Art Appreciation Final Mark Brown JCJC Questions With Answers Graded A+ Assured Success
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How did the Medici Family gain control of the church? - ️️The Medici used their
money to great effect...they paid artists to paint and sculpt, architects to build, and
essentially maintained the economy of Florence.
Roman Coliseum Facts - ️️Displays Dominance. Sacrifice animals. Execute
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Art Appreciation Final Mark Brown JCJC
How did the Medici Family gain control of the church? - ✔️✔️The Medici used their
money to great effect...they paid artists to paint and sculpt, architects to build, and
essentially maintained the economy of Florence.
Roman Coliseum Facts - ✔️✔️Displays Dominance. Sacrifice animals. Execute
criminals. Gladiator battle. Blood Spilling was the center of Roman religious practices.
Only 1/3 remains because of earthquakes and looting
Venus Of Wildendorf - ✔️✔️a fertility figure (naked sculpture no face)
Medium - ✔️✔️A particular material used in a work of art
Static - ✔️✔️block like and rigid
Canon of Proportion - ✔️✔️Rules and measurements for sculpting employed by
Egyptians and Greeks (same formula-same sculptures)
relief - ✔️✔️flat surface
In the Round - ✔️✔️stands on its own and seen from all angles
Kore - ✔️✔️Female Greek Sculpture
Kouros - ✔️✔️Male Greek Sculpture
Weight Shift - ✔️✔️When a figure puts it's weight on one leg, it is known as "weight
shift". The weight shift causes the S-curve
Discuss Thrower - ✔️✔️Classical Greek Art Emphasizes emotion vs. Restraint
Idealism - ✔️✔️Perfect proportions of the body (Greeks saw themselves as perfect so
they portrayed themselves as perfect)
Characteristics of Hellenistic Art - ✔️✔️Dramatic and emotional
Roman Death masks and molds - ✔️✔️made portrait busts look very realistic
Fresco - ✔️✔️paint is applied to a damp plaster
, The giant head of Constantine - ✔️✔️has very large eyes. It is said he is looking to the
heaven's and the future of Rome
Rome fell in 410 AD - ✔️✔️because much information and building knowledge was lost
or destroyed
What sparked the Renaissance? - ✔️✔️Lost knowledge (when rome fell in 410 AD)
Humanism - ✔️✔️focus on logic separate from religion
Characteristics of Renaissance Art - ✔️✔️Realism, biblical themes, mythological
themes
Brunneleschi - dome of Florence Cathedral - ✔️✔️He built it without scaffolding or
support
Not only did he have to re-write the rules of dome building (such knowledge was lost
with the fall of Rome) he had to build it without the aid of support beams.
Brunelleschi - perspective - ✔️✔️a geometrical system used to make objects seem 3-
dimensional...existing in real space.
Donatello's David - ✔️✔️was a technical achievement because it was the first life-size
bronze since ancient Rome
Botticelli - Birth of Venus - ✔️✔️was controversial because it used Venus, goddess of
love to celebrated human desire
Savanorola - ✔️✔️a radical monk who despised the Medici family because He felt they
were leading people away from Church teachings.
Bonfire of the Vanities - ✔️✔️When Lorenzo d' Medici died, Savanorola seized control
of Florence and organized a public burning of cosmetics, wigs, fancy clothes, art, etc.
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa - ✔️✔️was innovative in it's time because it contained the hands,
a landscape, and she was turned to face the viewer
Da Vinci - Last Supper - ✔️✔️in bad condition because steam from a kitchen and he
experimented
Michelangelo's - David - ✔️✔️was placed in front of a Florence city hall, and David vs.
Goliath correlates to People of Florence vs. Medici
Michelangelo - Sistine Chapel - ✔️✔️painted the old testament on the ceiling
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