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