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Test II - Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2008

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Term
C-Bruegel
Definition
A Dutch renaissance artist whose landscape paintings depict the lower class, peasant population at work and play would be:
a-Vermeer
b-Van Eyck
c-Bruegel
Term
a-Vermeer
Definition
For __, directional light and the effects of chiaruscuro were major elements defining the precise character of each thing observed. An example of this artist's work would be "the concert".
a-Vermeer
b-Matisse
c-Kollwitz
Term
a-Rembrandt
Definition
In the low countries during the 17th century Baroque Age __ painted portraits of the wealthy and views of the rich merchant homes.
a-Rembrandt
b-David
c-Velazquez
Term
b-Romanticists
Definition
the__ all shared a concern for the common person and an emphasis on the senses over reason and intellect. An example would be the paintings of William Turner.
a-Mannerists
b-Romanticists
c-Impressionists
Term
a-Realism
Definition
___ was a 19th century movement that, as a reaction to Romanticism, sought out the nobility and heroism of the common-place, such as "The Artist's Studio" by Courbet
a-Realism
b-Baroque
c-Neoclassic
d-None of these
Term
c-Neoclassic
Definition
Much of the art of the ____ period acquired political, propagandistic meaning as the Roman subjects represented a republic government
Term
B-Hieronymous Bosch
Definition
This artist's work is filled with tortured images of mankind and the demons of hell set in nightmarish landscapes.
a-Michelangelo
b-Hieronymous Bosch
c-Gentileschi
Term
c-Allegory
Definition
The following term describes a theme used in much of the European art from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassic periods.
a-Dielectic
b-Religious
c-Allegory
Term
a-images that act as a comparison or meaphor for some other subjects, story, or event.
Definition
In art the use of Allgory refers to:
a-images that act as a comparison or meaphor for some other subjects, story, or event.
b-historical reference to an actual event.
c-portraits of the french aristocracy during the victorian period
Term
a-Marat
Definition
This french revolutionary sympathizer was tragically murdered in his tub by Charlotte Corday
a-Marat
b-Ingres
c-Georges De La Tour
Term
c-Baldachino
Definition
The towering architectural bronze canopy over the high altar in St. Peters is called:
a-Gates of Paradise.
b-Hall of Mirrors
c-Baldachino
Term
c-Renaissance
Definition
It was during this great cultural period that the study of human anatomy and the use of perspective to create the illusion of three-dimensional space was developed.
a-Rococo
b-Gothic
c-Renaissance
Term
c-Arcimboldo
Definition
A mannerist painter of late Renaissance whose allegorical paintings were bizarre fantasy portraits.
a-Bronzino
b-Corregio
c-Arcimboldo
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