AP ART HISTORY
READING QUESTIONS: ITALY, 1500-1600
T. FLEMING
Name: __________________________________________
Complete the following as you read; bullet points are acceptable!
HIGH AND LATE RENAISSANCE
1) What dates are generally accepted as the span of the High Renaissance?
2) Name four artists who were most closely associated with the High Renaissance:
3) What two elements did Leonardo consider to be the heart of painting?
4) What compositional devices did Leonardo use in The Virgin of the Rocks to knit the figures
together?
5) Define/identify the following
a. cartoon
b. chiaroscuro
c. desgno
d. sfumato
6) Who was Julius II and why was he important for the history of art?
7) List three characteristics of Raphael’s style as seen in the Madonna of the Meadows
AP ART HISTORY
READING QUESTIONS: ITALY, 1500-1600
T. FLEMING
8) Who are the two central figures represented in Raphael’s School of Athens, and what aspects of
philosophy does each represent?
9) What is meant by the term terribilita?
10) Briefly describe how Michelangelo’s Pieta differs from earlier versions of the theme.
11) Name one figure Michelangelo created for the tomb of Julius II.
12) What scene did Pope Paul III commission Michelangelo to paint on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel?
13) Briefly describe the four aspects of the sculptural appearance of Bramante’s Tempietto?
14) Briefly describe Bramante’s plan for the new Saint Peter’s:
15) What changes did Michelangelo make?
AP ART HISTORY
READING QUESTIONS: ITALY, 1500-1600
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16) What geometric forms did Palladio use to create the basic structure of the Villa Rotunda?
17) What was the most significant about Palladio’s writings?
18) What concerns distinguish the art of Venice from that of Florence and Rome?
19) What does the term “poesia” mean in reference to Venetian painting? Name a work that
exemplifies this approach:
20) List three aspects of Giorgione’s style
21) What characteristics of Titan’s Madonna of the Pesaro Family are typical of High Renaissance
painting? What features of not?
AP ART HISTORY
READING QUESTIONS: ITALY, 1500-1600
T. FLEMING
22) Which of Titan’s paintings establish the compositional essentials for the representation of the
female nude in much of later Western art?
MANNERISM
23) List 3 Mannerist painters:
24) When did the Mannerist style emerge?
25) List five of the characteristics of mannerist painting that can be called anti-Classical and that
distinguish the mannerist style from the High Renaissance style.
26) Tintoretto aspired to combine the colors of __________________________ with the drawing of
___________________________.
27) What devices does Tintoretto use to identify Christ in his version of The Last Supper?
28) List two characteristics of Tintoretto’s painting style that point towards the Baroque
29) Which Mannerists sculptor developed the compositional device of the spiral?
30) List four features of the Palazzo del Te that are “irregular” from the point of view of Renaissance
practice.