Chapter 10 Humanities

What statement best describes Francesco Borromini, designer of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?

A) Bernini's architectural rival in baroque Rome

In carrying the technique of chiaroscuro (dramatic light and shadow) to the cities of Florence and Naples, Artemisia Gentileschi spread the influence of what artist?

A) Caravaggio

Jean-Baptiste Lully was a central figure in the development of what baroque art?

A) French opera and ballet

Which figure is associated with the "metaphysical poets," a group of English baroque poets known for their intellectual wit?

A) John Donne

Whose most important work was a political treatise that helped justify the Glorious Revolution in England with his ideas of a balance between individual freedom and social order?

A) John Locke

Which of these is the best example of a native musical talent in the English baroque?

A) Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Which of these works would most likely be performed at the court of Louis XIV at Versailles?

A) a ballet de cour by Lully

Which of these statements best applies to Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

A) a masterpiece of the baroque concerto grosso

Which statement best describes the works of Molière?

A) developed under the patronage of Louis XIV

Which statement best applies to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2?

A) involves the lead instruments in complex counterpoint

In what regard is Velazquez's masterpiece The Maids of Honor (Las Meniñas), a scene in the artist's royal studio, most remarkable?

A) its complex arrangement of space

What baroque musical form, perfected by Handel and popular among his English audiences, consisted of stories (often biblical) that were set to music and performed in public halls?

A) oratorio

Which of these figures is associated with the heliocentric theory of the universe, an important advance in the Scientific Revolution?

B) Nicolaus Copernicus

A portrait of Helena Fourment, the artists' wife, would appear frequently in the works of which artist, famed for his skill as a diplomat and painter of the baroque nobility?

B) Peter Paul Rubens

During a performance of a Bach concerto grosso, what one would expect to hear?

B) a supportive basso continuo

What statement best describes the function of the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India?

B) a tomb for the wife of an emperor and himself

According to Hobbes' version of the state of nature, analyzed in the Leviathan, for what reason does absolute political authority emerge to establish an orderly and civil society?

B) otherwise humans would destroy themselves in violence

From what idea or disposition did the philosopher René Descartes derive his dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am")?

B) the effort to doubt everything

What interest did the Dutch painter Rembrandt shared with the Italian Caravaggio?

B) use of dramatic light and shadow

Which of these baroque works best realizes the attempt to combine different arts in a single, dramatically unified whole?

C) Bernini's Cornaro Chapel

Which of these painters was a portraitist at the baroque court of Philip IV of Spain?

C) Diego Velazquez

Whose paintings are characterized by his mastery of light and naively intimate scenes?

C) Johannes Vermeer

What would one expect to hear during a performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo?

C) a recitative and aria

Of these, what would you most expect most of an empiricist?

C) base conclusions on experimentation and observation

A) involves the lead instruments in complex counterpoint

C) combination of neoclassical forms and baroque splendor

What best describes the cantatas of J. S. Bach?

C) served as an important part of Lutheran church worship

Which of these artists appealed most directly to a middle-class, urban public with a large part of his work?

D) J. S. Bach

Rembrandt's Sortie of Capt. Cocq's Company (Night Watch) is an example of what topic or subject?

D) a group portrait

What term is best associated with the unification of European states like France and Spain under all-powerful monarchs, who used their power to subdue the nobility and bring central order to government?

D) absolutism

What feature or description characterizes Christopher Wren's design for St. Paul's Cathedral?

D) compromise between native English and continental elements

Of the baroque qualities listed below, which is most clearly illustrated in Rubens' Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus?

D) dynamic motion created by movement and ascending lines

What statement is most likely to describe a painting by Johannes Vermeer?

D) hung in a middle-class home

What would the Academy, as established under the rule of Louis XIV, most likely do?

D) impose absolutist neoclassical rules on artists

Of the baroque qualities below, which is most clearly illustrated in Versailles Palace ?

Preoccupation with baroque rationalism and science