Art Appreciation final
An important feature of late Renaissance artwork, compared to art created during the early and high Renaissance, is ________.
All of the above
Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of ________.
All of the above
The statue of a Roman with busts of his ancestors shows that:
All of the above
What is true about the Minoans?
All of the above
William Blake ________.
All of the above
The Hudson River School painted ________.
American landscapes
The Bull-Leapers fresco from Knossos is ________ scene
An acrobatic
Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess displays which of the following characteristics?
An emphasis on emotion and heightened realism
Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.
Architect
The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period.
Byzantine
The written language used by the ________ is hieroglyphics.
Egyptians
The Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön and his Sons depicts an ideal young athlete.
False
The Sumerian lyre sound box was found buried under a colosseum dedicated to Dionysus.
False
Who is the architect responsible for the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome?
Francesco Borromini
Cimabue's student was ________.
Giotto
A lamassu is a ________.
Guardian Beast
Who created Stonebreakers?
Gustave Courbet
Who created Canopic Jars?
N/A
Who created Good Shepherd mosaic?
N/A
Who created Laocoön and his Sons?
N/A
Who created Sumerian bull lyre?
N/A
Who created Venus of Laussel?
N/A
The Ishtar Gate was built under whose rule?
Nebuchadnezzar II
Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?
Paul Cézanne
The Sumerian Standard of Ur shows scenes of
Peace and War
In black-figure painting on Greek pots, the background is ________.
Red
Who created The Night Watch?
Rembrandt
Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?
Renaissance
What style is the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques, France?
Romanesque
The painting Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a ________.
Self-portrait of Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin
The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ________.
Tesserae
The subject of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ________.
The July Revolution of 1830 in France
Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from ________.
The Middle Ages
William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-Mode series tells the story of
The trials of an arranged marriage in which the couple behave immorally
Monticello was built for ________.
Thomas Jefferson
Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers alarmed upperclass viewers because it reminded them of recent uprisings by the poor.
True
T/F: Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures.
True
When an Egyptian pharaoh died, his organs were removed and stored in canopic jars.
True
Early wall paintings have been found in Çatalhöyük in modern ________.
Turkey
Where is the Hall of Mirrors?
Versailles
Who created Elohim Creating Adam?
William Blake
El Greco was ________.
a Greek artist who worked in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance
The floor plan of the Romanesque Church of St. Foye in Conques, France, is ________.
a Latin cross
Which of the following architectural features did Renaissance artists borrow from the Classical tradition?
all of the above
Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?
all of the above
Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?
all of the above
Which of the following statements is true of Michelangelo?
all of the above
Which term refers to part of a church doorway?
all of the above
We have found that many Roman houses in Pompeii had ________ covering the walls.
fresco paintings
What is not true about the interior of the Pantheon?
it has a poor drainage system
Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________.
sfumato
The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?
the Northern Renaissance
It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of ________.
the Rosetta Stone
The presence of a bishop in Fragonard's The Swing could suggest:
the church's lack of action against immoral behavior
In Rubens's The Raising of the Cross, how is the viewer's attention focused on Christ's body?
the lighting and placement
Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii is about
the sacrifices of an ancient Roman family
Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of a(n) ________ painting.
Academic
Which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Western Europe, a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?
Baroque
Who created Virgin and Child Enthroned?
Cimabue
A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?
Claude Monet
The Pantheon uses which architectural order for its columns?
Corinthian
Which of the following cultures did not have a written language?
Cycladic
Metopes are an element of which architectural order?
Doric
Who created The Arnolfini Portrait?
Jan van Eyck
The Dome of the Rock is located in ________.
Jerusalem
The Dura Europos synagogue is from this period.
Late Antiquity
Who called himself the Sun King?
Louis XIV
Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid- to late sixteenth-century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal?
Mannerism
The tall towers surrounding a mosque, from which the faithful are called to prayer, are called ________.
Minarets
What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship?
a book
Fragonard's The Swing depicts:
a flirtation between two young lovers
An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called ________.
a kouros
The Dura Europos synagogue contains ________.
a shrine for the Torah
In Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Liberty is ________.
a symbol of freedom
Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting of The Last Supper by ________.
all of the above
Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?
all of the above
Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kauffmann, ________
all of the above
Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of:
all of the above
The Egyptian fresco from Nebamun's tomb utilizes:
all of the above
The following are architectural orders developed by the Greeks:
all of the above
What aspects of Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomfited many viewers when it was first exhibited?
all of the above
Which of these cultures was not part of Mesopotamia
all of these are Mesopotamian cultures
The structure of Romanesque churches recalls architectural elements from ________.
ancient rome
Scholars believe that Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is meant to show the importance of ________.
artists
The Parthenon in Athens used to house a huge gold-and-ivory statue of:
athena
Brunelleschi's design for the dome of Florence Cathedral was a triumph over adversity because ________.
building such an enormous dome was a technological challenge
Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light?
caravaggio and rembrandt
The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ________.
catacombs
The metopes on the south side of the Parthenon depict a battle between Lapiths and ________.
centaurs
The artist of Christ in the House of Levi had to change the painting's name because ________.
church officials objected to Christ being shown with clowns, dwarves, and dogs at this key moment in the gospels
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de la Galette ________.
depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time
Which of the following design elements relate to Baroque art and architecture?
diagonal movement, curving forms, dramatic light and shadow
Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before?
flying buttresses and rib vaults
New North American cities in the late eighteenth century chose neoclassicism as their architectural style because:
it represented the ideals to which they aspired
A woodcut allows an artist to do which of the following?
make multiple prints of an image
What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?
mosaic
The Emperor Constantine I's triumphal arch ________
proclaimed his place in history
The process used to create the beaten-silver face of the twelfth-century reliquary of the Head of Saint Alexander is called ________.
repoussé
Linear perspective is used to ________.
represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions
Which painting was included in the first Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected)?
Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)