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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
et al.
Matching Exercises
Chapter 13: The Renaissance

C. Among the most enduring contributions of the Renaissance to Western civilization were in the arts. Below is a list of prominent Renaissance artists, followed by a list of their works and broader accomplishments. Using the menus, match each of these with the appropriate name.

1. Netherlandish artist who developed oil painting and strove for faithful depiction of things in the natural world


2. demonstrated full mastery of design in painting in works such as Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals


3. made landscape part of the subject of his paintings


4. forerunner of Renaissance art whose frescoes display an early form of perspective


5. sculptor and painter who applied sculptural precision to paintings such as those on the Sistine Chapel ceiling


6. Florentine sculptor who showed renewed interest in the human form


7. achieved harmonious patterns at the expense of anatomical correctness in works such as The Birth of Venus


8. Venetian painter who pioneered the use of color as a tool of composition


9. Florentine architect who formulated the rules of mathematical perspective


10. inventor of sfumato whose paintings—e.g. La Gioconda—combine close observation of nature with psychological insight






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