Exam #2 WH2
Which figure is the personification of France in Rubens's Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles?
A helmeted Soldier in blue cape
Which of the following is NOT one of the devices Diego Velázquez used to create visual complexity in Las Meninas?
A portrait of the Pope
A painting of inanimate objects such as flowers and fruit is referred to as what?
A still life
Bernini places his sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in a setting that resembles what?
A theater
Which influential painter was court portraitist to Charles I of England?
Anthony van Dyck
What tool do art historians believe Vermeer used to aid in his virtuoso depiction of light?
Camera Obscura
Which Baroque work takes its inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses?
Carracci, Love of the gods
The Spanish painter Velázquez was both first painter to the king and what else?
Chamberlain of the palace
What method(s) did Rembrandt use to create Christ with the Sick around Him?
Engraving and Etching
Which New Testament scene does Pieter Aertsen depict in the background of Butcher's Stall?
Flight To Egypt
The people shown in the field in van Ruisdael's View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen are engaged in activities related to which Dutch industry?
Weaving and bleaching Linen
In Money-Changer and His Wife by Quentin Massys, what is the viewer warned against as being a distraction from religious life?
Pursuit of Wealth
The aim of much Italian Baroque art was to restore the predominance of which group?
Roman Catholic Church
Bernini's statue of David differs from his predecessors by showing David in what moment?
In the heat of combat
Chardin's praise of the simple goodness of ordinary people, in such paintings as his Grace, is based on the work of what key Enlightenment figure?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in which of the following genres?
Landscapes
Who was the preeminent French art patron of the 17th century?
Louis XIV
What earlier work does Caravaggio invoke in the hand gesture of Christ in Calling of Saint Matthew?
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam
The use of dark settings in Caravaggio's paintings is referred to by what art historical term?
Tenebrism
What do art historians call still-life compositions that contain at least one memento mori?
Vanitas paintings