Section 4. Chapter 26 & 27

A leading advocate of the Enlightenment in France was which of the following?

a. Voltaire
b. John Lock
c. Louis XVI
d. Isaac Newton

At the turn of the century, the French Academy was divided rather sharply between two doctrines. Which taught that color was the most important element?
Select one:a. Naturalists
b. Grand Manner
c. Rubenistes
d. Poussinistes

How did historical fact replace the fanciful notions of Rome and its ancient society?
Select one:a. the discovery and excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii
b. the work of Johann Winckelmann, History of Ancient Art
c. the monumental work of Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
d. the paintings of David

Neoclassicism invoked classical references of patriotism and trust in unshakable authority serving imperial agendas. Which of the following leaders embraced these aspects of Neoclassicism?
Select one:a. George IV
b. Napoleon
c. George Washington
d. Thomas Jefferson

The Age of Enlightenment had its roots in which of the following centuries?
Select one:a. mid-sixteenth century
b. seventeenth century
c. early sixteenth century
d. eighteenth century

The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was which of the following?
Select one:a. Honoré Fragonard
b. Jacques-Louis David
c. Angelica Kauffmann
d. Élizabeth Vigée-Lebrun

The Return from Cythera represents a group of lovers preparing to depart from the island of eternal youth. Watteau emphasized that elegance and grace using which of the following?

Select one:
a. form
b. shape
c. line
d. color

Vigée-Lebrun portrayed herself as a self-confident painter looking directly at the viewer (and pausing to return their gaze) this has been copied from an earlier artist. Which of the following is that artist?

Select one:
a. Vermeer
b. Caravaggio
c. Artemisia Gentileschi
d. Judith Leyster

What is the name of the specific style of Rococo painting that depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?
Select one:a. fête de jour
b. pays bonheur
c. fête galante
d. sans souci

Which of the following architects were the most influential in Thomas Jefferson's re-design of Monticello?
Select one:a. Palladio and Robert Adam
b. Vignon and Robert Adam
c. Soufflot and Vignon
d. Palladio and Soufflot

Which of the following eighteenth-century philosophers stressed the importance of the natural goodness of human beings and was an important forerunner of the Romantic sensibility?

Select one:
a. Voltaire
b. John Locke
c. Isaac Newton
d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which of the following works functions as an "altarpiece" for the new civic religion of inspiring the viewer with the martyr's dedication to service?
Select one:a. Death of General Wolfe
b. Death of Marat
c. Cornelia, Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures or Mother of the Gracchi
d. Oath of the Horatii

Courbet preferred to paint which of the following themes?
Select one:a. the "beautiful" as defined by the Academy
b. mythology in the Pompeian style
c. scenes of suffering, pathos, and ecstasy
d. realistic scenes as he saw them

Courbet used which of the following techniques in the The Stonebreakers to convey the drudgery of manual labor?
Select one:a. use of swirling, diagonal line
b. use of bright color to highlight the labor
c. use of a palette of dirty browns and grays
d. use of soft pastels for the stones

Géricault's Raft of the Medusa represents which of the following?
Select one:a. a piece of historical Romanticism related to the Greek war for independence
b. a Romantic dream image
c. the aftermath of a nineteenth-century French shipwreck and was considered an attack on government ineptitude
d. the Gothic emphasis on terror and the sublime

In his painting, ____, Thomas Eakins portrayed things as he saw them and not as the public might want them portrayed.
Select one:a. Three Women in a Village Church
b. Beata Beatrix
c. The Gross Clinic
d. The Thankful Poor

The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia not only because of the portrayal of a naked prostitute as a work of art but also due to which of the following?
Select one:a. her look of embarrassment
b. her look of cool indifference and shamelessness
c. her look of coyness
d. her look of pleasure

The great "Romantic dialogue" about color and form was carried on in the famous contest between which of the following artists?
Select one:a. Delacroix and Ingres
b. Girodet-Troison and Gros
c. Ingres and Géricault
d. Delacroix and Courbet

The term "sublime" was considered to inspire which of the following feelings?
Select one:
a. heroic action
b. the natural goodness of all beings
c. sentimentality
d. awe mixed with terror

Timothy O'Sullivan documented which of the following wars?
Select one:a. Boer War
b. Crimean War
c. American Civil War
d. War of Spanish Succession

What did Thomas Eakins believe was a prerequisite for his art?
Select one:a. knowledge
b. fortune
c. support
d. poetry

Which of the following artists had firsthand knowledge and experience of the American Civil War?
Select one:a. John Singer Sargent
b. Thomas Eakins
c. Winslow Homer
d. Henry Tanner

Which of the following artists painted in the United States?
Select one:a. Friedrich
b. Turner
c. Cole
d. Constable

Which of the following artists represented what was called the "sublime" in eighteenth-century art?
Select one:a. Gainsborough
b. Jacques-Louis David
c. Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
d. Henry Fuseli

Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?
Select one:a. Courbet
b. Bonheur
c. Bouguereau
d. Eakins

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?
Select one:a. Friedrich
b. Turner
c. Cole
d. Bierstadt

interior design that appeared in France

Western philosophy based on empirical evidence. New way of thinking about the world and humankind, independently of religion, myth, or tradition

"learned woman"

describes the cultured hostesses of Rococo salons

amorous festival. outdoor amusements of upper-class societies

painting designed to communicate a person's grace and class through certain standardized conventions.

landscape setting

"scenic view"

style of art and architecture that emerged in the late 18th century.

adapted from styles of Greece and Rome

example or model of virtue

paintings that describe history

feeling and imagination over reason and thought. western culture. 1750.

represented the subject matter of everyday life in a naturalistic way

the search for knowledge based on observations and direct experience

a western model that promoted science as the mind's highest achievement

awe mixed with terror

a woman in a turkish harem

printmaking technique where artists uses oil-based crayon to draw directly on stone plate and then wipes water onto the stone

photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal

attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States