Study guide for 27 March 2003
1. What kind of study and learning is characteristic of Renaissance artists?
2. What served as a source of material and inspiration for the period?
3. Which Italian painter marks the beginning of the Renaissance?
4. Who were the “masters” of the Early Renaissance?
5. What is the time period of the Early Renaissance?
6. What 3 characteristics of artistic style are generally accepted by the late 15th century?
7. Who are the “masters of the High Renaissance?
8. What is the time period of the High Renaissance?
9. What style dominates the Late Renaissance?
1. How did Masaccio use light differently from earlier painters?
2. What chapel in Florence demonstrates this use of light?
3. What does chiaroscuro refer to?
4. What painting was the first in Western art to use full perspective?
1. What period of the Renaissance is Botticelli associated with?
2. What is the subject of La Primavera?
3. The Birth of Venus is a pagan story meant to depict what Biblical character?
4. Be able to identify from memory (no multiple choice) La Primavera, Adoration of the Magi, and The Birth of Venus. (If not viewed here, to see The Birth of Venus go to http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index1.html and type in Botticelli and Venus at the bottom of the page.)
Birth of Venus
1. What was unusual at the time about Donatello’s bronze statue of David?
2. What is Or San Michele?
3. Who is the Gattamelata?
1. What is the Italian word for Capitol that designates the design for the plaza (piazza) at Rome’s civic and political heart.
2. What was the sculpture of Moses to be a part of?
3. What part of St. Peter’s did Michelangelo design?
4. Be able to identify: Moses, David, Pietas (found in St. Peter’s and the museum in Florence), Bacchus.