisaille?
Most Northern Renaissance art is derived from this earlier style of art.
What is International Gothic style?
A story or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden (typically moral or political) meaning.
What is an allegory?
One of the most renowned architects of the Renaissance period, known for his treatise on architecture and his commissions for the Rucellai family.
Who is Leon Battista Alberti?
The artist known as the Master of Flemalle.
Who is Robert Campin?
A form of illusionary painting that attempts to represent an object as 3-dimensional and therefore resemble the real thing ("fools the eye").
What is trompe l'oeil?