art history final

Rosalba Carriera

What is the first and last name of the leading portraitist in Venice during the first half of the

18th century who began her career designing lace patterns and painting miniature portraits on

the ivory lids of snuffboxes?

Canaletto

Name the artist whose painted panoramic views of famous landmarks in Venice are rarely

topographically accurate but seem real. His name means "little canal."

The Vanitas

What is the term used to describe a still life or genre painting which symbolizes the transience

of life?

Capricci

What are landscapes or cityscapes created by Venetian artists in the 18th century, where

actual features were mixed with imaginary ones to create attractive compositions, called?

Diderot

Name a leading detractor of the Rococo who believed that it was art's proper function to

"inspire virtue and purify manners."

Georges de La Tour

What is the full name of the French artist who absorbed Caravaggio's tenebrism most likely

when he visited Netherlands in the 1620s? The light source in his painting of 'Mary

Magdalen" is so intense that it often seems to be the real subject of the painting.

Claude Lorraine

What is the first and last name of the 17th century French painter who tried to penetrate nature

by lying in the fields of the Roman countryside before the break of day until dark to represent

sunrise and sunset?

Gavin Hamilton

What is the first and last name of the Scottish painter under whose guidance in Rome Canova

adopted the Neoclassical style and quickly became the most sought-after European sculptor of

the period?

Anthony van Dyck

What is the full name of the artist whose need to blend his work seamlessly with that of

Rubens while painting heads enhanced his technical skill?

Chardin

Name the French artist of the 18th century whose output was limited essentially to still lifes

and quiet domestic scenes. He remarked: "Who said one paints with colors? One employs

colors, but one paints with feelings."

Rachel Ruysch

What is the first and last name of the 17th century Dutch artist whose flower painting was

presented to Marie de' Medici when she made a state visit to Amsterdam?

Ribera

Name the artist who was known as Lo Spagnoletto or "the Little Spaniard" in Italy.

Pieter Lastman

What is the first and last name of Rembrandt's teacher with whom he studied in Amsterdam

for six months?

Rubens

Name the artist who convinced King Philip IV during his diplomatic visit to the Spanish

court that Velasquez should visit Italy.

Winckelmann

Name the author of the pamphlet titled 'Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in

Painting and Sculpture' (1755) and the treatise titled 'The History of Ancient Art' (1764),

whose views were highly influential.

Goffredo Wals

Name the German painter from Naples whose landscapes in circular format with subtle

lighting effects influenced Claude Lorrain's paintings.

Ruisdael

Name the 17th century Haarlem specialist who was known for his invention of dramatic

compositions and the projection of moods in his canvases. He discovered the poetry of

northern landscapes.

Frans Snyders

What is the first and last name of Rubens' collaborator who was a specialist of animals and

flowers?

Hendrick ter Brugghen

Name the best known of the "Utrecht Caravaggists" who introduced Caravaggio's style

to Netherlands.

Judith Leyster

What is the first and last name of the artist from Haarlem who sadly after her marriage in

1636 seems to have virtually ceased painting?

Poussin

Name the artist from Normandy, France, who launched his career in Rome, Italy. He wrote,

"I flee confusion; it is as inimical to me as shadows are to the sunlight."

Clara Peeters

What is the first and last name of the precocious, young woman artist from Antwerp whose

still-life table-top arrangements were known as "breakfast pieces"?

Watteau

Name the Rococo painter whose official examination canvas for admission to the Royal

Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris so impressed the academicians that they created

a new category, the fête galante or elegant outdoor entertainment, to describe this genre of

painting.

Herculaneum and Pompeii

Around 1738 archaeological discoveries made at two prosperous Roman towns, buried in

79 CE by the sudden volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, excited new interest in classical

art and artifacts. Name these two towns.