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24 Cards in this Set
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How can Gothic architecture be distinguished from the earlier, Romanesque style? |
in its use of stained glass |
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The manuscript page of St. Matthew from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne is an excellent example of |
Carolingian art |
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The first Christian churches were patterned after basilicas used by the Romans as |
public buildings |
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Just as Christianity affected culture in the West after antiquity, what affected culture in the East, effectivelt |
Buddhism |
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Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for |
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral |
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In School of Athens, Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy, signified by the portrayal of what two figures in the center of the composition |
Plato and Aristotle |
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What sets northern European artists apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in |
rendering believable space in realistic detail |
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How did Rembrandt become familiar with Caravaggio's use of light and shadow |
through Dutch artists who had studied it |
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A Nigerian ivory mask from the mid-fifteenth century refers to contact with the Portuguese by representing |
a decorative design with mudfish |
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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals |
the personality of the sitter |
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In Hundreds of birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong, from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century, the peacock symbolizes |
the Chinese emperor |
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Realism as an artistic movement in the mid century refers to what? |
the accurate representation of everyday life |
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In the early nineteenth century, what recurrent and significant theme began to appear in Romantic painting? |
the notion of the sublime |
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One aspect of romanticism is the awareness that the world is full of terror and violence. A work that illustrates this characteristic of romanticism is |
Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring One of His Sons |
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What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style for his home? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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How did Paul Gauguin use art to express his rejection of modern society? |
He painted images of "primitive" culture such as in The Day of the Gods |
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How does the subject matter favored by the Impressionists differ from that of their precedents, the Realists. |
They painted scenes of pleasure instead of scenes of social criticism. |
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What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa |
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days |
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Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionists painting? |
Williem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle |
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The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams, hypnosis, psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with? |
Surrealism |
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The two major movements of the 1960's were |
minimalism and pop art |
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The artist André Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of "resolution between these two states, dream and reality." What was this movement? |
surrealism |
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Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century, called |
potlatch |
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Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting? |
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle |
