101 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY DR.
WALKER QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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1400-1600 A.D. - Correct Answer ✔✔ When was the Italian Renaissance?
To return to the principles underlying ancient Greece - Correct Answer ✔✔ What was
the goal of the Italian Renaissance?
Rationalism and Humanism - Correct Answer ✔✔ What two philosophies dominated the
Italian Renaissance?
Merchant Princes - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who financed the travel and commerce of the
Italian Renaissance period?
Ottoman Empire - Correct Answer ✔✔ Trade with what empire allowed Italy to flourish
during the Renaissance period?
Textiles - Correct Answer ✔✔ What industry did Florence specialize in?
Trade - Correct Answer ✔✔ What industry did Venice specialize in?
Patronage System - Correct Answer ✔✔ What is the flexible system by which wealthy
families and individuals employed artists?
Civic Humanism - Correct Answer ✔✔ What term denotes a belief that citizens were
required to balance their self-interest against their obligations to the common good?
The Medici - Correct Answer ✔✔ What was the most prominent Renaissance Florentine
family of merchant princes?
Patriarch Cosimo Medici - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who received permission from the pope
to mine a special mineral for use in dye?
Lorenzo de' Medici - Correct Answer ✔✔ Under what reign did the renaissance in
Florence reach its height?
The Magnificient - Correct Answer ✔✔ What name was Lorenzo de' Medici called?
, Plato - Correct Answer ✔✔ Lorenzo de' Medici claimed, "Without knowing _ , one could
not be a good citizen or a good Christian"
Lorenzo de' Medici - Correct Answer ✔✔ What ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci
and Michelangelo?
21 - Correct Answer ✔✔ At what age did Lorenzo de' Medici become a leader?
Medici - Correct Answer ✔✔ What name is now nearly synonymous with power and
political infighting?
Lorenzo Ghiberti - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who was the winner in the competition to craft
the doors to the Cathedral Baptistery?
21 - Correct Answer ✔✔ At what age did Ghiberti win the competition in crafting the
doors to the Cathedral Baptistery?
51 - Correct Answer ✔✔ How many years did Ghiberti take to craft the doors?
Gates of Paradise - Correct Answer ✔✔ What name did Michelangelo name the doors
to the Cathedral Baptistery?
Fresco - Correct Answer ✔✔ What is painting in watercolor on wet plaster, requiring
speed and precision?
Chiaroscuro - Correct Answer ✔✔ What is the technique by which figures are given
solidity and depth by the light and dark shading in their robes?
Atmospheric Perspective - Correct Answer ✔✔ What is the creation of the illusion of
depth enhanced by blurring distant hills and trees?
Linear Perspective - Correct Answer ✔✔ What is the impression of space through
drawn or imagined lines converging at a single point on the horizon?
Botticelli - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who painted the "Birth of Venus" and "Birth of Spring"
(La Primavera)
Donatello and Michelangelo - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who were the two dominant figures
of Renaissance sculpture?
Renaissance - Correct Answer ✔✔ What time period marks the reintroduction of the
freestanding nude?
Pieta - Correct Answer ✔✔ What sculpture by Michelangelo, pyramidical in structure,
features a young-looking Mary, and her body forms a massive pedestal for Christ's
body?