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Power Up: Focus on Italian Renaissance
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1. What artist was commissioned by Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? answer: ______________________________________ What portrait is also known as La Gioconda? answer: ______________________________________ 3. What artist decorated the Stanza della Segnatura with the frescoes The Parnassus and The School of Athens? answer: ______________________________________ 4. A refectory wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie contains what painterʹs Last Supper? answer: ______________________________________ 5. What artist painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus? ______________________________________ What artist painted The Venus of Urbino? answer: ______________________________________ What artist created a self‐portrait in flayed skin held by St. Bartholomew in his The Last Judgment? answer: ______________________________________ 8. Raphael painted what religious figure “of the meadow” and “of the goldfinch”? answer: ______________________________________ 9. 13. In Renaissance painting, Mary was often depicted wearing what color, produced by a costly pigment made from crushing a gemstone called lapis lazuli? answer: ______________________________________ 14. During which phase of the Renaissance were Giotto, Verrocchio, and Piero della Francesca most active—the early, middle, or late? answer: ______________________________________ 15. What teacher of Titian painted The Three Philosophers and The Tempest? answer: ______________________________________ 7. ______________________________________ answer: 6. answer: 2. 12.
What art museum in Florence has a name meaning
“offices”?
Tintoretto and Titian were members of the artistic “school” of what Italian city? answer: answer: ______________________________________ 17. What characteristic is shared by the most famous Italian painters whose surnames are Anguissola and Gentileschi? answer: ______________________________________ 18. What painting of a celebration by Paolo Veronese originally was housed in the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore? answer: ______________________________________ 10. The Renaissance gave way to what artistic style that was practiced by Parmigianino, and which emphasized elongated forms? ______________________________________ 11. What technique, which was invented during the Renaissance and reached its peak later in the paintings of Caravaggio, has a name meaning “light‐dark” in Italian? answer: ______________________________________ answer: 16. What artist worked with Masolino to paint the walls of the Brancacci Chapel with the paintings The Expulsion and The Tribute Money? ______________________________________ 19. The Annunciation is depicted in the Cortona Triptych by what painter, who was also a Dominican friar? answer: ______________________________________ 20. What saint is shown bound to a column and being martyred in a painting by Perugino? answer: ______________________________________