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PASSAGE III
HUMANITIES: This passageis from Western Civilization by
Gerson Antell and Walter Harris.
The artists of the Italian Renaissancemay be said
to have captured the spirit of humanism in paint, marble, and stone. In doing so, they studied anatomy and
returned to an idealization of the human body like that
which appears in Greek
sculpture~'
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Giotto,
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who
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Renaissance
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1276 to 1336,
painter.
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Michelangelo was a great s~r
too, possibly
the greatest of the Renaissance.I:le made marble come
to life in his youthful David, in the sorrowful "PietA,"
and in his mighty statue of Moses, the majestic lawgiver.
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Raphael Santi, while not an innovator, had the (p
ability to select and
what he had learned from#
others and to impart to his paintings a fresh and lasting
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His figures are as powerful as those on the Sistine ceiling. And his paintings of the ~o~a
exh~it
a dignified yet appealing womanly beauty.
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retainedsomeof the ~tiffnessof medievalworkS:"""his
Another early realist, Masaccio, was influenced
by Giotto. The monumental figures in his wall paint15 ings-done early in the fifteenth century-seem to
have been carved from stone. Unlike those of Giotto,
however, they are creatures of flesh and blood. Masaccio was one of the first painters to master ~ti~e
representation of three di~n~
nn !I two20 ~ional
surface So that d1s~ce and dis~ects
appear as they would to the eye.
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The I~fift~nth
~d ~ly sixteenth ~nturies
witnessed such a flowering of art that this period is
called the Hig)l Renaissance.The four greatest Italian
artists of this period were Leonardo da VinciMichelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
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Leonardo da Vinci came closer to being an all~?J r,gund genius than any other person in history. BornTn
1452, he designed a fl):in& machine, lathes, pumps, and
30 weapons. His notebooks contain accurate drawings of
a human ~!!!h!Yo and of human ~Ies
and ~s.
Leonardo's most famous painting, the "Mona".1Lisa," shows a lovely woman witharny-sterious smile.
Everything in the painting seems to be seen through a
35 slight haze. The wall painting the "Last Supper" is often called Leonardo's greatest work. The figure of
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is isolated at the center. He has just told the disciples, "One of you shall betray me," and all of the
emotions that this statement evoked can be seen in
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his frescoes
figures are full of human feeling. His compositions are
dramatic in their groupings of figures. And, by varying
the intensity of his colors from bright to dark, Giotto
gives both people and settings a lifelike quality.
Michelangelo Buonarotti, like Leonardo, was a
man of wide-ranging talents. His masterpiece is the
huge painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the
Vatican in Rome. For more than four years, from 1508
to 1512, Michelangelo lay on his back and worked
night and day. The result was the biblical story of~-#
Sesis, from the Creation to the Flood. Twenty-two years
later, he pafiited the "Last Judgment," which covers the
great wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
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Titian, or Tiziano Vecelli, was probably the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance. His use of
color was unsurpassed. He painted landscapes, portraits, and historical and mythological scenes. The
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alive. Titian, unlike Leonardo and Michelangelo,
"* 1 painted in oils on canvas. This technique gave artists
greater freedOm to correct, refine, and add dimension
and depth to their paintings.
1. According
to this passage,
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A.
Egyptian
B.
American
art.
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Byzantine
paintings.
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Greeksculpture.
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2.Which of the following
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the admiration
reflected
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was NOT a Renaissanceartist?
Lisa
Raphael
H. Titian
J. Giotto
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J. According to this passage,Leonardoda Vinci was:
A. an artist. ( . J-\
B. a scientist.~ t,"'~1 ~I//~/
o~"C. an inventor. f(Yi"", L.,...~"I-.(..
t!!J all of the above.
7. The techniqueNOT mentionedin dlis discussionof
Renaissance
art is:
(Q pastels.
F. that Masaccio had an objective viewpoint of his
subjects.
£ Masaccioviewedthings differently than his peers.
(!JI Masaccio'spaintings looked as though they were
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C. frescoes.
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4. When the author of this passagenotesthat Masaccio
mastered"perspective"in his art, he means:
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B. sculpture.~'(,~c
oil
painting.
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8. BecauseGiotto had not masteredperspective,the people in his paintingsare:
1" realistic.
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l(;/ flat and unrealistic. J-h.If
H. unpleasantto look at.
J. dark.
three-dimensional.
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Masaccioonly createdthree-dimensionalart.
S. Accordingto the informationpresentedin this passage,
an importantsubjectfor mostartistsof the Renaissance
was:
A. self-portraits.
B. buildings.
science.
(!!;J biblical stories.
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6. Raphaelwasbestknown for:
F. his brilliant colors.
G. his innovativepainting style.
)}.c his useof pastels.
(:!J his ~tation
of skills he learnedto impart new
beautyin his art.
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9. Basedon the infonnation on this passage,the High Renaissancetook placein:
III thelate1400sandearly1500s. P. J.J
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'ti: the late 1300sandearly 1400s.
C. the late 1500sand early 1600s.
D. the late 1200sand early 1300s.
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The f.!!ain poi!'lt in this passageis that:
F. the Renaissance
period beganwith Giotto's art.
@ many beautiful works of art as well as artistic advanceswere madein the Renaissance
period.
H. Leonardoda Vinci designedthe flISt airplane.
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Titian should be known as the greatest Renaissance
painter.
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