Early Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
High Renaissance
Leonardo DaVinci
Wild Card
100
Early Renaissance artist nicknamed "Sloppy Tom" because he neglected his appearance in pursuit of art.
Who is Masaccio?
100
The Flemish artists of the Northern Renaissance were the first to use this medium to its fullest, which allows thin glaze coats creating luminescent qualities (rather than tempera which dries quickly and necessitates short, thin brushstrokes).
What is oil paint?
100
This artist's talent was recognized by the Medici prince Lorenzo the Magnificent who took him at age 15 to his Florentine court where he lived like a son.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
This painting was hung in Napolean's bedroom before it hung in the Louvre. It became famous when an Italian worker "outraged that the supreme achievement of Italian art resided in France" stole it and returned it to Italy, where 2 years later it was recovered from Florence and returned to Paris.
What is the "Mona Lisa" or "La Gioconda?"
100
This famous Greek building is dedicated to the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
This sculptor's "David" was the first life-size, freestanding nude sculpture since the Classical period.
Who is Donatello?
200
Without Classical antiquity (and Roman ruins) for inspiration, the northern Europeans looked here for inspiration, painting what they saw exactly as it appeared in a detailed, realistic style.
What is nature?
200
This sculpture carved by Michelangelo at age 23 is the only one he ever signed.
What is the "Pieta?"
200
Leonardo left thousands of pages of sketches and ideas in his notebooks, yet less than 20 completed works of his survive. The Wright brothers would be interested to know that among his many inventions, Leonardo designed this.
What is a flying machine (or airplane)?
200
The artwork of this country/culture remained static for 3000 years reflecting the stability of the government and lifestyle.
What is Egyptian(Egypt)?
300
A way of creating a convincing, perfect illusion of space on a flat or two-dimensional surface piloted in Renaissance art through an experiment by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1420.
What is linear perspective?
300
This artist painted "Arnolfini Wedding," one of the most celebrated paintings of the Northern Renaissance.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
Michelangelo was an architect, sculptor, poet, engineer and painter. This is his most famous painting: 10,000 square feet of fresco on a barrel vault divided by cross vaults, depicting over 340 human figures, painted in less than 4 years virtually without assistance.
What is "the Sistine Chapel?"
300
The "world's most revered religious painting" is actually this fresco by Leonardo which revolutionized art by visually capturing what the characters looked like as well as their psychological states.
What is "The Last Supper?"
300
Two engineering breakthroughs rendered the Gothic cathedral possible: one was ribbed vaulting and the other was these external supports.
What are "flying buttresses?"
400
This artist's painting "Birth of Venus" marks the rebirth of Classical mythology as subject matter for painting.
Who is Botticelli?
400
Northern Renaissance painters were noted for using this technique creating an increasingly hazy appearance of objects farthest from the viewer to suggest depth.
What is "atmospheric perspective?"
400
This "rich, handsome and wildly successful" artist was rated an "independent master" at age 17 and died on his 37th birthday, but not before painting the "School of Athens" which "embodies the High Renaissance in its balance, sculptural quality, architectural perspective, and fusion of pagan and Christian elements."
Who is Raphael?
400
Leonardo used this technique to paint the Mona Lisa rendering the whole "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke." Starting with dark undertones, he built the illusion of three-dimensional features through layers and layers of thin, semi-transparent glazes.
What is "sfumato?"
400
This building located in Rome illustrates the Roman architect's ability to enclose space.
What is the Pantheon?
500
Four major artistic breakthroughs characterize the Renaissance: 1) Use of oil paint on canvas (instead of fresco) 2) Use of perspective 3) Use of a pyramid configuration in composition 4) This technique using light and shadow to create three dimensionality.
What is Chiaroscuro?
500
This Flemish painter's most famous painting is 'Hunters in the Snow." He took peasant life as his subject.
Who is Pieter Bruegel?
500
Known as the "father of modern engineering," this Renaissance man was a goldsmith, sculptor, mathematician, clock builder and architect, most famous for constructing a dome for the Florence cathedral, called the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Who is Brunelleschi?
500
Leonardo was truly the prototype for the "Renaissance Man" meaning "an omnitalented individual who radiates wisdom." He was handsome, intelligent, charming, graceful, a witty conversationalist and could sing "divinely." He was an avid mountain climber, ambitious inventor, and obsessed mathematician. He elevated the artist's public status into a "Lord and God." This was his only flaw.
What is distractability (he went from one incomplete project to another)?
500
This artist was the first to paint human forms suggesting weight and roundness since the Roman period, as witnessed by his Ognissanti Madonna.
Who is Giotto?
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