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What artist was commissioned by Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? answer: Michelangelo (di Lodovico) Buonarroti (Simoni) (accept either underlined portion) 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: 1. 2. What portrait is also known as La Gioconda? answer: Mona Lisa (or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) chiaroscuro 3. What artist decorated the Stanza della Segnatura with the frescoes The Parnassus and The School of Athens? answer: Raphael (or Raphaello Sanzio da Urbino or Raphael Santi; accept any underlined portion) 12. What art museum in Florence has a name meaning “offices”? answer: Uffizi Gallery (or Uffizi Palace or Galleria degli Uffizi) 4. A refectory wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie contains what painterʹs Last Supper? answer: Leonardo (di ser Piero) da Vinci (accept either) 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: blue (or ultramarine) 5. What artist painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus? answer: Sandro Botticelli [boh-tih-CHELL-ee] (or Alessandro (di Mariano) Filipepi) 6. What artist painted The Venus of Urbino? answer: Titian [TEE-shun] (or Tiziano Vecellio) 7. What artist created a self‐portrait in flayed skin held by St. Bartholomew in his The Last Judgment? answer: Michelangelo (di Lodovico) Buonarroti (Simoni) (accept either underlined portion) 8. Raphael painted what religious figure “of the meadow” and “of the goldfinch”? answer: Madonna(s) (or (Blessed) Virgin Mary or Saint Mary (Mother of God); accept Miriam) 9. Tintoretto and Titian were members of the artistic “school” of what Italian city? answer: Venice (or Venezia or Venetian School) 10. The Renaissance gave way to what artistic style that was practiced by Parmigianino, and which emphasized elongated forms? answer: Mannerism or Mannerist style 14. During which phase of the Renaissance were Giotto, Verrocchio, and Piero della Francesca most active—the early, middle, or late? answer: early Renaissance 15. What teacher of Titian painted The Three Philosophers and The Tempest? answer: Giorgione (or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) 16. What artist worked with Masolino to paint the walls of the Brancacci Chapel with the paintings The Expulsion and The Tribute Money? answer: Masaccio [mah-SAH-choh] 17. What characteristic is shared by the most famous Italian painters whose surnames are Anguissola and Gentileschi? answer: women or female 18. What painting of a celebration by Paolo Veronese originally was housed in the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore? answer: The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana; accept The Marriage at Cana) 19. The Annunciation is depicted in the Cortona Triptych by what painter, who was also a Dominican friar? answer: Fra Angelico 20. What saint is shown bound to a column and being martyred in a painting by Perugino? answer: St. Sebastian