Art History Exam lll

A style not evident in any single object, but in entire settings in the salons, which combined profusely decorated walls and ceilings, three-dimensional embellishments in gold and silver, intimate sensual paintings with rich ornament, elaborate crystal chandeliers, mirrored walls, delicate decorated furniture and small tabletop sculptures, is known as ______________________.

Rococo

An extended full-paid visit to the major cultural sites of Southern Europe, accompanied by a tutor, and an entourage of servants was known as ___________________.

The Grand Tour

____________ describes fashionable styles in France; started around 1715 when Louis XV moved his home from Versailles to Paris

Rococo

The term ___________ likely comes from combining two french words; one for an irregularly shaped pearl and the other a popular form of garden or interior ornamentation using shells and pebbles.

Rococo

A movement that values feeling over thinking is:

Romanticism

_________________ eventually replaced the land-based power of the aristocracy with the financial power of capitalists, who were able to use new sources of energy to mechanize manufacturing and greatly increase the quantity and profitability of saleable goods.

The Industrial Revolution

A style that heavily references classical Greek and Roman source, often with tight compositions, shallow space, and the practice of "wrapping contemporary subjects in Roman dress” is known as. 

Neoclassicism

Started as a literary movement in the 1790s and served as a counterpoint to Enlightenment rationalism, this style critiqued the idea that the world was knowable and ruled by reason (scientific thought) alone. 

Romanticism

A style of art that tends to prefer line over color, straight lines over curves, frontality and closed compositions over diagonal compositions into deep space, and the general over the particular.

Neoclassicism

An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century (roughly 1702 to 1800) and greatly valued empiricism and rational thought and asserted that all humans (not just the aristocracy) should have equal rights to life, liberty and happiness is known as ___________________.

The Enlightment