Which statement describes a difference between these painting details by Sandro Botticelli and Albrecht Dürer?

Botticelli - natural shading: Durer - ideal beauty, highly detailed image

Which of the following is a convention that Byzantine artists used in icon paintings?

Artists stylized the clothing and highlighted the folds with gold lines.

Which of the following is a characteristic of portal sculpture on Romanesque cathedrals?

They are carved in high relief, but have an overall flattened appearance.

How did Late Renaissance artist Parmigianino use Mannerist characteristics in Madonna with the Long Neck?

The elegant figures in the painting have elongated proportion.

Which of the following statements is a characteristic of Early Renaissance art?

It depicts the beauty of the human form and nuances of human expression.

Which of the following is a characteristic of Gothic stained-glass windows?

They depict biblical stories so that illiterate people could understand.

How did German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer transform the engraving process?

Dürer used thousands of fine lines to create rich textures and values.

How did El Greco of Spain incorporate Mannerist characteristics of the Late Renaissance into his paintings?

El Greco used color to communicate emotion.

Which statement best describes a feature of the Isenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald?

It continued the medieval idea that art was to communicate religious ideas.

How did humanist thought influence Italian High Renaissance artists?

Artists depicted religious subjects within earthly settings.

What did Gothic artists hope to accomplish in their paintings?

They wanted to communicate a religious message.

How are these sculptures by Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello and High Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo similar?

They both have the contrapposto pose as seen in Classical sculpture.

What is a Renaissance characteristic that is exhibited in Michelangelo’s Pietà?

The pyramid configuration creates a sense of harmony and stability.

What Northern Renaissance characteristic did Pieter Brueghel the Elder of the Netherlands use in his paintings?

Complex compositions and atmospheric perspective to create a sense of depth

Which sentence best describes a characteristic of paintings by Early Renaissance artist Perugino?

They have a rational, ordered sense of space with no distracting objects.

Which statement best describes how Michelangelo’s David reflects the influence of Classical Greek and Roman sculpture?

It depicts the figure in a natural, contrapposto pose.

Which statement best describes how Tintoretto’s The Last Supper reflects Mannerist conventions?

It has a complex composition and off-center perspective.

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1
Which statement describes a difference between these painting details by Sandro Botticelli and Albrecht Dürer?
Botticelli's shows a Christian influence; Dürer's shows a Gothic influence.
Botticelli - natural shading: Durer - ideal beauty, highly detailed image
Botticelli used oil paint: Durer used egg tempera.
Botticelli used sfumato; Dürer used atmospheric perspective.
2
Which of the following is a convention that Byzantine artists used in icon paintings?
Artists painted faces and hands with textured colors.
Artists placed figures on gold backgrounds to signify the wealth of bishops
Artists stylized the clothing and highlighted the folds with gold lines.
Artists created figures in realistic settings.
3
Which of the following is a characteristic of portal sculpture on Romanesque cathedrals?
Stories in them teach people about important Roman myths.
The sculptural figures have accurate scale and proportion.
The highly realistic figures are based on Roman conventions.
They are carved in high relief, but have an overall flattened appearance.
4
How did Late Renaissance artist Parmigianino use Mannerist characteristics in Madonna with the Long Neck?
Parmigianino made distant figures appear far away from the picture plane.
He placed the figures within a clearly understandable setting and space.
The composition is simple, orderly, & has symmetrical balance.
The elegant figures in the painting have elongated proportion.
5
Which of the following statements is a characteristic of Early Renaissance art?
It focuses on religious subjects because the church was the only patron.
It depicts the beauty of the human form and nuances of human expression.
Sculpture is connected to an architectural framework for added support.
Artists gave figures unnatural proportion to evoke an emotional response.
6
Which of the following is a characteristic of Gothic stained-glass windows?
They were made by painting images on a huge sheet of clear glass.
They depict biblical stories so that illiterate people could understand.
They were an inexpensive yet beautiful way to illuminate a cathedral.
Their complex imagery was intended for the cathedral’s bishop to understand
7
How did German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer transform the engraving process?
Dürer used thousands of fine lines to create rich textures and values.
Dürer enhanced the print's religious value by engraving on silver plates.
Dürer invented a special ink that produced highly detailed prints.
Dürer used decorative interlacing lines to connect figures and animals.
8
How did El Greco of Spain incorporate Mannerist characteristics of the Late Renaissance into his paintings?
El Greco used subtle highlights and shadows.
El Greco gave figures lifelike proportion.
El Greco created highly static compositions.
El Greco used color to communicate emotion.
9
Which statement best describes a feature of the Isenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald?
It uses one-point perspective to create a sense of depth.
Art should communicate intellectual ideas.
It continued the medieval idea that art was to communicate religious ideas.
It depicts figures with idealized proportion and expressions.
10
What is a convention that Italian High Renaissance painters often used to create the illusion of depth?
sfumato
pyramid configuration
one-point perspective
chiaroscuro
11
How did humanist thought influence Italian High Renaissance artists?
Artists depicted religious subjects within earthly settings.
Artists did not include humans and biblical figures in the same artworks.
Artists downplayed the importance of humans in the world.
Artists made humans larger than biblical figures to show their importance.
12
What did Gothic artists hope to accomplish in their paintings?
They worked hard to depict figures with lifelike features.
They strived to associate mankind with biblical figures.
They wanted to show figures within an earthly setting.
They wanted to communicate a religious message.
13
How are these sculptures by Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello and High Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo similar?
They made them larger than life to impress viewers with a sense of might.
They both have the contrapposto pose as seen in Classical sculpture.
They have accurate proportion without idealization.
Both show David victorious after having slain his enemy Goliath.
14
What is a Renaissance characteristic that is exhibited in Michelangelo’s Pietà?
The pyramid configuration creates a sense of harmony and stability.
It shows the influence of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian sculpture.
It depicts the figures with lifelike accuracy, regardless of attractiveness
The unemotional stance Renaissance artists took toward religious subjects
15
What Northern Renaissance characteristic did Pieter Brueghel the Elder of the Netherlands use in his paintings?
Complex compositions and atmospheric perspective to create a sense of depth
Brueghel depicted the individual faces of people and idealized proportions.
Brueghel painted with egg tempera to create subtle shading in the figures.
Brueghel created religious scenes that appealed to church patrons.
16
Which sentence best describes a characteristic of paintings by Early Renaissance artist Perugino?
They have a rational, ordered sense of space with no distracting objects.
They have little contrast in light and dark, so figures appear flattened.
They depict religious figures within a heavenly background.
Made by using oil paint on canvas, which allows for subtle color variations
17
Which statement best describes how Michelangelo’s David reflects the influence of Classical Greek and Roman sculpture?
It depicts the figure in a natural, contrapposto pose.
It shows the human body as shameful.
It demonstrates a limited knowledge of human anatomy.
It depicts a figure in Roman mythology.
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Which statement best describes how Tintoretto’s The Last Supper reflects Mannerist conventions?
It has a complex composition and off-center perspective.
It depicts figures in natural, relaxed positions.
It has a symmetrical composition because he used atmospheric perspective.
It uses subtle chiaroscuro to model figures and create atmosphere.

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