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Unit Six Review Guide:
AP Art History, Spring 2017
Each of the following sections contains relevant terms and questions to guide your studies for the upcoming unit test. Be
able to not only identify the terms listed, but to be able to analyze their significance within the appropriate context.
Early Renaissance Art
Works to Know:
Basilica di Santa Croce (2 images)
The Arnolfini Portrait
David
Palazzo Rucellai
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Terms to Know:
Renaissance
Giotto di Bondone
Greco-Roman naturalism
Foreshortening
Shading
Individuals
Trade
Feudalism
City-states
Guilds
Black Death
Merchants
Social hierarchy
Humanism
Cult of fame
Buon fresco
Fresco secco
Brunelleschi
Florence Cathedral
Linear perspective
Donatello
Bronze casting
Medici
Renaissance man
Alberti
Florence
Entablatures
Pilaster
Northern Renaissance
Woodcuts
Engraving
Etching
Print
Edition
Oil paints
Guiding Questions:
1. What are the significant transformations in works of art which mark the change from the High Middle Ages to the
Early Renaissance? Consider the formal characteristics of works of art. (How do you know it’s early Renaissance and
not Gothic, for example?)
2. Why is Brunelleschi’s development of linear perspective so important in Western European artistic production?
3. How does humanism influence the artistic production of the Renaissance?
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High Renaissance
Works to Know:
Birth of Venus
Last Supper
Adam and Eve
Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar
wall frescos (4 images)
School of Athens
Isenheim altarpiece
Entombment of Christ
Allegory of Law and Grace
Hunters in the Snow
copyright
book illustrations
gouges
intaglio method
drypoint
chemical incision
humors
melancholy
Bruegel
Book of Hours
Terms to Know:
Protestantism
Netherlands
iconoclasm
Hieronymous Bosch
Durer
Botecelli
Savonarola
“Bonfire of the Vanities”
Leonardo da Vinci
Polymath
Sforza
Milan
Virgin of the Rocks
Michelangelo Bunarroti
Sistine Chapel
Sculpture
Sibyl
Restoration
Guiding Questions:
1. What are the formal characteristics of High Renaissance art? (That is, how do we identify its style?)
2. Consider the Birth of Venus: is it High Renaissance, or Early Renaissance? Provide evidence for either designation.
3. Explain the process of printmaking and its importance during the Renaissance.
European Mannerism and Baroque
Works to Know:
Venus of Urbino
Il Gesu, including Triumph in the
Name of Jesus ceiling fresco (3
images)
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontaine (3
images)
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
The Palace of Versailles (5
images)
Calling of Saint Matthew
Henri IV Receives the Portrait of
Marie de’ Medici
Las Meninas
Mosque of Selim II (3 images)
Age of Expansion
Light
Theatricality
Landscapes
Genre
Still-life
Plastic values
Gardens
Courtyards fountains
Counter-Reformation
Jesuits
Tromp l’oeil
Baldachino
St. Peter’s Basilica
Versailles
tenebrism
naturalism
Caravaggio
Rubens
Velazquez
Royal patronage
Spanish Netherlands
Terms to Know:
mannerism
exaggeration
asymmetry
Hellenism
Titian
Venetian school
color
carmine
nudes
El Greco
Barroco
Guiding Questions:
1. How does Mannerism help contribute to the eventual development of Baroque art? How does it act as a bridge between
High Renaissance art and Baroque art?
2. What are some of the formal characteristics of Baroque art?
3. How does the use of color, light, and shadow influence Mannerist and Baroque art?
Early Atlantic Art
Works to Know:
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei
Terms to Know:
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene (2
images)
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Reconquista
Habsburgs
Spanish unification
New Spain
Charles V
Holy Roman Empire
Silver trade
Cochineal insects
Cortes
Aztec
1521
Tenochtitlan
Codex
Glyphs
Acheiropoeta
Juan Diego
Black Madonna
Caste system
Viceroy
mestizaje
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Castizos
Pinturas de castas (caste paintings)
Guiding Questions:
1. How did contact with the Americas influence art in Western Europe and beyond? How did European art transform
when brought to the Americas?
Genre and the Baroque
Works to Know:
Self-Portrait with Saskia
Woman Holding a Balance
Fruit and Insects
The Tete a Tete
Terms to Know:
Dutch Netherlands
Landscapes
Still-lifes
Genre scenes
Middle-class
Camera obscura
Etching
Surface tone
Rembrandt
Vermeer
Shadow
Guiding Questions:
1. Why was Baroque art in the Dutch Netherlands significantly different than artistic production in the Spanish
Netherlands, or Southern Europe?
2. Compare and contrast the work of Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan Vermeer. How are they similar? How
are they different?