The Napoleonic Era quiz

Constable's paintings of nature were a key inspiration to which Romantic-era history painter?

Delacroix

The Napoleonic era was aligned with the arise of all of the following artistic themes or traditions, except:

The Fête Galante

Which of the following statements is true: John Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare (1781):

caused both scandal and sensation, for its mysterious unknown narrative

Francisco de Goya is famous as both a painter and printmaker. His first commercial series, "Los Caprichos"

explored the foibles and superstitions of Spanish society

Stubbs skill as an equestrian painter was due to

his personal and intensive study of the anatomy of the horse

Which of the following is not true in regards to William Turner′s painting The Slave Ship ____________.

is a visual statement of the artist's abolitionist beliefs

Although William Turner often depicts the landscape, the theme of his painting is often

man vs. nature

As a court artist, much of Goya's oeuvre consists of portraits , but the Spanish artist is best known today for his etchings and paintings of war and human folly ,

portraits, war and human folly

Who of the artists discussed in Edgar Munhall's article witness, first hand, Napoleon among his troops on the field of battle?

Antoine-Jean Gros

The painting, Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa, March 11, 1799 is an example of propaganda because he never went near the sick and dying troops but abandoned them at the hospital and retreated with the healthy troops from the region.

False

John Constable sent his landscape paintings to the Paris Salon in 1824 after being visited by whom?

Gericault

Who of the following artists is not considered a prime example of Romanticism?

Ingres

Which of the following terms is not descriptive to the Romantic era artists' pursuits?

Rationalism

Gericault's series of physiognomical portraits created late in his career are considered

Romantic, in their exploration of the troubled human mind

What aspects of Fuseli's The Nightmare does not relate to the Romantic period?

a mysterious story that encourages moralistic behavior with dreadful consequences