Grade 11 Art History Questions: The Renaissance To Impressionism
Tommy Van Pham
Grade 11 Art History Questions – The Renaissance to Impressionism
1) Gutenberg’s printing press facilitated the spread of ideas such as religious books, volumes of poetry and the mass production capability gave thousands of readers’ access to knowledge that had to be recopied before the perfection of the printing press. People of the renaissance time were now knowledgeable and educated about current events, literature, science etc. It changed the way they viewed life because of the knowledge they gain from different countries and are not as isolated from the rest of the world.
2) An architect named Filippo Brunelleschi was credited for discovering linear perspective which is a graphic system that showed artists how to create …show more content…
5) Raphael was regarded as the most typical artist of the renaissance artists because he blended the ideas of those artists in his works, adding vitality to figures from Michelangelo and shading from Leonardo for example.
6) The Italian renaissance artists were interested in lights and value, being true to life whereas the Northern European artists during the 15th century were interested in tempera, paint made of dry pigments, gesso, a mixture of glue and white pigment. This produced a brilliant surface. They were also interested in oil paints and making the paintings detailed and precise.
7) Characteristics of international style included symbolism where many of the details included special meanings; the other characteristic was extreme detail such as the wrinkles on a face, leaves on a tree etc.
8) Two effects of Jan Van Eyck’s paintings include a mastery of detail in which his paintings were only done after long periods of study of the shape, texture and colour, and precise detail that could not be duplicated. Another effect would be the control of the flow of light which gave an atmospheric perspective; his style could be a kind of
Grade 11 Art History Questions – The Renaissance to Impressionism
1) Gutenberg’s printing press facilitated the spread of ideas such as religious books, volumes of poetry and the mass production capability gave thousands of readers’ access to knowledge that had to be recopied before the perfection of the printing press. People of the renaissance time were now knowledgeable and educated about current events, literature, science etc. It changed the way they viewed life because of the knowledge they gain from different countries and are not as isolated from the rest of the world.
2) An architect named Filippo Brunelleschi was credited for discovering linear perspective which is a graphic system that showed artists how to create …show more content…
5) Raphael was regarded as the most typical artist of the renaissance artists because he blended the ideas of those artists in his works, adding vitality to figures from Michelangelo and shading from Leonardo for example.
6) The Italian renaissance artists were interested in lights and value, being true to life whereas the Northern European artists during the 15th century were interested in tempera, paint made of dry pigments, gesso, a mixture of glue and white pigment. This produced a brilliant surface. They were also interested in oil paints and making the paintings detailed and precise.
7) Characteristics of international style included symbolism where many of the details included special meanings; the other characteristic was extreme detail such as the wrinkles on a face, leaves on a tree etc.
8) Two effects of Jan Van Eyck’s paintings include a mastery of detail in which his paintings were only done after long periods of study of the shape, texture and colour, and precise detail that could not be duplicated. Another effect would be the control of the flow of light which gave an atmospheric perspective; his style could be a kind of