Test 3 & 4

The development of linear perspective is generally credited to ____.

Brunelleschi

Which of the following was the most prominent patron of fifteenth-century Florentine art?

Medici family

At the turn of the century, the French Academy was divided rather sharply between two doctrines. Which taught that color was the most important element?

Rubenistes

In the calendar pages of Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry scenes of courtly life alternate with

Seasonal tasks

Géricault's Raft of the Medusa represents which of the following

the aftermath of a nineteenth-century French shipwreck and was considered an attack on government ineptitude

The Sistine ceiling represents which of the following themes?

the chronology of Christianity

In Leonardo's Last Supper, how did the artist break with traditional iconography?

the placement of Judas on the same side as Christ and the other Disciples

Courbet used which of the following techniques in the The Stonebreakers to convey the drudgery of manual labor?

use of a palette of dirty browns and grays

Who created Knight, Death, and the Devil?

Albrecht Dürer

The term "sublime" was considered to inspire which of the following feelings?

Awe mixed with terror

Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul presents the same dynamic emotion and dramatic religious fervor with the use of eloquent pictorial devices and stage lighting in much the same way as in which of the following works of art?

Berninis The ecstasyof st Theresa

Which of the following is a manifestation of the commitment to private prayer?

Book of Hours

Which of the following works functions as an "altarpiece" for the new civic religion of inspiring the viewer with the martyr's dedication to service?

Death of Marat

The Classical principle of contrapposto, or weight shift, was reintroduced into Western art by the sculptor ____.

Donatello

Which of the following was not included in Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece?

God

Which of the following artists represented what was called the "sublime" in eighteenth-century art

Henry Fuseli

The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia not only because of the portrayal of a naked prostitute as a work of art but also due to which of the following?

Her look of cool indifference and shamelessness

Which of the following characterizes Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece?

It is an exacting rendering of anguish

Which of the following artists created one of the earliest portraits where the sitter engages the viewer?

Jan van Eyck

Which of the following was one of the favorite compositional devices of painters of the High Renaissance?

Pyramid

Which city has been generally credited with the birth of the Baroque style?

Rome

In Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait she portrays herself as a confident, accomplished painter, seated in front of her easel working yet taking time to stop work and meet the viewer's eye. Unlike Rembrandt she does not portray herself in a painter's smock. Which of the following would account for this?

She wanted to indicate her social prominence.

What anamorphic symbol appears in Holbein's French Ambassadors?

Skull

The destruction of images in German cities that occurred in the 1520s is known as the _________________.

The Great Iconoclasm

In his painting, ____, Thomas Eakins portrayed things as he saw them and not as the public might want them portrayed.

The Gross Clinic

Bernini's statue of David differs from previous generations of this depiction. His David seems to be moving through time and space. Which of the following would support this description?

The pivoting motion of the figure implies the movement through space and time. b. The figure's upright stance implies movement through space and time.

In Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, he has clustered the participants on the left side and has placed Dr. Tulp on the right side with the diagonally placed foreshortened corpse disrupting the strict horizontal, planar orientation. This is in sharp contrast to which of the following traditions of group portraiture?

The subjects were placed evenly across the canvas

The Return from Cythera represents a group of lovers preparing to depart from the island of eternal youth. Watteau emphasized that elegance and grace using which of the following

color

The mood in The Thankful Poor by Tanner is one of quiet devotion, not far removed from the Realism of which of the following artists?

millet

1. In Pieter Aertsen's Meat Still-Life, the artist has created what appears to be a descriptive genre scene, a butcher's shop displaying its products, as well as fish and pretzels. This work also has embedded within it which of the following?

religious references