Exam 2

Specifying the instrument for each part in the musical composition

Giovanni Gabrieli came to be celebrated for what artistic contribution?

Mannerist

what term most accurately describes Parmigianino's Madonna of the long neck?

Loyola

who was the founding figure of the society of Jesus?

Alexander Pope

"Whatever is, is right" reflects the philosophic optimism of which Enlightenment thinker?

Greuze

All of the following figures are generally considered painters of the Rococo style EXCEPT who?

The corruption of science by superstition and theology

In his Novum Organum, what did Bacon object to?

Violins

In the seventeenth-century, Cremona, Italy, was the world center for the manufacture of what instrument?

Disproportionately elongated the body of his female subject

In what way did Ingres' Grande Odalisque deviate from the principles of Neoclassical art?

Clarity and formal structure

Neoclassical art and classical music share what characteristics?

The novel

Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson were both noted eighteenth-century writers of which new literary form?

It was the largest compendium of knowledge produced in the West.

What description of Diderot's Encyclopedia is accurate?

pursuit of pleasure

What was the predominant theme of Rococo paintings?

Voltaire

Which author satirized the philosophic optimism of Enlightenment figures in Candide and other writings?

Handel

Which composer is associated with the birth of the English oratorio?

They often included musical interludes

Which description about the plays of Molière is accurate?

Galileo

Which figure famously recanted his scientific theories in 1633 after having been put on trial for heresy?

spiritual exercises

Which influential handbook reflected the mysticism and militancy of the Jesuit order?

theme and variations

Which of the following is NOT one of the three parts of traditional sonata form?

Hogarth

Which of the following men was NOT a significant figure in the movement known as the Scientific Revolution?

It served as a model for the American Revolution that shortly followed.

Which of the following statements about the French Revolution is FALSE?

Poussin

Who was a leading figure in the evolution of academic art?

Neoclassical Principles

Academic art, as envisioned by Louis XIV and his followers, depended primarily on what element?

Lutheran chorales

Bach's cantatas were largely based on what source?

Spain

Both El Greco and Velázquez served in the courts of which country?

Puritans

In seventeenth-century England, the influential Calvinists who called for churchly reform were known as ______.

still life painting

The Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwyck excelled in which genre?

Deism

The belief in a mechanistic universe fashioned by a Creator God who does not directly intervene in its affairs is called ______.

Strict compositional symmetry

The term, "baroque" in painting comprises all of the following EXCEPT which feature?

libretto

The text of an opera is found in its ______.

Advancement of major-minor tonality

What characteristic marked the Baroque era as a turning point in Western music?

Sympathetic, flesh-and-blood characters

What characteristic separated the operas of Mozart from his those of his predecessors?

It is theatrical in presentation.

What description of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is accurate?

A premise he could not doubt

What does Descartes' proposition, "I think, therefore I am," demonstrate?

"New method"

What does the title of Francis Bacon's landmark work, Novum Organum, mean?

Dramatic exterior

What feature of Wren's design for Saint Paul's Cathedral in London reflects its Baroque style?

Fall of Adam and Eve

What is the subject of Milton's landmark epic, Paradise Lost?

Pizzicato

What musical technique, introduced by Monteverdi, involves a performer plucking a stringed instrument that is normally bowed?

Ordinary Life

What scenes are typically depicted in genre painting?

love-intimacy

What subject was common to both Rococo art and Hindu art?

Idols

What was Francis Bacon's term for the false dogmas or teachings that hindered clear thinking?

Legitimate government required the consent of the governed.

What was a principle of John Locke's?

It contradicted Scripture.

What was a reason that both Protestants and Catholics opposed the heliocentric theory?

minimal ornamentation

Which is NOT a characteristic of Italian baroque churches?

Franz Joseph Haydn

Which nineteenth-century composer, who wrote the piece nicknamed "The Surprise," is often called the "father of the symphony"?

group portraiture

Which of the genres in which Rembrandt worked was the most lucrative for the Dutch painter?

Noblewomen

Who were often the organizers of the French salon, the center of intellectual debate?

Palestrina

Whose "music of mystic serenity" captured the conservative quality of the Catholic Reformation?

Bernini

One of the most influential Baroque artists was ________, the designer of the piazza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.

David's Oath of the Horatii

The fusion of art and politics that exalted the ideal of service and sacrifice to one's country is exemplified by which landmark?