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Chapter 19 – The Renaissance through The Baroque
Multiple Choice
1. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
a) Michelangelo’s.
b) Donatello’s.
c) Raphael’s.
d) Leonardo da Vinci’s.
2. Sandro Botticelli’s paintings, such as The Birth of Venus, reflect his interest in a
philosophy called _______.
a) Neoplatonism
b) Enlightenment
c) Neoclassicism
d) Romanticism
3. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance
imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
a) subtractive color mixing.
b) the personality of the sitter.
c) Neoplatonist influence.
d) perfect linear perspective.
4. In School of Athens, Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy,
signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
a) Christ; Michelangelo
b) Socrates; Euripides
c) Plato; Aristotle
d) Descartes; Hippocrates
5. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong, from the late
fifteenth to early sixteenth century, the peacock symbolizes:
a) the non-Chinese invading army.
b) the reality inside the mind.
c) the dichotomy of the northern and southern schools of Chinese painting.
d) the Chinese emperor.
6. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa, a centerpiece of a
chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
a) Baroque
b) Renaissance
c) Rococo
d) Mannerist
7. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
a) Michelangelo.
b) El Greco.
c) Bronzino.
d) Albrecht Dürer.
8. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
a) The Limbourg Brothers October
b) Masaccio’s The Tribute Money
c) Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
d) Raphael’s School of Athens
e) Tintoretto’s The Miracle of the Slave
9. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
a) Masaccio’s The Tribute Money
b) Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
c) Raphael’s School of Athens
d) Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew
e) The Limbourg Bro’s October
10. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
a) highly didactic Christian art.
b) developing in the 15th century and promoting the ideas and aesthetics of classical
antiquity.
c) developing in 18th century France and promoting civic responsibility and sacrifice.
d) 17th century unbalanced, theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
e) developing in the 15th century and prioritizing careful observation.
11. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
a) Mayan
b) Aztec
c) Olmec
d) African
12. The Limbourg Brothers’ manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (p.
451) signified the return of something lost in art since antiquity. What was it?
a) “cast shadows”
b) chiaroscuro
c) human figures
d) images of architecture
13. In the 1330s, Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value
of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages, literature, history, and
philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:
a) divine arts.
b) fine arts.
c) temporal arts.
d) humanities.
14. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
a) the number of painters living there.
b) its location on a major shipping route.
c) the Medici family.
d) the size of the city.
15. Donatello’s sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired
by:
a) ancient Egyptian sculpture.
b) a lifting of the ban against autopsies for anatomical study.
c) Bernini’s David.
d) Greek and Roman sculpture.
16. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian
Renaissance is their interest in:
a) the size and scale of their paintings.
b) rendering believable space in realistic detail.
c) a denial of aerial or scientific perspective.
d) portraiture.
17. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
a) unified interest in building stupas.
b) naturalistic figurative art.
c) monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
d) landscape paintings.
18. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala
around:
a) 2500 BCE.
b) 1500 BCE.
c) 250.
d) 1500.
19. Michelangelo’s painting The Last Judgment (p. 468), for the Sistine Chapel, typifies a
style that came to be known as:
a) Expressionism.
b) Northern painting.
c) Mannerism.
d) Baroque.
20. From 960 until 1279, the Taoists in China (p. 462) emphasized the importance of self-
expression. Their most important state positions were held by:
a) land owners.
b) poets, calligraphers, and painters.
c) the Mongols.
d) the heirs of Kublai Khan.
21. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
a) introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single, fixed light
source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
b) developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in
Florence Cathedral.
c) reviving “sculpture–in-the-round” and reintroducing the nude figure.
d) painting the 38 panels in the Arena Chapel that depict the life of Christ.
e) designing the Byzantine Church at San Ravenna and the dome for the Hagia
Sophia.
22. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
a) introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single, fixed light
source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
b) developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in
Florence Cathedral.
c) reviving “sculpture–in-the-round” and reintroducing the nude figure.
d) painting the 38 panels in the Arena Chapel that depict the life of Christ.
e) designing the Byzantine Church at San Ravenna and the dome for the Hagia
Sophia.
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23. The “Big 3” of the Italian High Renaissance, based in Florence, and later in Rome,
and then Milan were:
a) Brunelleschi, Donatelli, and Masaccio.
b) Robert Campin, Roger van der Weyden, and Jan van Eyck.
c) De Chirico, Dali, and Magritte.
d) Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
e) Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne.
24. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
a) the conquering of Greece by and Rome and the importing of Greek aesthetics.
b) the sacking of Constantinople in 1453 by the Turks.
c) the death of Raphael in 1520.
d) the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
e) the completion of the Sistine Chapel in 1511.
25. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about
his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
a) his turbulent compositions and contorted, highly musculatured figures
b) his calm, balanced compositions
c) his use of mythological themes
d) the didactic nature of his paintings
e) he was primarily a sculptor
26. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn’t been done since
Classical Antiquity?
a) he developed linear perspective
b) he made paintings with complex narratives
c) he used mythological themes
d) he sculpted nude figures
27. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ ,as much for
his work as an artist.
a) military engineer and weapons-designer
b) architect
c) ambassador
d) patron of the arts
e) wealthy businessman
28. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno, drawing and delineation of forms,
while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
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a) abstract forms.
b) the same as the Florentines, disegno.
c) the sensuousness of light and color.
d) spontaneity and experimentation.
e) tight, controlled compositions.
29. Teotihuacan was an __________important cultural center in Mesoamerica.
a) Aztec
b) Olmec
c) Maya
d) it is not known which culture used it
30. Machu Picchu was a “getaway” for a(n) __________ruler.
a) Aztec
b) Inca
c) Maya
d) Olmec
e)Moche
31. Who was the most influential artist of the Baroque period in Europe?
a) Michelangelo
b) Durer
c) Caravaggio
d) Bernini
e) Leonardo
Short Answer Questions
32. Name the three leading innovators of the arts in early fifteenth-century Florence.
34. Name the three leading innovators of the arts in early sixteenth-century Florence.
35. What is the term that refers to the cultures of all peoples who lived in Mexico, Central
America, and South America prior to the arrival of Europeans?
36. Until the nineteenth century, most Westerners based their concepts of China upon
whose travel accounts?
Essay Questions
37. Renaissance painters in the north had the benefit of a new painting medium. What
38. How did “spirituality” find its way into nonreligious subject matter in Baroque
25. Using examples from the chapter, discuss the significance of the Renaissance.
39. Compare and contrast a painting from the High Renaissance and one that displays the
40. Name one of the major Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico and discuss an artwork
from that culture.