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Michelangelo - Quiz#3
Test Description: Quiz on the life of Michelangelo
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which statement below is false?
A
In April 1535 scaffolding was put up in front of the altar wall of the Sistene Chapel.
B
Pope Clement VII commissioned a fresco depicting the Last Judgment prior to dying on Sep. 25, 1534.
C
Biagio da Cesena,Vatican's master of Ceremonies, said the Last Judgment fresco was a great work for a papal chapel
D
Pope Paul III Farnese confirmed the commission of Pope Clement VII for the last judgment fresco.
2) Which statement below is false regarding Michelangelos fresco of the Last Judgment?
A
In the fresco, the saved descend on the left side of the painting, the damned ascend on the right.
B
Michelangelo portrayed portrayed Biagio da Cesena in hell, in the figure of Minos among devils.
C
Michelangelos fresco of the Last Judgment depicts Judgment Day.
D
In the fresco, Christ, with a clap of thunder, separates the saved from the damned.
3) Which person listed below did not accuse Michelangelo of heresy for his fresco of the Last Judgment?
A
the Dominican preacher Ambrogio Politi called Caterino
B
Paul III
C
Pietro Aretino
D
Giovanni Andrea Gilio
4) Which statement below is false?
A
The Last Judgment, which Michelangelo finished in 1541 was the largest fresco of the Renaissance.
B
In January 1564, the assembly of the Council of Trent made the decision to
C
Pope Paul IIIs successor, Julius III, was not worried about the nudity in the Last Judgment fresco.
D
in the Last Judgment fresco, he painted his own image in the flayed skin of St. Thomas More.
5) Which statement below is false about Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna?
A
Vittoria Colonna was a poetess and one of the most influential figures in the Viterbo Circle.
B
Viterbo Circle members believed Divine Grace to be the minor role in Christian life.
C
In 1538, three years before finishing the Last Judgment, Michelangelo met Vittoria Colonna.
D
The sonnets and madrigals written for Vittoria Colonna between 1538 and 1547 spoke of bliss.
6) Which statement below is false?
A
In 1538-39, plans were under way for remodeling buildings surrounding the Campidoglio in Rome.
B
Michelangelo's unsociableness has been seen as the Renaissance attitude of vir melanchonicus.
C
Michelangelo's program for the Campidoglio was finished in the 1600s.
D
vir melanchonicus refers to the Renaissance attitude of an absorbed and solitary contemplator.
7) Which statement below is false?
A
Michelangelo was made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in 1546.
B
Michelangelos crowning achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica.
C
Michelangelo, in an act of humility, was paid a stone worker's salary for his work at St. Peter's Basilica.
D
He became responsible for the altar end of the exterior building and for the final form of its dome.
8) Which statement below is false?
A
In the 1550s, he produced studies and drawings of the Crucifixion and the Lament over the Dead Christ
B
In 1556 Michelangelos faithful servant Urbino died.
C
Giorgio Vasari convinced Michelangelo to overcome his frustration and keep working on St. Peter's Basilica.
D
The architect Piero Ligorio, in service to Pope Paul IV, repeated everywhere that Michelangelo was mentally fit.
9) Which statement below is false?
A
Michelangelo attacked the Florentine Pietà sculpture with a hammer, breaking off a leg and an arm from the figure of Christ a
B
The Rondanini Pietà displays Mother and Christ almost interpenetrate in an indissoluble union beyond passion and physical dea
C
The Rondanini Pietà is a marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on from the 1550s until the last days of his life.
D
Michelangelos younger friends, Vittoria Colonna and Luigi del Riccio were alive in the 1550's.
10) Which statement below is false?
A
His will was three sentences: he left soul to God, body to the earth, and his material possessions to nearest relations.
B
Prior to his death, he burned much of his artistic material, but not the designs for the facade of San Lorenzo.
C
Michelangelo Buonarroti died, giving himself up to God, on February 18th, 1564.
D
Michelangelos mortal remains were first taken to Santi Apostoli in Rome, then to Santa Croce in Florence.
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