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Gardner's Art Through the Ages ed. 15 with James Farmer ARTH 104
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
01/28/2018

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In the Ghent Altarpiece, the lamb symbolized the?
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sacrificed Son of God
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The First international commercial stock exchange was established in?
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Antwerp
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Philip the Bold's largest artistic enterprise was the?
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Charteuse de Champol
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During the Hundred Years' War, a weakened French monarchy allowed a group of duchies to rise and challenge the power of the king, the strongest of these was?
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Duchy of Burgundy
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The German/Swiss artist_____showed great skill in the study of water effects.
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Konrad Witz
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The____controlled the Flemish artist's profession.
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guilds
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Robert Campin's (Master of Flémalle) Mérode altarpiece included accessories, furniture, and utensils in his work because they could also function as?
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religious symbols
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Emerging capitalism and greater urban prosperity led to a growing interest in?
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secular portraiture
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In Broederlam's Annunciation and Visitation, it has been suggested the rotunda, which appears in the scene, represents the?
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Old Testament
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The Well of Moses, sculpted by Claus Sluter, symbolically represented what promise?
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everlasting life
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Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition sums up his?
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early style
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When the Ghent Altarpiece is opened, it reveals and image of?
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human Redemption
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____artists were the first to employ oils extensively.
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Flemish
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The intersection of the secular and the religious can be seen in the Flemish painting____by Jan van Eyck.
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Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride
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The art of____developed rapidly with the invention of moveable type and widespread availability of paper.
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printmaking
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A substantial number of women registered in the art guild of?
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Bruges
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In the Last Supper from the Dirk Bouts Holy Sacrament altarpiece, the orthogonals coverage above the head of Christ to form?
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a single vanishing point
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Hans Memling specialized in images of the?
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Madonna
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The calendar pictures of Les Très Riches Heaures represent the____in terms of the associated seasonal tasks.
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12 months
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Jan van Eyck's____is a completely secular portrait.
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Man in a Red Turban
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The ________ by Donatello marked the advent of rationalized perspective space in relief sculpture.
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Feast of Herod
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Which building of Brunelleschi's design is often called the first Renaissance building?
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Ospedale degli Innocenti
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The development of a vernacular (everyday) literature based on the ________ dialect expanded the audience for humanist writings.
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Tuscan
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Botticelli was the pupil of ________
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Fra Filippo Lippi
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The ________ theme paralleled the message the city fathers of Florence wanted to convey to their people.
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Sacrifice of Isaac
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Donatello incorporated Greek and Roman principles that surfaced in which of the following?
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Saint Mark
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The two finalists for the wool merchants' guild competition of 1401 were ________ .
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Ghiberti and Brunelleschi
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Nanni di Banco's Four Crowned Saints represents the ________ .
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sculpture starting to leave architectural settings
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The ________ reflects Brunelleschian principles to a limited extent.
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Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
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Ghiberti was trained in painting and ________ .
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metalwork
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The classical principle of contrapposto, or weight shift, was reintroduced into Western art by the sculptor ________ .
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Donatello
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The invention of movable metal type in ________ facilitated the printing and far-reaching distribution of books.
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Germany
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Which artist detailed the consequences of a sinful life?
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Signorelli
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Donatello reinvented the ________ .
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classical nude
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The invention of linear perspective is generally attributed to ________ .
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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The "rebirth" of 15th-century Italian art had its roots in the ________ .
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Fourteenth century
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In Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata, the orb beneath the left forefoot of the horse represents the ________ .
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hegemony over the earth
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The Medici family acquired its vast fortune from ________ .
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Banking
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The International Gothic style was a dominant painting style around 1400 and lasted well into the 15th century; ________ produced what is considered the masterpiece of this style, the Adoration of the Magi.
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Gentile da Fabriano
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In 1401, the wool merchants' guild of Florence sponsored a competition for a set of doors for the ________ .
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Baptistery, Cathedral
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Who commissioned Bramante's Tempietto?
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
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Raphael's portrait of Pope Leo X has meticulous details that reveal a debt to ________ painting.
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Netherlandish
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The leading artistic centers of 16th-century central Italy were ________ .
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Florence and Rome
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The Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation was the ________ .
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Counter-Reformation
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Leonardo's Last Supper can be found in the ________ of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.
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Refectory
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Duke Federigo Gonzaga intended his Palazzo del Tè to be his urban summer palace and ________ .
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stud farm
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Which European country outside Italy was most strongly influenced by Palladio?
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England
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The early 16th-century artistic developments in Italy have been designated as ________ .
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High Renaissance
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Which painting builds on Masaccio's understanding and usage of chiaroscuro?
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Madonna of the Rocks
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Leonardo created a full-scale model of an equestrian statue for the Sforza family; this was destroyed by the ________ in 1499.
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French
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In Cinquecento Italy the greatest art patron was ________ ?
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the Catholic Church
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Who became chief architect of the Venetian Republic from 1570 to 1580?
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Palladio
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Leonardo was invited to France by ________ .
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Francis I
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The Venetian artist ________ was considered a supreme colorist and cultivated numerous patrons.
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Titian
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The Venetian artist ________ played an important role in developing the evocative use of color, which became known as the Venetian style.
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Giovanni Bellini
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The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by ________ .
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Ignatius of Loyola
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Leonardo worked as a military engineer for Cesare Borgia, the son of ________ .
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Pope Alexander VI
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Michelangelo's last project for Paul III was supervising the building of the new ________ .
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Saint Peter's
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The first project Julius II commissioned from Michelangelo was the ________ .
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Pontiff's tomb
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Michelangelo was ________ when he sculpted the Pietà.
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a young man
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Which of the following precipitated the Reformation?
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dissatisfaction with Church leadership
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________ was the first artist outside Italy to become an international art celebrity.
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Dürer
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Which of the following served as a model for the Château de Chambord?
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Italian palazzo
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El Greco's strong sense of movement and use of light prefigured the ________ style.
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Baroque
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________ of France declared Protestantism illegal in 1534.
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Francis I
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In Bruegel's work the most dominant theme was ________ .
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human activity
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By 1577, El Greco left for Spain to spend the rest of his life in ________ .
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Toledo
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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, was born in Crete and emigrated to ________ as a young man.
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Italy
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The dissolution of the ________ in 1477 led to a realignment in the European geopolitical landscape.
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Burgundian Netherlands
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________ was among the most commercially advanced and prosperous countries in Europe.
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The Netherlands
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Luther declared the pope the ________ .
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Antichrist
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The construction material of the Escorial in Spain was ________ .
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Granite
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________ were inexpensive, easily circulated, and sold at markets.
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Prints
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The primary concerns of emotion and religious fervor were the focus of the work of ________ .
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El Greco
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The self-portrait by ________ is the first known northern European self-portrait by a woman.
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Caterina Van Hemessen
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________ sparked the Reformation in 1517 at Wittenberg.
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Martin Luther
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Francis I brought ________ to France with the promise of a generous pension and an elegant home at Cloux.
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Leonardo
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Jan Gossaert became fascinated with ________ .
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classical antiquity
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________ produced the sculptures on the exterior of the Louvre.
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Jean Goujon
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The incorporation of Italian architectural ideas can be seen in the redesigning of the ________ in Paris.
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Louvre
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