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ARH 2051 Exam 3 Study Guide 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
06/22/2011

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Who is the founder of the German High Renaissance?
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Albrecht Durer
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Artist trifecta in the 15th century?
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Jan Van Eyck, Van Der Weyden, Hugo Van Der Goes
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Who went on an Italian tour to learn Italian Renaissance?
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Albrecht Durer
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Who transformed the German linear tradition into a major instrument for the conquest of both the visual and psychological reality?
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Hans Holbein
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Whose death beings an end to the German school of the Renaissance?
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Hans Holbein
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Who is the first Dutch landscape painter?
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Joachim Patinir
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Who is one of the greatest landscape painters of all time?
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Jacob Van Ruisdael
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Greatest and most influential Flemish painter of the 16th century?
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Pieter Bruegel
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Which architecture combines French gothic and Italian elements?
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Chateau de Chambord
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What was the age of the self-portrait?
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Baroque
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Which approach was universally adopted in 17th century architecture all throughout Europe?
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Baroque
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The first definitive steps in early baroque architecture are taken by whom?
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Carlo Maderno
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Who made extraordinary transformations in traditional architecture?
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Bernini
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Who was the most inventive and widely imitated designer in fountain sculpture?
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Bernini
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The design of St. Peters was completed by whom?
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Bernini
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Who goes well beyond his predecessors and contemporaries with the sculptural handling of forms?
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Borromini
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Who were the pioneers of baroque painting?
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Carracci Brothers
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A new Renaissance was the revival of which style?
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Italian Renaissance
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Which academy was unique in that they believed art can be taught?
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Bolognese
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Who is the final Bolognese painter of the baroque period and inspired a new wave of enthusiasm?
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Il Guercino
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Who is the one time giant of realistic painting in Italy?
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Caravaggio
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Whose stark contrast of light and dark shocked yet fascinated his contemporaries?
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Caravaggio
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Who influences the picturesque?
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Salvator Rosa
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Who represents the most important link between Spain and Italy?
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Jose de Ribera
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Who creates the illusion of form using only spots of light and color?
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Velazquez
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What were the two respective artistic cultures in Holland and Flanders?
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Protestant and Catholic
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The realism of Dutch art was made up of whom?
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Caravaggio and Jan Van Eyck
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Artist trifecta in the 17th century?
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Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer
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Who is the greatest Dutch master and supreme geniuses of western art?
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Rembrandt
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What element assumes a primary role in Rembrandt’s paintings?
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Mystery
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Who was the greatest etcher who ever lived?
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Rembrandt
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T or F; if Rembrandt had never painted he would still be remembered for his prints.
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True
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Who is the chief practitioner of still life artwork?
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Willem Kalf
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Who is the FIRST important French painter of the 17th century?
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Georges da la Tour
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Who is the MOST important French painter of the 17th century?
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Poussin
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At the beginning of the 17th century, what bursts into a great flowering?
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Etching
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Early or late; which style of Poussin is Cephalus and Aurora?
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Early
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Who is responsible for visual arts being drawn closer to literature than ever before?
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Poussin
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Early or late; which style of Poussin is Rape of the Sabines?
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Late
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Who paints with more mathematical precision than Carracci?
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Poussin
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Who is the most original French sculptor of his day, yet never gets commissioned at the academy?
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Pierre Puget
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Which architectural design served as prototypes for later buildings?
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Wren's St. Paul Cathedral
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