Deck 11: Rococo to Neoclassicism in Europe and America

Question 1

Which artist brought scientific accuracy and dramatic presentation to his painting?

A) Denis Diderot
B) William Hogarth
C) Joseph Wright of Derby
D) Antoine Watteau

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which artist is known for painting vedute?

A) Fragonard
B) Canaletto
C) Kaufmann
D) Houdon

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What type of Rococo painting depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?

A) fête galante
B) sans souci
C) fête de jour
D) joie de vivre

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Soufflot's Pantheon demonstrates the revival of ____ cultures.

A) French
B) Roman
C) Imperial
D) traditional

Question 5

Which American president was also an architect?

A) George Washington
B) John Adams
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) James Madison

Question 6

What is a grand tour?

A) a world tour
B) Napoleon's march through Europe and Russia
C) landscape paintings made to simulate a trip abroad
D) the trip wealthy Europeans and Americans made to Italy

Question 7

Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe illustrates the death of a/an ____ soldier.

A) French
B) American
C) British
D) Canadian

Question 8

Who is considered the first modern art historian?

A) Rousseau
B) Locke
C) Winckelmann
D) Diderot

Question 9

Jefferson based his design for Monticello on the work of ____.

A) Inigo Jones
B) Brunelleschi
C) Palladio
D) Bernini

Question 10

David's Death of Marat illustrates an episode from the ____.

A) American Revolution
B) French-Canadian Way
C) French Revolution
D) British invasion

Question 11

At the turn of the century,the French Academy was divided between the ____.

A) Poussinistes and the Claudistes
B) Rubenistes and the Poussinistes
C) Rubenistes and the Caravaggisti
D) Caravaggisti and the Claudistes

Question 12

(Figure 11-14)

A) Hogarth
B) David
C) Kaufman
D) Canaletto

Question 13

Chardin's Saying Grace exemplifies the French ____.

A) rejection of Rococo frivolity
B) interest in the natural
C) taste for sentimental narrative
D) all of these choices

Question 14

The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was ____.

A) Kauffmann
B) David
C) Fragonard
D) Soufflot

Question 15

Clodion's Nymph and Satyr Carousing illustrates the Rococo taste for ____.

A) classical art
B) moralizing lessons
C) erotic playfulness
D) coloristic effects

Question 16

Which answer best describes the paintings by John Singleton Copley?

A) down to earth and informal
B) theatrical and majestic
C) graceful and sophisticated
D) moralizing and grandiose

Question 17

The Enlightenment idea of the "natural man" may be seen in paintings by ____.

A) Greuze
B) Watteau
C) Fragonard
D) Clodion

Question 18

Which artist made portraits in the grant manner?

A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Hogarth
C) David
D) Reynolds

Question 19

William Hogarth's paintings ____.

A) glorified the English monarchy
B) satirized the newly prosperous middle class
C) vindicated grand manner portraitists
D) celebrated the rituals of everyday life

Question 20

The eighteenth-century philosopher who stressed the importance of the natural goodness of human beings was ____.

A) Newton
B) Voltaire
C) Locke
D) Rousseau

Question 21

How does this work reflect the interest in "the natural"?

Question 22

In what way do these works differ?

Question 23

How did Rousseau influence art?

Question 24

What is being expressed in this work?

Question 25

What type of subject matter did "veduta" painting portray?

Question 26

What is a fête galante?

Question 27

Explain the relationship of Neoclassicism and Rococo.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 28

How does Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun represent 18th-century portraiture?

Question 29

Why did Thomas Jefferson choose a Neoclassical style for Monticello and Washington,D.C.?

Question 30

Explain the American interest in ancient Rome and how this interest affected art and architecture.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 31

Reconstruct the Rococo setting of the French aristocratic elite.Where did they live? What did they have in their homes? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 32

How did the work of Hogarth present a "moral tone"?

Question 33

Explain the impact of the Enlightenment and its major thinkers on art.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 34

Compare the self-portraits of Vigée-Lebrun and Artemisia Gentileschi.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 35

Who was Johann Winckelmann,and what was his significance to the history of art?

Question 36

Explain how science and history became major themes in eighteenth-century art.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 37

Compare Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and David's Oath of the Horatii.How does each work relate to the sociopolitical climate of the period?

Question 38

What is "Grand Manner Portraiture"?

Question 39

What does this work represent?

Question 40

How does this depict a successful "history" painting?

Question 41

Why is this image called an altarpiece for the new civic religion?

Question 42

What social and historical issues does this painting illustrate?

Question 43

How does this work express Neoclassicism?

Question 44

Compare the paintings of Hogarth and Reynolds.How does each address the issue of class? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

Discuss the ways in which the 18ᵗʰ-century interest in the natural,the sentimental,and the heroic was expressed in art.Use examples to support your essay.