Reading quizzes for ch 24-26

The counter reformation was launched in the

16th c.

The Age of Enlightenment had its roots in which of the following centuries?

17th century

Timothy O'Sullivan documented which of the following wars?

American Civil War

__________became the court portraitist for Charles I of England.

Anthony Van Dyck

The baldacchino features numerous bees that were the symbol of the

Barberini Family

Although there were regional differences, the term that is used to describe the artistic production of the 17th and 18th c. in the West is

Baroque

Who is associated with the architectural style that reflected the taste and social interactions of femmes savants?

Boffrand

Which of the following is most closely associated with the Grand Tour?

Canaletto's views of Venice

Pope Paul V commissioned _________ to complete the Saint Peter's in Rome

Carlo Maderno

Which artist was most admired by the art critic Denis Diderot for representing the antithesis of the Rococo style in painting?

Chardin

__________ harmonized Palladian, French, and Italian Baroque architectural styles in his design of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Chirstopher Wren

In which structure did Richard Boyle use a Neoclassical idiom to pay homage to the architects Palladio and Jones?

Chiswick House

The influences of Vitruvius, Palladio, and Inigo Jones are most apparent in which of the following?

Chiswick House

Which of the following artists painted in the United States?

Cole

The _____ resisted Protestant objections to using images in religious worship and insisted on their necessity for teaching the laity.

Council of Trent

Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?

Courbet

Arternesia Gentileschi was given art instructions by

Crazo Gentileschi

Which of the following works functions as an "altarpiece" for the new civic religion of inspiring the viewer with the martyr's dedication to service?

Death of Marat

The great "Romantic dialogue" about color and form was carried on in the famous contest between which of the following artists?

Delacroix and Ingres

One of the few women admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

Elisabeth-louise Vigee-Lebrun and Adelaide Labille-Guiard

Blenheim Palace is an example of the influence of the Palace of Versailles spreading to

England

(T/F) Dutch landscape painters like Jacob Van Ruisdael painted what they saw around them but never embued their subjects with allegorical meaning.

False

_________was a leading portrait painter in Haarlem and is know for his lively, relaxed portraits.

Frans Hals

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?

Friedrich

Which of the following artists represented what was called the "sublime" in eighteenth-century art?

Henry Fuseli

The artist best known for satirizing the British aristocracy.

Hogarth

The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was which of the following?

Jacques-Louis David

Which of the following eighteenth-century philosophers stressed the importance of the natural goodness of human beings and was an important forerunner of the Romantic sensibility?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vigée-Lebrun portrayed herself as a self-confident painter looking directly at the viewer (and pausing to return their gaze) this has been copied from an earlier artist. Which of the following is that artist?

Judith Leyster

Sargent, an expatriate American artist living and working in London, developed a style of applying paint in thin layers in order to create a quick and lively illusion. He learned this technique after studying which of the following works?

Las Meninas

Velasquez broke with tradition by including himself in which of his famous paintings?

Las Meninas

________ was one of Frans Hals' pupils who went on to a successful, independent painting career.

Leyster

The mood in The Thankful Poor by Tanner is one of quiet devotion, not far removed from the Realism of which of the following artists?

Millet

Neoclassicism invoked classical references of patriotism and trust in unshakable authority serving imperial agendas. Which of the following leaders embraced these aspects of Neoclassicism?

Napoleon

Which of the following artist emphasized the importance of form over color?

Nicolas Poussin

Who is credited with ultimately being responsible for establishing classical painting as an important ingredient of seventeenth-century French art?

Nicolas Poussin

Which of the following architects were the most influential in Thomas Jefferson's re-design of Monticello?

Palladio and Robert Adam

________ combined the contributions of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque masters to formulate the first pan-European painting style.

Peter Paul Rubens

Marie de'Medici commissioned ________ to memorialize and glorify her career

Peter Paul Rubesn

_______was a leading practitioner of floral painting in the Dutch Republic

Rachel Ruysch

In Rossetti's Beata Beatrix, the model for this image was the artist's wife, Elizabeth Siddal. She died shortly before Rossetti began the panting. He incorporated two symbols commemorating her death. Which of the following is one of those symbols?

Red dove

The spriritual stillness of the religious art of ___________shows inward-turning contemplation.

Rembrandt van Rijn

Who was the artist who portrayed contemporaries participating in the great events of the latter half of the eighteenth century?

Reynolds

What was the source of inspiration for Reni's Aurora?

Roman reliefs

At the turn of the century, the French Academy was divided rather sharply between two doctrines. Which taught that color was the most important element?

Rubenistes

A painting of inanimate objects such as flowers and fruit is called a ________.

Still life

Who studied with Eakins before moving to Paris?

Tanner

In his painting, ____, Thomas Eakins portrayed things as he saw them and not as the public might want them portrayed.

The Gross Clinic

How did Bouguereau depict fictional themes or mythological subjects in his paintings?

Through the use of polished illusionism

(T/F) Rembrandt was considered to be the master of painting light and shadow.

True

_________ became a court portraitist to Philip IV of Spain.

Velasquez

A leading advocate of the Enlightenment in France was which of the following?

Voltaire

Which of the following artists had firsthand knowledge and experience of the American Civil War?

Winslow Homer

Which artist best exemplifies the scientific method associated with the Enlightenment?

Wright of Derby

La Madeleine in Paris was intended for which of the following purposes?

a temple of glory for Napoleon's armies

Which of the following was used by Claude Lorrain to create ideal classical landscapes?

atmospheric and linear perspective

The term "sublime" was considered to inspire which of the following feelings?

awe mixed with terror

Latin term for silk from Baghdad

baldacco

Which of the following conditions is characteristic of the 19th century agrarian working class and is missing from the Haywain by Constable?

civil unrest

The Return from Cythera represents a group of lovers preparing to depart from the island of eternal youth. Watteau emphasized that elegance and grace using which of the following?

color

Which graphic media was more manageable than engraving?

etching

Julia Margaret Cameron used a short focal length lens that allowed only a small area of sharp focus. What kind of effect would a lens like this produce?

ethereal, dreamlike images

What is the name of the specific style of Rococo painting that depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?

fête galante

The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia not only because of the portrayal of a naked prostitute as a work of art but also due to which of the following?

her look of cool indifference and shamelessness

What did Thomas Eakins believe was a prerequisite for his art?

knowledge

Spanish Baroque artists demonstrated their commitment to the Counter Reformation through their frequent depiction of scenes of _____, which intended to encourage devotion and piety.

martyrdom

Dutch painters in particular were interested in incorporating ________ __________ features into their compositions as a reminder of death.

memento mori

In the Protestant Dutch Republic art was mainly commissioned by

merchant patrons

Distinguishing feature of Bernini's David

pivoting motion

Courbet preferred to paint which of the following themes?

realistic scenes as he saw them

Caravaggio's use of dark setting to envelop the characters in his paintings has been referred to as

tenebrism

How did historical fact replace the fanciful notions of Rome and its ancient society?

the discovery and excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii

Muybridge used his device, the zoopraxiscope to project a series of images. Based on the motion studies he performed, Muybridge proved that the brain holds whatever the eye sees for a fraction of a second after the eye stops seeing it. The illusion of motion was created. Which of the following was also created as a result of the illusion of motion?

the illusion of continuous change`

Landscape architecture was an important development in the 18th c.. Which of the following is most closely associated with the picturesque garden style?

the park at Stourhead

François Rude's sculpture La Marseillaise for the Arc de Triomphe represents which of the following moments in French history?

the people of France protecting their borders against foreign enemies of the revolution

Courbet used which of the following techniques in the The Stonebreakers to convey the drudgery of manual labor?

use of a palette of dirty browns and grays