Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions

1		Which best describes Renaissance humanism?
			A)	study of human nature
			B)	human-based culture
			C)	revival of Classical texts
			D)	a Christian iconographic bias
			E)	spiritual iconographic bias
2		Leonardo Bruni was
			A)	a humanist
			B)	chancellor of Florence
			C)	a historian
			D)	none of the above
			E)	all of the above
3		Which two cities were most at the forefront of early humanism?
			A)	Venice and Rome
			B)	Florence and Padua
			C)	Rome and Florence
			D)	Siena and Florence
			E)	Siena and Padua
4		Who of the following was NOT a condottiere?
			A)	Federico da Montefeltro
			B)	Sir John Hawkwood
			C)	Erasmo da Narni
			D)	Niccolo da Tolentino
			E)	Leon Battista Alberti
5		Which is a reason for Ghiberti's victory in the competition of 1401?
			A)	his relief was less expensive to cast and more monumental than Brunelleschi's
			B)	his relief was less expensive and more graceful
			C)	his relief was more expensive, but also more elegant
			D)	his relief was more monumental, more original, and he had political connections
			E)	he had a better reputation than Brunelleschi
6		Which best defines "foreshortening?"
			A)	reduction in scale
			B)	placing a smaller object in front of a larger object
			C)	a twist at the waist
			D)	depicting a form in perspective
			E)	making a large figure look like a homunculus
7		Which is NOT a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents?
			A)	arcades
			B)	round arches
			C)	Doric colonnettes
			D)	pediments
			E)	bays
8		Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?
			A)	orthogonals converge at the vanishing point
			B)	orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane
			C)	orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space
			D)	orthogonals are not used
			E)	orthogonals meet at two different points on the picture plane
9		The artist whom Vasari accused of being too obsessed with perspective was
			A)	Piero della Francesca
			B)	Mantegno
			C)	Uccello
			D)	Masaccio
			E)	Brunelleschi
10		The term paradiso as used in reference to Ghiberti's doors means
			A)	the Garden of Eden
			B)	the illustration of Dante
			C)	the space between a cathedral and its baptistry
			D)	the dome of the cathedral
			E)	the dome of the baptistery
11		The medal of John VIII Paleologus was cast by
			A)	Alberti
			B)	Matteo de' Pasti
			C)	the Byzantine emperor
			D)	Pisanello
			E)	Sigismondo Malatesta
12		Which is NOT a new, Renaissance feature of Masaccio's Holy Trinity?
			A)	a barrel-vault with coffers
			B)	Classical Orders
			C)	donors
			D)	a memento mori
			E)	one-point perspective
13		The nearest sense of "chiaroscuro" would be
			A)	gradual shading
			B)	high contrast of light and dark
			C)	shadow
			D)	silhouetting
			E)	no contrast of light and dark
14		Atmospheric perspective depicts near and far according to
			A)	diminution in size
			B)	increase in size
			C)	degrees of clarity
			D)	haziness in the sky
			E)	color
15		Which of the following match?
			A)	Masaccio-Famous Men and Women
			B)	Brunelleschi-one-point perspective
			C)	Castagno-Holy Trinity
			D)	Alberti-medal of John VIII Paleologus
			E)	Mantegna-Rucellai Palace
16		Which is NOT a 15th-century development?
			A)	illusionism
			B)	mythological subject matter
			C)	one-point perspective
			D)	an increase in literacy
			E)	stained glass windows
17		In Mantegna's Parnassus, which god does NOT appear?
			A)	Apollo
			B)	Vulcan
			C)	Mars
			D)	Juno
			E)	Venus
18		Which figure does NOT appear in the Ghent altarpiece?
			A)	crusaders
			B)	angels
			C)	Joseph
			D)	John the Baptist
			E)	Mary
19		"Grisaille" means
			A)	imitation sculpture
			B)	gesso
			C)	foreshortening
			D)	contrapposto
			E)	imitation architecture
20		Which does NOT appear in the Arnolfini Portrait?
			A)	a dog
			B)	a mirror
			C)	sandals
			D)	fruit
			E)	a vase of lilies
21		Which does NOT appear in Botticelli's Birth of Venus?
			A)	a scallop shell
			B)	the mother of Venus
			C)	waves
			D)	a nymph
			E)	flowers