Quiz 5

Which architect is responsible for the entire plan and arrangement of the park and gardens of Versailles?

André Le Nôtre

In his painting Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, which aspect of the traditional group portrait has Rembrandt modified to enliven the painting?

Arrangement of figures

A painting of inanimate objects such as flowers and fruit is referred to as what?

A still life

Amid their new economic prosperity, which artistic subject became especially popular among the Dutch middle class?

Still lifes

What do art historians call still-life compositions that contain at least one memento mori?

Vanitas paintings

What tool do art historians believe Vermeer used to aid in his virtuoso depiction of light?

Camera obscura

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

Caravaggio

What device does Vermeer use to separate the space of the viewer from the space of the painting in Allegory of the Art of Painting?

Drawn-back curtain

Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in which of the following genres?

Landscapes

Who was the preeminent French art patron of the 17th century?

Louis XIV

In the Protestant Dutch Republic, art was mainly commissioned by which group?

Merchant patrons

In paintings such as Et in Arcadia Ego, Poussin chose to emulate the rational order and grandly severe style of which artist?

Raphael

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

She is demonstrating her ability to paint cloth.

Why is Louis XIV pulling back his garment to show his legs in the 1701 portrait by Rigaud?

The king was a ballet dancer in his youth and was proud of his legs.

Which income-producing activity accounts for Dutch middle-class prosperity the 17th century?

Trade