Examen Historia

Which family became the GREATEST patrons of the arts during the Renaissance?

• Savonarola family

• Polenta family

• Medici family

• Sforza family

What Renaissance text offers this passage: "It is much safer to be feared than loved"?

• Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron

• Dante's Inferno

• Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince

• Petrarch's love sonnets to Laura

Which group of artists represent the High Renaissance style?

• Botticelli, Michelangelo, and

• Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael

• Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and

  Titian

• Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Raphael

Which written text would a Renaissance scholar MOST likely study?

• an Egyptian papyrus sheet written in ancient hieroglyphics

• a book of poetry written in Chinese

• a biblical scroll written in Hebrew

• an essay on philosophy written in Greek or Latin

Which factor contributed MOST to the spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe?

• The travels of merchants and diplomats

• The journeys and conquests of soldiers

• Catholic teaching and missionary workCatholic teaching and missionary work

• Families visiting relatives in distant countries

Which of the following movements did NOT stem from the humanism of the Renaissance?

• The Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Counter-Reformation

• The Enlightenment

The first truly Renaissance artists were not to emerge in Florence until 1401

with the competition to…

• build the dome of Florence Cathedral

• paint the fresco inside Florence Cathedral

• sculpt a set of bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral

• sculpt a set of bronze doors of Florence

  Cathedral

Which of the following sculptors attended this competition?

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Donatello

• Brunelleschi

• Lorenzo Ghiberti

The bronze sculpture of David, one of the icons of the Florentine

republic, was created by…

• Gianlorenzo Bernini

• Auguste Rodin

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

The depiction of human emotion in The Last Supperby…..

set the benchmark for religious painting.