Renaissance Art & Architecture

This palace near the Arno River in Florence was bought by the Medici family in 1549.

The technique of allowing tones to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

His work, generally oil paint on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.

Italian polymath who was famous as a painter but also a draftsman, engineer, scientist, sculptor, and architect.

Michelangelo's David differs from previous sculptures of David in that:

This structure, originally known as Cappella Magna, hosts the the papal conclave when a new pope is selected in Rome.

Caravaggio's use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.

Commonly credited to Filippo Brunelleschi, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture.

Humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, and cryptographer; he epitomizes the term polymath.

He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome.

He studied Greek and Roman models to create the Renaissance sculptural standard and this bronze of David in Florence.

This painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance became famous for his woodcuts but preferred engraving.

With Titian and Tintoretto, he is one of the great trio that dominated Venetian painting in the late Renaissance.

Which of the the following is true regarding El Escorial?

This church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome, is the largest in the world. It was financed in part by __.

He called Giotto's new manner of painting a rinascita (rebirth) which led to the term Renaissance.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse by Albrecht Dürer is in a common medium used in the Northern Renaissance.

This portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger depicts:

One of the first Renaissance painters, he created the frescos of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy.

The frescos in the Brancacci Chapel by Italian painter Masaccio are an early Renaissance example of what techniques?

The brick dome of the Florence Cathedral was designed by:

This is the town hall of Florence, Italy, overlooking the Piazza della Signoria & original site of Michelangelo's David.

This Northern Renaissance painter of The Arnolfini Portrait is said to have invented oil painting.

Called Il Furioso, he was both admired and criticized the speed and boldness with which he painted.

The fresco The Annunciation by Fra Angelico uses a technique with a vanishing point called ___________.

With work by Brunelleschi, Donatello, and Michelangelo, this is the burial place of the members of the Medici family.

This master's work in Umbria, Florence, and Rome places him among the highest-regarded painters of the High Renaissance.

The bronze doors of the Florence Baptistry are referred to as "The Gates of Paradise." They were sculpted by:

Tiziano Vecelli was a Venetian painter considered the most important member of the Venetian school. He is known as:

This is a painting titled The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as _______.

"The most imposing Italian palace of the 16th century," this building is now the French Embassy in Rome.

Her apprenticeship with local portrait painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art.