Deck 15: The Seventeenth Century

Question 1

Who was the leading painter in the court of Spanish king Philip IV?

A) Monteverdi
B) Goya
C) Velázquez
D) de Loma

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which artistic style is reflected in the external decoration of the Palace of Versailles, especially its classically balanced threes and emphasis on the horizontal?

A) Byzantine
B) Classical
C) Gothic
D) Renaissance

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What was the name of the predominant European art style of the 1600s?

A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Rococo
D) Arcadian

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What kinds of subjects were commonly commissioned from Dutch painters?

A) group portraits
B) solo portraits
C) battle scenes
D) agricultural scenes

Question 5

Who was the most important Italian sculptor of the Baroque Age?

A) Borromini
B) Bernini
C) Brunelleschi
D) Gentileschi

Question 6

Who was the first great composer of opera?

A) Bach
B) Monteverdi
C) Rameau
D) Vivaldi

Question 7

What was the name of the religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola?

A) the Army of Christ
B) the Spanish Inquisition
C) the Society of Jesus, "Jesuits"
D) Soldiers of the Cross

Question 8

What two qualities characteristic of Rubens's painting are seen in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus ?

A) drab color and focus on natural landscape
B) energy and pale-skinned female bodies
C) chiaroscuro and an idyllic setting
D) motionlessness and sprezzatura

Question 9

Who was Rubens' assistant before beginning his own career as an artist?

A) Heinrich Schütz
B) Annibale Carracci
C) Diego Velázquez
D) Anthony van Dyck

Question 10

This female contemporary of Caravaggio was famous for her dramatic paintings of Biblical scenes.

A) Annibale Carracci
B) Artemesia Gentileschi
C) René Lorrain
D) Jan Sweelinck

Question 11

Which Dutch artist is best known for his quiet scenes of ordinary domestic life?

A) van Dyck
B) Rubens
C) Vermeer
D) Sweelinck

Question 12

Which work is considered the greatest novel in the Spanish language?

A) Il Gesù
B) Tartuffe
C) Don Quixote
D) La Primavera

Question 13

How did Galileo study motion and learn how objects move in time and space?

A) by logical reasoning
B) by experimentation
C) through theological discussions with Catholic clergy
D) by asking for expert opinions

Question 14

Who designed the colonnaded piazza added to St. Peter's Basilica?

A) Bramante
B) Borromini
C) Bernini
D) Maderno.

Question 15

What two musical genres emerged in the 17^th century?

A) opera and concerto grosso
B) madrigal and ayre
C) Symphony and string quartet
D) Motet and rondo

Question 16

Which was one of Borromini's notable contributions to the architecture of Rome?

A) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
B) The Sistine Chapel
C) St. Mark's Cathedral
D) Il Duomo Nuevo

Question 17

What technique did Caravaggio use to increase the dramatic impact of his The Calling of Saint Matthew ?

A) sfumato
B) linear perspective
C) vanishing point
D) tenebrism

Question 18

Which German composer worked for 27 years as the music director at a church school?

A) Johann Sebastian Bach
B) Georg Frederic Handel
C) Heinrich Schütz
D) Jean Philippe Rameau

Question 19

Which French king was called the "Sun King"?

A) Charles V
B) Charles X
C) Louis XIV
D) Louis XVI

Question 20

Which French painter saw his work as a protest against the excesses of the Baroque?

A) Moliėre
B) La Tour
C) Vermeer
D) Poussin

Question 21

What was the response of the Roman Catholic Church to Protestant criticism of its belief in purgatory, transubstantiation, and celibacy for the clergy? What is meant by the doctrine of "transubstantiation"?

Question 22

Which of the following means "slow" in Italian and is used to indicate musical tempo?

A) allegro
B) aria
C) moderato
D) adagio

Question 23

What is the name of the Baroque-era keyboard instrument that is the forerunner of the modern piano?

A) reed organ
B) harpsichord
C) dulcimer
D) theorbo

Question 24

Which term designates the musical form in which a single theme is passed from voice to voice or instrument to instrument?

A) oratorio
B) chorale variations
C) fugue
D) sonata

Question 25

Rubens emulated __________, the Italian painting technique that strongly contrasts light and dark for dramatic purposes.

A) chiaroscuro
B) quadro riportato
C) sfumato
D) trompe l'oeil

Question 26

What is generally considered to be the greatest epic poem in English of the 1600s?

A) The Canonization
B) Paradise Lost
C) On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord
D) Leviathan

Question 27

Who was Antonio Vivaldi? What was his major achievement?

Question 28

What was the Ptolemaic view of the Universe and why was this view supported by the Catholic Church?

Question 29

Which German-born composer achieved his greatest success in London, became an English citizen, and wrote Italian operas?

A) Bach
B) Handel
C) Schütz
D) Buxtehude

Question 30

A picaresque novel is:

A) one featuring an engaging, roguish hero who goes through humorous or satirical experiences.
B) one containing many detailed descriptions of beautiful landscapes.
C) one that takes place in the Picardy region of France.
D) one that is told through letters written between the characters.

Question 31

Which French philosopher is often called the "Father of Modern Philosophy"?

A) Sartre
B) Racine
C) Descartes
D) Moliere

Question 32

What is the musical form that contrasts a full orchestra with a small group of soloists?

A) concerto grosso
B) cantata
C) monody
D) largo

Question 33

According to Hobbes, what do laws protect people from?

A) the government
B) human greed and aggression
C) the church
D) foreign influences

Question 34

What term refers to a kind of reasoning-crucial to the scientific method-that arrives at conclusions on the basis of specific examples?

A) metaphysical
B) materialist
C) deduction
D) induction

Question 35

Which of the following statements about the musical form known as opera is NOT true?

A) It originated in Florence.
B) It sought to recreate the dramatic power of Greek tragedy.
C) It relied heavily on monody.
D) The musicians who developed opera considered the sung text to be secondary to the music.

Question 36

Why did Dutch painters have to depend on the tastes and demands of the open market rather than the patronage of the Church?

Question 37

Who wrote Paradise Lost , an account of Adam and Eve intended to "justify the ways of God to men"?

A) Donne
B) Milton
C) Locke
D) Molière

Question 38

Who was the creator of French Baroque comedy?

A) Racine
B) Molière
C) Corneille
D) Rameau

Question 39

What is the actual title of the painting by Rembrandt that has become one of the most famous works in Western art, partly because of its masterful use of foreshortening and chiaroscuro?

A) Banquet of the Officers of the Civic Guard of Saint George at Haarlem
B) The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch
C) Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, Wife of Marchese Nicola Catteneo
D) Christ with the Sick around Him, Receiving the Children

Question 40

What was John Locke's most influential work (1690) on ideas and learning? According to Locke, are ideas innate? If not, from where do they come?