Humanities

1. Which city is most associated with the High Renaissance in Italy?

What was the nickname of the Pope most associated with the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome?

3. How did Raphael arrange the figures in Madonna of the Meadow?

4. In Raphael’s School of Athens who are the two philosophers in the center?

Which Renaissance sculptor is associated with the belief that his role was to carve away the excess in a block of marble to reveal the figure within?

6. In the Sistine Chapel, what are the subjects of the famous ceiling frescoes?

In the Creation of Adam, why is the finger of God reaching out to man?

8. Which Pope commissioned in 1506 the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica?

9. What did Michelangelo add to Bramante’s original design of St. Peter’s Basilica?

10. Which Italian city was famous for its easel paintings?

11. Who was the leading architect of the Venetian High Renaissance?

12. Why did Venetian painters prefer to paint with oil?

13. Who was the first important painter of the Venetian Renaissance?

14. Who painted the Venus of Urbino?

15. Who was the last important Venetian painter of the sixteenth century?

16. What did Lavinia Fonatana’s painting Noli Me Tangere depict?

17. Who sang in the Sistine Choir

18. Which composer is considered the "bridge" between the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?

19. What musical techniques did Josquin des Prez develop?

20. How many masses did Palestrina compose?