High Renaissance Art History
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Introduction to High Renaissance- page 4301. Giorgio Vasari said that geniuses were set apart by what?
2. What set the artists apart and guided their efforts?
3. High Renaissance artists were less concerned with rational order and were more
concerned with what?
4. Who were the main artists of the High Renaissance?
5. Was the time span of the High Renaissance long or short?
Leonardo Da Vinci- pages purple book- 431-35, green book6. What are the dates of Leonardo’s life?
7. Where was he born?
8. Who was Leonardo’s teacher?
9. What were some of Leonardo’s jobs besides being a painter?
10. Was the painting the Adoration of the Magi completed?
11. What type of order does the design of the ruins exhibit?
12. Why does the composition of this image not make sense?
13. What is the compositional shape of the main figures in this painting?
14. Botticelli thought in terms of outlines of the figure, how does Leonardo treat his
figures?
15. Define Chiaroscuro.
16. What type of painting is the Virgin of the Rocks?
17. Define sfumato.
18. What are two effects created by using sfumato on a painting?
19. What is the subject of this painting?
20. Look at the painting The Virgin on the Rocks and discuss this painting as
descriptively as possible. Where are they? Who are the figures? What is each
figure doing? What colors are used in the painting? What is the composition of
this painting?
21. What caused the painting “The Last Supper” to deteriorate a few years after it was
completed?
22. When speaking about “The Last Supper” in terms of composition are the figures
more important or the space they are located in more important?
23. Where is the central vanishing point located in “The Last Supper”?
24. How do you know that Jesus is the most important part of this composition?
25. All the apostles were reacting to something Jesus just said at this dinner? What
did he say?
26. Look at the painting “The Last Supper” closely in your book. Could this space be
recreated in real life like the painting “The Holy Family” or the “Holy Trinity”
done by Masaccio?
27. How are the figures gathered in “The Last Supper”?
28. What did Leonardo say the most difficult aim of painting is?
29. What was the main painting technique that Da Vinci employed when painting the
Mona Lisa?
30. How does the Mona Lisa relate to Archaic Greek sculpture?
31. Who was the real Mona Lisa?
32. What is the size of the painting “Mona Lisa” and where is it located?
Michelangelo pages- purple book- 437-449, green book33. What is Michelangelo’s full name?
34. What medium did Michelangelo primarily work with?
35. Da Vinci saw art as a science. How did Michelangelo view art?
36. Who were the artists that Michelangelo admired?
37. Who was Michelangelo apprenticed to?
38. What type of personality did Michelangelo have and how did he feel he fit into
society?
39. Michelangelo viewed his statues as human bodies released from their marble
prison. How did he view the human body?
40. Who commissioned the Pieta?
41. Where is the Pieta located?
42. What is Michelangelo’s David a symbol for?
43. What do you see as the main differences between Michelangelo’s David and
Donatello’s David?
44. What is the height of Michelangelo’s David?
45. How is Michelangelo’s statue of Moses supposed to be seen?
46. Why does Moses have horns?
47. How did Michelangelo go about carving his statues?
48. Who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling?
49. How long did it take Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
50. What is the subject painted on the Sistine Chapel?
51. Look closely at the painting the creation of Adam. Who is tucked under God’s
arm in this painting?
52. Why did Michelangelo return to the Sistine Chapel more than 20 years after he
completed the ceiling?
53. In the painting “The Last Judgment” St. Bartholomew is holding a human skin.
What does this skin represent?
54. Michelangelo’s statue of Giuliano de’ Medici does not resemble the deceased
man. What is Michelangelo’s response when someone asks him about this fact?
55. What was Michelangelo’s main focus during the last 30 years of his life?
Raphael and Giorgione pages- purple book- 450-455, green book56. What is Raphael’s full name?
57. What type of artist personality did Raphael have?
58. What was the name of the Master painter that Raphael studied under?
59. Who summoned Raphael to Rome?
60. What was Raphael commissioned to paint when he arrived in Rome?
61. What does Raphael’s cycle of frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura refer to?
62. The designs of these paintings are his alone, but who helped him to conceive the
subjects?
63. What is the subject of the painting “The School of Athens”?
64. Who are the main characters in “The School of Athens”?
65. Look at all of Raphael’s paintings in this book. What techniques does he borrow
from Michelangelo?
66. What techniques does Raphael borrow from Leonardo?
67. Who are the individuals located to the left and the right of Plato in Raphael’s
painting “The School of Athens”?
68. What do Socrates and Jesus have in common?
69. What is the subject of Raphael’s painting “Galatea”?
70. What is the main symbolic subject of Giorgione’s painting “The Tempest”?
41.- 42. What responsibilities did artists have during the Early Italian
Renaissance? What jobs were they expected to be able to fulfill?
43.- 46 Name at least four out of the five steps that were involved in making
a fresco painting.
47. Describe the two types of artist Personalities.
48.-49 Who were patrons of the arts during the Early Italian Renaissance?
50. Where were artists trained during the Early Italian Renaissance?
Word Bank:
Mantegna
St. James Led to his Execution
Spring/Primavera
Masaccio
Boticelli
Dead Christ
Garden of Venus
Tribute Money
Expulsion From Paradise
Donatello
Saint Sebastian
Extra Credit:
1. What was the name of the artist who won the commission for the
bronze Baptistery doors in Florence?
2. What invention made it possible for the middle class to become more
knowledgeable during the Early Italian Renaissance?
3. Favorite food?
4. One goal you want to accomplish before you graduate?
5. Favorite work of art we’ve studied during art history (can be from this
section or all year)