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1. What does the term Renaissance mean?
                
2. What is Duccio's most well-known painting?WB01344_.gif (644 bytes)
                
3. Most of Duccio�s work is in what city?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes) 
                
4. Most of Giotto�s work is in what cities?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)

 
5. What was unique about how Brunelleschi intended to construct the 
dome for Santa Maria Del Fiore?WB01344_1.gif (644 bytes)
                
6. How might have Botticelli's subject matter in "The Birth of Venus" 
been considered inappropriate in Catholic Florence?WB01344_1.gif (644 bytes)
                
7. How was Masacccio�s work different from the Gothic style?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)
 
8. What inspired Brunelleschi�s "geometric" style of architecture?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)
 
9. A popular style of painting in the early Renaissance required the 
use of a wall prepared with lime sand water and wet plaster. 
What was it called?WB01344_1.gif (644 bytes)
10. What effect did Guttenberg�s invention have on Renaissance Europe?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)

 
11. How did Mannerist painting differ from the classical Renaissance style?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)
                
12. In which form of art did Michelangelo feel that he could best 
express himself: painting, architecture. sculpture, or poetry?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)
                
13.What fact connects the lives of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)

 
14. Who was Michelangelo's teacher?WB01344_.gif (644 bytes)
                
15. Who was Leonardo's teacher?WB01344_1.gif (644 bytes)
                
16. Who was Raphael's teacher?WB01344_2.gif (644 bytes)
                
17. What event in the life of Titian led him to a more restrained and 
meditative style?WB01344_.gif (644 bytes)
                
18. In Venice, whose workshop employed El Greco?WB01344_1.gif (644 bytes)
                
19. What event took place that destroyed half the population of 
Europe during the 14th century?WB01338_.gif (869 bytes)
                

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