AH II Module 7

Inigo Jones adopted the design principles of the Venetian architect ____ to his architecture.

Andrea Palladio

The creation of which of the following allowed merchant firms to hold money on account instead of carrying precious metals as a form of payment for trade goods?

Bank of Amsterdam

Georges de la Tour's dramatic use of light in Adoration of the Shepherds suggests his familiarity with the Italian artist ____.

Caravaggio

Poussin was responsible for establishing ____ as a key component of 17th-century French art.

Classical painting

Besides the Duch Republic, which other European country was involved in overseas trade during the 17th-century?

England

During the 17th century Flanders was controled by which country?

France

In the grouping of the orders and bays, Hardouin-Mansart's Church of the Invalides in Paris is reminiscent of which of the following?

Italian Baroque

Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in which of the following genres?

Landscapes

What was the main patron of 17th-century Dutch artists?

Merchant class

The influence of ____ is evident in Rubens's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his Elevation of the Cross.

Michelangelo

Who was the greatest 17th-century artist of Flanders?

Peter Paul Rubens

In London at the age of 25, Christopher Wren was appointed to which of the following positions?

Professor of astronomy

Poussin chose to emulate the artist ____ rather than depicting dynamic movement and intense emotions.

Raphael

In the church of ____, Christopher Wren harmonized Palladian, French, and Italian Baroque features.

Saint Paul's, London

Why did Judith Leyster appear as elegantly attired, rather than in an artist's smock as Rembrandt did, in her own Self-Portrait?

She wanted to indicate her social prominence.

____ is a Dutch artist who featured as the subject of his art neat interiors of Dutch middle-class dwellings.

Vermeer

Art historians believe that Vermeer used tools, such as the ____, to aid in his virtuoso depiction of light.

camera obscura

Rembrandt deviated from typical group portraits in the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by portraying members of the guild ____.

clustered to one side

Rembrandt's mature works, such as the Return of the Prodigal Son, differ from the religious art of Italy and Flanders in their ______________.

inward-turning contemplation

In Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicolas, he alluded to ____ by using children's activities to comment on adult behavior.

selfishness