BYU: Dr. Howard's Music 201 Final

For Dr. Howard's Music 201 Final, Winter 2010.

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Trecento
Italian word meaning 300; refers to 14th century (1300s)
Question 2
Identify
School of Athens Raphael location: Vatican, opposite disputa
Question 3
Identify
Moses Michelangelo For the unfinished Tomb of Pope Julius II
Saint Peter's Basilica
Originally designed by Bramante, then Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Maderna. Piazza by Bernini
Question 5
Identify
Sistine Chapel (Ceiling) Michelangelo Composed of: 4 corner triangles (Heroic Old Testament acts) 8 border triangles (biblical ancestors of Christ) intermediate figures (prophets and pagan sybils) 9 central panels (events of Genesis)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Author Decameron Plague setting, 10 youths flee Florence and tell each other 10 stories a day for 10 days
Geoffery Chaucer
Author died fittingly in 1400 Canterbury Tales: 30 travellers recount two stories each; never finished. All we have are 23 stories
Chiaroscuro
A painting technique that employs extreme contrasts between light and darkness
Fresco
Wall painting on moist plaster; a preferred medium of Florence
Oil paint
A medium allowing for rich layers of color; a favorite in Venice
Question 11
Identify
Judith and Holofernes Artemisia Gentileschi depicts an Old Testament scene, borrows from Caravaggian use of light/dark. Her most famous painting
Donatello
Early Renaissance sculptor. Notable works include David (with Tuscan shepherd's hat), a wooden carving of an aged Mary Magdalene, and St. George (complete with shield)
Bernini
Baroque sculptor and architect Notable works: Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica David (in action, biting lip and wearing an intense expression) St. Theresa in Ecstasy
Rembrandt
Baroque painter Used obvious Reformist religious motifs with an intimate, human feel Notable works: The Night Watch: a general consults with his second Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Botticelli
Florentine Renaissance painter Taken in by Medici family Notable works: Adoration of the Magi La Primavera The Birth of Venus