Test 2 Clicker Questions

Who created Knight, Death, and the Devil?

Albrecht Dürer

Which of the following female artists is referred to as a "Caravaggista?"

Artemisia Gentileschi

A canopy on columns that is frequently built over an altar (as seen in Saint Peter's Vatican City) is also known as...

Baldacchino

Art historians believe that Vermeer used tools such as the __, to is in his virtuoso depiction of light.

Camera obscura

Which artist most influenced the work of Artemisia Gentileschi?

Caravaggio

A painting by Albrecht Dürer incorporated animals that symbolized the four humors/temperaments?

Fall of Man

Bernini's statue of David differed from his predecessors by showing David __.

In the moment of combat

The followingg characteristics are particular to which style of Baroque art: dramatic theatricality, grandiose scale, and elaborate ornateness.

Italian Baroque

Who is the German artist who was dubbed with the title "painter of the Reformation" is __.

Lucas Cranach the Elder

The influence of __ is evident in Ruben's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his Elevation of the Cross.

Michelangelo

In Dürer's print of the Fall of Man, the idealization of Adam and Eve is tempered by the __ of the background.

Naturalism

Which artist that did a series of six paintings showing seasonal changes?

Pieter Bruegel

Poussin chose to emulate the artist __ rather than depicting dynamic movement and intense emotions.

Raphael

The aim of much Italian Baroque art was to restore the predominance of __.

Roman Catholicism

Marie de' Medici commissioned __ to memorialize and glorify her career.

Rubens

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

Rubens

Caravaggio's use of dark settings to envelop the characters in the painting has been called __.

Tenebrism

The orb and the cross surmounting Bernini's Baldacchino symbolize __.

The Church's triumph

__ is a Dutch artist who featured as the subject of his art neat interiors of Dutch middle-class dwellings.

Vermeer

What is the meaning of fate gallant?

a type of outdoor entertainment for the aristocracy

Poussin was responsible for establishing __ as a key component of 17th century French art.

classical painting

José de Ribera's brutal themes, such as the Martyrdom of Saint Philip, appealed to the Spanish taste for __.

courage and devotion

Saints Anthony and Sebastian appear in Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece because of their association with __.

disease and miraculous cures

The Isenheim Altarpiece is associated with a disease that was contracted by eating bad rye bread. This illness is called __.

ergotism

In Money-Changer and His Wife by Quentin Massys, the artist warns that __ are a distraction from religious life.

financial transactions

A category of art that portrays realistic scenes of everyday life are called...

genre

Nicolas Poussin's formula for successful artworks, involving three components, is referred to as the __ style of painting.

grand manner

Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in which genre?

landscape

Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew is representative of his mature work in which he injects __ into the depictions of sacred subjects.

naturalism

In Pieter Aertsen's Butcher's Stall, the __ is associated with a degenerate life.

people eating and carousing

In Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicolas, he alluded to __ by using children's activities to comment on adult behavior.

selfishness

What anamorphic symbol appears in Holbein's The French Ambassadors?

skull

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

still life

In his Self-Portrait, Durer's hand position may be a reference to __.

the artist's hand as a creative instrument