Deck 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848

Question 1

David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St.-Bernard

A) Shows Napoleon's passionate drive and intense personality
B) Was painted by David from life
C) Was commissioned by Napoleon himself
D) rejects the Neoclassical style

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The nineteenth-century Western fascination with the culture of the Muslim world of North Africa and the Near East is known as

A) Orientalism
B) Africanism
C) Racism
D) Colonialism

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who is best known for his peaceful English countryside scenes, often making oil sketches outdoors?

A) Daumier
B) Turner
C) Blake
D) Constable

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Houses of Parliament by Sir Charles Barry and
A) Gothic

A)W.N. Pugin is an example of which revival in architecture?
B) Classical
C) Eclectic
D) Oriental

Question 5

The Barbizon painters were interested in combining which English painter's direct approach to nature with a student of Dutch seventeenth-century landscapists?

A) Constable
B) Turner
C) Reynolds
D) Gainsborough

Question 6

Which leader of the Hudson River School depicted the vastness of the American wilderness?

A) Cole
B) Bingham
C) Washington
D) Gardner

Question 7

Who was the architect of the University of Virginia?

A) Palladio
B) Thomas Cole
C) Benjamin West
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 8

The Altes Museum in Berlin was modeled after:

A) The Roman Pantheon
B) A Greek Temple
C) A Palladian villa
D) Jefferson's University of Virginia

Question 9

British painters during the Romantic era devoted most of their energies to subjects of urban blight as opposed to nature.

Question 10

Goya's The Third of May, 1808 was made in response to whose occupation of Spain?

A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) England

Question 11

Who was the artist most closely associated with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon?

A) Poussin
B) Boucher
C) David
D) Watteau

Question 12

Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?

A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze

Question 13

Romanticism dealt with themes of:

A) Orientalism
B) Emotion
C) Nature
D) All of the above

Question 14

Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

A) Reveals the artist's reactions to the period's crises
B) Was painted in dark, ominous colors
C) Earned Goya a sizable fortune
D) Is unrelated to the artist's other work at the time

Question 15

In which painter's work are the sick and dying human cargo thrown into the sea during a typhoon?

A) Gros
B) Turner
C) Corot
D) Millet

Question 16

Who painted in the Neoclassical, linear style but often used exotic, Romantic subject matter?

A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze

Question 17

Who made a painting of an exotic harem woman?

A) Goya
B) Géricault
C) Ingres
D) Cole

Question 18

Which artist, who used lively, colorful, fluid brushwork, looked to literature for exotic subject matter to excite the imagination?

A) Walpole
B) Delacroix
C) Gardner
D) Constable

Question 19

Turner aspired to rival great history painting by investing his views with historical motifs, references to the Old Masters, and metaphorical themes.

Question 20

The philosophy of the Romantic period that saw God and the universe as ultimately identical was:

A) Pantheism
B) Animism
C) Deism
D) Spiritualism

Question 21

Describe and discuss the different forms of romantic revivals in architecture represented by Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament and Jefferson's University of Virginia campus. In both cases what make this architecture at once romantic and realistic to the aims and aspirations of England and America?

Question 22

What incident did Géricault's The Raft of the "Medusa" illustrate? Discuss the work as an example of political commentary.

Question 23

How did Napoleon use Neoclassicism to promote his imperial aims?

Question 24

Françoise Rude's The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 ("La Marseillaise") on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris captures the spirit of nationalism.

Question 25

Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?

Question 26

Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa was a pictorial commentary on the ancient myth of the Medusa.

Question 27

Eugène Delacroix's Scenes from the Massacre at Chios expresses support for Greek independence as well as the Romantic passion for democracy and individual freedom.

Question 28

Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?

Question 29

Compare Goya's attitude toward war to that of David's. How did each feel about Napoleon and employ his art either to support or criticize the Napoleonic regime?