Renaissance Art Self Test


The following self test is a useful tool to verify your understanding of the Renaissance virtual lecture and to serve as a study guide. The test only covers information contained in the on-campus portion of the lecture; however, your instructor also may require you to be responsible for information presented on the World Wide Web pages of this document.

1. Artists of the Early Renaissance were mostly concerned with_____________.
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2. _________________ enabled artists to create the illusion of depth in a painting through the relative brigthness or clarity of objects seen at a distance. The Answer is:

3. In what Italian city did Early Renaissance first emerge?
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4. The organization of the figures in Raphael's School of Athens, into foreground, middleground and background divisions is due to the principle known as the "separation of planes" which derives from___________________.
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5. Masaccio's painting The Tribute Money demonstrates a type of storytelling in art known as___________________.
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6. In Leonardo's The Last Supper, the artist places emphasis on which figure by aligning him with the vanishing point of the perspective in the mural?


7. The humanistic ideas of the Renaissance emerged out of a renewed interest in ____________________.
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8. The impression that warmer colors in a painting appear to advance, while cooler colors appear to recede, is the principle know as _________________.
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Advanced Level Discussion Topics


How did the humanist belief that "man is the measure of all things" contribute to the development of a mathematical system which allows for the illusionistic device of linear perspective? Is that belief and the subsequent illusionistic system obselete today?

Describe the role played by the powerful Medici family in Florence and how their influence as patrons of the arts possibly affected the course of Western art. What types of institutions affect art practices today?

Identify the figures in Raphael's School of Athens, and describe the characteristics of the space in which they are represented. How might this painting represent the ideals of the papacy during the High Italian Renaissance?

Is the concept of the individual artist as creative genius a myth? What contributed to the development of such ideas in the 16th-century, and how has that image of the artist changed throughout history?

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