The word “Renaissance” means
rebirth
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s winning design for the doors of the Florence Baptistery differs from Filippo Brunelleschi’s in that the
main action is on the side, not in the center
The victor of the 1418 competition to create a dome for Florence Cathedral was
Filippo Brunelleschi
Masaccio places the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ’s head to
identify Christ as the fresco’s most important figure
The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence from 1418 to 1494, because they
were bankers to the papacy
In Mona Lisa, Leonardo achieved the sfumato effect by
building up color with many layers of transparent oil paint
Why did Medici supporters hurl stones at Michelangelo’s David as it was moved through the streets?
They understood David’s symbolism of the city standing up to tyrants
Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, was interested in Leonardo da Vinci because he
could design great machines of war for him
According to the ancient Roman Virtruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the
human head
The people were eager to buy the indulgences that the pope sold to finance the St Peter’s project, because they wanted to
shorten their stay in purgatory
Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Pope
Julius II
In the School of Athens, Raphael represents Plato pointing upward to signify the location of
the realm of ideal forms
Machiavelli saw the role model for his perfect prince in the Florentine ruler
Cesare Borgia
In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the
Gothic Style
The role of most women in Renaissance Italy was to
manage domestic affairs
The patron saint of Venice, to whom the cathedral is dedicated, is saint
Mark
Unlike in Renaissance Italy, patronage of artists in Northern European cities came from
the merchant class
A particularly distinctive feature of Robert Campin’s Merode Altarpiece is the
setting of the Annunciation in an ordinary, middle-class Flemish home
Flemish painters favored oil paint because of its
ability to be painted in layers that reflected light
Marguerite de Navarre modeled her Heptameron on the work of
Boccaccio
In his landscape study The Large Turf, Albrecht Durer blended hi Northern European interest in minute detail with an Italian Renaissance interest in
the natural world
Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece underscores the Northern European preoccupation with
death
A major advantage of tapestries as decorations is that they
were highly transportable
