Art History 1304 Exam 2
Which painter deployed the drama and majesty offered by the height and scale of a ceiling fresco to glorify the Barberini family in Triumph of the Barberini?
Pietro da Cortona
What is the medium in which Juan Martinez Montanes created the majority of his works?
Polychrome wood
Which American founder built his home on the model of Palladian villas and strove to establish Neoclassical architecture as the national architectural style?
Thomas Jefferson
Which early patron of Caravaggio gave the artist a steady income in exchange for a selection of his paintings?
Cardinal Del Monte
Which group became the primary patrons of Wright's paintings depicting the wonders of the Industrial Revolution?
Industrialists
What is the location of Veronese's massive ceiling painting Triumph of Venice?
Doge's Palace
Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers reflects the influence on him of which earlier work?
Las Mininas
Who is the architect of the plan of II Gesu in Rome?
Giacomo da Vignola
Who are the two women accompanying Adelaide Labille-Guiard in her self-portrait?
Her students
Chardin's praise of the simple goodness of ordinary people, in such paintings as his Grace, is based on the work of what key Enlightenment figure?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?
Praxiscope
In Cinquecento the availability of which inexpensive medium allowed drawing to rise to prominence as an artistic pursuit?
Pulp paper
The painted simulation of groups of easel paintings arranged on a ceiling is called what?
Quadro riportato
The aim of much Italian Baroque art was to restore the predominance of which group?
Roman Catholic Church
Which philosopher asserted that the human capacity for feeling, sensibility, and emotions came before reasons?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?
William Blake
What typical palladium architectural element is NOT present in his most villa Rotunda?
Wings of subsidiary buildings
John Singer Sergent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit reveals his admiration for which earlier artist?
Velazquez
Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the renaissance?
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
Viewing the art treasures of Italy on the Grand Tour played a major role in the rise of which movement?
Neoclassicism
Which 19th century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the Western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?
Albert Bierstadt
What contemporary event is referenced by American realist Winslow Homer in his Veteran in a field?
American Civil War
The Neoclassical portrait statue of Pauline Borghese in the guise of Venus was created by which sculptor?
Antonio Canova
Who is the artist of this painting?
Artemesia Gentileschi
In her depiction of the figure La Pittura, Artemesia Gentileschi took the iconography and attributes of the image from which contemporary handbook?
Cesare Ripa, Iconologia
Which of the following is not one of the devices Diego Velazquez used to create visual complexity in Las Meninas
Copies of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens celebrating immortal gods
Which painter of the French Revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming first painter to Napoleon?
Jacques-Louis David
What is the name of the Venetian church in which Palladio joined a Mannerist, ambiguous facade with a High Renaissance, logical interior?
San Giorgio Maggiore
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's baldacchino for Saint Peter's features numerous bees, which were the symbol of which Roman family?
Barberini
Which artist set the standard for history paintings by combining the conventions of traditional heroic paintings with modern realism in subject matter and dress?
Benjamin West
Which artist created a dramatic reworking of the story of the taking of Christ, a subject previously treated by both Giotto and Duccio?
Caravaggio
The painting genre created by Antoine Watteau in which the amusements and entertainments of the upper classes are depicted is referred to by what term?
Fete galante
Who is the painter of the Rococo work 'The swing'?
Fragonard
What was the most influential building in the later Cinquecento Italy?
II Gesù
In what medium did satirical artist Honore Daumier create most of his works?
Lithography
What painting style takes its name from the importance of the hand of the artist in creating a work?
Mannerism
In her painted Self portrait, whose likeness does Vigee Le Brun show herself painting?
Marie Antionette
Art historians believe that the American artists Thomas Eakins modeled the Gross Clinic on what?
Rembrandt's anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp
Eschewing a contrived pose, Vigee-Lebrun's Self-portrait demonstrates what new trend in art?
The naturalistic impulse
The title of Watteau's pilgrimage to Cythera, as well as the activities and figures shown in the painting, is an allusion of which greco-roman deity?
Aphrodite
Who was the most renowned female painter of the 17th century?
Artemisia Gentileschi
The drama and fervor of Spanish Baroque paintings find a parallel in the sculptural works of which artist?
Juan Martinez Montanes
The thankful poor by Tanner is an example of the typical Realist focus on what?
Ordinary people
Chiswick House is a reflection of what stylistic trend in English architecture?
Palladian Classicism
Gericault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?
Slavery
Salon Jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?
Socialistic
hich element of Marat's Oath of the Horatii reflects Enlightenment ideals rather than Neoclassicism?
Juxtaposed actions of men and women
Thomas Jefferson's redesign of Monticello was influenced by the subject house and which other building?
Palladio's Villa Rotunda
Delacriox's allegorical painting of Liberty Leading the people refers to uprising that took place in what city?
Paris
The elongated limbs and torso of Ingres's Grande Odalisque can be linked to which earlier artist and style?
Parmigianino, Mannerism
Which American realist artist, having studied both painting and medicine, believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?
Thomas Eakins
Which city-state was the focal point of artistic development in the high renaissance?
Rome
Which mannerist painter created dynamic compositions using swirling clouds and fitful light?
Tintoretto
Who is the artist of this mannerist version of the last supper?
Tintoretto
What contrast does Thomas Cole highlight in his painting the Oxbow?
Wilderness versus Civilization
The emphasis on suffering in Gros's Napoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa as well as the detailed depiction of the exotic locale presages the turn to which new style?
Romanticism
Greuz's village bride is an example of which new theme in 18th century painting, one that appealed to audiences who admired "natural" virtue?
Sentimental narrative
Which of the following characteristics of Parmigianino's painting of the Madonna is NOT a Mannerist element?
Downward gaze and full drapery
What term do art historians use to describe the use of rough brushstrokes and thick dabs of pigment to highlight the uneven surface so it catches the light?
Impasto
Bernini's statue of David differs from his predecessors by showing David in what moment?
In the heat of combat
Which artist painted a series of still lifes that he described as "offerings to the Virgin," probably a reference to Mary as the source of spiritual food for the faithful?
Juan Sanchez
Which painter was responsible for establishing still life as an important genre of painting in 17th century Spain?
Juan Sanchez Cotan
Which of the following works embodies the enlightenment embraces of the values of the Greco-Roman world?
Kauffman, Cornelia presenting her children as her children
The Spanish painter Velazquez was both first painter to the King and what else?
Chamberlain of the palace
How does Giovanni Battista Gaulli depict Jesus in this ceiling fresco Triumph of the name of Jesus for II Gesu
IHS monogram
What is the site of the largest cathedral built in New Spain during the colonial period?
Mexico City
What earlier work does Caravaggio invoke in the hand gesture of Christ in Calling of Saint of Saint Matthew?
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam
The quiet and contemplative paintings of Francisco de Zurbaran were well suited the needs of his patrons, which were primarily who?
Monastic orders
In her self-portrait La Pittura, how does Artemesia Gentileschi break with earlier artists' self-portraits?
She is turned away from the viewer
Which early photographer used the new medium to produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War Battles?
Timothy O'Sullivan
Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?
Titan
Which painter created this painting of mother and son pair Eleonora of Toledo and Giovanni de' Medici
Bronzini
The Neoclassical follies and other monuments created for the estates of English country houses were part of which trend in landscape architecture?
The picturesque garden
Canaletto's Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice is an example of what painting genre, which was a product of the 18th century tradition of the Grand tour?
Veduta
Who was a leading advocate of the Enlightenment in France?
Voltaire
Which artist was criticized for the 'imitation of common and vulgar things" for destroying "the authority of antiquity and Raphael"?
Caravaggio
Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Cole
In Women of Algiers, Delacroix's interest in what element of painting is on display?
Color
J.M.W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?
Color
For which patron did Giullo Romano build the Palazzo del Te?
Fredrico Gonzaga
In works such as Madonna in the Meadow, Raphael has clearly adopted Leonardo's use of pyramidal composition for his work but rejected what interest of Leonardo?
Heavy Chiaroscuro
Which of the following Renaissance churches influenced Maderno's design for Santa Susanna in Rome?
II Gesù, Rome
Despite the limitations on women as artists, which figure exemplifies the important role women could play as art patrons?
Isabella d'Este
Which female art patron is depicted in this painting by Titan
Isabella de'Este
The enlightenment notion of 'progress' and the scientific revolution are highlighted in the paintings of which artist?
Joseph Wright of Derby
Which photographer became well known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix, Daumier and Courbet?
Nadar
Who are the two figures shown on Cellini's saltcellar?
Neptune and Tellus
Who was the chief architect of the Republic of Venice from 1570 until his death?
Palladio
Which 18th century artistic style enabled a unification among diverse artistic media such as architecture, painting sculpture, and even music?
Rococo
In his portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Gainsborough combines a naturalistic rendering of the sitter with what?
Rococo setting
The Roman ruins of Baalbek in Syria provided the inspiration for what 18th century building?
Soufflot, Pantheon
What is the name of the work that was commissioned from Bramante by Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain for the Janiculum hill in Rome?
Tempietto
The use of dark settings in Caravaggio's paintings is referred to by what art historical term?
Tenebrism
Why did pope Paul have Saint Peter's changed from its central plan with the addition of three nave bay?
The central plan evoked ancient temples, such as the Pantheon