Deck 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World

Question 1

The long tradition of Dutch flower painting reached its apex in the career of this artist.

A) Albrecht Durer
B) Rembrandt
C) Rachel Ruysch
D) Sophonisba Anguissola

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Love,sentiment,pleasure and sincerity are predominant themes in this style of the eighteenth century.

A) Baroque
B) Rococo
C) Romanticism
D) Neoclassicism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

William Shakespeare,Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson are playwrights of what English period?

A) Renaissance
B) Gothic
C) Baroque
D) Enlightenment

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The concept that supplanted the medieval view of life as a vale of tears,with no purpose other than preparing for salvation and the afterlife,with a more liberating ideal of people playing important roles in this world.

A) absolutism
B) Protestantism
C) humanism
D) Reformation

Question 5

The painting,Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Maria de'Medici,by Peter Paul Rubens exemplifies what style of painting.

A) Romanticism
B) Realism
C) Baroque
D) Impressionism

Question 6

The universal literary guide of am artistically ordered society in which cultivated Italians regard social living as fine art providing a model of Renaissance society.

A) Orlando Furioso
B) Sonnet XVI
C) The Book of the Courtier
D) A Modest Proposal

Question 7

In Europe the period from around 1400 to 1550 seen explicitly as a rebirth in the arts and an imitation of the classics.

A) Renaissance
B) Idealism
C) Humanism
D) Enlightenment

Question 8

What style of painting sought to inspire patriotism and democracy illustrating the newly perceived grandeur of antiquity?

A) Neoclassicism
B) Realism
C) Classicism
D) Baroque

Question 9

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is an example of what technique?

A) sfumato
B) realism
C) fresco
D) formalism

Question 10

This style of art emphasizes color and grandeur with dramatic use of lights and darks that carries the viewer's eye off the canvas.

A) Mannerism
B) Renaissance
C) Baroque
D) Impressionism

Question 11

Perhaps the most dominant artist of the High Renaissance.

A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Botticelli

Question 12

Thomas Jefferson built Monticello influenced by what architectural structure?

A) Greek temple
B) Roman temple
C) Gothic cathedral
D) Islamic mosque

Question 13

The early Renaissance found its beginning in this wealthy city-state

A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Athens
D) Paris

Question 14

Rembrandt's Night Watch focuses on

A) implication and emotion
B) odd proportions
C) subjective viewpoints
D) psychological expressions

Question 15

The most significant of the Roman Baroque painters.

A) Michelangelo
B) Caravaggio
C) Raphael
D) Rubens

Question 16

What style of art from the sixteenth century is characterized by odd proportioned forms,icy stares,and a subjective viewpoint?

A) High Renaissance
B) Mannerism
C) Flemish
D) Northern Renaissance

Question 17

The development of this media gave Flemish painters new opportunities to vary surface texture,blend colors,and create brilliance.

A) egg tempera
B) oil paint
C) acrylic
D) gouache

Question 18

This work of art demonstrates a medieval preoccupation with superstition,famine,fear and death that typify German art of this period.

A) The Tempest
B) The Calling of Saint Matthew
C) The Night Watch
D) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Question 19

Botticelli's painting,La Primavera,uses this form of symbolism to equate Venus with the Virgin Mary.

A) metaphor
B) allegory
C) hyperbole
D) personification

Question 20

The most famous of all Indian architectural accomplishments.

A) Taj Mahal
B) Pampati Temple
C) Machu Picchu
D) Great Stupa

Question 21

Satirical essay by Jonathan Swift which mocks pomposity.

A) Gulliver's Travels
B) A Modest Proposal
C) Death Be Not Proud
D) Robinson Crusoe

Question 22

The magnificence,grandeur and absolutism of Baroque architecture are exemplified in this building.

A) Taj Mahal
B) Monticello
C) Pantheon
D) Palace of Versailles

Question 23

Incan architecture exhibited strong engineering techniques and fine masonry exemplified by this city.

A) Agra
B) Tenochtitlan
C) Machu Picchu
D) Cuzco

Question 24

Japanese theatre of the seventeenth century that focuses on a climactic moment.

A) Noh
B) Imari
C) Kabuki
D) Zen

Question 25

Cervantes's classic literary work of the fifteenth century is one of the most widely read classics in Western literature.

A) Don Quixote
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Inferno
D) Much Ado About Nothing

Question 26

Compare the architecture of the Pantheon with that of the Florence dome.

Question 27

Explain how the rebirth of arts in the fifteenth century is linked with world exploration at the same time.

Question 28

What are the stylistic differences between Michelangelo's David,Raphael's David,and Bernini's David? Include personal responses to each.

Question 29

Explain Rajput style painting.

Question 30

What is linear perspective? Provide an example in your explanation.