Review

View the following review video.

Can you answer the following questions?

Do you have definitions for the terms introduced in this module?
Can you name the parts of a Gothic cathedral plan?
Can you distinguish an Early Gothic church from a Late Gothic example?
Are you familiar with the symbolic meanings associated with the different parts of the Gothic church?
Can you trace the changes in painting and sculpture styles from Early to Late Gothic?
Can you identify the regional variations of the Gothic style in England, Germany, and Italy?
Can you explain how Gothic art and architecture differ from Romanesque examples?
What were the essential values of the Renaissance, and how did these differ from the values of the Middle Ages? How did Renaissance thinkers' understanding of and attitude toward the classical world differ from those of medieval thinkers?
Who were the major theorists of Renaissance art? What concepts did they develop, and what was the importance of those concepts?
How did sculpture, architecture, and painting develop during the Early Renaissance? What ideals did these arts try to embody? Who were the major figures in each of these arts, and what did they accomplish?
Can you discuss the impact of both humanism and a renewed interest in the classical past on Italian Renaissance art and architecture during the fifteenth century?
Can you discuss the impact of patronage on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance?
Can you explain how and why the rediscovery of linear perspective was a turning point in the history of art?
Can you compare and contrast the Italian Renaissance churches and chapels with earlier Gothic cathedrals?
Can you discuss how and why the human nude reappears in the history of western art?
What were the characteristics of the art of the Northern Renaissance? How was it different from that in Renaissance Italy?
How did art and architecture develop during the High Renaissance? What ideals did these arts try to realize? Who were the major figures in each of these arts, and what did they accomplish?
What events occasioned the rise of Mannerism? How did Mannerism break with the values of High Renaissance art?
Who were the major Mannerists, and how do their works exemplify Mannerist principles?
In what respects did Italian music of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries continue the medieval tradition? What innovations emerged after 1550, and for what important later development did they pave the way?
What role did the Medici family play in Florence?
List the qualities of a "Renaissance Man", the l'uomo universale.
What were the characteristics of the art of the Northern Renaissance? How was it different from that in Renaissance Italy?
Can you summarize the political and religious factors that helped transform Northern Europe in the 16th century?

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