Exam 2 Quizzes
Rococo music was characterized by...
A delicate and light sound written for the harpsichord.
What do Hector Berlioz's [Symphonie fantastique] and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's [The Sorrows of Young Werther] have in common?
A guiding motif of passionate emotion.
Arguing for a new republicanism, Thomas Paine published [Common Sense] in January 1776, advocating...
A new government with a chief of state who was not a monarch.
When the German writer and poet Friedrich von Schlegel coined the term "Romanticism" in 1798, he regarded it as...
A reaction against the Enlightenment.
What do Courbet's [Burial at Ornans] and Delacroix's [Scenes from the Massacres at Chios] have in common?
A refusal to uphold the ideals of French Neoclassicism.
When John Constable wrote "a sketch will not serve more than one state of mind...." he meant that...
A sketch reflects just one emotion.
The longest continuously practiced artistic traditions anywhere in the world is...
Aboriginal rock art of Australia.
In her novel [Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus], Mary Shelley intends to express that...
Ambition and power can become unmanageable.
Ingres's [La Grande Odalisque] could be considered an example of..
An Orientalist artwork, because it is a Western work that represents a Middle Easter subject from a considerable cultural distance.
Delacroix's [Liberty Leading the People] depicts..
An allegorical representation of popular unrest using realistic details.
Samuel Johnson's "Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures" is an example of...
An aphorism.
Gericault intended his enormous canvas [The Raft of the Medusa] as...
An indictment of aristocratic privilege.
In his portrait of her, Thomas Couture represents the write George Sand, perhaps fittingly, as...
Androgynous, given her statement on gender, "men and women are so much the same"
The joining of the 13 colonies into states was enacted by the adoption of the....
Articles of Confederation.
The hero of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel [The Sorrow of Young Werther] was emulated by young men throughout Europe, who...
Began to wear Werther's trademark blue jacket and yellow trousers.
What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau mean by "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains," in the opening line of the Social Contract?
By renouncing their own humanity, humans enslave themselves.
As the eighteenth century progressed, the salons of Paris became..
Centers of French culture.
Jean Etienne Liotard's [Still Life: Tea Set] captures the essence of...
Chinoiserie.
Which would have been most likely to have been performed in a salon concert? -Chopin's character piece -Beethoven's symphonies -Mendelssohn's concert overtures -Berlioz's symphonies
Chopin's character pieces.
The Estates General that King Louis XVI was forced to convene on May 5, 1789, was comprised of representatives of the....
Clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie, and peasants.
In his best-selling autobiography, published in England in 1789, Olaudah Equiano describes...
Conditions on board a transatlantic slave ship.
In Johnathan Swift's [Gulliver's Travels], the Yahoos are...
Degenerate, human-looking slaves.
Both Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broadened the agenda of the Enlightenment by...
Demanding equal rights for women.
Gustave Courbet's monumental canvas [The Stonebreakers] was daring for the time because it...
Depicted the mundane conditions of the working class on a grand scale.
As seen in [Snow Storm-Steam Boat..], the later landscape paintings of the English painter, Turner, are notable for their...
Depiction of the raw experience of nature.
The Habeus Corpus Act of 1679 required all of the following EXCEPT: -the right to a speedy trial -details of the reasons for the arrest -a warrant for the arrest of anyone -the requirement that monarchs obey the law like other British citizens
Did not require monarchs to obey the same laws as citizens.
The [Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters] could most accurately be suggested to...
Display the follies of Spanish society.
In his essay [Laocoōn], Gotthold Ephraim Lessing sought to...
Distinguish the fine arts from one another.
Once the courtiers moved back to Paris, they sought primarily paintings that...
Entertained them.
[View of the Wilderness at Kew] illustrates the way in which...
European gardens were embellished with elements inspired by China.
Opera buffa differs from opera seria in its inclusion of...
Everyday people for its characters.
Toward the end of his life, Francisco Goya painted a series of "black paintings," which...
Express a sense of insurmountable despair.
When Percy Bysshe Shelly called poets "the unacknowledged legislators of the world," he was...
Expressing his belief in art as a power for reform and change.
The Jacobins in France's National Assembly...
Favored the institution of egalitarian democracy.
The Neoclassical style in American architecture became known as the...
Federal style.
Illustrating manufacturing principles, the [Encyclopédie] intended to transmit knowledge in order to....
Foster freedom of thought.
When Voltaire said, "Things changed visibly: Sparta became Athens," he was referring to...
Frederick the Great's transformation of militaristic Prussia into a center of culture.
When the German philosopher Immanuel Kent declared the motto of the Enlightenment to be, "Have the courage to use your own understanding," what did he want his readers to understand?
Given freedom, enlightenment is almost inevitable.
In John Milton's [Paradise Lost], the tensions between absolute rule and the civil liberty of the individual are expressed through dialogues between..
God and Lucifer.
Felix Mendelssohn demonstrates a typically Romantic interest in individualism in [Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, I] by...
Having the solo violin part first state the melody before the orchestra.
Pugin advocated Gothic ornament in his designs for buildings such as the Houses of Parliament in London because...
He thought medieval architecture represented a society that was guided by Christian principles.
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats employs the metaphor of...
Heard music and unheard music.
The view that history is an evolutionary process in which conflicting ideas resolve themselves in a new synthesis is an example of the...
Hegelian dialectic.
Romantic writers shared with Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel in this notion:
History is driven by the spiritual rather than the material.
By the term "noble savage," Jean-Jacques Rousseau meant that...
Humans are naturally good and are only corrupted by society.
How did the British react to Thomas Jefferson's attitude toward slavery?
In Britain, Jefferson was considered a hypocrite.
In what way does Verdi's [Rigoletto] differ from Wagner's [Tristan und Isolde]?
In Rigoletto, the melody is carried by the voice.
Both the symphony and the string quartet are four-movement genres, but they differ in that the symphony....
Is written for a full orchestra in a concert hall, whereas the string quartet is for four players in a private setting.
Why did sympathizers of the French Revolution closely identify Jacques-Louis David's [The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons] with the cause of the French Republic?
It asserted the priority of the republic over the demands of personal life.
Why would Samuel Richardson's [Pamela] be classified as an epistolary novel?
It is made up of a series of letters.
What is the significance of Cupid's gesture on the left-hand side of Fragonard's [The Swing]?
It signifies the secret love affair between the girl on the swing and her lover in the bushes.
Which is true of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's plan for the capitol in Washington, D.C.?
It superimposed diagonal avenues, connecting public squares, upon an orthogonal street grid.
Who wrote about the centrality of preserving the "natural" in every child's education?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In John Milton's [Paradise Lost], Lucifer's conception of himself as naturally free most implies a connection to the thinking of...
John Locke.
Songs that set the poetry of Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to music are called...
Lieder.
Although the French and American revolutions differed in many way, both...
Looked to Classical antiquity for models on which to build a new society.
In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's [Faust], the devil Mephistopheles leads Faust through innumerable temptations. After Faust abandons his love, Gretchen, she...
Loses her mind and murders their illegitimate child.
Who is responsible for fashioning the main points of what would become the liberal feminist agenda?
Mary Wollstonecraft.
People in the African diaspora were best able to preserve their...
Music.
When the composer Robert Schumann said, "Chopin's works are cannons buried in flowers," he was expressing a recognition that Chopin's...
Musical compositions contain political messages.
Ludwig van Beethoven associated his [Eroica Symphony] with...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Republican government in France ended in 1799 when...
Napoleon Bonaparte took power in a coup d'etat.
According to philosophes, the universe proceeded according to what they termed...
Natural law.
JMW Turner and John Constable shared in a belief that...
Nature provoked their imaginations.
[Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard] and [Napoleon on His Imperial Throne] have all of the following in common EXCEPT: -reference to antiquity -a political propagandistic message -a Neoclassical style -a message against the French Revolution
No message against the French Revolution.
All of the following are true of both John Trumbull's [The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776] and Jacques-Louis David's [The Tennis Court Oath] EXCEPT: -both portray real events -both express the Baroque taste for emotional drama -both include portraits drawn from life -both capture the monumentality of a historical moment
Not Baroque taste
The Neoclassicism of Jean-Antoine Houdon's life-sized statue of George Washington is exemplified in all of the following ways EXCEPT: -association with attributes of an ancient Roman general -a contrapossto pose -Roman clothing -a grave facial expression
Not Roman clothing.
Francisco Goya and Ludwig van Beethoven had all of these in common EXCEPT: -an artistic interest in the Promethean hero -an expressive idiom that could best be called Romantic -an eventual descent into madness -a profound sense of loneliness
Not an eventual descent into madness.
Classical music shares all of these qualities with Greek and Roman art EXCEPT: -formal unity -balance -clarity -humor
Not humor.
Frederic Chopin is known for composing all of the following EXCEPT: -ballades, or dramatic narrative works -etudes, or "studies" -scherzos, or joke compositions -nocturnes, or character pieces r/t the serenade
Not scherzos, or joke compositions.
In his [Le Dejeuner sur I'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)], Manet's fulfillment of Baudelaire's statement that the artist "should shock the bourgeoisie" is evident in all of the following ways EXCEPT: -lack of clear narrative or symbolic pretext for the inclusion of nudity -the nude woman's gaze, which is directed outward to the viewer -the size, which was deemed inconsistent with the subject -the depiction of prostitutes, a first in the Western art of painting
Not the prostitutes
Jane Austen wrote...
Novels about the world of the provincial gentry.
The style of art known as Neoclassicism demands all of the following EXCEPT: -ornamentation -proportion -order -balance
Ornamentation.
Terms such as allegro and lento are indications in musical scores to show....
Pace.
The use of Western conventions in Chinese art was to be found most in...
Painting on ceramics.
In eighteenth century, the city of London was rivaled as a center of European intellectual culture only by which city?
Paris.
The painter Jean-Antoine Watteau is a notable exponent of the Rococo style, best known for his painting of fetes galantes, which were....
Parties enjoyed in a pastoral or garden setting.
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele invented the journalistic essay when they published...
Periodicals such as [The Tatler] and [The Spectator].
When Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert edited the Encyclopédie, their intention was to...
Promote Enlightenment ideas to change the general way of thinking.
The philosophes who dominated the intellectual life of the French Enlightenment emphasized...
Reason and rationality.
William Hogarth's [The Marriage Contract] is the opening scene of a group of paintings, called [Marriage à la Mode], that...
Ridicule the moral bankruptcy of British society.
For writing the future government of France should be determined by popular referendum, not by the National Convention, de Gouges was...
Sent to the guillotine.
The British industrialist Robert Owen's utopian community in New Harmony, Indiana, failed because...
Settlers lacked the skills necessary to sustain its economy.
Which is NOT true of Olympe de Gouges? -She wrote a work that radically revisited Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas -she was regarded as a counterrevolutionary -she opposed the French Revolution from the outset -she was a victim of the Reign of Terror
She was not opposed to the Revolution from the outset
In the sculpture [Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker], Antonio Canova depicts Napoleon nude to...
Show him as the modern embodiment of the god of war.
A fundamental principle of Enlightenment thought is that...
Social change and political reform are desirable and possible.
Handel likely stopped composing Italian operas and began writing English oratories because...
Stage productions of biblical stories were banned.
The first of the new Classical genres that Joseph Haydn played a large role in developing was the...
String quartet.
Caspar David Friedrich's [The Wanderer Above the Mists] can be said to illustrate the idea of the..
Sublime.
In Monticello, Thomas Jefferson departs from a Neoclassical style in his use of....
Tall, narrow windows.
The façade of Kedleston Hall is directly inspired by...
The Arch of Constantine.
Which of these works speak out against Napoleonic France?
The Third of May, 1808 and Grande hazara! (Great courage! Against corpses!)
Fracois Boucher's [Le Chinois Galant] can be considered an example of chinoiserie because the figures are dressed in Chinese costume and because...
The blue-and-white color scheme mimics that of Chinese ceramics.
The English author Samuel Johnson considered China's highest achievement to be....
The civil service examination.
What aspect of Antoine-Jean Gros's [Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa] most closely alludes to Jacques-Louis David's painting [The Oath of the Horatii]?
The composition with a shallow foreground space.
What aspect of Stourhead Park reflects a departure from French garden design?
The meandering line of the pathways.
In France, the events leading to revolution were most directly brought about by...
The national debt.
The primary genre of Romantic poetry was...
The natural world
The term chinoiserie refers to...
The taste in the West for all things Chinese.
William Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey" embodies the Romantic imagination by suggesting...
The unity of all things.
All of the following are true of the Rococo style in painting EXCEPT: -the subject matter typically emphasizes love and pleasure -compositions are generally asymmetrical -the color range emphasizes pastels, gold, and silver -the values of restraint and reason are prioritized
The values of restraint and reason are not prioritized.
The iron bridge at Colebrookdale, England, was designed with all of the following factors in mind EXCEPT: -the demonstration of the structural potential of cast iron -the height of the bridge, which would accommodate boat traffic -the reflection of the bridge in the water, which would complete a visual circle -the bridge's ability to carry railroad cars bringing coal to iron furnaces
They didn't think about the bridge's ability to carry railroad cars bringing coal.
All of the following are true of deists EXCEPT: -they view the Bible as the literal revealed truth of God -they scoff at the idea of the divine right of kings -they believe that God created the universe, but do not believe he interferes with its day-to-day events -they believe that the universe proceeds along laws derived from nature
They do not view the Bible as the literal revealed truth of God.
The ceramic tablewares of Josiah Wedgwood are seen to usher in the Industrial Revolution because...
They were mass-produced using molds and mechanically printed patterns.
Who proposed a land ordinance that effectively installed a Neoclassical pattern on the American landscape?
Thomas Jefferson.
Which artist is known for painting a series of the insane?
Théodore Géricault.
Charles Fourier could best be described as a...
Utopian socialist.
In his own words, Francisco Goya painted [The Third of May, 1808] in order to...
Warn men never to do it again.
Commissioned by Napoleon to commemorate his victories and the glory of his rule, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon's [La Madeleine]....
Was built on a north-south axis and has sixty-three-foot-high Corinthian columns.
In advancing the cause of socialism, George Sand argued that...
Women were the principal victims of wretchedness.