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1
Which best describes Renaissance humanism?
A)study of human nature
B)human-based culture
C)revival of Classical texts
D)a Christian bias
2
Leonardo Bruni was
A)an early Renaissance painter.
B)chancellor of Florence.
C)the author of The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
D)the patron of Piero's Annunciation.
3
Which city was the artistic center of Renaissance Italy for most of the fifteenth century?
A)Venice
B)Florence
C)Rome
D)Siena
4
Who of the following was NOT a condottiere?
A)Federico da Montefeltro
B)Sir John Hawkwood
C)Erasmo da Narni
D)Leon Battista Alberti
5
Which text is placed with the appropriate author?
A)Brunelleschi—Commentary on Plato's Symposium
B)Mantegna—The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
C)Masaccio—On Painting
D)Alberti—De Re Aedificatoria
6
Which is one of the reasons for Ghiberti's victory in the competition of 1401?
A)His relief was less expensive to cast and more monumental than Brunelleschi's.
B)His relief was less costly and more graceful.
C)His relief was more costly, but also more elegant.
D)His relief was more monumental and more original, and he had political connections.
7
Which best defines foreshortening?
A)reduction in scale
B)placing a smaller object in front of a larger object
C)a twist at the waist
D)depicting a form in perspective
8
Which is NOT a feature of Brunelleschi's design for the church of Santo Spirito?
A)Latin cross plan
B)flat ceiling
C)chapels on three sides
D)monumental stained glass windows
E)round arches
9
Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?
A)Orthogonals converge at the vanishing point.
B)Orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane.
C)Orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space.
D)Orthogonals are not used.
10
The artist that Vasari accused of being too obsessed with mathematics and perspective was
A)Piero della Francesca.
B)Mantegno.
C)Uccello.
D)Masaccio.
E)Brunelleschi.
11
The term paradiso as used in reference to Ghiberti's doors means
A)the Garden of Eden.
B)the illustration of Dante.
C)the space between a cathedral and its baptistery.
D)the dome of the cathedral.
E)the dome of the baptistery.
12
Which is NOT feature of Masaccio's Holy Trinity?
A)flat ceiling
B)Corinthian columns
C)donors
D)a memento mori
E)linear perspective
13
The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be
A)gradual shading.
B)high contrast of light and dark.
C)shadow.
D)silhouette.
14
Atmospheric perspective depicts near and far according to
A)diminution in size.
B)increase in size.
C)degrees of clarity.
D)haziness in the sky.
15
Which of the following is a correct match?
A)Masaccio—The Youthful David
B)Brunelleschi—one-point perspective
C)Castagno—Holy Trinity
D)Alberti—The Tribute Money
E)Mantegna—Rucellai Palace





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