art test

Renaissance Test: Friday, January 22, 2010

What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?

The fall of the roman empire

What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?

The classes in the middle ages

Renaissance means a culture movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century beginning in florence in the late middle ages and later spreading to the rest of the europe.

It means rebirth of ideals of ancient greece and rome.

4. What was being brought back during this time?

art and music by created from ancient rome and rome with more creative and artists and more thinking ideas.

Define:
5. Contraposto is an Italian tern used in the visual arts to frscribe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off axis from the hips and legs.

6. Chiaroscuro is a contrast between light and dark, usually blog contrasts affecting a whole composition it is also more technocally used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light not necessarily strong to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three dimensional objects such as the human body.

7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was leonardo da vinci

The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was michelangelo buonarroti.

What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?

one is more talking and drawing about there lifes and how they live and some animals and the dark ages is about some gods.

What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"

It’s a sets man at the center giving humans primary importance.