Art History 1304 Exam 2

Which painter deployed the drama and majesty offered by the height and scale of a ceiling fresco to glorify the Barberini family in Triumph of the Barberini?

Pietro da Cortona

What is the medium in which Juan Martinez Montanes created the majority of his works?

Polychrome wood

Which American founder built his home on the model of Palladian villas and strove to establish Neoclassical architecture as the national architectural style?

Thomas Jefferson

Which early patron of Caravaggio gave the artist a steady income in exchange for a selection of his paintings?

Cardinal Del Monte

Which group became the primary patrons of Wright's paintings depicting the wonders of the Industrial Revolution?

Industrialists

What is the location of Veronese's massive ceiling painting Triumph of Venice?

Doge's Palace

Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers reflects the influence on him of which earlier work?

Las Mininas

Who is the architect of the plan of II Gesu in Rome?

Giacomo da Vignola

Who are the two women accompanying Adelaide Labille-Guiard in her self-portrait?

Her students

Chardin's praise of the simple goodness of ordinary people, in such paintings as his Grace, is based on the work of what key Enlightenment figure?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?

Praxiscope

In Cinquecento the availability of which inexpensive medium allowed drawing to rise to prominence as an artistic pursuit?

Pulp paper

The painted simulation of groups of easel paintings arranged on a ceiling is called what?

Quadro riportato

The aim of much Italian Baroque art was to restore the predominance of which group?

Roman Catholic Church

Which philosopher asserted that the human capacity for feeling, sensibility, and emotions came before reasons?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?

William Blake

What typical palladium architectural element is NOT present in his most villa Rotunda?

Wings of subsidiary buildings

John Singer Sergent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit reveals his admiration for which earlier artist?

Velazquez

Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the renaissance?

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

Viewing the art treasures of Italy on the Grand Tour played a major role in the rise of which movement?

Neoclassicism

Which 19th century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the Western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?

Albert Bierstadt

What contemporary event is referenced by American realist Winslow Homer in his Veteran in a field?

American Civil War

The Neoclassical portrait statue of Pauline Borghese in the guise of Venus was created by which sculptor?

Antonio Canova

Who is the artist of this painting?

Artemesia Gentileschi

In her depiction of the figure La Pittura, Artemesia Gentileschi took the iconography and attributes of the image from which contemporary handbook?

Cesare Ripa, Iconologia

Which of the following is not one of the devices Diego Velazquez used to create visual complexity in Las Meninas

Copies of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens celebrating immortal gods

Which painter of the French Revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming first painter to Napoleon?

Jacques-Louis David

What is the name of the Venetian church in which Palladio joined a Mannerist, ambiguous facade with a High Renaissance, logical interior?

San Giorgio Maggiore

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's baldacchino for Saint Peter's features numerous bees, which were the symbol of which Roman family?

Barberini

Which artist set the standard for history paintings by combining the conventions of traditional heroic paintings with modern realism in subject matter and dress?

Benjamin West

Which artist created a dramatic reworking of the story of the taking of Christ, a subject previously treated by both Giotto and Duccio?

Caravaggio

The painting genre created by Antoine Watteau in which the amusements and entertainments of the upper classes are depicted is referred to by what term?

Fete galante

Who is the painter of the Rococo work 'The swing'?

Fragonard

What was the most influential building in the later Cinquecento Italy?

II Gesù

In what medium did satirical artist Honore Daumier create most of his works?

Lithography

What painting style takes its name from the importance of the hand of the artist in creating a work?

Mannerism

In her painted Self portrait, whose likeness does Vigee Le Brun show herself painting?

Marie Antionette

Art historians believe that the American artists Thomas Eakins modeled the Gross Clinic on what?

Rembrandt's anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp

Eschewing a contrived pose, Vigee-Lebrun's Self-portrait demonstrates what new trend in art?

The naturalistic impulse

The title of Watteau's pilgrimage to Cythera, as well as the activities and figures shown in the painting, is an allusion of which greco-roman deity?

Aphrodite

Who was the most renowned female painter of the 17th century?

Artemisia Gentileschi

The drama and fervor of Spanish Baroque paintings find a parallel in the sculptural works of which artist?

Juan Martinez Montanes

The thankful poor by Tanner is an example of the typical Realist focus on what?

Ordinary people

Chiswick House is a reflection of what stylistic trend in English architecture?

Palladian Classicism

Gericault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?

Slavery

Salon Jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?

Socialistic

hich element of Marat's Oath of the Horatii reflects Enlightenment ideals rather than Neoclassicism?

Juxtaposed actions of men and women

Thomas Jefferson's redesign of Monticello was influenced by the subject house and which other building?

Palladio's Villa Rotunda

Delacriox's allegorical painting of Liberty Leading the people refers to uprising that took place in what city?

Paris

The elongated limbs and torso of Ingres's Grande Odalisque can be linked to which earlier artist and style?

Parmigianino, Mannerism

Which American realist artist, having studied both painting and medicine, believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?

Thomas Eakins

Which city-state was the focal point of artistic development in the high renaissance?

Rome

Which mannerist painter created dynamic compositions using swirling clouds and fitful light?

Tintoretto

Who is the artist of this mannerist version of the last supper?

Tintoretto

What contrast does Thomas Cole highlight in his painting the Oxbow?

Wilderness versus Civilization

The emphasis on suffering in Gros's Napoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa as well as the detailed depiction of the exotic locale presages the turn to which new style?

Romanticism

Greuz's village bride is an example of which new theme in 18th century painting, one that appealed to audiences who admired "natural" virtue?

Sentimental narrative

Which of the following characteristics of Parmigianino's painting of the Madonna is NOT a Mannerist element?

Downward gaze and full drapery

What term do art historians use to describe the use of rough brushstrokes and thick dabs of pigment to highlight the uneven surface so it catches the light?

Impasto

Bernini's statue of David differs from his predecessors by showing David in what moment?

In the heat of combat

Which artist painted a series of still lifes that he described as "offerings to the Virgin," probably a reference to Mary as the source of spiritual food for the faithful?

Juan Sanchez

Which painter was responsible for establishing still life as an important genre of painting in 17th century Spain?

Juan Sanchez Cotan

Which of the following works embodies the enlightenment embraces of the values of the Greco-Roman world?

Kauffman, Cornelia presenting her children as her children

The Spanish painter Velazquez was both first painter to the King and what else?

Chamberlain of the palace

How does Giovanni Battista Gaulli depict Jesus in this ceiling fresco Triumph of the name of Jesus for II Gesu

IHS monogram

What is the site of the largest cathedral built in New Spain during the colonial period?

Mexico City

What earlier work does Caravaggio invoke in the hand gesture of Christ in Calling of Saint of Saint Matthew?

Michelangelo, Creation of Adam

The quiet and contemplative paintings of Francisco de Zurbaran were well suited the needs of his patrons, which were primarily who?

Monastic orders

In her self-portrait La Pittura, how does Artemesia Gentileschi break with earlier artists' self-portraits?

She is turned away from the viewer

Which early photographer used the new medium to produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War Battles?

Timothy O'Sullivan

Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?

Titan

Which painter created this painting of mother and son pair Eleonora of Toledo and Giovanni de' Medici

Bronzini

The Neoclassical follies and other monuments created for the estates of English country houses were part of which trend in landscape architecture?

The picturesque garden

Canaletto's Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice is an example of what painting genre, which was a product of the 18th century tradition of the Grand tour?

Veduta

Who was a leading advocate of the Enlightenment in France?

Voltaire

Which artist was criticized for the 'imitation of common and vulgar things" for destroying "the authority of antiquity and Raphael"?

Caravaggio

Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?

Cole

In Women of Algiers, Delacroix's interest in what element of painting is on display?

Color

J.M.W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?

Color

For which patron did Giullo Romano build the Palazzo del Te?

Fredrico Gonzaga

In works such as Madonna in the Meadow, Raphael has clearly adopted Leonardo's use of pyramidal composition for his work but rejected what interest of Leonardo?

Heavy Chiaroscuro

Which of the following Renaissance churches influenced Maderno's design for Santa Susanna in Rome?

II Gesù, Rome

Despite the limitations on women as artists, which figure exemplifies the important role women could play as art patrons?

Isabella d'Este

Which female art patron is depicted in this painting by Titan

Isabella de'Este

The enlightenment notion of 'progress' and the scientific revolution are highlighted in the paintings of which artist?

Joseph Wright of Derby

Which photographer became well known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix, Daumier and Courbet?

Nadar

Who are the two figures shown on Cellini's saltcellar?

Neptune and Tellus

Who was the chief architect of the Republic of Venice from 1570 until his death?

Palladio

Which 18th century artistic style enabled a unification among diverse artistic media such as architecture, painting sculpture, and even music?

Rococo

In his portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Gainsborough combines a naturalistic rendering of the sitter with what?

Rococo setting

The Roman ruins of Baalbek in Syria provided the inspiration for what 18th century building?

Soufflot, Pantheon

What is the name of the work that was commissioned from Bramante by Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain for the Janiculum hill in Rome?

Tempietto

The use of dark settings in Caravaggio's paintings is referred to by what art historical term?

Tenebrism

Why did pope Paul have Saint Peter's changed from its central plan with the addition of three nave bay?

The central plan evoked ancient temples, such as the Pantheon