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