ARH 100: STUDY QUESTIONS
Examination 3
1._________________ is the first Renaissance architect?
2._________________ invented linear (scientific) perspective?
3. _________________ is the painter of the earliest known surviving painting with scientific perspective?
3. _________________ is the painter who invented sfumato.
4. _________________ is a 15th century artist who studied human anatomy (not Leonardo da Vinci).
5. _________________, _______________ are professional women artists of the 16th century.
6. _________________, _______________, ______________ are professional women artists of the 17th c.
7. _________________ is the first sculptor to produce a life-size or greater bronze nude since the fall of Rome.
8. _________________ is the first sculptor to produce a monumental bronze equestrian portrait since the fall of
Rome.
9. What is the Venetian Mode? Who invented it?
10 What is Arcadia?
11 Who invented the still life?
12 Name three artists of the 16th century who painted pure landscapes.
13 ________________ is the first Baroque painter to use tenebrism. What is tenebrism?
14 ________________ is a Baroque painter who is noted for painting many self-portraits?
15 Name three painters noted for painting genre subjects. What is a genre subject?
16 ________________ is the inventor of oil painting.
17 ________________ term for a three-part picture.
18 ________________ realistic objects in a painting that take on religious meaning.
19 ________________a device in painting to suggest perspective in which forms nearer the horizon are blurred and
their color is less intense and higher in value.
20_________________ a canopy over an altar or throne.
21 _________________ an architectural design in which regularized units radiate, usually at 90 degree angles from a
central area.
22 _________________ a projecting molding capping a building.
23 _________________ the technique used in painting to suggest that figures are shown in sharp recession.
24 _________________ a molding that separates stories on a building.
25 _________________ the courtyard in an Italian Renaissance urban mansion.*
26 _________________ the Italian term for urban mansion.* What is the term for country mansion in Italy?
27 _________________ a printmaking process that uses acid to eat grooves into a copper plate.
28 _________________ a printmaking process that cuts grooves into a copper plate.
29 _________________ a printmaking process that cuts lines into a wood plank and prints the relief surface.
30 _________________ a mixture of glue and gypsum to coat a surface to be painted upon.
31 _________________ a thin transparent layer of paint.
32 _________________ a drawing process that uses a point of silver on coated paper.
33 _________________ term for the surface upon which a drawing or painting is executed.
34 _________________ the practice of covering building surfaces with massive, rough-cut stones.
35 _________________ the drying liquid in which a painting pigments are suspended.
36 _________________ the diagonal lines in a linear perspective that converge at a vanishing point.
37 _________________ a two-panel painting.
38 _________________ a subject that portrays Mary grieving over the body of Christ.
39 __________________ a synonym for Late Renaissance.
40 List two sculpture mediums that use the subtractive technique.
41 __________________ the use of monumental columns, pilasters, or engaged columns that span more than one
story.
42 __________________ is a term that refers to the use of lively, broad brushstrokes, such as by Titian.
43 __________________ dramatic use of a pediment that is incomplete, as used in the Baroque period.
44 __________________ a printmaking process uses the technique of scratching a design into a metal plate.