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The technology of painting with oils was developed:

A) by Mannerist painters.
B) during the Late Renaissance.
C) by northern Europeans.
D) by the Chinese.
E) accidentally.

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One of Michelangelo's major achievements was:

A) inventing a prototype of the helicopter.
B) redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral.
C) painting the frescoes in Pope Julius II's private library.
D) All of these are major achievements of Michelangelo's: invention of a helicopter prototype, redesigning St. Peter's Cathedral, and painting of frescoes in Pope Julius II's private library.
E) None of these answers is correct.

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Consider Holbein's The Ambassadors. This painting highlights human achievement and institutions as personified by these men and the symbolic instruments on the shelves behind them. Identify the subjects and discuss the symbolism of the objects in this work. How does the distorted object in the foreground transform the painting's meaning?

Discuss the effect of the Reformation on religious images and the resulting shift in subject matter for Northern European artists.

The sculptor of the panel The Story of Jacob and Esau, and Donatello's teacher, is:

One of the effects of the Renaissance was to change the status of artists in Europe from:

Identify a late-Renaissance style in Italy and discuss the characteristics of this style considering the Allegory painting by Bronzino.

Discuss changes during the Renaissance in the visual arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, along with changes in attitudes about the arts, explaining several ways in which the public's perception of artists changed. How did these new perceptions and attitudes affect the social, economic, and creative lives of artists, including their newly defined relationships with their patrons?

Consider da Vinci's Last Supper and Tintoretto's The Last Supper. These paintings depict the same biblical event in very different ways. Compare the two styles and the interpretations of this event by each artist. Identify and comment upon the formal elements and principles of design as they relate to the styles of these works.

Giorgione's painting The Tempest paved the way for future:

The painting The Harvesters, which formed part of a cycle depicting the months of the year, was painted by __________, a 16^th-century Netherland painter.

The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from:

Define the terms Renaissance, Humanism, and Protestant Reformation. Explain at least three ways in which these movements led to broad changes in European life.

Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli were all commissioned to make art for:

The word renaissance means:

________ organization, as seen in Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, was a popular device among Renaissance artists of Italy.

Northern European Renaissance artists began using the system of linear perspective:

In Neo-Platonic thought, the Biblical character of Eve was identified with:

Compare and contrast the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance, discussing specific artists and works to support your statements.

The Isenheim Altarpiece, with its gruesome details of Christ's flesh wounds, originally hung in: