Chapter 23 Quiz

How is Wren's plan for St. Paul's Cathedral similar to Maderno's plan for the new St. Peter's in Rome?

Both have a long nave.

How does Hals's "Officers of the Harleem Militia Company of St. Adrian" exemplify Dutch art?

It is a theme from daily life.

How does Cortona's "The Glorification of the Papacy of Urban VIII" exemplify the role of the viewers in Baroque art?

Its illusionism relies on the viewer's position.

Paintings of the Immaculate Conception refer to the belief that:

Mary was born without the stain of original sin.

The twisting columns on Bernini's Baldacchio refer to:

Solomon.

Which answer correctly explains why Bernini built the Piazza at St. Peter's in an oval shape?

The oval accommodated existing objects on the site.

What practical concern lay behind the promotion of longitudinally planned churches in seventeenth-century Rome?

accommodating parishioners.

Which formal element of principle of design is a hallmark of Peter Paul Rubens's painting?

diagonal composition.

Unlike during the Renaissance, Baroque Classicism is characterized by its:

drama.

What evidence reveals that Artemisia Gentileschi is a follower of Caravaggio?

dramatic light.

A printmaking process that uses a needle to scratch into a metal plate is called:

drypoint.

Tenebrism is Caravaggio's strategy for creating:

emotional responses.

Gerard ter Borch's "The Suitor's Visit" is an example of a:

genre scene.

Which thematic category was particularly common in Holland?

group portraiture.

The two styles of Italian seventeenth-century painting are:

naturalism and Classicism.

The evidence that Johannes Vermeer's "Woman Holding a Balance" seems to be a metaphor for the eternal judgement includes the:

painting in the background.

The facade of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane:

seeks dramatic effects of light and shadow.

What evidence leads to the conclusion that Rubens's "Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt" commemorates their wedding?

the positions of their hands and feet.

Which visual hallmark leads scholars to describe French landscapes as "Classical"?

the use of orderly compositions.

What evidence supports your text's description of St.Paul's facade as triumphantly vertical?

two-story portal.