ART 111 Art Appreciation Fall 2007
Sec. 50Z

Test 3 Chapters 12-14

Possible Questions:

1.  What are the different “types” of paintings of Jesus and the Virgin Mary are and what is happening in them?
Lamentation
Desposition
Announciation
Enthroned
Pieta

2.  What are the different symbols for the Virgin Mary and what do they mean? What about some other symbols?
Lilies
Red
Purple
Water bowl or Glass Vase
The number 3
Dove

3.  Who were the four famous artists of the High Renaissance? Which one is the “ideal one”?

Short answer:

1.  What is another word for cupids or cherubs?______

2.  What does Renaissance mean? ______

3.  What are the characteristics of Roccoco Art? ______
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4.  Who painted the Sistine Ceiling?______

5.  Romanesque means ______

6.  What did Bernini intend to represent by the colonnade in front of Saint Peter’s? ______

7.  What is a genre painting?______

8.  What is perspective and why would an artist want to use it in a work of art?
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9.  What is chiaroscuro? ______

10. What made Leonardo’s Last Supper a technical failure? ______
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11. Who was the famous banking family in Florence? ______

12. Where is Michaelangelo’s self portrait in the Last Judgement? ______

13. What is a palazzo? ______

14. What is sfumato? ______

15. What is special about Donatello’s sculpture? ______

16. Which trade did engraving develop from? ______

Essay:

1.  Compare Bernini’s David with that of Michelangelo and Donatello - discuss the purpose, moment in the narrative, and the viewer’s role.

2.  Discuss the different ways that Masaccio increases the illusion of space in the Tribute Money and the ways that he breaks from the International Gothic style.

  1. Why is The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck so famous?

4.  How do the Limbourg brothers show their interest in the natural world in their February page? What elements are “International Gothic” conventions?

Instructor: Janis Henderson-Hunsucker 2