A global of Baroque art was to
—evoke emotional
The strategies of Baroque theatricality include
—dramatic lighting
Unlike Renaissance art, Baroque art makes it’s viewers into
—participants
Art picturing scenes of daily life is called
—genre painting
The Baroque style is established and developed in Rome thanks in part to the
—Counter-Reformation
Bernini’s Cathedra Petri typical of Italian Baroque art for its
—opulent and spectacular visual effects
Bernini’s St. Teresa in Ecstasy most clearly illustrates the Baroque interest in
—emotion
The two styles of Italian seventeenth-century painting are
—naturalism and Classicism
The text suggest that the purpose of Caravaggio’s naturalism is to
—make religious subjects understandable
What constitutes the “Golden Age” of painting in Spain?
—paintings that depict religious themes realistically and dramatically
Seventeenth-century Spanish art is most profoundly influenced by
—Caravaggio
Jusepe de Ribera’s painting is best described as
—Classical and naturalistic
What concern common in the Renaissance and Baroque eras is demonstrated in Velazquez’s Las Meninas?
—status of the artist
What motivate the addition of Baroque facade to the Romanesque cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in Spain?
—enew interest in pilgrimages to the shrines of saints
What new developments in Flemish painting are evident in the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens?
—Rubens hires specialist painters as shop assistants
What aspect of Rubens’s painting reveals his familiarity with Italian art?
—heroic bodies
How do painting by Peter Paul Rubens reveal his northern heritage?
—surface description
A breakfast piece is a still life featuring
—bread and fruit
The predominant style of Dutch seventeenth-century art is
—naturalistic
The subject preferred in the Protestant Netherlands include
—portraiture, genre, and landscapes
Which printmaking process is most closely associated with Rembrandt?
—etching
Vermeer used the camera obscura to
—study the composition
What compositional element Hals’s Officers of the Harlem Militia Company of St. Adrian?
—diagonal lines
How does the art of France differ from art and architecture produced elsewhere in Europe?
—it is under royal control
Versailles’s dominant iconographic program consist of
—images of Apollo
The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture promotes a/n
—Classical style
Which aspect of Georges de la Tour’s Mary Magdalen with the Smoking Flame reveals his indebtedness to Caravaggio
—emphasis on the figure
The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture debated the relative merits of
—drawing and color
Inigo Jones is inspired by the architecture of
—Andrea Palladio
What evidence leads your test to describe the windows at the Banqueting House as rhythmic?
—They have alternating round and ponied pediments
What Renaissance architectural feature did Wren originally plan for St. Paul Cathedral?
—central plan
How is Wren’s plan for St. Paul Cathedral similar to Maderno’s plan for the new St. Peter’s in Rome?
—both have a long nave
How does Christopher Wren use chiaroscuro at St. Paul’s Cathedral?
—shaded porticos on the facade
Unlike the Renaissance, Baroque Classicism is characterized by its
—drama
What practical concern lay behind the promotion of longitudinally planned churches in 17th-century Rome?
—accommodating parishioners
The twisting columns on Bernini’s Baldacchino refer to
—Solomon
Which answer correctly explains why Bernini built the Piazza at St. Peter’s in an oval shape?
—the oval accommodated existing objects on the site
The facade of Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
—seeks dramatic effects of light and shadow
Tenebrism is Caravaggio’s strategy for creating
—emotional responses
What evidence reveals that Artemisia Gentileschi is a follower of Caravaggio?
—dramatic light
How does Cortona’s The Glorification of the Papacy of Urban VIII exemplify the role of viewers in Baroque art?
—its illusionism relies on the viewer’s position
Paintings of the Immaculate Conception refers to the belief that
—Mary was born without the stain of original sin
What evidence leads to the conclusion that Rubens’s Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt commemorates their wedding?
—the positions of their hands and feet
Which formal element or principal of design is a hall mark of Peter Paul Rubens’s painting?
—diagonal composition
A printmaking process that uses a needle to scratch into metal plate is called
—drypoint
How does Hal’s Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian exemplify Dutch art?
—it is the theme form daily life
Which thematic category was particular common in Holland?
—group portraiture
Gerard ter Borch’s The Suitor’s Visit is an example of
—genre scene
The evidence that Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance seems to be a metaphor for external judgement includes the
—painting in the background
Which visual hallmark leads scholars to describe French landscapes as “Classical”?
—the use of orderly composition
What evidence supports your test’s description of St. Paul’s facade as triumphantly vertical?
—two-story portal
