Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 13, you should be able to:

• Identify the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Compare Italian fifteenth-century painting with that of the Netherlands.

• Describe humanism, using literary and artistic examples.

• Locate the leading art centers on a map of Italy and the North.

• Discuss the importance of the competition for the Florence Baptistery Doors.

• Draw and label the plans of Florence Cathedral, Santo Spirito in Florence, and Sant' Andrea in Mantua.

• Describe the structure of Brunelleschi's dome.

• Describe the use of mathematical linear perspective as it is used in fifteenth-century painting.

• Discuss the new emphasis on biography and autobiography in the Renaissance.

• Describe the emergence of mythological subject matter and Platonism.

• Compare perspective in Chinese painting and Persian Miniatures with linear perspective.

• Describe the development of sculpture in Florence in the fifteenth century.

• Discuss the writings and architecture of Alberti.

• Explain the role of fame in art and philosophy.

• Discuss the role of patronage in the arts.

• Discuss the Arnolfini Portrait using different methodologies.

• Compare Italian with Netherlandish fifteenth-century painting.