Power Up: Focus on Italian Renaissance Painting Diagnostic Pretest All content © 2016 by National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC. This study guide may be duplicated for use by players and coaches affiliated with the school that purchased it. It may not be distributed to people unaffiliated with that school. 1. What artist was commissioned by Julius II to paint the 12. What art museum in Florence has a name meaning ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? “offices”? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 2. What portrait is also known as La Gioconda? 13. In Renaissance painting, Mary was often depicted wearing what color, produced by a costly pigment answer: ______________________________________ made from crushing a gemstone called lapis lazuli? 3. What artist decorated the Stanza della Segnatura with answer: ______________________________________ the frescoes The Parnassus and The School of Athens? 14. During which phase of the Renaissance were Giotto, answer: ______________________________________ Verrocchio, and Piero della Francesca most active—the 4. A refectory wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle early, middle, or late? Grazie contains what painterʹs Last Supper? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 15. What teacher of Titian painted The Three Philosophers 5. What artist painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus? and The Tempest? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 6. What artist painted The Venus of Urbino? 16. What artist worked with Masolino to paint the walls of the Brancacci Chapel with the paintings The Expulsion answer: ______________________________________ and The Tribute Money? 7. What artist created a self‐portrait in flayed skin held by answer: ______________________________________ St. Bartholomew in his The Last Judgment? 17. What characteristic is shared by the most famous Italian answer: ______________________________________ painters whose surnames are Anguissola and 8. Raphael painted what religious figure “of the meadow” Gentileschi? and “of the goldfinch”? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 18. What painting of a celebration by Paolo Veronese 9. Tintoretto and Titian were members of the artistic originally was housed in the monastery of San Giorgio “school” of what Italian city? Maggiore? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 10. The Renaissance gave way to what artistic style that 19. The Annunciation is depicted in the Cortona Triptych by was practiced by Parmigianino, and which emphasized what painter, who was also a Dominican friar? elongated forms? answer: ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 20. What saint is shown bound to a column and being 11. What technique, which was invented during the martyred in a painting by Perugino? Renaissance and reached its peak later in the paintings answer: ______________________________________ of Caravaggio, has a name meaning “light‐dark” in Italian? answer: ______________________________________ .