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What is the primary source of natural colors used in cave paintings?
What is the primary source of natural colors used in cave paintings?
- Black manganese
- Red ochre
- Sea-shells
- Iron oxide (correct)
What was used to carry the paints to the cave paintings sites?
What was used to carry the paints to the cave paintings sites?
- Reeds
- Sea-shells
- Spoon-like oil lamp (correct)
- Flicking torch
Which technique did the ancient artists use for painting with a perspective effect?
Which technique did the ancient artists use for painting with a perspective effect?
- Polychrome
- Spray techniques using reeds
- Hollowed bones
- Foreshortening (correct)
What were used as paint containers by the ancient artists?
What were used as paint containers by the ancient artists?
What were the primary Stone Age pigments used in cave paintings?
What were the primary Stone Age pigments used in cave paintings?
What was primarily used to create polychrome paintings in the later Magdalenian period?
What was primarily used to create polychrome paintings in the later Magdalenian period?
Which artistic discipline saw an upsurge of creative activity during the Renaissance?
Which artistic discipline saw an upsurge of creative activity during the Renaissance?
What does the term 'Humanism' refer to in the context of the Renaissance?
What does the term 'Humanism' refer to in the context of the Renaissance?
Which era of the Renaissance firmly reestablished Western art according to the principles of Classical Antiquity?
Which era of the Renaissance firmly reestablished Western art according to the principles of Classical Antiquity?
What is Byzantine Art?
What is Byzantine Art?
What is Gothic style in the context of art history?
What is Gothic style in the context of art history?
What is a fresco in the context of art history?
What is a fresco in the context of art history?
Who is considered one of the founders of fine art painting in Europe?
Who is considered one of the founders of fine art painting in Europe?
Which Italian painter is best known for his large paintings of realistic figures, often viewed from a low perspective?
Which Italian painter is best known for his large paintings of realistic figures, often viewed from a low perspective?
Who is considered one of the three great creators of the Italian High Renaissance of the sixteenth century?
Who is considered one of the three great creators of the Italian High Renaissance of the sixteenth century?
Which Italian painter is renowned principally as a painter and was a pioneer of oil painting and painterly techniques like chiaroscuro and sfumato?
Which Italian painter is renowned principally as a painter and was a pioneer of oil painting and painterly techniques like chiaroscuro and sfumato?
Who is known for introducing a new naturalism and realism into painting by breaking away from the symbolism of Byzantine art?
Who is known for introducing a new naturalism and realism into painting by breaking away from the symbolism of Byzantine art?
Which Italian painter was active during the proto-Renaissance era in Padua and Florence, best known for his humanistic religious frescoes?
Which Italian painter was active during the proto-Renaissance era in Padua and Florence, best known for his humanistic religious frescoes?
Who is best known for his cycle of fresco paintings in the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua (Arena Chapel)?
Who is best known for his cycle of fresco paintings in the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua (Arena Chapel)?
Which Italian painter created the painting 'The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ'?
Which Italian painter created the painting 'The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ'?
Which Italian painter is considered to be one of the first Old Masters and is known for a cycle of fresco paintings in the Arena Chapel?
Which Italian painter is considered to be one of the first Old Masters and is known for a cycle of fresco paintings in the Arena Chapel?
