Study Questions for Exam I
1) Define and characterize Renaissance humanism. Explicate your characterization
with examples taken from art works.**
2) Compare and contrast the characteristics of the Byantine and Italo-Byzantine
style with those of the Early Renaissance using the paintings provided.**
3) Compare and contrast the interests of the Byzantine and Italo-Byzantine painters
with those of the late medieval painters.**
4) Using the art documents provided, discuss how late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
painting differed from that of the Early Renaissance.**
5) Identify and account for the development of Renaissance humanism in art using
the specific paintings provided as examples.**
6) Using the art documents provided, write an essay in which you show how humanist
painting emerged and then disappeared in Italy between about 1250 and 1550.**
**In these questions, be sure to make ample use of the art documents shown for
examples of style, technique, and subject matter. Provide the name of the
artist, the name of the painting, the style name, and the date.