Architecture
Sculpture
Painting
Engraving
Manuscripts
100

Which city’s ancient ruins were the focus of interest among Renaissance scholars and artists?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.gf81013eb96_2_0

Rome

100

Which sculptor in the Renaissance intentionally left his works in an unfinished state? What was his motivation for doing so? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.gf81013eb96_2_19

Michelangelo 

100

Which sculpture was the inspirational source of these drawings? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.p7

Laocoön

100

What is an engraving? How is it different from a drawing?

An engraving is made by incising and inking an (usually metal) surface to ultimately make a print.

100

What is the difference between parchment and paper?

Parchment is made from animal skin whereas paper is plant-based. 

200

Who is represented in this sculpture; how is she positioned and why? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.p5 

Artemis

200

What is one important theme Professor Kaufmann discussed in this painting? (Pieter Claesz’s Still Life, 1629) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.p8 

memento mori

200

What are the most important body parts in the drawing pedagogy of the Western tradition?

Eyes, nose, hands

200

What do you call the part of the manuscript that covers and holds together the pages?

binding

300

The gendering of architecture in the classical tradition begins with the mythical origins of the orders. Please name three orders of Greek architecture and their gender-specific personalities. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.gf81013eb96_2_12

Doric-male; Ionic-female; Corinthian-maiden

300

Julius Caesar

300

black, red, and white

300

In what century and period did Albrecht Dürer work?

15th-16th c.; Renaissance

300

What does “illumination” mean in the making of a manuscript?

painted decorations, usually including silver or gold 
400

What is the name of these arches and what time and region are they common in?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.p3

horseshoe arches in medieval Iberia

400

logogram and syllabogram

400

Identify the medium, place of origin, and figures of this object. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.p9 

Encaustic on wood icon, Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, Virgin, Child, and Saints George and Theodore 

400

a print taken from a print that was just taken from the engraving plate

400

In addition to parchment and paper, what other materials was used to make medieval manuscript?

ink and pigments for writing and painting; leather or lacquer for the binding; lime solution used in soaking and loosening hair from the animal skin, etc.

500

Locate and name the architectural element that marks the direction of prayer/mecca in this floor plan.

500

Narmer’s palette- used to grind and mix minerals for makeup

500

What are the four natural colors that Pliny writes about?

Melian earth, Attic ochre, sinopic red ochre, atramentum

500

Which Renaissance artist filed the first lawsuit in art history over intellectual property copyright? Who was sued? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.gf81013eb96_2_62 

Albrecht Dürer; Marcantonio Raimondi

500

What is the name of the most precious blue pigment used in some of the medieval manuscripts we saw and where was it produced? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rQF3pVr9sWusQUpXXbU_O_q-VJ8yYHiC/edit#slide=id.gf81013eb96_2_70 

lapis lazuli from Afghanistan