Art Final Exam
What artist has been called the "Father of Western Painting"? - correct answer Giotto
Which artist was the first to use the linear perspective in an artwork? - correct answer
Brunelleschi or Masaccio
What is tenebrism, and in what period of art history was it common? - correct answer A style of
painting using sharp contrasts of light and dark. Dutch Baroque
What earlier period of art and architecture was the inspiration for the Italian Renaissance? -
correct answer The style of painting, sculpture and decorative arts identified with the Renaissance
emerged in Italy in the late 14th century; it reached its zenith in the late 15th and early 16th
centuries, in the work of Italian masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael
What are the advantages of oil paint over a fresco or tempera? Which of the works we have studied
exhibit those advantages? - correct answer Is wet longer and looks better longer. "Marriage
Portrait"
Advantages are slow drying, easier to blend, precise details, paint light better
The Marriage Portrait by Van Eyck
In which period do the artworks display an interest in intense inner emotions? - correct answer
Romanticism
What is the subject of Raphael's Disputa? - correct answer The fresco can be seen as a portrayal of
the Church Militant below, and the Church Triumphant above. A change in content between a
study and the final fresco shows that the Disputa and The School of Athens can be seen as having a
common theme: the revealed truth of the origin of all things, in other words the Trinity. This
cannot be apprehended by intellect alone (philosophy), but is made manifest in the Eucharist.
The Disputation of the Sacrament (Italian: La disputa del sacramento), or Disputa, is a painting by
the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510[1] as only the first
part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the
Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. At the time, this room was known as the
Stanza della Segnatura, and was the private papal library where the supreme papal tribunal
met.[2]
Holy Eucaristia!
Which work displays portraits of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael? - correct answer The Last
Supper
What are the subjects of paintings found in the Stanza Della Segnatura? - correct answer The
School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It
was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now
known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Stanza della
Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens, representing
Philosophy, was probably the third painting to be finished there, after La Disputa
