HUM 111 Week 9 Quiz 8 - Questions & Answers

HUM 111 Week 9 Quiz 8 Question 1 Why in the School of Athens does Plato point toward the heavens? Question 2 Why did Michelangelo present Mary in his Pietà as young and beautiful instead of middle-aged? Question 3 Why did the late 14th-century popes refuse to live in Rome? Question 4 Which of the following is not one of the four major areas of humanist learning that Julius II commissioned Raphael to paint on the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura? Question 5 What was Michelangelo's first commission in Rome? Question 6 What did patrons of works such as Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece and Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece hope to gain through their financial support? Question 7 In the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck's depiction of Adam and Eve holds what distinction? Question 8 Unlike in Renaissance Italy, patronage of artists in the northern cities came from what source? Question 9 What is a particularly distinctive feature of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece? Question 10 For what setting does the size of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece suggest that it was designed?