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CSET Visual Art History
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Answer 42 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rococo artist - The Swing
Caravaggio
Henry O. Tanner
Jean Honore Fragonard
Boticelli
2. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)
Friedrich
Thomas Eakins
Michaelangelo
William Sidney Mount
3. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53
William Sidney Mount
Thomas Cole
Michaelangelo
Rembrandt
4. Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (N. Renaissance)
Friedrich
Jan van Eyck
Winslow Homer
Francisco Goya
5. School of Athens (fresco depicting ancient Greek philosophers and Renaissance painters) - The Marriage of the Virgin (good example of linear perspective) - Cowper Madonna (gentle style)
Jean Honore Fragonard
Renaissance Art
Henry O. Tanner
Raphael
6. American realist painter - The Gross Clinic - 1875
Thomas Cole
Albrecht Durer
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Thomas Eakins
7. St. George - poised for action - unique face
Donatello
Thomas Cole
Caravaggio
Francisco Goya
8. This French painter was important to French Romantic art. He often used his painting to convey a political message - and he is best known for his painting depicting the socialist revolution of 1830: Liberty Leading the People.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Gustave Courbet
Delacroix
Donatello
9. The first coherent school of American art
Hudson River School
Linear Perspective
El Greco
Caravaggio
10. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light
Albrecht Durer
Gustave Courbet
Northern Renaissance
Donatello
11. 1746-1828; Bullfight is an example of Romantic Art
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Francisco Goya
Linear Perspective
Boticelli
12. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)
Pieter Bruegel
Jean Millet
Boticelli
Albrecht Durer
13. Began in Italy in the 1400's
Renaissance Art
Rococo Art
Rembrandt
Raphael
14. German - was called 'Germanic Lord Byron' painted Wandering Above the Sea of Frog and Chasseur Forest
Hudson River School
Gothic Art
Friedrich
Henry O. Tanner
15. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry
Thomas Cole
Classical Art
Rembrandt
Winslow Homer
16. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
George Caleb Bingham
Friedrich
Jean Honore Fragonard
17. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) - The Oath of Horatii - Death of Socrates - portraits of leaders of French revolution
George Caleb Bingham
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Jacques - Louis David
Raphael
18. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)
Rembrandt
Albert Bierstadt
Friedrich
Rococo Art
19. Late 18th to mid 19th c. - reaction against ordiliness of neoclassicism - imagination - romantic/natural subjects; emotional style
Renaissance Art
Rococo Art
Friedrich
Romantic Art
20. The Birth of Venus
Albert Bierstadt
Friedrich
Boticelli
El Greco
21. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)
Delacroix
Michaelangelo
Classical Sculpture
Friedrich
22. Built by Romans (emperor Hadrian) from 125-128 CE - includes balance/symmetry (Greeks) and arches (Romans via Egyptians)
Albert Bierstadt
Pantheon
Classical Art
Raphael
23. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions
Pantheon
Baroque style
Renaissance Art
Classical Sculpture
24. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Gothic Art
Matthew Brady
Jean - Antoine Watteau
25. Known for his large landscapes of the American west - foremost painter of Westward Expansion scenes - part of Hudson River School - 'Storm in the Rocky Mountains' - 'Looking Down Yosemite Valley' - 'The Oregon Trail' 'Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak'
Delacroix
Realism
Albert Bierstadt
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
26. French - the Stone Breakers (1849)
Leonardo Da Vinci
Gustave Courbet
Classical Sculpture
Baroque style
27. Works in Spain - but shows Italian (mannerist) influence in distortion and choice of colors. Lots of motion - dynamism in later paintings. View of Toledo. Baroque - like style
El Greco
Baroque style
Michaelangelo
Currier and Ives
28. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow
Baroque style
Gothic Art
Leonardo Da Vinci
Thomas Cole
29. Found his subjects in the people and occupations of everyday life - one of the French painters of country life that settled near the village of Barbizon - 'The Gleaners' - 1857- oil on canvas
Jean Honore Fragonard
Thomas Eakins
Jean Millet
Northern Renaissance
30. (N. Renaissance) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life - Peasant Wedding - from the Netherlands ('genre painting'
Realism
Neoclassical Art
Pieter Bruegel
Caravaggio
31. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)
Rococo Art
Currier and Ives
Leonardo Da Vinci
Rembrandt
32. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Rococo Art
Friedrich
Gustave Courbet
33. (1859-19370) This African American artist is best known for his style of painting. He was the first African American painter to gain international acclaim. 'The Banjo Lesson.'
Albert Bierstadt
Henry O. Tanner
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Hudson River School
34. Two business partners who produced colored prints of everyday American life in the nineteenth century.
Currier and Ives
Leonardo Da Vinci
Francisco Goya
Albert Bierstadt
35. Beauty and proportion of human body; length of body 8 times the head; Myron's Discobolus and Apollo Belvedere
Realism
Winslow Homer
Leonardo Da Vinci
Classical Sculpture
36. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895
Winslow Homer
Jacques - Louis David
Francisco Goya
Renaissance Art
37. A technique which made it possible to represent three dimensional objects on a flat surface in a systematic way - so that all the lines receding at right angles on the picture plane converge at a vanishing point on the horizon (Filippo Brunelleschi 1
Jean Millet
Linear Perspective
Pantheon
Caravaggio
38. A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Neoclassical Art
Realism
Northern Renaissance
Jean Millet
39. Was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers - best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Northern Renaissance
Matthew Brady
Henry O. Tanner
William Sidney Mount
40. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial
Linear Perspective
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Boticelli
Rococo Art
41. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew
Northern Renaissance
Hudson River School
Jean Millet
Caravaggio
42. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose
Linear Perspective
Classical Sculpture
Neoclassical Art
Classical Art