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TRUE - answerDesiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther are seen as two of the most important reformers of the church during the sixteenth century. TRUE OR FALSE FALSE (Limewood was predominately used by German sculptors) - answerLimewood was predominantly used by Spanish sculptors. TRUE OR FALSE Christ as Salvator Mundi - answerWhich of the following is does the pose of Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait deliberately recall? Christ as Salvator Mundi Christ as Pantocrator
Christ as Crucified Christ as Apollo Plague - answerThe figures of Saint Anthony and Saint Sebastian from Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece are associated with which of the following? Plague Dysentery Love Defeating evil TRUE - answerThe intensity of feeling in Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece suggests that the painter may have been inspired by the visions of St. Bridget of Sweden TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerAlbrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve represents his first documented use of ideal human proportions based on Roman copies of Greek sculpture. TRUE OR FALSE Sitter - answerWhat is the term for a subject of a portrait? Sitter Sector
TRUE - answerPope Sixtus V initiated an urban plan of Rome that laid out processional avenues linking the great basilicas of the city. TRUE OR FALSE By depicting events and people accurately and clearly - answerHow did painting and sculpture serve the educational and evangelical mission of the revitalized and conservative Church during the Baroque period? By depicting events and people accurately and clearly By depicting events and people in complex, but pleasing compositions By depicting only those events and people found in the New Testament By depicting events and people in imagined landscapes and settings TRUE - answerThe paintings of Caravaggio depict people he saw in the world around him—even the lowlife of Rome—and worked directly from models without elaborate drawings and compositional notes. TRUE OR FALSE Filippo Neri - answerWhich priest focused his missionary efforts on ordinary people for whom he strove to make Christian history and doctrine understandable and meaningful? Filippo Neri
Pope Sixtus V St. Ignatius of Loyola St. Teresa of Avilia Tenebrism - answerWhich of the following creates a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting? Chiaroscuro Tenebrism Perspective Sfumato Triangle - answerWhat geometric shape used by Francesco Borromini in the dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane symbolizes both the Christian Trinity as well serves as an emblem for the patrons of the church? Cross Oval Circle Triangle Genre - answerWhat is the term for a painting that depicts scenes from everyday life? Mundane Narrative
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(Hendrick ter Brugghen is responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio to the Netherlands.) - answerRembrandt van Rijn is responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio to the Netherlands. TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerIn Peter Paul Rubens's Raising of the Cross, the heroic nude figures, dramatic lighting effects, dynamic diagonal composition, and intense emotions show his debt to Italian art. TRUE OR FALSE Chicken claw - answerWhich unusual feature of Rembrandt van Rijn's Night Watch may be both visual pun for the Kloveniers and is also found their coat of arms? Raven's feather Chicken claw Medieval knight's helmet Lion's paw The art of Caravaggio - answerWhat was the major influence on Spanish painting seventeenth century?
The art of Flanders The art of the Byzantine period The art of Caravaggio The art of Renaissance Rome and Florence Last Judgment - answerIn Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, what is subject of the painting on the wall directly behind the woman that is a metaphor of the woman's action? Last Judgment Annunciation Apollo and Daphne Betrayal of Christ Flowers and fruit - answerClara Peeters was one of the first artists to combine which two objects in single painting? Flowers and fruit Flowers and silverware Fruit and silverware Bread and cheese Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife - answerDiego Velázquez's Las Meninas uses a mirror similar to which of the following paintings? Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Cityscapes TRUE - answerEnlightenment thinking is marked by a conviction that humans are not superstitious beings ruled by God or the aristocracy, and that all men should have equal rights and opportunities for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." TRUE OR FALSE Classical love stories - answerWhich of the following was a common theme for painting during the Rococo period? Classical love stories Heroic narratives from ancient Rome Biblical narratives Vedute Memento mori - answerWhich of the following is an object typically fund in a vanitas image symbolizing the transience of life. Memento vita Memento mori Memento sella Memento amet FALSE
(Cythera is the sacred island of Venus.) - answerCythera is the sacred island of the goddess Hera. TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerNeoclassical paintings reflect the clear forms, tight compositions, and shallow space of ancient relief sculpture. TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerJohann Joachim Winckelmann's The History of Ancient Art is often considered to be the beginning of modern art-historical study. TRUE OR FALSE French Gothic - answerWhich of the following is not an architectural tradition integrated in Jacques-Germain Soufflot's Panthéon? Palladian style French and English Baroque Ancient Roman French Gothic FALSE
Theodore Gericault The Captain of the ship The King Jean Charles FALSE (Eugene Delacroix assumed the role after the death of Gericault.) - answerJacque Louis David was the most important Romantic painter in Paris after the death of Theodore Gericault. TRUE OR FALSE Gotthard Kosegarten - answerWho argued that God's book was the Bible, the landscape was God's "Book of Nature"? Charles Baudelaire Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthard Kosegarten Edmund Burke FALSE (Trinity Church one of the earliest examples of the Gothic Revival style in the United States.) - answerRichard Upjohn's Trinity Church is one of the earliest examples of Neoclassical churches in the United States.
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TRUE - answerThe daguerreotype is an early photographic process that makes the positive print on a light-sensitized copperplate TRUE OR FALSE FALSE (She rejected sharp focused in favor of the out-of-focus effects.) - answerJulia Margaret Cameron fully embraced and utilized the sharp focus of commercial photography. TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerThe scale of Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers was meant to provoke by being equal to that of history painting of the French Academy. TRUE OR FALSE Titian's Venus of Urbino - answerÉdouard Manet's Olympia is based on which of the following works of art? Titian's Venus of Urbino Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Large Odalisque Michelangelo's Roman Pietá Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
TRUE - answerClaude Monet's Rouen Cathedral was not as an expression of personal religious conviction, but a continuation of his Impressionist pursuit of capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. TRUE OR FALSE TRUE - answerGeorges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the result of only using eleven colors and three tones. TRUE OR FALSE Impasto - answerWhich of the following is the thick application of paint, like that seen in the work of Vincent van Gogh? Impasto Complementary color repoussoir Pointillism Death and Eternal Life - answerThe cypress tree in Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night represents which of the following? Christian salvation Christian baptism Death and Eternal Life Birth and Death
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(The Symbolists embraced the realms of emotion, imagination, and spirituality.) - answerThe Symbolists rejected the realms of emotion, imagination, and spirituality, and instead placed value on rationalism and material progress in modern Western culture. TRUE OR FALSE A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War - answerWhich event does Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais commemorate? Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War The slaughter of innocent people during World War II in northern France The loss of life during the Black Death of 1348 FALSE (Art Nouveau artists and architects drew inspiration from nature.) - answerJaponisme artists and architects drew particular inspiration from nature, especially from vines, snakes, flowers, and winged insects, whose delicate and sinuous forms were consistent with the graceful and attenuated aesthetic principles of the movement. TRUE OR FALSE
Egan Schiele - answerwhich of the following artists challenges the viewer with his physical and psychological torment with images that conflate suffering and sexuality by figures in tormented pases Cubism - answerfrom which of the following movements did futurism develop true - answerumberto boccioni argued for a futurist "sculpture of environment" in which form should explode in a violent burst of motion from the closed and solid mass into the surrounding space The essense of what constitutes a work of art - answerWhat does marcel duchamp's fountain ultimately question? false - answerFrank Lloyd Wright believed that a modern house should be "a machine for living in" meaning that it should be designed as rationally and functionally as an automobile or machine the german nazi's - answerwho was responsible for the degenerate art exhibition? "Focused topics" represent topics of significance. You should pay particular attention to discussions of iconography, form, patronage, historical context, literary sources, materials, etc. Focused topic: Albrecht Dürer, Self portrait Focused topic: Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece Focused topic: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve
Focused topic: El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz Focused topic: Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights Focused topic: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Return of the Hunters - answerModule 9 - Focused Topics Chapter 22: Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe (note: earlier editions of the textbook list this chapter as Chapter 21). "Focused topics" represent topics of significance. You should pay particular attention to discussions of iconography, form, patronage, historical context, literary sources, materials, etc. "Focused topics" represent topics of significance. You should pay particular attention to discussions of iconography, form, patronage, historical context, literary sources, materials, etc. Focused topic: Gianlornezo Bernini, David Focused topic: Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Focused topic: Annibale Carracci, Farnese Ceiling Focused topic: Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul Focused topic: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes - answerModule 10 - Focused Topics Baroque Art (note: earlier editions of the textbook list this chapter as Chapter 22). Read beginning with the "Introduction" through "Baroque Ceilings: Cortona and Gaulli"
