1. EXAMINATION NUMBER ONE
Summative Examination Early and Late Renaissance
Each question is worth ten points. There are ten questions which you must answer.
To earn full credit, you must be able to identify the artist or the title of the work (if it is not provided) as well as thoughtfully answer the question.
Please make sure that you link your assertions to carefully described visual evidence.

2. Antonio del Pollaiuolo Battle of the Nudes 1465-70
Question #1: Medium/Technique
Please explain what medium was used to make this work of art. Then please discuss how this medium is linked to the purpose of this work of art.
Antonio del Pollaiuolo Battle of the Nudes

3. Question #2: Patronage
Please identify the patron who commissioned this work of art. Please also discuss how the content of this work of art seems to communicate the patron’s intentions.
1434

4. Question #3: Perspective
First just look: review and compare the following two works of art.
Now write: please discuss what you notice about how each artist has attempted to represent a sense of depth in the image.
In other words, how does each artist attempt to create a believable sense of space and recession.

5. February Les Très Riches Heures 1412-1416 illumination on vellum

6. Hunters in the Snow (January) 1565

7. Question #4: The Human Form
What is the artist using this depiction of the human form to communicate?
The Expulsion from Paradise
fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa del Carmine in Florence

8. Question #5: Politics and Beliefs
What argument does this work of art communicate?
The Four Apostles
1526 oil on lindenwood Alte Pinakothek, Munich

9. façade of Church of Sant’Andrea designed 1470
Question #6: Architecture
How does this church façade demonstrate that the Renaissance architect was influenced by classical models?
façade of Church of Sant’Andrea designed 1470

10. Question #7: International Style
How does this work demonstrate the characteristics of the International Style?
Gentile da Fabriano Adoration of the Magi Santa Trinita, Florence 1423

11. Question #8: Significance
Why is this work of art especially significant?
The Sacrifice of Isaac 1401

12. Question #8: Argument
What argument does this work of art make?
Vitruvian Man
ink on vellum

13. Question #9: Argument
What argument does this work of art make?
Christ Carrying the Cross
1515

14. Question #10: Technical Terms
This work of art is an excellent example of what artistic technique?
St. John the Baptist oil on panel