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Italian Art
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Italian art has always been closely connected to the intellectual currents of its day, still retaining its own remarkable past as a continual source of inspiration.
Question 1:
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What is the name of Michelangelo's famous work, a detail of which can be seen in this picture?
Creation of Adam
Renaissance I
Nude II
Madonna and Child
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Question 2:
Which one of these Renaissance artists was at first apprenticed to a goldsmith?
Alessandro Botticelli
Raphael Sanzio
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Caravaggio
Question 3:
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The depicted sculpture was made by Andrea Pisano, who lived and worked in this period.
Renaissance
Early Middle Ages
Baroque
Gothic
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Question 4:
The Birth of Venus, The Annunciation, Medusa, and Flora are four artworks that all have this in common.
They have nothing in common
They have one and the same author
They are exposed in the same gallery
They depict one and the same subject
Question 5:
Michelangelo's marble sculpture, Moses, was originally intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II in St. Peter's Basilica, but after the pope's death the sculpture was placed in a church on this hill -- one of the famous seven hills in Rome.
Esquiline
Palatino
Celio
Aventino
Question 6:
Which Medici family member commissioned the great Florentine architect Brunelleschi to reconstruct the Church of San Lorenzo in 1419?
Cosimo the Elder
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Cosimo I the Great
Salvestro de' Medici
Question 7:
This one of Donatello's bronze statues was notable as the first unsupported standing work in bronze cast, since classical times.
St. Mark
The Feast of Herod
Mary Magdalen
David
Question 8:
Caravaggio was a Baroque painter, and this was the main subject in most of his artwork.
Landscapes
Young men
Nude women
Animals
Question 9:
Only one of these sculptures is not a work of Antonio Canova, famous for his ability to delicately render nude flesh in his statues.
Daedalus and Icarus
Cupid and Psyche
The Three Graces
The Virgin
Question 10:
Typical of the baroque architecture, this was the paradigm of the basilica, mainly in Italy and France.
Apse of one end
Clerestory windows
Crossed dome and nave
Interior colonnades
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