Chapter 8 "The Northern Renaissance" Quick Quiz

What did Jan van Eyck develop that gave his pictures a sharp and brilliant look?

• a new kind of picture frame

• a new kind of oil paint

• a new kind of canvas

• a new kind of paintbrush

Why did Albrecht Dürer make two trips to Italy?

• to fight in a war

• to marry into a wealthy family

• to learn as much as he could from master painters

• to sample delicious food and bring new recipes home

What did Albrecht Dürer excel at painting?

• portraits, especially of himself

• nature, especially of waterfalls

• fierce battles, especially ones with many soldiers

• religious imagery, especially from stories in the Old Testament

What are woodcuts?

• carvings on wood that can reproduce images with ink

• special picture frames

• notches made into a tree to show the passage of time

• special oil pants

How did Pieter Bruegel the Elder decide to paint Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?

• by making Icarus large and the center of the painting

• by including Icarus alongside many other characters from Greek myth

• by putting Icarus in a small, insignificant part of the painting

• by leaving Icarus out completely

What is Bruegel best known for?

• painting everyday people doing everyday things

• painting heroic images of everyday people as pretty as they can be

• painting vast, sweeping images of Greek myth

• painting images of soldiers going to war

What type of portraits did Han Holbein often paint?

• portraits of peasants and everyday people

• portraits of characters from Greek myth

• portraits of children with their mothers

• portraits of famous scholars

What did the leaders of the English Reformation ask Holbein to do?

• create art that promoted the king as the new head of the Church

• paint realistic images from the New Testament

• create art that mixed religion and Greek myth

• stop painting