Exam #2 Study Sheet
Be prepared to identify, discuss, or define the following terms
as they relate to the art of the period:
sfumato
High Renaissance
Mannerism
engraving (explain the basics of the technique)
woodcut (explain the basics of the technique)
intaglio (be able to identify which printmaking techniques are intaglio techniques, as opposed to relief techniques)
The Four Humors
Be prepared to answer any of the following essay questions:
1. Compare and contrast Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow
(1505) with Parmigianino’s Madonna
With the Long Neck.(1535) What style/period does each
represent? How does each of these works reflect the
characteristics of its style/period and its artist?
2. What are the characteristics of the Mannerist style?
What was going on in Italy at this time that may have influenced this
style? Give examples of two Mannerist works of art and describe how they reflect these
characteristics.
3. Compare Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
( c. 1510-1515) with Albrecht Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(c. 1497-98). What does each depict? What were some of the sources of imagery
of each of these artists? How do they differ in terms of medium and how did the medium impact who would have seen each of these works? How do they reflect what people were thinking and
experiencing in Northern Europe around the turn of the 16th Century?
4. How was the work of Michelangelo influenced by the sculpture of
Classical Greece and Rome? Give three examples of his work and use these to illustrate the points of your essay.
Be prepared to discuss the following works that we have viewed/discussed in class:
Van Eyck's Arnolfini Wedding
Leonardo's Last Supper
Leonardos' journals
Michelangelo's David
Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Last Judgment (including restoration)
Raphael's School of Athens
Parmigianino's Madonna With the Long Neck
Pontormo's The Entombment
Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Durer's Melencolia I
Grunewald's The Isenheim Altarpiece