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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
Classical Sculpture
Jean Honore Fragonard
El Greco
Francisco Goya
2. 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)
Raphael
Francisco Goya
Renaissance Art
George Caleb Bingham
3. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew
Realism
Classical Art
Romantic Art
Caravaggio
4. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry
El Greco
Albrecht Durer
Classical Art
Currier and Ives
5. (N. Renaissance) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life - Peasant Wedding - from the Netherlands ('genre painting'
Jean Honore Fragonard
Gothic Art
Northern Renaissance
Pieter Bruegel
6. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions
Henry O. Tanner
Donatello
Baroque style
Neoclassical Art
7. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose
William Sidney Mount
Donatello
Hudson River School
Neoclassical Art
8. 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
Realism
Linear Perspective
Caravaggio
Jean Honore Fragonard
9. 1746-1828; Bullfight is an example of Romantic Art
Gustave Courbet
Michaelangelo
Jean Honore Fragonard
Francisco Goya
10. Beauty and proportion of human body; length of body 8 times the head; Myron's Discobolus and Apollo Belvedere
Delacroix
Jacques - Louis David
Classical Sculpture
Classical Art
11. French - the Stone Breakers (1849)
Baroque style
Gustave Courbet
Classical Sculpture
Winslow Homer
12. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Albert Bierstadt
Northern Renaissance
Realism
13. 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
El Greco
Baroque style
Currier and Ives
Jean Millet
14. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)
Caravaggio
Hudson River School
Gustave Courbet
William Sidney Mount
15. Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (N. Renaissance)
Jan van Eyck
Jean Millet
Leonardo Da Vinci
Thomas Eakins
16. American realist painter - The Gross Clinic - 1875
Thomas Eakins
Linear Perspective
Jean Millet
Matthew Brady
17. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)
Gustave Courbet
Francisco Goya
Matthew Brady
Rococo Art
18. 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.
El Greco
Pantheon
Matthew Brady
Pieter Bruegel
19. A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Linear Perspective
Renaissance Art
Realism
Romantic Art
20. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light
Matthew Brady
Northern Renaissance
Hudson River School
Neoclassical Art
21. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses
Neoclassical Art
Henry O. Tanner
Linear Perspective
Gothic Art
22. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow
El Greco
Pieter Bruegel
Thomas Cole
Linear Perspective
23. Built by Romans (emperor Hadrian) from 125-128 CE - includes balance/symmetry (Greeks) and arches (Romans via Egyptians)
Pantheon
Neoclassical Art
Henry O. Tanner
Francisco Goya
24. 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
Northern Renaissance
Henry O. Tanner
El Greco
Gustave Courbet
25. German - was called 'Germanic Lord Byron' painted Wandering Above the Sea of Frog and Chasseur Forest
Friedrich
William Sidney Mount
Albert Bierstadt
Jean Honore Fragonard
26. The Birth of Venus
Gothic Art
Caravaggio
Donatello
Boticelli
27. Began in Italy in the 1400's
Matthew Brady
Gustave Courbet
Renaissance Art
Northern Renaissance
28. Late 18th to mid 19th c. - reaction against ordiliness of neoclassicism - imagination - romantic/natural subjects; emotional style
Romantic Art
Currier and Ives
Northern Renaissance
Matthew Brady
29. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)
Classical Sculpture
Jean Honore Fragonard
Raphael
Leonardo Da Vinci
30. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)
Donatello
Rembrandt
Gothic Art
Albrecht Durer
31. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895
Linear Perspective
Winslow Homer
Classical Art
Classical Sculpture
32. 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.
Delacroix
Pantheon
Classical Art
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
33. The first coherent school of American art
Hudson River School
Jacques - Louis David
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Matthew Brady
34. St. George - poised for action - unique face
Gothic Art
Baroque style
Donatello
Rococo Art
35. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53
Albert Bierstadt
Renaissance Art
Rembrandt
Jean - Antoine Watteau
36. Two business partners who produced colored prints of everyday American life in the nineteenth century.
Baroque style
Currier and Ives
Jacques - Louis David
Classical Art
37. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)
Thomas Eakins
Renaissance Art
Henry O. Tanner
George Caleb Bingham
38. (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.'
Henry O. Tanner
Matthew Brady
Caravaggio
Thomas Eakins
39. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial
Gothic Art
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Francisco Goya
Realism
40. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)
Michaelangelo
Romantic Art
Leonardo Da Vinci
Donatello
41. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) - The Oath of Horatii - Death of Socrates - portraits of leaders of French revolution
Winslow Homer
Jacques - Louis David
Thomas Cole
Thomas Eakins
42. 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'
Donatello
Albrecht Durer
Albert Bierstadt
Hudson River School