Renaissance Art Test Review

The Italian Renaissance is known for what type of paintings?

Emphasis of human potential & achievement with an emphasis of human body into a more realistic image

Renaissance literally means

St. John the Baptist

During the Renaissance, this was painted and sculpted and replaced Byzantine mosaics and murals

David

dealing with human emotions/everyday events; deals with religious themes when emotions are emphasized

Pieta

During this time, artists re-discovered the beauty of

Italian painter of the Early Renaissance; incorporated the Christian iconography with Greek and Roman symbols & imagery

use of images and symbols in art to represent ideas/particular images and symbols used by a religious or political group

One of the biggest changes in art was to paint and sculpt subjects

Antiquity

The 3 major and most popular artists of this time were

emphasis of human potential and achievement; emphasis of human body into a more realistic image

Considered one of the greatest artists of all time- famous, painter, sculptor, and architect

Madonna

Dome of St. Peter's Bascilica

portrays the person as they are in an effort to describe their maximum or true potential

had a major influence on the growth of the Renaissance by their patronage of the arts and humanism

English poet and dramatist; considered one of the greatest English writers

The most famous of all the paintings in the Sistine Chapel is

seen in Renaissance art when artists of the time use classical techniques or styles that are Greco-Roman in heritage.

Renaissance- "re-birth”; period in Europe when there was a surge of interest/ production of art/literature

The effect of Humanism was to abandon the traditional values of what period?

An example of Renaissance painting before 3 dimensional perspective is

The School of Athens

realistic portrayal of artistic styles

Italian Renaissance art is characterized by what kind of themes?

Portrays a person as they are in an effort to describe their maximum or true potential

The Last Supper

symbols, structure, posture, color as a means to determine a realistic portrayal of people and places.

A drawing or painting done in this gives the illusion that some objects are further away than others

Italy's intermingling among these 3 things led to the discovery of perspective in art

The earliest surviving painting to use linear perspective to accurately represent architectural space is

This term refers to the use of classical techniques or styles that are Greco-Roman in heritage

a technique used to provide strong contrasts between light and shade is called

The Renaissance period de-valued the medieval era and drew inspiration from

The Virgin and Child With Saint Anne

The Italian Renaissance was centered in

Sistine Chapel paintings

system in art of creating an illusion of depth/distance on a flat surface; parallel lines appear to meet in far distance

sculpted the David, the Pieta, and painted the Sistine Chapel

Mona Lisa

wealthy supporter of the arts, provided money, supplies and place to live for artists

his painting, “The Holy Trinity”is the earliest surviving painting to use linear perspective

painter, engineer, musician, and scientist; best known for The Last Supper

technical term used in art to create light and dark shadowing as they define three-dimensional objects

Italian painter; decorated the walls of the Pope's library; "School of Athens" was his masterpiece

to give subjects more emotional qualities means to give them more