Elements/Principles
Review (Turn-In)
1) What elements stand
out the most?
2) What descriptions can
be used for the
elements?
3) What principles of art
stand out the most?
4) What elements create
those principles you
have chosen?
Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
• Objective: Students will be able to identify
both key artists/artworks of the period and
their individual contributions to culture/arts
of the world.
• Vocabulary: Renaissance, humanism,
linear perspective, and aerial perspective
Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
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Questions
1)
What was the contribution of the Gutenberg’s printing
press? How did it change the way people viewed life and
the world around them? (page 354)
How did Masaccio give his figures mass and show depth
in Figure 16.3? (page 355)
Who is given credit for the discovery of linear
perspective? (page 356)
What artist created the Gates of Paradise? How was this
artist chosen to created the Gates of Paradise? (page
359)
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Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
• Vocabulary: foreshortening, contrapposto
1) What was the technique used by Francesca to
solidity to his figures and realism to the space
around them? (page 362)
2) What were the shared interests of sculptor
Donatello and painter Masaccio? (page 363364)
3) How did Donatello use perspective in his
sculptural figures? (page 363)
4) List three ways Donatello’s St. George is
similar to the Spear Bearer. (page 363)
5) Who were the Medicis? How did they
influence the Renaissance art? (page 361)
Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
 You have the definition of aerial perspective in
your vocabulary bank. Look it over and
consider what this technique means.
 Search through pages 354-375 and find the
paintings which use this technique. Name the
painting, date, and artist responsible for the
work of art.
 For TURN-IN !!!
Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
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Vocabulary: Pieta
Name five of the many different subjects Leonardo studied.
(page 367)
Why did Michelangelo distort the proportion of the figures in
his Pieta? (page 369)
Why was Michelangelo not asked to paint the walls of the
Sistine Chapel? (page 370)
Why was Raphael regarded as the most typical of the
Renaissance artists? (page 373)
What do many scholars believe Raphael was able to master?
(page 374)
What female Renaissance artist was the first to gain fame as a
painter? (page 374)
What King invited this female artist to his court to be a painter
for ten years? (page 374-375)
What was unique about her painting style? (page 374-375)
Elements Principles
Review !!!
1) What four elements
stand out the most?
2) What descriptions can
be used for the four
elements?
3) What four principles of
art stand out the most?
4) Explain how the
elements create the
four principles?
Unit 4 “Italian Renaissance”
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Why did Leonardo take the name Vinci?
Name two places Leonardo lived and worked.
What happened when Leonardo finished his
instructors painting?
4) Name four professions that interested Leonardo.
5) Why where patrons wary to hire Leonardo?
6) What was Leonardo supposed to build in Milan?
7) Who was Leonardo’s chief rival in art?
8) Why did Leonardo get into trouble for dissecting
bodies?
9) Name Leonardo’s most celebrated master-pieces.
10) Where did Leonardo die?