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Art of the Western World: "The High Renaissance"

1. In painting his Last Supper, Leonardo was trying to develop new methods for wall painting. Soon after he completed the fresco, __________.

A) It began to decay.
B) It was damaged by angry monks.
C) Michelangelo saw it and copied Leonardo's new methods.
D) Leonardo hated it and tried to destroy it himself.

2. In Leonardo's Last Supper, the disciples are reacting to what accusation just uttered by Christ?

A) "Who ate the last of the bread?"
B) "None of you are worthy to enter the Kingdom of God."
C) "One of you shall betray me."
D) "Let he that is without sin cast the first stone."

3. Leonardo's inspiration was __________.

A) Closely observed nature.
B) Nude men.
C) The wishes of the Pope.
D) Large sums of money from his patrons.

4. Michelangelo was only 27 when he started to carve the David for __________.

A) Pope Julius II.
B) The same monks who commissioned Leonardo's Last Supper.
C) His mother.
D) His home city of Florence.

5. Michelangelo's David was the first monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since __________.

A) The Middle Ages.
B) Donatello's David.
C) Antiquity (ancient Greece and Rome).
D) New Kingdom Egypt.

6. Originally, Michelangelo's David was to have been placed where?

A) In a local Florentine museum.
B) On a buttress of Florence Cathedral.
C) In his bedroom.
D) In St. Peter's in Rome.

7. Michelangelo had an unusual way of carving his marble. What was it?

A) He began cutting from the front face only, moving in layer by layer.
B) He only used carving tools that had been gold-plated.
C) He always made a full-size clay model before beginning to work on the marble.
D) He liked to work in absolute darkness, feeling his way around the marble.

8. After having been smuggled in to see Michelangelo's unfinished Sistine Ceiling, Raphael may have included a portrait of the older artist in his School of Athens. What evidence may indicate that this is indeed a portrait of Michelangelo?

A) This figure was added later than the others.
B) Raphael wrote in his journal that this figure is Michelangelo.
C) The figure's style (massive; brooding pose) is a tribute to Michelangelo's style.
D) Both A and C.

9. Michelangelo was commissioned to rebuild the civic square of Rome, known as __________.

A) The Palazzo Vecchio.
B) The Piazza Campidoglio.
C) The Pantheon.
D) The Vatican.

10. In Titian's Venus of Urbino, the nude goddess is brought into the bedroom. In the background, a handmaid leans over a wooden chest that symbolizes __________.

A) Sexuality.
B) Wood.
C) Marriage.
D) Nudity.

11. Titian's 20 foot tall Assumption of the Virgin was the largest oil painting ever produced at that time. Why did the artist use oil, and not the standard fresco technique?

A) Titian didn't understand the fresco technique well enough to employ it.
B) Frescoes in Venice are vulnerable to the damp climate.
C) It was considered sacrilegious to use anything but oil to paint the Holy Virgin.
D) Titian had a brother who owned an oil paint shop, so he could buy at discount rates.

12. Titian's Pesaro Family Altarpiece (Janson calls it Madonna with Members of the Pesaro Family) illustrates the fusion between __________.

A) Church and State.
B) Mother and Son.
C) Artist and Patron.
D) Love and Marriage.

13. Jacopo Pesaro commissioned Titian to portray him giving thanks to the Virgin for __________.

A) His many children.
B) His family's recent conversion to Christianity.
C) His army's defeat of the Pope.
D) His victory when the Venetians and the Pope united to defeat the Turks.

14. In his churches, Andrea Palladio adopted the monumental simplicity of __________.

A) Gothic cathedrals.
B) Venetian palaces.
C) Ancient Roman buildings.
D) Egyptian temples.

15. Jacopo Tintoretto organized the perspective of his Last Supper so that it is best seen from ________.

A) The altar steps by worshippers taking the bread and wine of the Mass.
B) The very back of the Church where the entrance is located.
C) From behind the altar where the Priest gives the blessing.
D) From the upper stories, where the lower class worshippers were forced to sit.

16. Paolo Veronese's version of the "Last Supper" caused him to be called before the Inquisition. The Inquisition (Church leaders) objected mostly to the German soldiers and what else?

A) The Roman architecture, which reminded them of the pagan gods of ancient Rome.
B) The "buffoon" (midget) with a parrot on his wrist.
C) The buildings in the background, which weren't realistic enough.
D) The nude woman looking out from one of the windows in the background.

17. The inquisition demanded that Veronese change the content of his "Last Supper." Instead, he merely changed the title. What did he change it to?

A) The Next to Last Supper.
B) Two Germans and a Buffoon.
C) Christ Wearing Levi's.
D) Feast at the House of Levi (Janson's title: Christ in the House of Levi).
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