Renaissance Context
When is 1400-1520?
He painted the fresco in the Arena Chapel, specific works include "The Lamentation"
Who is Giotto?
The artist who sculpted the bronze "David"
Who is Donatello?
This work is in a constant state of restoration due to its artist experimenting with a new fresco technique. It is located in the refectory of a monestary in Milan.
(Bonus 50 points if you can explain how the artist incorporated details from the refectory into the work)
What is "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci?
(Bonus: dishes on the table were the same as the dishes the monks used)
The two Classical civilizations that inspired the Renaissance.
What are Greece and Rome?
The style of thought that guided Renaissance artists. Emphasised study of history, classical Greece and Rome, geometry, mathematics, and other earthy practices.
What is humanism?
Chapel designed by Brunelleschi, demonstrates the Renaissance values of geometry, harmony, and proportion in architecture.
What is the Pazzi Chapel?
Artist whose painted forms reflected his identity as a sculptor rather than a painter.
Who is Michaelangelo?
The main material used in Italian Renaissance paintings
What is tempera?
Goddess depicted in the required work by Botticelli.
Bonus 50 points if you get her Greek and Roman name!
Whos is Venus/Aphrodite?
Wealthy family in Florence who patroned works like Donatello's "David"
Who was the Medici family?
Three main characteristics of Renaissance architecture.
What are order, clarity, and light?
The technique that uses light to model form
What is chiaroscuro?
The artist who painted "Madonna and Child with Two Angels", and modeled the figures off of his own family.
Who is Fra Filippo Lippi?
Name 2 Greek philosophers and 1 Roman philosopher/writer (100 points for each one named.
Possible answers:
Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Polykleitus
Cicero, Lucretius, Vitruvius, Caesar
Commission works of art to establish the power of the church.
Who are Popes?
Building designed by Alberti that was inspired by the Colesseum.
What is the Palazzo Rucellai?
On the subject of Italy, the mosaic that was found in a Roman house in Pompeii, thought to be a copy of an ancient Greek wall painting.
Bonus 50 points if you can identify the Roman house it was found in
What is the Alexander the Great Mosaic?
Bonus: House of the Faun
A "teaching" painting (EX: Venus of Urbino by Titian)
Bonus 50 points if you can identify what Latin word "Urbino" came from and what it means!
What is a didactic painting?
Urbs-city
The fresco that is part of a series of four that resides in a pope's private study, inspired by ancient Greek philosophers.
What is the School of Athens?
Modern area/category of study comes from an idea created during the Renaissance.
What are the humanities?
The architectural work that inspired the Pazzi Chapel.
What is the Pantheon?
Color palette of Portormo's "Deposition from the Cross", starkly contratsted the Early/High Renaissance periods.
What are pinks and blues?
Michealangelo included images of prophets, like this required work, along the Sistine Chapel fresco.
What is the Delphic Sibyl?
The classical book written by Polykleitus that describes how to create a perfectly proportional body.
What is The Canon?