Q 01/05

Which sculptor's second set of gilded bronze doors for Florence's baptistery was later dubbed the 'Gates of Paradise'?

A) Lorenzo Ghiberti

B) Andrea del Verrocchio

C) Andrea Pisano

D) Luca della Robbia

Answer · why

A) Lorenzo Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti spent 27 years on the doors; Michelangelo is said to have judged them worthy to be the gates of Paradise, and the name stuck.

Q 02/05

Which historical period immediately preceded the Renaissance?

A) The Enlightenment

B) The Middle Ages

C) The Roman Empire

D) The Baroque Era

Answer · why

B) The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages got their name from Renaissance scholars, who saw the thousand years between ancient Rome and their own day as a mere gap in the middl...

Q 03/05

Which intellectual movement, centred on classical texts and civic virtue, drove the Italian Renaissance?

A) Scholasticism

B) Humanism

C) Existentialism

D) Rationalism

Answer · why

B) Humanism

Humanism began as a hunt for lost books: Petrarch turned up a forgotten collection of Cicero's letters in Verona in 1345, and later scholars combed mo...

Q 04/05

Which Renaissance technique draws receding parallels toward a single vanishing point to suggest depth on a flat surface?

A) Chiaroscuro

B) Sfumato

C) Aerial perspective

D) Linear perspective

Answer · why

D) Linear perspective

Linear perspective was set down in Alberti's 1435 treatise On Painting; Masaccio had already used it in his Holy Trinity fresco, whose painted vault, ...

Q 05/05

Which artist painted 'The School of Athens' in the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura?

A) Titian

B) Raphael

C) Bramante

D) Giorgione

Answer · why

B) Raphael

Raphael painted The School of Athens for Pope Julius II between 1509 and 1511, and slipped a self-portrait into the fresco, standing at the right edge...