Art History Exam 2 MCQ - ART 2520

The 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

A. True

B. False

A. True

Limewood was predominantly used by Spanish sculptors.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Landscapes became popular after the 1520s in part due to their connection to the Catholic church.

A. True

B. False

B. False

What is the term for a subject of a portrait?

A.Setter

B. Sector

C. Sinister

D. Sitter

D. Sitter

Which of the following is does the pose of Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait deliberately recall?

A. Christ as Salvator Mundi

B. Christ as Pantocrator

C. Christ as Crucified

D. Christ as Apollo

A. Christ as Salvator Mundi

Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther are seen as two of the most important reformers of the church during the sixteenth century.

A. True

B. False

A. True

The owl in the Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights represents which two characteristics?

A. Folly and Sin

B. Grace and Sin

C. Wisdom and Grace

D. Wisdom and Folly

D. Wisdom and Folly

Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve represents his first documented use of ideal human proportions based on Roman copies of Greek sculpture.

A. True

B. False

A. True

The figures of Saint Anthony and Saint Sebastian from Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece are associated with which of the following?

A. Plague

B. Defeating evil

C. Love

D. Dysentery

A. Plague

El Greco's style is rooted in which of the following traditions?

A. The paintings of Masaccio

B. Byzantine icons

C. The paintings of Raphael

D. Ancient Greek sculpture

B. Byzantine icons

What was the literary source for Annibale Carracci's Farnese Ceiling?

A. The Apocrypha

B. Dante's Divine Comedy

C. Ovid's Metamorphoses

D. Boccaccio's Decameron

C. Ovid's Metamorphoses

Gianlorenzo Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy is an example of the emotional, theatrical style that he developed in response to the religious and political climate in Florence during the Protestant Reformation.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Pope Sixtus V initiated an urban plan of Rome that laid out processional avenues linking the great basilicas of the city.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the several painters to follow the style of Annibale Carracci.

A. True

B. False

B. False

What 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?

A. Circle

B. Oval

C. Triangle

D. Cross

C. Triangle

Which of the following creates a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting?

A. Chiaroscuro

B. Tenebrism

C. Sfumato

D. Perspective

B. Tenebrism

The 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.

A. True

B. False

A. True

How did painting and sculpture serve the educational and evangelical mission of the revitalized and conservative Church during the Baroque period?

A. By depicting only those events and people found in the New Testament

B. By depicting events and people in complex, but pleasing compositions

C. By depicting events and people accurately and clearly

D. By depicting events and people in imagined landscapes and settings

C. By depicting events and people accurately and clearly

What is the term for a painting that depicts scenes from everyday life?

A. Mundane

B. Narrative

C. Genre

D. Portrait

C. Genre

Which priest focused his missionary efforts on ordinary people for whom he strove to make Christian history and doctrine understandable and meaningful?

A. St. Teresa of Avilia

B. Pope Sixtus V

C. St. Ignatius of Loyola

D. Filippo Neri

D. Filippo Neri

In 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?

A. Last Judgment

B. Apollo and Daphne

C. Annunciation

D. Betrayal of Christ

A. Last Judgment

Etching is an intaglio printmaking process by which a metal plate is directly inscribed with a stylus.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Which 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?

A. Lion's paw

B. Raven's feather

C. Chicken claw

D. Medieval knight's helmet

C. Chicken claw

While in Italy, Peter Paul Rubens primarily studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas uses a mirror similar to which of the following paintings?

A. Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

B. Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew

C. Raphael's School of Athens

D. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

A. Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Rembrandt van Rijn is responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio to the Netherlands.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Clara Peeters was one of the first artists to combine which two objects in single painting?

A. Fruit and silverware

B. Bread and cheese

C. Flowers and fruit

D. Flowers and silverware

C. Flowers and fruit

Which of the following was not a preferred subject by the Dutch during the seventeenth century?

A. Devotional images

B. Scenes of domestic life

C. Landscapes

D. Mythology

E. Cityscapes

A. Devotional images

What was the major influence on Spanish painting seventeenth century?

A. The art of Renaissance Rome and Florence

B. The art of Caravaggio

C. The art of Flanders

D. The art of the Byzantine period

B. The art of Caravaggio

In 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.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Johann Joachim Winckelmann's The History of Ancient Art is often considered to be the beginning of modern art-historical study.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Enlightenment 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."

A. True

B. False

A. True

Which of the following is a Latin phrase for "remember that you must die"? It often is an object, such as a skull or extinguished candle, typically found in a vanitas image, symbolizing the transience of life.

A. memento mori

B. carpe diem

C. memento vita

D. E pluribus unum

A. memento mori

Which of the following is an object typically fund in a vanitas image symbolizing the transience of life.

A. Memento sella

B. Memento mori

C. Memento amet

D. Memento vita

B. Memento mori

Cythera is the sacred island of the goddess Hera.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Neoclassical paintings reflect the clear forms, tight compositions, and shallow space of ancient relief sculpture.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Which of the following is not an architectural tradition integrated in Jacques-Germain Soufflot's Panthéon?

A. Palladian style

B. Ancient Roman

C. French and English Baroque

D. French Gothic

D. French Gothic

Which of the following was a common theme for painting during the Rococo period?

A. Vedute

B. Heroic narratives from ancient Rome

C. Classical love stories

D. Biblical narratives

C. Classical love stories

The scene of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii is directly and faithfully taken from Pierre Corneille's Horace.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Which of the following was the essential destination on the Grand Tour?

A. France

B. Italy

C. England

D. Greece

B. Italy

The daguerreotype is an early photographic process that makes the positive print on a light-sensitized copperplate

A. True

B. False

A. True

Which of the following is considered to be the hero of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

A. The King

B. The Captain of the ship

C. Theodore Gericault

D. Jean Charles

D. Jean Charles

Who argued that God's book was the Bible, the landscape was God's "Book of Nature"?

A. Gotthard Kosegarten

B. Edmund Burke

C. Charles Baudelaire

D. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A. Gotthard Kosegarten

The scale of Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers was meant to provoke by being equal to that of history painting of the French Academy.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Romanticism can be seen as a response to which of the following?

A. The Crowning of Napoleon as Emperor

B. The disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason

C. The values of faith following the Counter-Reformation

D. The introduction of the machine during the Industrial Revolution

B. The disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason

Julia Margaret Cameron fully embraced and utilized the sharp focus of commercial photography.

A. True

B. False

B. False

In Casper David Friedrich's Abbey in the Oak Forest, the moon is suggestive of which of the following:

A. The end of Human time

B. The possibility of resurrection/renewal

C. The beauty of nature

D. The decay of morality

B. The possibility of resurrection/renewal

Édouard Manet's Olympia is based on which of the following works of art?

A. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Large Odalisque

B. Titian's Venus of Urbino

C. Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa

D. Michelangelo's Roman Pietá

B. Titian's Venus of Urbino

Jacque Louis David was the most important Romantic painter in Paris after the death of Theodore Gericault.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Richard Upjohn's Trinity Church is one of the earliest examples of Neoclassical churches in the United States.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Which of the following is the thick application of paint, like that seen in the work of Vincent van Gogh?

A. repoussoir

B. Complementary color

C. Pointillism

D. Impasto

D. Impasto

Which event does Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais commemorate?

A. The slaughter of innocent people during World War II in northern France

B. A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War

C. The loss of life during the Black Death of 1348

D. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo

B. A local event from 1347 that occurred during the Hundred Years' War

The Symbolists rejected the realms of emotion, imagination, and spirituality, and instead placed value on rationalism and material progress in modern Western culture.

A. True

B. False

B. False

Which of the following terms describes the Impressionist practice of painting outdoors so artists could have direct access to the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere?

A. Japonisme

B. plein air

C. Atmospheric perspective

D. pointillism

B. plein air

Which of the following served as the visual source material for Henry Hobson Richardson's Marshall Field Wholesale Store?

A. Parthenon

B. Villa Giulia

C. Palazzo Medici

D. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

C. Palazzo Medici

Japonisme 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.

A. True

B. False

B. False

What was Mary Cassatt's first introduction to Japanese art?

A. Her mother's gift of Japanese woodblock prints

B. Her trip to Japan in 1888

C. The Japanese Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition

D. An exhibition of ukiyo-e prints at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890

D. An exhibition of ukiyo-e prints at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890

Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the result of only using eleven colors and three tones.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Claude 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.

A. True

B. False

A. True

The cypress tree in Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night represents which of the following?

A. Christian baptism

B. Christian salvation

C. Birth and Death

D. Death and Eternal Life

D. Death and Eternal Life

What does Marcel Duchamp's Fountain ultimately question?

A. The issue of public urination in New York City

B. The legitimation of Industrial design

C. Ideas of masculinity at the turn of the twentieth century

D. The essence of what constitutes a work of art

D. The essence of what constitutes a work of art

Umberto 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.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Who was responsible for the Degenerate Art Exhibition?

A. The Italian Fascists

B. The Austrian Nazis

C. The German Nazis

D. The Russian Communists

C. The German Nazis

Which of the following artists challenges the viewer with his physical and psychological torment with images that conflate suffering and sexuality by figures in tormented poses?

A. Umberto Boccioni

B. Marcel Duchamp

C. Egon Schiele

D. Henri Matisse

C. Egon Schiele

Which two artists are credited with the development of Cubism?

A. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

B. Andre Derain and Henri Matisse

C. Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso

D. Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse

A. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon depicts five women from a brothel.

A. True

B. False

A. True

From which of the following movements did Futurism develop?

A. Dada

B. Symbolism

C. Fauvism

D. Cubism

D. Cubism

Dadaism is characterized by brilliant colors and blunt brushwork.

A. True

B. False

B. False

An assemblage is an artwork created by gathering and manipulating two- and/or three-dimensional found objects.

A. True

B. False

A. True

Frank Lloyd Write 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 a machine.

A. True

B. False

B. False