Pathways ch 7 Renaissance 4

Read pages 225-228 in your text Pathways - Civilizations Through Time.

1. Provide Definitions for the following vocabulary words:

fresco proportion perspective

blasphemous human anatomy eccentric

2. Answer the following questions:

a. Who was the Florentine architect who discovered the laws of perspective
and what does that allow artists to do with their drawings and paintings?
(2)

b. Who hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome
and what did Michelangelo say to him when he criticized Michelangelo for
taking too long? (2)

c. In your own words, describe how Leonardo Da Vinci was a true

“Renaissance Man” (2)

d. Artemisia Gentileschi’s most famous painting was Judith Slaying

Holofernes. Who is Holofernes and what does the painting depict? (2)

3. Either by accessing the web (try http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/fineart.htm) or by

photo-copying and cutting and pasting from an art book from the library, research
and provide 2 examples of Renaissance art from a particular Renaissance artist
other than Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo or Artemisia Gentileschi.
You will be marked out of 5 for providing two examples,
two titles and the artists name.

Total: ____/ 18