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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?

2. Which artist does the author NOT mention as depicting objects from ordinary life, such as household utensils?

3. According to Chapter 4, what object is frequently found in the center of Florentine paintings of the Annunciation?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 5, what did Donatello and Brunelleschi plan to have for lunch one day?

5. The artist mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4 is puzzling over what subject?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Brunelleschi's prank on the woodworker.

2. Describe how Brunelleschi won the right to build the cupola of the Duomo.

3. Briefly describe the modern Tuscan countryside, as discussed in Chapter 6.

4. Summarize the love story of Maria and Michael Dagomari.

5. How did the Florentines feel about antiquity?

6. What were the ramifications for an artist who became a Piagnone?

7. Explain the author's meaning in her assertion that Florentine painting "had a sweet tooth."

8. Describe the appearance of Donna Maria Ciliego.

9. Summarize the exceptional nature of the fresco of the Annunciation in Santissima Annunziata.

10. Describe the month of May in Florence.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore Michelangelo's relationship with the popes as a case study of Florentine culture.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relationship between painting and sculpture in Florence, including what each medium was used for and what each medium signified to the people.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast some of the artists that the author describes as having had some tendencies toward madness.

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