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The influence of which artist is most obvious in Rembrandt's use of dramatic lighting in The Return of the Prodigal Son?

Caravaggio

The Rococo style is typically most closely associated with the

French aristocracy.

Peter Paul Rubens's emphasis on anatomy and musculature, and his sculptural approach to painted form in The Raising of the Cross, reflect the strongest influence of which artist?

Michelangelo

During the Rococo period, what was the function of hôtels?

They were fashionable townhouses for aristocrats.

Raphael's Paul Preaching at Athens was the basis for

a tapestry.

Where is the vanishing point in Masaccio's The Holy Trinity?

below the base of the cross

A Neoplatonist reading of Donatello's Mary Magdalene would suggest that the figure embodies

divine beauty

What distinguishes Artemisia Gentileschi as an artist of the Baroque period in Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes?

her dramatic use of light and dark

What subjects became common as a result of the Counter-Reformation's call for art to serve as a spiritual aid?

images of mystical and personal acts of faith

Which encouraged the shift toward genre and still-life painting in the seventeenth century?

the Dutch middle class

What distinguishes Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait as characteristic to Northern Europe Renaissance painting?

the close attention to realistic details

How did Giotto's work signal the shift toward Renaissance humanism?

the emphasis on human physicality and emotion

What distinguishes the Rococo style of Jean Honoré Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing from paintings of the Baroque period?

the playful nature of the subject matter