T/F- Renaissance was about imitating antique models
False; It was not about that, it was to reinterpret Greco-Roman Themes and Principles.
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What city did most of the notable artworks of the Ren. come from?
Venice.
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What painting represented the 15th century women fashion?
Mona Lisa
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What did he regard himself as?
a sculptor
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What did folk dancing show?
powerful sense of community
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______ _________ ________ were definite expressions of increased wealth.
Painting, Sculpture, and architecture
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Who revived the classical principles of regularity, symmetry, and proportion?
Leon Battista Alberti
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What was the 15th century fashion of women?
Shaved eyebrows and Plucked hairlines.
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What themes dominated his sonnets?
Creation and creativity
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What dance stressed ones individual grace and poise?
Court dances
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Who believed the human body should be praised as the seat of pleasure.
Donatello
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What contents did Leonardo fuse in order to achieve his ordered grand designs?
narrative and symbolic
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What TYPE of statue was built to commemorate the mercenary soldiers victory on behalf of Venice.
Equestrian Statue
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What did he carve his David out of?
Carrara marble
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What was Dufys, best known 15th century French folksong?
“The armed man”
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What were Ren. Artist-Scientists inspired to recreate?
appearance of the natural world
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What did the "School of Athens" represent?
The four domains of human learning: Theology, philosophy, Law, and The Arts.
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What 3 things did Jan Van Eyck introduce in his portraits?
temperament, characteristics, or unique personality
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What did the Sistine Chapel illustrate?
the creation and fall of human kind
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Who made complex designs in which melody and harmony were symmetrically distributed
Josquin des Prez
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What was the “Breakthrough” in Renaissance painting?
invention of Linear Perspective
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Explain the difference between Venice artist and Florentine artist?
The artist of Venice produced an art of color and light while Florentine artist focused on line, design, and form.
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What 2 main reasons lie behind the revival of portraits?
the desire to immortalize oneself by way of ones physical appearance
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wish to publicize ones greatness in traditional manner of Greek and Roman antiquity.
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What are 3 famous pieces done by him?
Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel
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What were the organs, clavichord, and harpsichord also known as?