Renaissance Art Study Guide
What geographically distinguishes the European North from Italy?
How did the geography affect the art?
Explain the ways for stained glass:
Explain the ways for painting:
What are some of the long term problems for Italian Renaissance paintings?
Explain the ways for sculpture:
What are some of the long term problems for Northern Renaissance sculpture?
How did Northern style vary from Italian style?
What is the biggest name from the Northern Renaissance?
What is etching?
What are the two biggest names from the Italian Renaissance?
What does it mean to be called a renaissance man?
Having read up on Da Vinci, what is sfumato?
Where is sfumato most famously displayed?
From the reading in the packet or from presentations identify the artist described below. Some may
be represented multiple times. Many of these questions will appear word for word on the test.
Botticelli
Da Vinci
Donatello
Dürer
Fra Angelico
Grünewald
Jan Van Eyck
Masaccio
Michelangelo
Rafael
Titian
______________________ High, Italian renaissance artist responsible for the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel.
______________________ Italian sculptor of bronze, David (the kind of girly version). First freestanding, life-size sculpture since antiquity.
______________________ Early, Italian renaissance painter who used outline more than any other.
______________________ High, Italian renaissance artist responsible for walls in the Sistine Chapel.
______________________ Early, northern renaissance painter who pioneered oil glazing.
______________________ Early, Italian renaissance painter who was one of the first to start playing
with shading and perspective. Known for his intense blues.
______________________ Venetian painter of the High Italian Renaissance known for old-world
porn (nudes of women for personal exhibition); known for his “painterly” style.
______________________ High, Italian renaissance painter most noted for scientific quality
symmetry and geometric composition.
______________________ High, northern renaissance painter who was the first to go out into
nature to observe and work from life.
______________________ High, Italian renaissance portrait painter known for his soft edges as
taught to him by his mentor Da Vinci.
______________________ Early, Italian renaissance painter who painted exclusively religious subject
matter, likely, because he was a monk.
______________________ Noted as a scientist and inventor as well as an artist.
______________________ Early, Italian renaissance painter whose painting, The Tribute Money, was
the first to showcase one point perspective.
______________________ Early, northern renaissance painter known for vivid color and detail
whose paintings included reflected images in mirrors and was known include miniature self-portraits
in reflection.
______________________ High, northern renaissance artist who showed intense details in woodcuts
and etchings.
______________________ “Renaissance man” known for leaving works unfinished.
______________________ High, northern renaissance painter who intensified the emotion of
paintings (often altarpieces) through deeply saturated color, exaggerated poses and details (such as
thorns on the crucified Jesus), and employed brutal distortion.
______________________ High, Italian renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and Ninja
Turtle, who thought of himself as a sculptor.
_____________________________________________ First two renaissance artists to use Biblical
material in a sensuous or flirtatious manner as seen in what painting and what sculpture?
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How did Da Vinci change art? The broader world? What is his legacy (what do we celebrate him
for)? (You’ll need to write a ¶ on this).
How did Dürer change art? The broader world? What is his legacy (what do we celebrate him for)?
(You’ll need to write a ¶ on this).