Art history
The elongated limbs and torso of Ingres's Grande Odalisque can be linked to which earlier artist and style?
Parmigianino, Mannerism
Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer was inspired by which earlier work?
Raphael, School of Athens
The brushwork and strongly foreshortened figures of Charging Chasseur reflect Géricault's emulation of which earlier painter?
Rubens
Which Symbolist painter produced the richly colored representation of The Cyclops?
Odilon Redon
Georges Seurat's painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color is referred to by what term?
Pointillism
Who is the subject of this painting by Édouard Manet?
Claude Monet
50. Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Cole
37. What contemporary event is referenced by American Realist Winslow Homer in his Veteran in a Field?
American Civil War
16. The Neoclassical portrait statue of Paulina Borghese in the guise of Venus was created by which sculptor?
Antonio Canova
William Morris's Green Dining Room exemplifies the design goals of which artistic movement?
Arts and Crafts
Which European artist created this Romantic transcendental landscape painting?
Caspar David Friedrich
What art historical term describes Monet's practice of painting his works outdoors?
En plein air
32. Which artist was a leader in the French Realist movement of the 19th century?
Gustave Courbet
10. In Rossetti's Beata Beatrix, what did the artist include to commemorate his wife's death?
Poppy
Which artistic movement had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods but could not be considered stylistically homogeneous?
Post-Impressionism
The cathedral that is the subject of Monet's series of paintings showing the effects of light is located in which city?
Rouen
What do art historians regard as the real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun)?
The sunlight on the portal
39. Who was named first consul of the French Republic after leading the French army on several campaigns?
Napoleon Bonaparte
In which work does van Gogh say that he is trying to "express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green"?
Night Café
4. Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rosa Bonheur did not use this technique to portray what?
Political themes
8. Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers reflects the influence on him of which earlier work?
Las Meninas
Which painting genre was most useful for Cézanne's experiments with remaking Impressionism to emphasize the permanent rather than the transitory?
Still life
Extreme subjectivity and the wish to perceive a deeper reality were typical of which art movement?
Symbolism
Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau were leading artists of which movement?
Symbolism
36. Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?
Titian
Which Post-Impressionist painter was the first great master in the new art form of the poster?
Toulouse-Lautrec
46. Which architect designed the interior support frame (armature) of the State of Liberty?
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
12. Who was the leading figure of the Realist movement in art?
Courbet
Which Impressionist artist specialized in indoor scenes of bodies in motion, sometimes using a camera to make preliminary studies for his work?
Degas
The incorporation of Japanese aesthetics into European painting, a trend referred to as Japonisme, is evident in which artwork?
Degas, The Tub
Which photographer was famous for creating images with Symbolist themes?
Gertrude Kasebier
15. Which painter of the French revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming First Painter to Napoleon?
Jacques-Louis David
Spatial discrepancies, such as the relationship between the barmaid and her apparent reflection in a nearby mirror, are highlighted in which painting?
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
19. The Romantic notion of God as a mathematician seen in Blake's Ancient of Days is taken from the artistic tradition of which earlier period?
Medieval
The tenets of Marxism and Darwinism had a role in the rise of which artistic movement?
Modernism
42. In Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, how does the artist use flat patterning to distinguish between the male and female figures?
Rectangle shapes cover male, circles cover female
5. Art historians believe that the American artist Thomas Eakins modeled the The Gross Clinic on what?
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Which Art Nouveau architect invented new structural techniques to allow construction of buildings that are sculpted and organic form?
Antonio Gaudi
Which monument was built for a great exhibition in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?
Eiffel Tower
47. Which architect designed the first large commercial buildings characterized by round arches, large windows, and a cast-iron interior skeleton?
Henry Hobson Richardson
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of which art form?
Japanese woodblock prints
47. Which Neoclassical artist of the first part of the 19th century looked firmly to the arts of Greek antiquity for his subjects and compositions?
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
28. Which English painter is known for depicting the disappearing beauties of the English countryside during the Industrial Revolution?
John Constable
33. In which aspect does Courbet's Burial at Ornans most resemble traditional history paintings?
Monumental size of the painting
How does Caillebotte suggest the transitory, impersonal nature of modern life in Paris?
Moving figures and cutoff buildings
Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold is an example of the artist's effort to use color to create visual works paralleling which other art form?
Music
45. Which photographer became well known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix, Daumier, and Courbet?
Nadar
46. The 19th-century revival of historical architectural styles led Barry and Pugin to rebuild the Houses of Parliament in London in what style?
Neo-Gothic
20. The results of the Spanish resistance to the invasion of their country by Napoleon's forces are highlighted in which painting by Goya?
Third of May, 1808
48. Which American Realist artist, having studied both painting and medicine, believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?
Thomas Eakins
43. Which early photographer used the new medium to produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles?
Timothy O'Sullivan
Which of the following ideas was Vincent van Gogh trying to communicate in his Starry Night?
Vastness of the universe
40. The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?
William Blake
29. J. M. W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?
color
6. Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of which conflict?
American Civil War
Which artistic movement arose out of the idea of John Ruskin and William Morris, with their emphasis on producing functional objects with high aesthetic value?
Arts and Crafts
The work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, with its rejection of Realism and statuesque figures in a tranquil landscape, inspired the members of which movement?
Symbolism
the painting Where Do We Come From reflects Gauguin's move to which country?
Tahiti
John Singer Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit reveals his admiration for which earlier artist?
Velázquez
Which artist explored the possiblities of bold colors and distorted forms, creating a textile effect with energetic and thick brushstrokes?
Vincent van Gogh
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by which social group?
Women and children at home
25. In Women of Algiers, Delacroix's interest in what element of painting is on display?
Color
Where were many of the early Impressionist paintings displayed?
Commercial art galleries
27. The works of Camille Pissarro are recognizable because they are painted from which viewpoint?
High above the street
Which painter made Parisian dance halls and clubs the subjects of many of his paintings, including Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette?
Renoir
14. Vignon's Neoclassical design of the church of La Madeleine in Paris is meant to tie the empire of Napoleon to which earlier empire?
Roman
26. François Rude's allegorical sculpture Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 was created to adorn which Parisian monument?
Arc de Triomphe
43. Which artist argued that art is truthful and photographs lie?
Auguste Rodin
49. Which of the following is NOT a colorist painting, instead relying on form and line?
Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer
2. Who was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious?
John Henry Fuseli
1. Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime had a role in which intellectual movement?
Romanticism
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
31. Which 19th-century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?
Albert Bierstadt
Gustave Moreau's The Apparition treats which frequent Symbolist theme?
Femme fatale
Who was the architect responsible for the new layout of the city of the city of Paris, begun in 1852, that is referenced in Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day?
Georges Haussmann
44. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rejected Realism and based their artistic philosophy on the writings of which individual?
John Ruskin
35. Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the Renaissance?
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
34. In what medium did satirical artist Honoré Daumier create most of his works?
Lithography
23. The grand pictorial drama of Delacroix's painting Death of Sardanapalus is based on a literary work by which Romantic author?
Lord Byron
48. Which architect designed elegantly ornamented yet functional commercial buildings such as the Guaranty Building in Buffalo and the Sullivan Center in Chicago?
Louis Henry Sullivan
24. Delacroix's allegorical painting of Liberty Leading the People refers to an uprising that took place in what city?
Paris
7. What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?
Praxiscope
41. In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ?
Prefabricated elements
42. Which Romantic-style building is a conglomeration of Islamic domes, minarets, and screens that has been described as "Indian Gothic"?
Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Art historians regard James Ensor's painting Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 as his critical response to which contemporary work?
Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
The imagery of a sleeping person and a lion in Sleeping Gypsy can be linked to the work of which contemporary of Rousseau?
Sigmund Freud
22. Géricault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writhing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?
Slavery
11. Salon jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?
Socialistic
The firm outlines surrounding areas of unmodulated color in Gauguin's Vison after the Sermon reflect his interest in which medium?
Stained glass
Auguste Rodin took his subject for the bronze Gates of Hell from the writings of which author?
Dante
41. What was the original title of Edvard Munch's powerfully emotional The Scream?
Despair
The influence of which artistic movement is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface?
Impressionism
24. Which artist first made it his artistic practice to omit the preliminary sketch and use premixed pigments?
Monet
Who is sometimes described as the first modernist architect?
Louis Henry Sullivan
9. The Thankful Poor by Tanner is an example of the typical Realist focus on what?
Ordinary people
What did Courbet employ in the The Stone Breakers to convey the dismal nature of manual labor?
A palette of dirty browns and grays
The leading French sculptor of the later 19th century was which Realist artist?
Rodin
45. Victor Horta is an architect most associated with which style?
Art Nouveau
Which American Impressionist artist painted principally women and children?
Mary Cassatt
30. What contrast does Thomas Cole highlight in his painting The Oxbow?
Wilderness versus civilization
