Deck 21: The Baroque in France and England

Question 1

The ideal landscape represents a particular locale in a specific though beautiful manner.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Claude Lorrain is the first artist known to have

A) Painted oil studies outdoors
B) Entered the French Royal Academy
C) Painted idealized landscapes
D) Spent his entire career in a country not his own

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who was responsible for much of the rebuilding of London after the Great London Fire of 1666?

A) Perrault
B) Hardouin-Mansart
C) Inigo Jones
D) Wren

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which Italian architect was initially consulted for the redesign of the Louvre?

A) Bernini
B) Borromini
C) Palladio
D) Della Porta

Question 5

What is the name of the cathedral in London that was rebuilt after the Great London Fire of 1666?

A) St. Peter's
B) St. Paul's
C) Salisbury Cathedral
D) Durham Cathedral

Question 6

In both France and England, who became the most important patrons of the arts?

A) the royal courts
B) the middle class
C) the Catholic church
D) the national academy

Question 7

Hyacinthe Rigaud painted a portrait of which royal individual:

A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Maria de' Medici
C) Charles I
D) Louis XIV

Question 8

Bernini was invited to France to propose a design for what building?

A) St. Paul's
B) Versailles
C) Louvre
D) St. Peter's

Question 9

Absolutism emerged in Europe near the end of the fifteenth century and is most clearly embodied by the reign of Louis XIV of France.

Question 10

Much of the French Academy's doctrine was derived from which French painter during the reign of Louis XIV?

A) Fragonard
B) Poussin
C) La Tour
D) Vouet

Question 11

Where did Poussin live and work for most of his career?

A) Versailles
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) Florence

Question 12

While Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to organize the rebuilding of London, the city turned to another architect for the design of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Question 13

Hyacinthe Rigaud and Anthony van Dyck both painted what kind of figure in the seventeenth century?

A) Absolute monarchs
B) Everyday people
C) Slaves and servants
D) The ill and disabled

Question 14

Wren's plan for St. Paul's Cathedral was

A) A basilica plan, based on a Latin cross
B) Accepted by church authorities as Wren had originally conceived it
C) Conceived without a dome
D) Inspired by a previous design by Borromini

Question 15

Louis XIV embarked on what building project just 11 miles outside of Paris that was to become the largest palace in the western world?

A) St. Denis
B) Louvre
C) Versailles
D) Notre-Dame

Question 16

Which French painter specialized in candlelit night scenes and simplified all forms to near geometric abstraction?

A) Poussin
B) La Tour
C) Claude Lorraine
D) Vouet

Question 17

Charles Le Brun was closely identified with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in which important European city?

A) Paris
B) London
C) Rome
D) Amsterdam

Question 18

The dramatic lighting typical of La Tour was influenced by:

A) Caravaggio
B) Le Vau
C) Perrault
D) Mansart

Question 19

Louis XIV completed the final wing of the traditional palace of the French kings shortly after he assumed the throne. What was it named?

A) St. Denis
B) Louvre
C) Versailles
D) Notre-Dame

Question 20

A reaction against Bernini's style of architecture is seen in the work of French artist Claude Perrault.

Question 21

What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?

Question 22

What was Poussin's working process and how did that process affect the look, expression and meaning of his finished works?

Question 23

What and who were the influences on the design of the Louvre? The design was based on what style of architecture?

Question 24

How does Hyacinth Rigaud's Portrait of Louis XIV function on a number of levels as an image of absolute monarchy? What elements in the painting are there for substantially symbolic reasons?

Question 25

Describe the most important aspects of Versailles. Include in your discussion influences, Louis XIV's taste, and descriptions of the interior, the façade, the gardens, and their scale.

Question 26

The Grand Manner was a concept introduced into French painting by Poussin.

Question 27

After the Great London Fire of 1666, who redesigned St Paul's Cathedral? Discuss the influences on the design of this building.

Question 28

The Italian architect and theorist Andrea Palladio had no appreciable effect on English architecture of the seventeenth century.