Download 1. What characteristic of Baroque art is seen in

1. What characteristic of Baroque art is seen in Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's The
Conversion of St. Paul?
a. mythological subject matter
b. balanced harmony of forms
c. dramatic light and composition
d. precisely rendered linear perspective
2. Michelangelo Buonarroti’s David was the first life-size freestanding nude statue since
antiquity.
a. True
b. False
3. What medieval tradition influenced Pieter Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow?
a. combination of composite scenes
b. production of a calendar
c. focus on seasonal activities
d. use of illusionistic perspective
4. All of these artists are associated with the Baroque period EXCEPT:
a. Artemisia Gentileschi
b. Jan Vermeer
c. Peter Paul Rubens
d. Jan van Eyck
5. All of the following are portraits except __________.
a. Donatello’s David
b. Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait
c. Diego Velázquez’s The Maids of Honor
d. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
6. What aspect of Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus reflects the notion of Renaissance
humanism?
a. the clarity of the composition
b. the reference to classical mythology
c. the idealized depiction of figures
d. the use of tempera paint
7. What distinguishes the Rococo style of Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Happy Accidents of the
Swing from earlier paintings of the Baroque period?
a. the dramatic light and dark contrasts
b. the sense of motion implied by the composition
c. the attention to realistic details
d. the playful nature of the subject matter
8. Which painting reflects the growing middle-class audience for art in the seventeenth century?
a. Pieter Brueghel, Hunters in the Snow
b. Diego Veláquez de Silva, The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas)
c. Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding
d. Jan Vermeer, The Kitchen Maid
9. What distinguishes Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s use of light in The Conversion of St.
Paul from its effect in Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of
Holofernes?
a. It symbolizes a spiritual presence.
b. It allows illumination for a nighttime event.
c. It enhances the drama of the scene.
d. It draws the viewer’s attention to key figures.
10. Although it has a religious subject, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Return of the Prodigal Son evokes
what other popular type of painting through its emphasis on human interaction in an everyday
setting?
a. a genre painting
b. a portrait
c. a still life
d. an altarpiece
11. Characterized by heightened realism, close attention to ordinary details, and balanced
composition, Madonna and Child with Chancellor Rolin is a good example of what type of
painting?
a. Renaissance in Northern Europe
b. Renaissance in Italy
c. Early Renaissance
d. Baroque
12.
__________ painted with a soft blurring of the edges, or, in his own words, “without lines or
borders in the manner of smoke.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Jan van Eyck
Michelangelo Buonarroti
13. Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda reflects these features of the Pantheon EXCEPT:
a. the curved exterior wall
b. the triangular pediment above the entrance
c. the columned portico
d. the large central dome
14. __________ is considered a precursor of the Renaissance.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Donatello
Masaccio
Sandro Botticelli
Giotto di Bondone
15. What is the function of the mirror in Diego Velázquez de Silva’s The Maids of Honor (Las
Meninas) and Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait?
a. It highlights the painting’s true subject matter.
b. It contributes religious meaning to the image.
c. It reveals a portrait within a portrait.
d. It creates the illusion of deep space.
16.
In Massaccio’s The Holy Trinity, a dove represents ________________.
a. The Holy Spirit
b. God the Father
c. The Virgin Mary
d. Jesus
17. The sculptural emphasis on anatomy and musculature in Peter Paul Rubens’s The Raising of
the Cross reveals the influence of which artistic source?
a. Michelangelo
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Donatello
d. Bernini
18. Which painting relies on linear perspective to create the illusion of depth and to call attention
to the most important part of the image?
a. Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam
b. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
c. Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait
d. Raphael, The School of Athens
19. The last great flowering of Renaissance art took place in Florence.
a. True
b. False
20. Female artists were better known and more numerous in the Renaissance than in the Baroque
period.
a. True
b. False
21. The influential Flemish painter __________ carefully studied the work of Michelangelo and
the Venetians on trips to Italy.
a. J an Vermeer
b. Rembrandt van Rijn
c. Peter Paul Rubens
d. Pierre Patel
22. Donatello’s sculpture was more idealized and less naturalistic than that of ancient Greece.
a. True
b. False
23. __________ is a painter associated with the Rococo style.
a. Jan Vermeer
b. Jan van Eyck
c. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
d. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
24. Masaccio drew influence from the work of __________.
a. Daniele da Volterra
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
d. Giotto di Bondone
25. __________ was the first painting based on the systematic use of linear perspective.
a. Michelangelo Buonarroti’s The Creation of Adam
b. Masaccio’s The Holy Trinity
c. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper
d. Sandro Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus
26. __________ led to one of the first important trials of artistic freedom in the Western world.
a. Raphael’s Paul Preaching at Athens
b. Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing
c. Paolo Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi
d. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
27. The setting of Masaccio’s The Holy Trinity reveals the artist’s knowledge of the new
Renaissance architecture which was based on __________ prototypes.
a. Gothic
b. Roman
c. Greek
d. Byzantine
28. _____________ paintings present his awareness of the divine in human beings, the insight
that was the driving enthusiasm of Italian Renaissance.
a. Michelangelo
b. Raphael
c. Jan van Eyck
d. Peter Bruegel
29. The difference between Michelangelo and Leonardo was their perspective on people.
Michelangelo saw human beings as unique, almost godlike, whereas Leonardo saw them as one
more part of nature.
a. True
b. False
30. Leonardo believed that art and science are two means to the same end: knowledge.
a. True
b. False