Test Bank Answers The 17Th And 18Th Centuries Ch.17 12e

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 17 The 17th and 18th Centuries

1) Which work of art tragically depicts the murder of an important figure of the French Revolution?

A) The Oath of the Horatii

B) Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes

C) The Death of Marat

D) The Pursuit

2) Due to the near-dictatorial power of European monarchs, how is the period of the 17th and 18th centuries often referred? 

A) The Royal Era

B) The Gilded Age

C) The Age of Kings

D) The Rule of the Monarchs

3) What sculptor, famous for his work in the Cornaro Chapel, was also a painter, dramatist, and composer?

A) Gianlorenzo Bernini

B) Giovanni Battista Piranesi

C) Caravaggio 

D) Peter Paul Rubens

4) Paintings depicting scenes of everyday life are known as ________ paintings.

A) trompe l'oeil

B) vanitas

C) genre

D) still-life

5) What nationality was Peter Paul Rubens?

A) Spanish

B) French

C) English

D) Flemish

6) How did Baroque painters depict figures that seemed to project forward, out of the picture plane?

A) Analogous color schemes

B) Complementary color schemes 

C) Dramatic lighting

D) Atmospheric perspective

7) What painter produced Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, whose subject is taken from the biblical story of Judith?

A) Artemisia Gentileschi

B) Caravaggio

C) Peter Paul Rubens

D) Rembrandt van Rijn

8) What characteristic is NOT typical of Italian Baroque art?

A) Ornamentation

B) Theatricality

C) Classic simplicity

D) Emotion

9) In what media did Rembrandt work?

A) Sculpture

B) Painting

C) Etching

D) Drawing

E) Architecture 

10) The Palace of Versailles was home to what monarch?

A) Philip IV of Spain

B) Maria Theresa of Austria

C) Louis XIV of France

D) Julius II of Rome

11) What event helped spark the Neoclassical style?

A) The Catholic Counter-Reformation

B) The invention of photography

C) The American Civil War

D) The excavations of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum

12) Unlike Baroque art from Catholic countries, Dutch Baroque art focused upon ________.

A) the community

B) the family and home

C) All of these

D) None of these answers is correct.

13) What subjects were the focus of Dutch baroque art?

A) Religious iconography

B) Everyday life

C) Landscapes

D) Community 

E) Royal wealth

14) St. Teresa in Ecstasy is an excellent example of what genre?

A) Baroque sculpture

B) Neoclassical allegory

C) Neoclassical portraiture

D) Rococo painting

15) Among the following artists, whose innovation was it to create group portraits in the setting of an activity, rather than posing the subjects formally?

A) Jacob van Ruisdael

B) Jacques-Louis David

C) Rembrandt

D) Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

16) Which artist, known for a more subtle approach to Baroque theatricality, was court painter to King Philip IV?

A) Gianlorenzo Bernini

B) Artemisia Gentileschi

C) Francesco Borromini

D) Diego Velázquez

17) Which artist, known for exquisite portraiture, had to flee France due to the political revolution?

A) Artemisia Gentileschi

B) Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

C) Claude Lorrain

D) Jean-Honoré Fragonard

18) How does the Rococo style compare to that of the Baroque?

A) It is more playful and lighthearted.

B) It is more suitable for public places.

C) It tends to employ more intense colors.

D) It emphasizes a greater degree of theatricality.

19) What artist is especially known for a theatrical treatment of light and shadow, as seen in the magnificent Entombment of Christ?

A) Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

B) Caravaggio 

C) Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

D) Michelangelo 

20) What qualities were frequently promoted in Neoclassical painting, as seen in The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David?

A) Patriotism

B) Stoicism

C) Playfulness

D) Extravagance 

E) Self-sacrifice 

21) How can the nature of the academies best be described?

A) Innovative

B) Conservative

C) Democratic

D) Open minded 

22) Typical of Dutch landscape painting was the work of which artist?

A) Jacob van Ruisdael

B) Jean-Baptiste Belley

C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard

D) Balthasar van der Ast

23) What characteristics of the Baroque style can be seen in Peter Paul Rubens's Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici?

A) Subtle color palette 

B) Dramatic play of light and shadow

C) Dynamic energy

D) Saturated colors

24) What style most closely describes Charles Willson Peale's painting, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton?

A) Neoclassical

B) Baroque

C) Rococo

D) Dutch genre

25) Baroque art is often considered to be dramatic and emotional. With reference to specific works, explain how artists created these effects and then discuss the purposes for which artists sought to affect viewers emotionally during this period.

26) Compare and contrast Baroque art in France, Spain, and Italy with Dutch Baroque, mentioning not only the formal visual aspects of works, but also differences in theme and content. Explain the major reasons for the differences. 

27) Summarize the history of art academies in Europe. What was their role in the 17th and 18th centuries? Describe the curriculum and why certain types of art were emphasized.

28) Explain the relationship between Neoclassical art and the revolutionary movements in the 18th century. Support your points with references to specific works of the period.

29) Consider Velázquez's Las Meninas (from Chapter 2 of your text) and Rembrandt's Sortie of Captain Cocq's Company of the Civic Guard (The Night Watch). The two paintings were made within 10 years of one another, but in countries with very different cultures. Explain the social/political forces that contribute to the works' differences. 

30) Consider Gentileschi's Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes and David's The Oath of the Horatii. These paintings represent idealized visions of heroic figures in two different cultures. Explain the political and social forces that influenced their form and content.

31) Consider Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy. Discuss the aspects of this work's form and content that exemplify the religious Baroque style supporting the Roman Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation.

32) Consider the painting The Pursuit from The Progress of Love, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In what style is this work? Why did the patron reject the series? 

33) Discuss the similarities and differences between Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ, Rubens's Raising of the Cross (from Chapter 4 of your text).