Y305.1 Artistic and cultural development Quiz: OCR History, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. Which Byzantine capital's fall in 1453 accelerated the influx of Greek scholars into Western Europe?

   • Alexandria
   • Antioch
   • Constantinople
   • Athens

2. Who designed the famous duomo dome of Florence Cathedral, completed in 1436?

   • Filippo Brunelleschi
   • Leon Battista Alberti
   • Donatello
   • Michelangelo

3. Which Florentine ruler was known as 'the Magnificent' for his patronage of Renaissance arts?

   • Ludovico Sforza
   • Cosimo de' Medici
   • Federico da Montefeltro
   • Lorenzo de' Medici

4. Which Venetian painter became renowned for his vibrant use of colour and dynamic oil painting?

   • Piero della Francesca
   • Giotto
   • Titian
   • Sandro Botticelli

5. Which German artist mastered printmaking and engraving, spreading Italian Renaissance ideas to Northern Europe?

   • Albrecht Dürer
   • Hans Holbein
   • Hieronymus Bosch
   • Jan van Eyck

6. Which Renaissance Pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

   • Julius II
   • Leo X
   • Nicholas V
   • Alexander VI

7. Who authored 'The Book of the Courtier', defining the Renaissance ideal of a gentleman?

   • Desiderius Erasmus
   • Baldassare Castiglione
   • Niccolò Machiavelli
   • Marsilio Ficino

8. Which composer restructured Catholic sacred music during the Counter-Reformation, writing the Pope Marcellus Mass?

   • Claudio Monteverdi
   • Guillaume Du Fay
   • Josquin des Prez
   • Palestrina

9. A scholar translating Plato in 15th-century Florence was most likely influenced by which philosophical movement?

   • Neo-Platonism
   • Scholasticism
   • Epicureanism
   • Stoicism

10. An artist painting rich textures and realistic light using oil paints in 1430 Flanders exemplifies which style?

    • Byzantine style
    • High Renaissance
    • Northern Renaissance
    • Gothic style

11. A Florentine merchant guild funding a public sculpture demonstrates which key driver of artistic production?

    • Imperial taxation
    • Feudal obligation
    • Civic patronage
    • Papal decree

12. A writer using classical Latin style to criticise church corruption without rejecting Christianity is practising what?

    • Christian humanism
    • Secularism
    • Protestantism
    • Scholasticism

13. Which city's maritime trade wealth enabled its unique Renaissance art focused on light and atmospheric colour?

    • Urbino
    • Rome
    • Venice
    • Florence

14. A ruler building a court library packed with classical Greek texts is demonstrating which Renaissance value?

    • Feudal chivalry
    • Monastic isolation
    • Humanist education
    • Scholastic dogma

15. Which scholar wrote 'In Praise of Folly' to satirise church abuses while promoting Christian reform?

    • Desiderius Erasmus
    • Leonardo Bruni
    • Thomas More
    • John Colet

16. A Renaissance diplomat reading a treatise on maintaining political power through pragmatic realism is studying whose work?

    • Niccolò Machiavelli
    • Marsilio Ficino
    • Thomas More
    • Baldassare Castiglione

17. Which Dominican friar temporarily ended Medici patronage in Florence through his radical moral and religious reforms?

    • Marsilio Ficino
    • Girolamo Savonarola
    • Leonardo Bruni
    • John Colet

18. Which Florentine humanist chancellor argued that active civic duty was the highest calling of a scholar?

    • Poggio Bracciolini
    • Leonardo Bruni
    • Marsilio Ficino
    • Pico della Mirandola

19. Which Renaissance architect wrote 'De re aedificatoria', establishing classical principles for 15th-century architectural theory?

    • Donato Bramante
    • Filippo Brunelleschi
    • Andrea Palladio
    • Leon Battista Alberti

20. Which ruler of Urbino commissioned a famed library and exemplified the Renaissance ideal of soldier-scholar?

    • Charles V
    • Ludovico Sforza
    • Federico da Montefeltro
    • Francis I

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