Art 2520 Art History II Pt. 2

(True or False) Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve represents his first documented use of ideal human proportions based on Roman copies of Greek sculpture.

True

(True or False) An assemblage is an artwork created by gathering and manipulating two- and/or three-dimensional found objects.

True

(True or False) Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral was not as an expression of personal religious conviction, but a continuation of his Impressionist pursuit of capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere.

True

(True or False) Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther are seen as two of the most important reformers of the church during the sixteenth century.

True

(True or False) Enlightenment thinking is marked by a conviction that humans are not superstitious beings ruled by God or the aristocracy, and that all men should have equal rights and opportunities for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

True

(True or False) Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the result of only using eleven colors and three tones.

True

(True or False) In Peter Paul Rubens's Raising of the Cross, the heroic nude figures, dramatic lighting effects, dynamic diagonal composition, and intense emotions show his debt to Italian art.

True

(True or False) Johann Joachim Winckelmann's The History of Ancient Art is often considered to be the beginning of modern art-historical study.

True

(True or False) Neoclassical paintings reflect the clear forms, tight compositions, and shallow space of ancient relief sculpture.

True

(True or False) Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon depicts five women from a brothel.

True

(True or False) Pope Sixtus V initiated an urban plan of Rome that laid out processional avenues linking the great basilicas of the city.

True

(True or False) The daguerreotype is an early photographic process that makes the positive print on a light-sensitized copperplate

True

(True or False) The intensity of feeling in Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece suggests that the painter may have been inspired by the visions of St. Bridget of Sweden.

True

(True or False) The paintings of Caravaggio depict people he saw in the world around him—even the lowlife of Rome—and worked directly from models without elaborate drawings and compositional notes

True

(True or False) The scale of Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers was meant to provoke by being equal to that of history painting of the French Academy.

True

(True or False) Umberto Boccioni argued for a Futurist "sculpture of environment" in which form should explode in a violent burst of motion from the closed and solid mass into the surrounding space.

True

El Greco's style is rooted in which of the following traditions? A) Byzantine icons B) Ancient Greek sculpture C) The paintings of Masaccio D) The paintings of Raphael

A) Byzantine icons

Which of the following is does the pose of Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait deliberately recall? A) Christ as Salvator Mundi B) Christ as Pantocrator C) Christ as Crucified D) Christ as Apollo

A) Christ as Salvator Mundi

Which of the following was a common theme for painting during the Rococo period? A) Classical love stories B) Biblical narratives C) Heroic narratives from ancient Rome D) Vedute

A) Classical love stories

From which of the following movements did Futurism develop? A) Cubism B) Fauvism C) Dada D) Symbolism

A) Cubism

Which of the following artists challenges the viewer with his physical and psychological torment with images that conflate suffering and sexuality by figures in tormented poses? A) Egon Schiele B) Henri Matisse C) Umberto Boccioni D) Marcel Duchamp

A) Egon Schiele

Which of the following served as the visual source material for Henry Hobson Richardson's Marshall Field Wholesale Store? A) Palazzo Medici B) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane C) Parthenon D) Villa Giulia

A) Palazzo Medici

What is the term for a subject of a portrait? A) Sitter B) Sinister C) Sector D) Setter

A) Sitter

Who was responsible for the Degenerate Art Exhibition? A) The German Nazis B) The Austrian Nazis C)The Russian Communists D) The Italian Fascists

A) The German Nazis

In Casper David Friedrich's Abbey in the Oak Forest, the moon is suggestive of which of the following: A) The possibility of resurrection/renewal B) The decay of morality C) The beauty of nature D) The end of Human time

A) The possibility of resurrection/renewal

How did painting and sculpture serve the educational and evangelical mission of the revitalized and conservative Church during the Baroque period? A) By depicting events and people in complex, but pleasing compositions B) By depicting events and people accurately and clearly C) By depicting events and people in imagined landscapes and settings D) By depicting only those events and people found in the New Testament

B) By depicting events and people accurately and clearly

Clara Peeters was one of the first artists to combine which two objects in single painting? A) Fruit and silverware B) Flowers and fruit C) Bread and cheese D) Flowers and silverware

B) Flowers and fruit

In Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, what is subject of the painting on the wall directly behind the woman that is a metaphor of the woman's action? A) Betrayal of Christ B) Last Judgment C) Annunciation D) Apollo and Daphne

B) Last Judgment

Which of the following is an object typically fund in a vanitas image symbolizing the transience of life. A) Memento sella B) Memento mori C) Memento amet D) Memento vita

B) Memento mori

Which two artists are credited with the development of Cubism? A) Andre Derain and Henri Matisse B) Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque C) Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse D) Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso

B) Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Romanticism can be seen as a response to which of the following? A) The Crowning of Napoleon as Emperor B) The disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason C) The values of faith following the Counter-Reformation D) The introduction of the machine during the Industrial Revolution

B) The disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason

Édouard Manet's Olympia is based on which of the following works of art? A) Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa B) Titian's Venus of Urbino C) Michelangelo's Roman Pietá D) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Large Odalisque

B) Titian's Venus of Urbino

What geometric shape used by Francesco Borromini in the dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane symbolizes both the Christian Trinity as well serves as an emblem for the patrons of the church? A) Circle B) Triangle C) Cross D) Oval

B) Triangle

Which of the following was not a preferred subject by the Dutch during the seventeenth century? A) Mythology B) Landscapes C) Devotional images D) Cityscapes E) Scenes of domestic life

C) Devotional images

Which priest focused his missionary efforts on ordinary people for whom he strove to make Christian history and doctrine understandable and meaningful? A) St. Ignatius of Loyola B) St. Teresa of Avilia C) Filippo Neri D) Pope Sixtus V

C) Filippo Neri

Which of the following is not an architectural tradition integrated in Jacques-Germain Soufflot's Panthéon? A) Palladian style B) Ancient Roman C) French Gothic D) French and English Baroque

C) French Gothic

What is the term for a painting that depicts scenes from everyday life? A) Mundane B) Narrative C) Genre D) Portrait

C) Genre

Who argued that God's book was the Bible, the landscape was God's "Book of Nature"? A) Edmund Burke B) Charles Baudelaire C) Gotthard Kosegarten D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

C) Gotthard Kosegarten

Which of the following is the thick application of paint, like that seen in the work of Vincent van Gogh? A) Complementary color B) Repoussoir C) Impasto D) Pointillism

C) Impasto

Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas uses a mirror similar to which of the following paintings? A) Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa B) Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew C) Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife D) Raphael's School of Athens

C) Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Which of the following is considered to be the hero of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa? A) The Captain of the ship B) The King C) Jean Charles D) Theodore Gericault

C) Jean Charles

Which of the following is a Latin phrase for "remember that you must die"? It often is an object, such as a skull or extinguished candle, typically found in a vanitas image, symbolizing the transience of life. A) Memento vita B) E pluribus unum C) Memento mori D) Carpe diem

C) Memento mori

Which event does Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais commemorate? A) The loss of life during the Black Death of 1348 B) The slaughter of innocent people during World War II in northern France C) Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo D) A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War

D) A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War

What was Mary Cassatt's first introduction to Japanese art? A) Her trip to Japan in 1888 B) Her mother's gift of Japanese woodblock prints C) The Japanese Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition D) An exhibition of ukiyo-e prints at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890

D) An exhibition of ukiyo-e prints at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890

Which unusual feature of Rembrandt van Rijn's Night Watch may be both visual pun for the Kloveniers and is also found their coat of arms? A) Medieval knight's helmet B) Lion's paw C) Raven's feather D) Chicken claw

D) Chicken claw

The cypress tree in Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night represents which of the following? A) Birth and Death B) Christian baptism C) Christian salvation D) Death and Eternal Life

D) Death and Eternal Life

Which of the following was the essential destination on the Grand Tour? A) France B) Greece C) England D) Italy

D) Italy

What was the literary source for Annibale Carracci's Farnese Ceiling? A) Boccaccio's Decameron B) Dante's Divine Comedy C) The Apocrypha D) Ovid's Metamorphoses

D) Ovid's Metamorphoses

The figures of Saint Anthony and Saint Sebastian from Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece are associated with which of the following? A) Love B) Defeating evil C) Dysentery D) Plague

D) Plague

Which of the following terms describes the Impressionist practice of painting outdoors so artists could have direct access to the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere? A) Pointillism B) Atmospheric perspective C) Japonisme D) Plein air

D) Plein air

Which of the following creates a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting? A) Sfumato B) Perspective C) Chiaroscuro D) Tenebrism

D) Tenebrism

What was the major influence on Spanish painting seventeenth century? A) The art of Flanders B) The art of the Byzantine period C) The art of Renaissance Rome and Florence D) The art of Caravaggio

D) The art of Caravaggio

What does Marcel Duchamp's Fountain ultimately question? A) Ideas of masculinity at the turn of the twentieth century B) The legitimation of Industrial design C) The issue of public urination in New York City D) The essence of what constitutes a work of art

D) The essence of what constitutes a work of art

The owl in the Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights represents which two characteristics? A) Folly and Sin B) Wisdom and Grace C) Grace and Sin D) Wisdom and Folly

D) Wisdom and Folly

(True or False) Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the several painters to follow the style of Annibale Carracci.

False

(True or False) Cythera is the sacred island of the goddess Hera.

False

(True or False) Dadaism is characterized by brilliant colors and blunt brushwork.

False

(True or False) Etching is an intaglio printmaking process by which a metal plate is directly inscribed with a stylus.

False

(True or False) Frank Lloyd Write believed that a modern house should be "a machine for living in," meaning that it should be designed as rationally and functionally as an automobile or a machine.

False

(True or False) Gianlorenzo Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy is an example of the emotional, theatrical style that he developed in response to the religious and political climate in Florence during the Protestant Reformation.

False

(True or False) Jacque Louis David was the most important Romantic painter in Paris after the death of Theodore Gericault.

False

(True or False) Japonisme artists and architects drew particular inspiration from nature, especially from vines, snakes, flowers, and winged insects, whose delicate and sinuous forms were consistent with the graceful and attenuated aesthetic principles of the movement.

False

(True or False) Julia Margaret Cameron fully embraced and utilized the sharp focus of commercial photography.

False

(True or False) Landscapes became popular after the 1520s in part due to their connection to the Catholic church.

False

(True or False) Limewood was predominantly used by Spanish sculptors.

False

(True or False) Rembrandt van Rijn is responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio to the Netherlands.

False

(True or False) Richard Upjohn's Trinity Church is one of the earliest examples of Neoclassical churches in the United States.

False

(True or False) The Symbolists rejected the realms of emotion, imagination, and spirituality, and instead placed value on rationalism and material progress in modern Western culture.

False

(True or False) The scene of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii is directly and faithfully taken from Pierre Corneille's Horace.

False

(True or False) While in Italy, Peter Paul Rubens primarily studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.

False