Study sheet: Art History Survey II Exam Review

📋 Course Outline

1. Media, Genres, and Visual Terms
2. Chapter 14 Italian Trecento
3. Chapter 20 Northern Renaissance
4. Chapter 21 Early Renaissance
5. Chapter 22 High Renaissance Mannerism
6. Chapter 23 Reformation Art

📖 1. Media, Genres, and Visual Terms

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Chiaroscuro : Chiaroscuro is a term that the review requires students to define.
• Sfumato : Sfumato is a term that the review requires students to define.

📝 Essential Points

• The painting media covered are:

  • fresco
  • tempera
  • oil

• The review requires recognition of:

  • diptychs
  • triptychs
  • Nativity scenes
  • Lamentation scenes
  • Annunciation scenes
  • Last Supper scenes
  • David figures
  • Madonna and Child images

📖 2. Chapter 14 Italian Trecento

★ Must-know

• Chapter 14 covers the devastating natural disaster that occurred in Europe during the 1340s, the humanist cult of fame, and the Great Schism and its effects.

• The works specifically assigned are:

  • Giotto’s Lamentation from the Arena Chapel
  • Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned
  • Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned

📌 The review requires differentiation between the styles of Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano.

Further detail

• The review asks which characteristic of Duccio’s Maestà originates in Byzantine art and which physical feature in Berlinghieri’s Saint Francis is intended to associate the saint closely with Christ.

💡 Memory Hook

Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto mark changing relationships between Byzantine traditions and Italian painting.

📖 3. Chapter 20 Northern Renaissance

★ Must-know

• Chapter 20 covers the most powerful northern European rulers during much of the 15th century and the Hundred Years’ War, which primarily involved two kingdoms.

• Martin Schongauer’s Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons was made using a method that the review requires students to identify.

• The review requires familiarity with Les Très Riches Heures and recognition of its January and October images.

• The review examines illusionism in French manuscript painting, portraits accompanying religious scenes, symbolism in Jan van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, and the functions of accessories, furniture, and utensils in Flemish paintings such as Robert Campin’s Mérode Triptych.

Further detail

• The review asks which painting medium Jan van Eyck used to achieve brilliant red colors in his work and requires familiarity with tempera painting.

📖 4. Chapter 21 Early Renaissance

★ Must-know

• The review requires familiarity with Masaccio’s Holy Trinity and asks students to locate its vanishing point.

• Brunelleschi’s developments and contributions are included in the review, including his design of the dome of Florence Cathedral.

• The review identifies the powerful Florentine patrons of the arts who were often synonymous with the Renaissance.

📌 The review requires comparison of Verrocchio’s and Donatello’s David sculptures and asks what medieval narrative method Ghiberti employed in the Gates of Paradise.

Further detail

• The review asks which artist introduced the contrapposto pose to Quattrocento sculpture in a representation of Saint Mark and who won the competition for the Florence Baptistery doors.

💡 Memory Hook

Brunelleschi’s dome, Ghiberti’s doors, and Renaissance sculpture lead toward Masaccio’s perspective.

📖 5. Chapter 22 High Renaissance Mannerism

★ Must-know

• The review requires identification of elements and characteristics of the Mannerist style and identification of Mannerist artists.

• The assigned artists and works include:

  • Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin
  • Michelangelo’s style and works
  • Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper
  • Leonardo da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa

Further detail

• The review includes Tintoretto’s Last Supper and asks what influenced Raphael to include a self-portrait in the reflection on a brass finial in his painting of Pope Leo X.

• The review asks which compositional technique Leonardo uses to unite the figures in Madonna of the Rocks.

📖 6. Chapter 23 Reformation Art

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Indulgences : Indulgences are a term that the review requires students to define in the context of the Reformation.

★ Must-know

• The review asks which earlier training, in addition to drawing skill, contributed to Albrecht Dürer’s proficiency in making engravings.

• The review asks who led the Protestant Reformation and examines Lucas Cranach the Elder’s woodcut Law and Gospel.

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs depicts a subject that the review requires students to identify, while Hunters in the Snow belongs to a series of paintings of seasonal changes whose originating tradition is also tested.

Further detail

• The assigned works and topics include: Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, the New Testament scene in Pieter Aertsen’s Butcher’s Stall, the first artist outside Italy to become an international art celebrity