Art History Chapter 20 Quiz
The creation of which of the following allowed merchant firms to hold money on account instead of carrying precious metals as a form of payment for trade goods?
Bank of Amsterdam
The influence of ____ is evident in Rubens's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his Elevation of the Cross.
Michelangelo
In Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicolas, he alluded to ____ by using children's activities to comment on adult behavior.
Selfishness
Why did Judith Leyster appear as elegantly attired, rather than in an artist's smock as Rembrandt did, in her own Self-Portrait?
She wanted to indicate her social prominence.
Art historians believe that Vermeer used tools, such as the ____, to aid in his virtuoso depiction of light.
camera obscura