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49 Western Humanities II 1400-1900 AD - College Junior Level 3 Great Italian Humanist, Had an encounter with a true love named Laura. Who became the insparation for most of his poems. Wrote Canzoniere, Secretum. 585 Francisco Petrarch Giovanni Occaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Michel de Montaigne 2 1 7 Essayist and Philosopher, notable for his tolerance in a bigoted age. Studied Law, became a counselor with the parliment. Also served two terms as a mayor of Bordaux. Wrote Essays (assai) and Cannibals. 585 Michel de Montaigne Baldassare Castiglione William Shakespeare Francesco Petrarch 2 1 7 Widely talented, trained as a goldsmith, studied archeology. Invented linear perspective. Designed the Pazzi Chapel, Florence Cathedral and Ospedale deli Innocenti. 585 Filippo Brunelleschi Donato di Niccolo Bardi Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio) Andrea Mantegna 2 1 3 Diplomat, soldier, and humanist scholar. Embodied the idear of the well rounded courtier in The Book of the Courtier. 585 Baldassare Castiglione Michel de Montaigne Niccolo Machiavelli Johannes Ockeghem 2 1 3 Wrote The Prince, based on political theories of classical history and his own observation of the "political animal". 585 Baldassare Castiglione Michel de Montaigne Niccolo Machiavelli Giovanni Boccaccio 2 2 3 Sculpt the statue called St.Mark, showing realism and commanding authority. Free of its restrictive environment, builds on the legacy of Polykleitos. 585 Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello) Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Buonarroti None of these 2 1 1 Painted the Adoration of the Magi. 585 Leonardo da Vinci Piero Della Francesca Andrea Mantegna Lorenzo Ghiberti 2 1 3 Famous for the Gates of Paradise, which contains the Story of Jacob and Esau in one of its panels. 585 Lorenzo Ghiberti Michel de Montaigne Michelangelo Buonarroti Leonardo da Vinci 2 1 3 Painted the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, also famous for his 13 foot statue of David. 585 Michelangelo Buonarroti Leonardo da Vinci Lorenzo Ghiberti Gentile Da Fabriano 2 1 1 Painted The Adoration of the Magi (tempra on wood panel). 585 Gentile Da Fabriano Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello) Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio) None of these 2 1 3 Painted The Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St John, as well as The Tribute Money. 585 Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio) Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello) Filippo Brunelleschi Lorenzo Ghiberti 2 1 3 Indifference to or Rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations. 585 Secularism Humanism Neoplatonism None of these 2 1 3 The belief that man is born good and wise and that life is meant to be enjoyed - belief in human perfectability. 585 Secularism Humanism Neoplatonism None of these 2 2 1 A group of workers, or Union. 585 Guilds Fresco House Intercession 2 1 1 The Pope who commissioned Michaelangelo to paint the sistine chapel. 585 Pope Mark Pope Julius II Pope Medici Pope Ceasar III 2 2 1 The monestary built by Gargantua & Ponocrates for the pure of heart. 585 Theleme Palladio Sistine Chapel Castiglione 2 1 1 A distinctive melody that serves as the basis for a musical composition. 585 Monophony Theme Polyphony Motet 2 2 1 Describes music consisting of a single melodic line (without harmony) 585 Theme Monophony Polyphony A cappella 2 2 3 Describes music in which two or more melodies are played simultaneously (same as counterpoint) characteristic of baroque music. 585 Theme Polyphony Motet Cantata 2 2 3 A short choral composition, using religious text, for four voices in polyphony. 585 Theme Motet A Cappella None of these 2 2 1 Choral music without instrumental accompaniment 585 Theme A Cappella Monophony None of these 2 2 1 Opposition of church law, a crime punishable by death or the rack. 585 Heresy Theocracy Inquisition None of these 2 1 3 A principle where the church is the ruling body of a nation, country, or entity. The consituants follow 'Church law'. 585 Theocracy Inquisition Secularism None of These 2 1 3 A system (usually for painting) where people and objects tend to dissolve into the background. Less defined, blurred around the edges. 585 Linear Perspective Aerial Perspective Foreshortening None of these 2 2 1 Giving spatial depth to picture. 585 Linear Perspective Aerial Perspective Foreshortening Planar expansion 2 1 1 The teacher of Gargantua. Also was his partner in creating Theleme 585 Ponocrates Panagora Gattamelata Botticelli 2 1 3 Architect of the COLONNADE OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA (Series of outdoor columns with statues on top). 585 Tintoretto El Greco Bernini Caravaggio 2 3 3 Architect of BALDACCHINO, ST. PETER'S BASILICA (dark curving columns inside in a square). 585 El Greco Rembrandt van Rijn Bernini Albrecht Durer 2 3 3 Painted THE RAPE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF LEUCIPPUS (2 men on horses picking up 2 naked women) 585 Rembrandt van Rijn Peter Paul Rubens Nicholas Poussin Tintoretto 2 2 3 Painted INTERIOR OF A COURTYARD (man smoking long pipe with a woman and girl next/near by). 585 Pieter De Hooch Caravaggio Mansart and LeBrun Christopher Wren 2 1 3 Painted LANDSCAPE WITH THE BURIAL OF PHOCION (distance view with 2 men carrying a white robed body on a stretcher). 585 Nicholas Poussin Peter Paul Rubens Mansart and LeBrun Rembrandt van Rijn 2 1 1 Architects of the Palace of VERSAILLES (Gorgeous palace has hall of mirrors) 585 Mansart and LeBrun Bernini and Christopher Wren Mansart and Bernini Christopher and LeBrun 2 1 3 Architect of ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (cross shaped from top, has two stories of columns from the front with a clock on the right bell tower). 585 Christopher Wren Mansart and LeBrun Bernini Albrecht Durer 2 1 3 A papal certificate that reduces the temporal punishment for sin, on earth and in purgatory, after the sin has been forgiven. 585 Penance Intercession Salvation by faith Indulgence 2 4 3 The use of varying degrees of shading to suggest the play of reflected light on a curved or uneven surface. 585 Soliloquy Chiaroscuro Intercession None of these 2 2 3 A speech made by dramatic character in isolation and intended to convey his or her inner reflections. 585 Penance Index Soliloquy None of these 2 3 3 A polyphonic multimovement composition for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, usually for performance in a church. 585 Basso continuo Cantata Fugue Madrigal 2 2 7 A single bass line of chords, usually played by the harpsichord or cello, that exists to support and unify the melodies being woven above it (also called "figured bass"). 585 Madrigal Basso continuo Concerto grosso Opera 2 2 3 a song, using a text in the vernacular language, for several voices in polyphony. 585 Cantata Fugue Madrigal Opera 2 3 7 a polyphonic composition, generally for two to four voices (vocal or instr.) in which the same themes are passed from voice to voice or instrument to instrument to instrument - very popular with baroque composers. 585 Concerto grosso Fugue Concerto Oratorio 2 2 3 A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra, usually with three contrasting movements. 585 Concerto grosso Concerto Opera Mandrigal 2 2 7 An orchestral composition in which the instruments are divided into two contrasting bodies: a large (ripieno, or grosso) and a small (concertino) ensemble. 585 Concerto grosso Oratorio Basso continuo None of these 2 1 3 Painted THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE EPOCALYPSE (black and white woodcut of four horsemen, an angel and some people being stampeded). 585 Michelangelo Tintoretto Albrecht Durer Peter Paul Rubens 2 3 1 Painted THE FOUR APOSTLES (actually 2 panels with 2 apostles in each) 585 Michelangelo Nicholas Poussin Caravaggio Albrecht Durer 2 4 1 Painted THE LAST JUDGEMENT (dozens of men floating as if in an aerial world). 585 Michelangelo Albrecht Durer Bernini Nicholas Poussin 2 1 7 Painted THE BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ (dome shaped picture, has christ and angels at the top and the pope, priests, counts around an armoured body who is being moved by the pope and a cardinal). 585 El Greco Peter Paul Rubens Nicholas Poussin Caravaggio 2 1 3 Painted THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL (has a man lying of the ground with his arms up next to a horse. theres a man behind the head of the horse). 585 Peter Paul Rubens Caravaggio Rembrandt van Rijn Pieter De Hooch 2 2 3 Painted THE BLINDING OF SAMSON (has a man being held down by some soldiers in the dark - almost looks like a cave) 585 Bernini Leonardo da Vinci Tintoretto Rembrandt van Rijn 2 4 3 Painted THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS (has jesus being brought down from the cross in the late evening by some poor looking people). 585 Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Albrecht Durer Caravaggio 2 2 3 Painted THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (has a young bald man kneeling before his bearded father with some wise men nearby). 585 El Greco Pieter De Hooch Rembrandt van Rijn Peter Paul Rubens 2 3 16383 HUMANITIES II - Western Humanities from 1400-1900 AD This is a brief test of the major accomplishments, and developments of the Italian Renaissance (1375-1500), The northern reformation and expansion (1430-1600), The age of genius (1475-1600), The new synthesis of the the seventeenth century, The decline of the aristocracy (1700-1798), and of course the romantic temper (1789-1848). This is not a complete test of all possible questions you may encounter in a Humanities II class, but rather a small sample of the most likely questions (based on this authors opinion) that you may be confronted with in a final exam of this subject.