Chapter 12-20 Art Quiz Questions
A Tibetan mandala is meant to ...
to be contemplated and entered spiritually
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity all contain symbolic visual content that express principles of each respective belief system.
true
Japanese prints were crucial to the development of Modern Art. Western artists appreciated how they were non-academic and showed trivial events of daily life.
true
Many Egyptian sculptures and wall reliefs were painted to suggest flesh colors.
true
Palladio's Villa Rotonda is a perfectly symmetrical building that has four identical facades.
true
Paul Cezanne used color, rather than linework, to create forms.
true
The Salon des Refuses was a government-sponsored art exhibition.
true
The artist Hieronymus Bosch created images that taught moral lessons.
true
There is not just one consistent Buddha representation. Instead, the iconic Buddha figure is adapted by different cultures and countries to reflect their respective ideals.
true
Although he had a relatively short career, this Postimpressionist was the most influential on a future generations of artists.
vincent van gogh
A practitioner of Buddhism would do what at a stupa?
walk around in a clockwise direction around the stupa
Select the item that is not visible in Figure 14-28, Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride.
lantern
early representations of Christ often show him
like the Greek god Apollo
Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement ...
long after he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Select the FALSE statement about Caravaggio. Caravaggio made many paintings for the German Republic. Caravaggio was an orphan. Caravaggio was attacked by a gang in a bar and stabbed in the face. Caravaggio once attacked a waiter because he did not like the way his artichokes were seasoned.
Caravaggio made many paintings for the German Republic.
Romantic painters frequently chose politically-charged subject matter. Select the Romantic painter who did not follow this strategy.
Caspar David Friedrich
_____ were added to the exterior of Hagia Sophia as part of the conversion process from a Christian church into an Islamic mosque.
minarets
Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton introduced _____ to Egypt
monotheism
A mihrab is an architectural term most likely to be on display in a ...
mosque
Asian art and culture became popular in the 1800s because there was a fascination toward exotic foreign lands. This is known as ...
orientalism
Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Figure 17-21) is a good example of pointillism impressionism chiaroscuro postimpressionism
postimpressionism pointillism
A nave and transept are likely found within which religion listed below
Christianity
In 1988, a portion of the _______ fell off the Great Sphinx
right shoulder
Figure 16-7 Bonaparte Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass ...
suggests that Bonaparte is a strong military leader on a mission to conquer most of Europe.
The First Emperor of Qin—Qin Shi Huang—was buried along with many life-sized human figures made out of _______.
terra-cotta clay
Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is known for using a compositional device called ...
the figure triangle
Select the TRUE statement about Francisco Goya ... Goya was inspired by the horrific events surrounding Spain's government and Spanish life in the countryside. Goya was elected to the Royal Academy of France at age thirty. Goya was the First Painter to Louis XIV the Sun King. Goya invented Neoclassical painting.
Goya was inspired by the horrific events surrounding Spain's government and Spanish life in the countryside.
Approximately how old was Bernini when he sculpted David out of marble?
25
The Parthenon once held a large ivory and gold sculpture of ...
Athena holding Nike in the palm of her hand
Romantic art would have more in common with which previous art movement?
Baroque
Which of the following is not a cultural site for early civilization?
Blue Mountain Valley of Indonesia
Michelangelo de Merisi is another name for which artist ...
Caravaggio
Greeks called themselves ...
Hellenes
_______ is the small French town near Paris where Monet initially rented (and later purchased) a farmhouse.
Giverny
Select the FALSE statement about Jacques-Louis David. David attempted suicide after being rejected for the French Academy's Prix de Rome prize. David specialized in images that showed lighthearted scenes of parties, picnics, and love. David painted Oath of the Horatii. Napoleon Bonaparte was a patron to David.
David specialized in images that showed lighthearted scenes of parties, picnics, and love.
The first freestanding life-size bronze figure since ancient times was ...
Donatello's David
Domenikos Thetokopoulos is better known as ...
El Greco
The type of person who purchased artwork of the Rococo was most likely ...
French aristocracy
Which is a key element about the way the artist Giotto told stories ...
Giotto would choose one significant moment and illustrate just that moment
Select the FALSE statement about Las Meninas (Figure 15-16) ...
Las Meninas includes a sculpture of David and Goliath in it.
Which artist was selected to design the bronze doors for Florence's baptistery?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Paulina Borghese was illustrated by Antonio Canova as a greek goddess. In reality, Borghese was ...
Napeleon's sister
what artist created the school of Athens?
Raphael
During the Renaissance, a Pietà was an image that was used to visually describe ...
a deceased Christ held by his mother
The Age of Reason or the Enlightenment's philosophy would most resemble which ancient civilization?
ancient Greece
Monet was interested in how light affects
color
Jean-Honore Fragonard painted The Swing (Figure 15-34). This piece describes ...
courtship
Edouard Manet was an Impressionist painter.
false
Figure 13-12 illustrates a step pyramid at Tikal whose primary purpose was to serve as grain storage.
false
Mannerism painting is even more realistic and accurate than Renaissance painting.
false
Postimpressionists worked in a very unified style. It is difficult to tell their work apart from one another.
false
Rembrandt painted the Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq's Company of the Civic Guard. This is also known as Knights of the Round Table.
false
The French Salon was a place where people in Paris went to get their hair done.
false
The Realists would create images of the past, such as stories from Ancient Greece and Rome, and try to make them look as realistic as possible.
false
The images of humans in illuminated manuscripts are both anatomically correct and well-drawn images because all medieval artists were taught to draw the figure from life.
false
Louis XIV of France told his court artists, "I entrust to you the most precious thing on earth—my ________
fame
Mayan wall paintings used _______ technique.
fresco
Image 16-30 The Gleaners shows three women ...
gathering leftover grains
The Death Mask of Tutankhamen is ...
gold
Artemisia Gentileschi was a student of ...
her father