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100
He is the artist who sculpted David before his fight with Goliath.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
Leonardo painted this important biblical scene where Jesus sat behind a table with his followers, and proclaims that someone will betray him.
What is the Last Supper?
100
What does the word Renaissance mean?
What is rebirth?
100
Northern painters favored this painting medium, which allowed them to create great detail due to the slow drying time.
What is oil paint?
100
This is the style of painting in late Gothic Italy, and is marked by its use of gold leaf and tempera, which produced flat, unnatural images.
What is Byzantine painting?
200
He is the famous printmaker behind the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
200
Masaccio painted the miraculous story of St. Peter finding money in a fish's mouth in order to pay the tax collector.
What is the Tribute Money?
200
This painting technique involved painting on a wet plaster wall.
What is buon fresco?
200
Woodcut prints are called this, because the image area is raised from the surface of the wood block.
What is a relief print?
200
This is the latin phrase for a "remembrance of death" and in art is typically symbolized by a skull.
What is a memento mori?
300
The Ghent Altarpiece was painted by this Northern Renaissance master.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
Raphael depicted ancient Greek philosophers in this famous fresco.
What is School of Athens?
300
Supposedly invented by Brunelleschi, this was a method for creating realistic 3D space on a 2D surface.
What is linear perspective?
300
Northern artists favored these 3-paneled paintings.
What is a triptych?
300
This is the name of the s-like pose, which artists used to give their sculptures a more realistic feel.
What is contrapposto?
400
He is responsible for the portrait of two French Ambassadors.
Who is Hans Holdbein?
400
Robert Campin and others were responsible for this three-paneled altarpiece.
What is the Merode Triptych?
400
This painting medium was favored in Italy, and is made using colored pigments and egg yolk.
What is tempera?
400
This northern master is credited with inventing oil paint, though it's more myth than fact.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
400
He was the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, which began after he nailed is "95 Theses" to the door of the church.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
He painted the very strange composition of Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time.
Who is Bronzino?
500
Cimabue painted which very popular religious scene involving the Virgin Mary and Christ child?
What is the Madonna Enthroned?
500
This painting technique involves painting on to a dry plaster wall.
What is fresco secco?
500
An engraving is called this, because the image area is incised into the metal plate.
What is an intaglio print?
500
This painting technique is supposed to simulate stone architecture or sculpture.
What is grisaille?