Art Appreciation final

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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)


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