Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Summer 2020 » Renaissance Quiz 3

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Question #1
The art historical importance of the Renaissance can be found in:
A.   none of these options
B.   all of these options
C.   its revolutionary attention to the human condition
D.   its revolutionary development of perspective
E.   its revolutionary development of printed books
Question #2
In the panel depicting the Fall from Eden in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo depicted one of the female figures:
A.   as an avenging angel in the depiction of paradise
B.   as the ideal reflection of a perfect moral character
C.   in full frontal view, giving women action and agency
D.   as an evil figure responsible for mankind’s downfall into sin
Question #3
Paolo Uccello's drawings of a mazzaccio resemble:
A.   none of these options
B.   computer generated images
C.   architecture at Chartres
D.   prehistoric cave drawings
E.   paintings by Jan van Eyck
Question #4
One of the great leaps forward during the Renaissance was the belief of women as equals to their husbands of heads of household both politically and financially:
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #5
German printmaker Albrecht Durer’s woodcut, “Man Drawing a Lute,” is important because:
A.   it depicts a device that Michelangelo may have used
B.   it is found in the book Durer wrote on perspective
C.   all of these options
D.   it depicts a mechanical device that artists used to make their images look more realistic
E.   none of these options
Question #6
Leonardo da Vinci’s portraits of women represent a radical departure for the Renaissance in that they present women as:
A.   none of these options
B.   all of these options
C.   individualized human beings with personal agency
D.   threatening “femme fatale” figures
E.   the objectified possessions of their male counterparts
Question #7
The importance of linear perspective:
A.   duplicates human sight
B.   enabled a new way of thinking about reality
C.   combines art and science
D.   all of these options
E.   psychologically turns attention from God as the divine center to the earthly human viewer
Question #8
The “vanishing point” in art, particularly two dimensional works, is based upon:
A.   the point which is always the most colorful part of the art work
B.   none of these options
C.   the point which is always the darkest part of the art work
D.   the successful depiction of perspective in Jan Van Eyck’s painting “The Arnolfini Wedding”
E.   the point at which the receding parallel lines converge and seem to disappear
Question #9
Italian artist Paolo Uccello’s drawing of a “mazzaccio” (a man’s hat):
A.   none of these options
B.   all of these options
C.   demonstrates the artist’s mastery of perspective
D.   shows how perspective renderings anticipated computer modeling images
E.   demonstrates the scientific potential of perspective images
Question #10
In “The Last Supper” mural, in order to underscore Jesus’ liturgical centrality and stability, Leonardo da Vinci configures Jesus as:
A.   none of these options
B.   an equilateral triangle
C.   the psychological center of the composition
D.   all of these options
E.   the site of the linear perspective vanishing point

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