Exam #1 Study Guide
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| Artist | Title | Date |
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| Giotto di Bondone | Lamentation | 1305-6 |  |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | Dome of the Florence Cathedral | 1417 - 36 |  |
| Masaccio | Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors | 1425-27/28 |  |
| Robert Campin | Mérode Altarpiece | c. 1425-28 |  |
| Lorenzo Ghiberti | Gates of Paradise | 1425-52 |  |
| Jan van Eyck | Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, Giovanna Cenami | 1434 |  |
| Rogier van der Weyden | Deposition | c. 1442 |  |
| Donatello | David | c. 1446-60 |  |
| Andrea Mantegna | Frescoes in the Camera Picta | 1465 - 74 |  |
| Sandro Botticelli | The Birth of Venus | c. 1484-86 |  |
| Albrecht Dürer | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 1497-98 |  |
| Michelangelo | David | 1501-4 |  |
| Leonardo | Mona Lisa | c. 1503 |  |
| Giorgione | The Tempest | 1505-10 |  |
| Hieronymus Bosch | Garden of Earthly Delights | c. 1505-15 |  |
| Raphael | School of Athens | c. 1510-11 |  |
| Matthias Grünewald | Isenheim Altarpiece | c. 1510-15 |  |
| Titian | Venus of Urbino | c. 1538 |  |
| Michelangelo | Saint Peter's Basilica | c. 1546 - 64 |  |
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Key Terms
Know the definition of the following terms. |
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| Adoration | Hieratic scale | Protestant |
| Altarpiece | Humanism | Reformation |
| Buon fresco | Idealization | Renaissance |
| Baroque | Ignudi | Sacra conversazione |
| Continuous narrative | Lamentation | Secco fresco |
| Contrapposto | Linear Perspective | Secular |
| Deposition | Neoplatonism | Sfumato |
| Disguised symbolism | Oculus | Tempera |
| Di sotto in su | Oil paint | Trompe l'oeil |
| Engraving | Pieta | Venus pudica |
| Glaze | Putti | Woodcut |
| People Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to art history. |
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| Martin Luther | The Medici | |
| Questions to Consider Be able to answer each of the following questions. |
| What are the differences between Italian and Northern Renaissance art? |
| Why is Jan van Eyck credited with the invention of oil painting? |
| What revolutionary system for depicting space did Masaccio use in his paintings? What artist developed this system? |
| What three Netherlandish artists are traditionally considered the most important during the early Renaissance? |
| What three Renaissance artists are traditionally considered the most important? |
| What influence did middle-class capitalist society have in the North? |
| How did the concept of art and of the artist change during the Renaissance? |
| Why is the dome of the Florence Cathedral considered an architectural feat? |
| Who won the competition to create the doors to the Florence Cathedral? |