Chapter 26 Art History

The design of Chiswick House by Boyle and Kent is regarded as a free variation on the work of which architect?

Andrea Palladio

Which of the following is NOT a technique Wright used to focus attention on the scientific instrument being demonstrated in this scene?

Background made hazy and less detailed

Who became the official painter to King George III and was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts?

Benjamin West

Which is NOT a technique Bernard Neumann used to adapt the Rococo style to ecclesiastical interiors?

Contrasts of dark and brilliant colors in painted decor

The vedute paintings of Antonio Canaletto were intended for which class of patron?

English travelers

The rustic setting, soft light, and feathery brushwork of Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan are elements of which style?

French Rococo

Greenough sculpted which contemporary statesman in the Neoclassical style by portraying him seminude and enthroned, as Phidias depicted Zeus in the famous lost statue?

George Washington

Which artist can be said to have translated English literary satire into the visual arts?

George Washington

The severity for James Stuart's Neoclassical Temple of Theseus in Hagley Park takes its inspiration from the ruins he visited in which modern country?

Greece

The renewed interest in classical antiquity of the 18th century can be credited to the archaeological discoveries at which sites?

Herculaneum and Pompeii

What event transformed the economies of continental Europe and North America in the 18th century?

Industrial Revolution

Which artist illustrated the views of Rousseau by painting quiet scenes of domestic life that honored the simple goodness of ordinary people?

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

The painting A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery was done by which artist?

Joseph Wright of Derby

Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii can be said to be a paragon of which style?

Neoclassical

The colonnade of the Roman temple of Jupiter at Baalbek in Lebanon provided the inspiration for what building?

Pantheon

Which city was the artistic center of the Rococo style?

Paris

The conclusion of the debate in the French Royal Academy between advocates of color and advocates of form resulted in the ascendance of which style?

Rococo

Robert Adam used elements from which Roman wall-painting style to create the decorations of the Etruscan Room at Osterley Park House?

Third and Fourth Styles

Which philosopher believed that the betterment of humanity lay in the advancement of science and the rational improvement of society?

Voltaire

Which scholar wrote Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture and established a model for the analysis of stylistic evolution in art?

Winckelmann