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1
Which artistic movement deliberately chose odd perspectives and twisted positions that called attention to the artists' technical efforts?
2
What Venetian poet wrote Petrarchan sonnets about love from a female point of view?
3
Who wrote The Book of the Courtier, the bible of courteous behavior?
4
Who wrote The Prince, which revolutionized political thought?
5
What is probably the most famous portrait painting in Western art?
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Who painted it?
7
What sculptor painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes?
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Who painted The School of Athens, a large fresco devoted to philosophy?
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Name the Venetian High Renaissance artist who made the female nude and the landscape important elements of Western painting.
10
Who painted a version of the Madonna with a very long neck and an strange, elongated baby Jesus in her lap?
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What style is the above-mentioned oil on panel painting?
12
What is the only sculpture that we think Michelangelo signed? He created it when he was only twenty-one.
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What biblical character was strongly associated with the city of Florence and the subject of a Michelangelo sculpture?
14
Who designed the Tempietto, a Classically-influenced High Renaissance building created as a sculpture?
15
Who designed the famous dome of St. Peter's, which has influenced other domes ever since?
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Who designed buildings such as the balanced, Classically-influenced Villa Rotunda and wrote an important treatise, The Four Books of Architecture?
17
Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri all designed what musical instrument?
18
Who painted a famous Christian painting during the High Renaissance that is also famous for having a flawed technique for its mixed medium, so that the painting began flaking and disintegrating almost immediately? It was restored in 1999.
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What High Renaissance painter excelled at mixing the secular and the sacred? He is the artist who created the two mischievous putti that have been reproduced repeatedly on consumer items in contemporary times.
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Who painted The Sistine Madonna, which has a harmonious pyramidal composition?







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