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A painting which marked a new genre of landscape painting, and a significant shift in Western thinking, was

	Da Vinci’s Madonna of the Rocks.
	Raphael’s The School of Athens.
	Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.
	Carracci’s Landscape with Flight into Egypt.
	Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

In figurative sculpture, when the hips and legs are turned in opposition to the shoulders and chest, the effect is called

	Mannerism.
	contrapposto.
	chiaroscuro.
	Rococo.
	Frascatti.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were all living and working during what time period?

	High Renaissance
	Early Renaissance
	Early Christian
	Late Mannerist
	Neoclassicism

What term refers to the ancient cultures of Mexico, Central America, and South America?

	Mayan
	Incan
	Pre-Columbian
	Protolithic
	European

The word Renaissance, meaning "rebirth," described a new age that was marked by

	dramatic use of light in painting.
	erotic sculptural art on the sides of temples.
	a revival of the arts and sciences.
	the pointed arch in architecture.
	a reintroduction of the Roman arch.

The Limbourg Brothers’ manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry signified the return of something lost since antiquity. What was it?

	the human figure
	the return of "cast shadows"
	chiaroscuro
	images of architecture
	book printing with movable type

In the 1330s, Petrarch conceived a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual, and the pursuit of study of classical languages, literature, history and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the

	divine arts.
	temporal arts.
	fine arts.
	visual arts.
	humanities.

Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance, in a large part due to

	the number of painters living there.
	its location on a major shipping route.
	the Medici family.
	its location on the Mediterranean.
	the establishment of the School of Athens.

Donatello’s sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture was in part inspired by

	the Egyptian "Amarna sculpture."
	a lifting on the ban of autopsies for anatomical study.
	Bernini’s David.
	Greek and Roman sculpture that he saw in Rome.
	Biblical readings.

Da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa is thought to have appealed to the Renaissance imagination, in part because it reveals

	subtractive color mixing.
	Neoplatonist influence.
	the psychology of the sitter.
	perfect linear perspective.
	Gothic symbolism.

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