Chapter 8: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART
1. The sixteenth century was characterized as a time when:
a. there was tranquility and stability
b. the papacy declined in power
c. artists were not known as individuals
d. society was convulsed by shifting alliances
2. The Reformation in Northern Europe:
a. weakened papal authority
b. was not bound to political realities
c. was ignored by German princes
d. was a defeat for Charles V’s rule
3. The Counter-Reformation edicts recommended that art:
a. be primarily intellectual, not emotional
b. avoid theological themes
c. use clear compositions
d. avoid themes that were didactic
4. High Renaissance art:
a. spread from Rome to Florence
b. avoided complex philosophical and allegorical subjects
c. was committed to naturalism and fine detail
d. was distinguished by an idealizing, classicizing approach
5. The High Renaissance style:
a. avoided naturalism
b. utilized the idealized composition
c. returned to the techniques of tempera painting
d. preferred asymmetric compositions
6. Mannerism:
a. consciously disjoints the illusion of space
b. moved toward the High Renaissance’s classical values
c. sought to create natural and simple construction
d. appealed to the peasants’ aesthetic values
7. Sixteenth-century artists:
a. never signed their works
b. were quite modest in self-appraisal of their art
c. began to open their ranks to women
d. viewed with disdain the establishment of an art academy
8. The Mona Lisa:
a. still exhibits the brilliant colors it demonstrated when it was first painted
b. was a vehicle for the expression of personality
c. was a Mannerist painting
d. was primarily a testament to religious spirituality
9. Woodcuts:
a. have ink pressed into incised lines (grooves)
b. are incised with a burin
c. are a relief process
d. had to be printed on dry paper
10. The boldest aspect of Bramante’s proposed conception for the new St. Peter’s basilica was
its:
a. colossal scale
b. six equal arms
c. basilican plan
d. use of two bell towers
11. The iconography in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling was developed:
a. solely by Michelangelo
b. in consultation with others
c. from concepts in his Pietàs
d. primarily on New Testament figures
12. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights triptych:
a. completely avoided traditional religious subject matter
b. expressed humanity’s determined perversity
c. condoned rampant promiscuity
d. used only naturalistic objects and figures
13. Venetian paintings:
a. utilized the Renaissance fresco technique
b. emphasized clearly defined edges for forms
c. avoided large, painterly brush strokes
d. used impasto to define form
14. The architect who began the rebuilding of St. Peter’s in Rome was:
a. Bernini
b. Bramante
c. Michelangelo
d. Borromini
15. The original plan for the new St. Peter’s was a:
a. cruciform basilica
b. central plan (based on the circle and square)
c. basilica plan with a dome
d. strictly axial plan
16. The Northern Renaissance artist who refined and popularized the media of woodcut and
engraving was:
a. Matthias Grünewald
b. Martin Schongauer
c. Albrecht Dürer
d. Lucas Cranach the Elder
17. A medium of printmaking in which V-shaped grooves are cut into a metal plate is termed:
a. woodcut
b. engraving
c. etching
d. lithograph
18. The painting which is viewed as the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the Italian
High Renaissance is the:
a. School of Athens by Raphael
b. Mona Lisa by Leonardo
c. Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo
d. Tempest by Giorgione
19. The artist who dominated Venetian painting in the first half of the sixteenth century and
who brought a new and full maturity to techniques of oil painting was:
a. Mantegna
b. Bellini
c. Giorgione
d. Titian
20. The artist who was seen by his contemporaries as possessing terribilitá, a sublime creative
talent, was:
a. Titian
b. Raphael
c. Michelangelo
d. Leonardo
21. The Northern painter who explored landscape and peasant life with an acutely observing
eye was:
a. Aertsen
b. Vermeer
c. Bosch
d. Bruegel
22. The Dry Garden of the Daisenin of Daitokuji represents what religion?
a. Hinduism
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Shinto
ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
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