Chapter 27: Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870

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The Thankful Poor by Tanner is an example of the typical Realist focus on what?

Ordinary people

The elongated limbs and torso of Ingres's Grande Odalisque can be linked to which earlier artist and style?

Parmigianino, Mannerism

Delacroix's allegorical painting of Liberty Leading the People refers to an uprising that took place in what city?

Paris

Which photographer became well known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix, Daumier, and Courbet?

Nadar

The Neoclassical portrait statue of Paulina Borghese in the guise of Venus was created by which sculptor?

Antonio Canova

Which 19th-century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?

Albert Bierstadt

What contemporary event is referenced by American Realist Winslow Homer in his Veteran in a Field?

American Civil War

Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?

Cole

In Women of Algiers, Delacroix's interest in what element of painting is on display?

Color

J. M. W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?

Color

Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers reflects the influence on him of which earlier work?

Las Meninas

Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the Renaissance?

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

In what medium did satirical artist Honoré Daumier create most of his works?

Lithography

What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?

Praxiscope

Art historians believe that the American artist Thomas Eakins modeled the The Gross Clinic on what?

Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

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

Géricault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writhing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?

Slavery

Salon jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?

Socialistic

Which American Realist artist, having studied both painting and medicine, believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?

Thomas Eakins

Which early photographer used the new medium to produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles?

Timothy O'Sullivan

Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?

Titian

What contrast does Thomas Cole highlight in his painting The Oxbow?

Wilderness versus civilization

The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?

William Blake

Which painter of the French revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming First Painter to Napoleon?

Jacques-Louis David

John Singer Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit reveals his admiration for which earlier artist?

Velázquez


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