Question 1

Michelangelo's Moses has horns due to

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A)  a mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Latin.
B)  Renaissance belief that horns stood for power.
C)  a personal act of revenge on Pope Julius for ordering him to paint the Sistine ceiling.
D)  a convention for showing Moses's anger at the Hebrews for worshipping an idol.

Question 2

Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by

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A)  casting each figure separately.
B)  using foreshortening.
C)  making extensive use of linear perspective.
D)  showing figures from behind.

Question 3

Donatello's David holds the distinction of being the first

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A)  statue to be placed in the Florence Cathedral.
B)  life-size freestanding male nude since antiquity.
C)  large statue commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici.
D)  large cast-bronze statue since antiquity.

Question 4

Compare Donatello's David with Michelangelo's.

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Question 5

The Florence Baptistery door competition is considered to have begun the Italian Renaissance.Discuss the ways in which competition marked the intellectual and artistic explosion of the Renaissance.

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The Florence Baptistery door competition...

Question 6

What implicit lesson did Andrea Mantegna's Camera Picta send to Ludovico Gonzaga,ruler of Mantua?

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A)  Attracting skilled artists adds prestige to a ruler.
B)  A large family is a ruler's greatest asset.
C)  Angels will watch over and protect a ruler.
D)  A ruler is always in the public eye.

Question 7

Masaccio places the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ's head to

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A)  make the distant mountains seem larger.
B)  emphasize the absence of the tax collector's halo.
C)  make the figures behind Christ seem smaller.
D)  identify Christ as the fresco's most important figure.

Question 8

It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery,given that scarcely over a half century earlier,the city had witnessed

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A)  as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death.
B)  the military destruction of as much as four fifths of the cathedral's dome.
C)  as much as fourth fifths of the Ghibelline population die at Guelph hands.
D)  the military destruction of as much as four fifths of the baptistery.

Question 9

Explain the Medici family's contributions to humanist scholarship and art.

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The Medici family played a significant r...

Question 10

Plotinus thought that human perfection was

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A)  never attainable.
B)  attainable in the afterlife only.
C)  attainable in this world through contributions to the church.
D)  attainable in this world through philosophical meditation.

Question 11

Match between columns
                        Premises: Pico della Mirandola
Sandro Botticelli
Leon Battista Alberti
Filippo Brunelleschi
Andrea Mantegna
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Masaccio
Baldassare Castiglione
Giorgio Vasari

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The Answer of Trinity with the Virgin, saint John the is...

Question 12

The first to master the principle of scientific perspective was

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A)  Masaccio.
B)  Donatello.
C)  Filippo Brunelleschi.
D)  Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Question 13

The humanists in Lorenzo's court have viewed Venus in Botticelli's Primavera as

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A)  the personification of carnal desire.
B)  an allegory for the highest moral qualities.
C)  the symbol of the Florentine republic.
D)  a threat to man's free will.

Question 14

Discuss the use of Brunelleschi's scientific or linear perspective by Masaccio in Trinity with the Virgin,Saint John the Evangelist,and Donors and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

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Question 15

Donatello depicts David as a young adolescent

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A)  because Florentine law dictated youth as a requirement for nude statuary.
B)  to represent his own recollected youthful image as a veiled self-portrait.
C)  to symbolize Florence's youthful vitality and ability to conquer tyrants.
D)  because Cosimo commissioned a statue of a youth for his palace courtyard.

Question 16

List and explain in your own words the four basic principles of rendering space in one-point perspective.

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Question 17

Michelangelo represented David before,not after,his triumph over Goliath primarily to

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A)  emphasize David's confidence.
B)  demonstrate a difference from Donatello's David.
C)  show David's inner conflict.
D)  portray David as an unconvincing hero.

Question 18

Cosimo de' Medici founded Florence's Platonic Academy to

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A)  prevent Marsilio Ficino from moving to Rome.
B)  give the artists he patronized a studio in which to work.
C)  provide a place for the study and discussion of Plato's works.
D)  educate his children and the children of other nobles.

Question 19

The word "Renaissance" means

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A)  "humanism."
B)  "apex."
C)  "rebirth."
D)  "exploration."

Question 20

Dufay's Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6,4,2,and 3 units per breve to

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A)  smoothly blend the motet's two voices.
B)  include each of the Florence Cathedral's seven organs.
C)  mirror the proportions of Solomon's Temple and the Florence Cathedral.
D)  increase the sonority of the combined voices and instruments.

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