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1. What artist was commissioned by Julius II to paint the 11. What technique, which was invented during the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Renaissance and reached its peak later in the answer: (di Lodovico) Buonarroti (Simoni) of Caravaggio, has a name meaning “light‐dark” in (accept either underlined portion) Italian?

answer: 2. What portrait is also known as La Gioconda? answer: (or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of 12. What art museum in Florence has a name meaning Francesco del Giocondo) “offices”?

answer: Gallery (or Uffizi Palace or Galleria degli 3. What artist decorated the Stanza della Segnatura with Uffizi) the frescoes The Parnassus and The School of Athens? answer: (or Raphaello Sanzio da Urbino or 13. In Renaissance painting, Mary was often depicted Raphael Santi; accept any underlined portion) wearing what color, produced by a costly pigment made from crushing a gemstone called ? 4. A refectory wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle answer: (or ultramarine) Grazie contains what painterʹs ? answer: Leonardo (di ser Piero) da Vinci (accept either) 14. During which phase of the Renaissance were Giotto, Verrocchio, and Piero della Francesca most active—the 5. What artist painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus? early, middle, or late? answer: Sandro Botticelli [boh-tih-CHELL-ee] (or Alessandro answer: early Renaissance (di Mariano) Filipepi) 15. What teacher of painted The Three 6. What artist painted The Venus of Urbino? and ? answer: Titian [TEE-shun] (or Tiziano Vecellio) answer: (or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) 7. What artist created a self‐portrait in flayed skin held by 16. What artist worked with Masolino to paint the walls of St. Bartholomew in his The Last Judgment? the Brancacci Chapel with the paintings The Expulsion answer: Michelangelo (di Lodovico) Buonarroti (Simoni) and The Tribute Money? (accept either underlined portion) answer: Masaccio [mah-SAH-choh] 8. Raphael painted what religious figure “of the meadow” 17. What characteristic is shared by the most famous Italian and “of ”? painters whose surnames are Anguissola and answer: Madonna(s) (or (Blessed) Virgin Mary or Saint Gentileschi? Mary (Mother of God); accept Miriam) answer: women or female 9. and Titian were members of the artistic 18. What painting of a celebration by “school” of what Italian city? originally was housed in the monastery of San Giorgio answer: (or Venezia or Venetian School) Maggiore?

10. The Renaissance gave way to what artistic style that answer: The Wedding at (or The Wedding Feast at was practiced by Parmigianino, and which emphasized Cana; accept The ) elongated forms? 19. The Annunciation is depicted in the Cortona Triptych by answer: or Mannerist style what painter, who was also a Dominican friar?

answer: Fra Angelico

20. What saint is shown bound to a column and being martyred in a painting by Perugino?

answer: St. Sebastian