Art 112 - Lecture 15 Question List

Thomas Jefferson was the author of:

The Declaration of Independence

Which of the following domed structures does Jefferson's Monticello most closely resemble?

The Duomo of Florence

The humorous, mischievous eroticism of this painting is a characteristic that The Swing shares with:

The Hellenistic Greek Aphrodite, Pan and Eros

Which of the following structures does the portico of Jefferson's Monticello most closely resemble?

The Parthenon, in Greece

What does Salon de la Princesse mean?

"Room of the Princess"

Which of the following statements was made by Maximillian Robespierre?

"Terror is only justice—prompt, severe term-2and inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue"

Which of the following passages did Thomas Jefferson write?

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing

1767

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii

1784

Angelica Kauffman, Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures

1785

Jacques-Louis David, study for the Tennis Court Oath

1791

The scene of this painting, like that of many Rococo works, takes place in:

A garden

In French, the term hotel means:

A large, opulent town house, usually belonging to an aristocrat

The artist who painted this was:

A member of the British Royal Academy of Arts

Fragonard's The Swing, like most works of French Rococo art, was made for:

A member of the French aristocracy

The Salon de la Princesse belonged to:

A member of the French aristocracy

This painting was made for:

A member of the French aristocracy

Who was Maximillian Robespierre?

A radical revolutionary responsible for the execution of moderates

The artist who painted this was:

A revolutionary during the French revolution

The subject of this picture comes from:

An event that took place in France shortly before the picture was made

Which change began to occur in Europe and American in the decades leading up to the French and American revolutions?

An influential group of people stopped being primarily concerned with getting to heaven and started to focus on how to improve life on earth through political and scientific progress

The late eighteenth-century artistic movement known as Neo-classicism takes which of the following as its source for artistic subject matter and style?

Ancient Greco-Roman art

The architecture in the background of this scene can best be described as:

Austere

What does this painting have in common with Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes?

Both have subject matter derived from Greco-Roman antiquity. Both depict a woman who displays a type of agency more commonly associated with male figures. Both were painted by a female artist who was a member of an art academy

The artist who made this painting was a student of:

Boucher

The moral values represented by the woman holding the gold chain on the far right of this picture can be identified with the values represented in which of the following works?

Boucher's The Toilet of Venus

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770-1806

Which of the following did Neo-classical architects like Jefferson believe was expressed in the architectural style of a building like Monticello?

Commitment to democratic values and civic responsibility

The women in this picture:

Display less agency than the male figures

The ideal of duty and sacrifice embodied by the young men in this picture can be contrasted with the pleasure-seeking frivolity of the young man in:

Fragonard's The Swing

The paintings in this room were made by:

François Boucher

The architecture in the background of this scene is in which style?

Greco-Roman

Explain the meaning of the following pictorial elements In relation to the overall moral lesson of Kauffman's painting:

I. The figures' body language: Cornelia is gesturing to her children as her treasures rather than material aspects of her life. II. The color of the figures' clothing: Cornelias way of raising the boys in the proper way has created a transformation. Transformed in the contraposto pose. Moral purity vs moral decadence. III. The object in the basket next to Cornelia, in relation to the jewel's held by the woman on the right: Distaff used to spin wool, used in neoclassical art as a symbol of female virtue.

Explain the iconographic meaning of:

I. The gesture of the three young men on the left: Indicating the central principles, make them seem as they are one three headed creature, latin principle of 'E Pluribus Unum', embodiment of many II. The plow in the background of this picture, directly beneath the swords: Drawing from history of Roman literature and political values, the most noble thing in Roman culture, symbolism of virtue and honest work when not called to take up arms III. The distaff on the ground next to the women: Object symbolizes female industries and virtue, similar to

What aspect of the passage from the Declaration of Independence discussed in lecture is characteristic of the Enlightenment, and the ideals of the 18th-century philosophes?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Compared to Baroque-style architectural ornament, Rococo ornament is:

Lighter and more playful

Explain the iconography of this painting, and what makes its theme typical of Rococo art:

Material luxury, psychological luxury, eroticism, garden theme. Conflict of fun vs. civic duty of life.

Which of the following people is depicted in this image?

Maximillian Robespierre

Compared to Rococo architectural ornament, Neo-classical ornament is:

More austere and sober

Compared to the setting of Boucher's Toilet of Venus, the setting of this painting is:

More austere and sober

In what way does the Neoclassical architecture of the late 1700s differ from the revival of classical architecture that took place in the 1400s, during the Renaissance?

Neoclassical buildings stand for political and moral ideals specific to the 18th century, which had not yet emerged during the Renaissance

This work is an example of:

Neoclassicism

At the meeting shown in this picture, a group of Frenchmen swore an oath:

Not to disband until the French king accepted a constitutional government

The Salon de la Princesse is a room in a building located in which city?

Paris, France

Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise

Paris, c.1740

Thomas Jefferson created a version of the Christian Bible which omits:

References to supernatural phenomena and to Jesus's divinity

The style of the architecture in this room is:

Rococo

The two boys on the left of this painting—Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus—grew up to be:

Roman officials who attempted to redistribute wealth from wealthy patricians to impoverished plebeians

In pose and facial features, which of Cornelia's children is closest in appearance to Polykleitos's Doryphorus?

The boy in gold standing second from left

The difference in body language between the two boys on the left of this painting signifies:

The civilizing effect of a good education and principled upbringing

The subject of this picture comes from:

The history of ancient Rome

The artist, David, never completed the painting for which this study was made, because:

The revolutionaries in the painting turned against one another, and a period of political chaos ensued