Deck 22: The Rococo

Question 1

With whom are the vedute associated?

A) Canaletto
B) Tiepolo
C) Fischer von Erlach
D) Boucher

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?

A) Boucher
B) Hogarth
C) Neumann
D) Reynolds

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In France, the Rococo is linked with the reign of which monarch?

A) Colbert
B) Louis XIV
C) Louis XV
D) Louis-Philippe

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Madame de Pompadour fashioned herself as a beautiful and elegant, as well as educated, cultured, accomplished woman, known is French as

A) Femme savant
B) Fête galante
C) Femme fatale
D) Bénédicité

Question 5

The Swing by Fragonard suggests:

A) an alliance between aristocracy and clergy in secrets and erotic fantasy
B) mythological escapism
C) a morality play espousing middle-class virtues
D) history painting

Question 6

What artist was a social critic and made morality paintings that teach middle-class virtues?

A) Poussin
B) Hogarth
C) Watteau
D) Boucher

Question 7

Which French groups are referenced in Fragonard's The Swing?

A) The aristocracy and the clergy
B) The bourgeoisie and the lower class
C) The clergy and the monarchy
D) The monarchy and the middle class

Question 8

Who was associated with fêtes galantes?

A) Tiepolo
B) Chardin
C) Fragonard
D) Watteau

Question 9

Who made his mark with a new kind of genre painting that he described as "modern moral subjects…similar to representations on the stage"?

A) Hogarth
B) Boucher
C) Fragonard
D) Chardin

Question 10

The Rococo style was successfully used for the interior design of French hotels.

Question 11

The term Rococo was taken from the French word rocaille meaning:

A) rough
B) pebble
C) frivolous
D) pastel-colored

Question 12

Tiepolo was known especially for:

A) fêtes galantes
B) illusionistic ceiling decorations
C) still lifes
D) moral fables

Question 13

"Rococo" was taken from the French word rocaille (meaning "pebble") and the Portuguese barrocco (meaning "baroque").

Question 14

Chardin's Saying Grace:

A) Appealed to members of the rising bourgeoisie
B) Was commissioned by Louis XIV
C) Served as a domestic altarpiece
D) Is the only painting like this that the artist produced

Question 15

In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.

Question 16

To admit Watteau as a member, the French Academy created the new classification of painting called

A) fêtes galantes
B) vedute
C) femme savant
D) bénédicité

Question 17

Which eighteenth century French artist is associated with still lifes and genre scenes?

A) Watteau
B) Chardin
C) Fragonard
D) Mansard

Question 18

Two factions in the French Academy at the end of the seventeenth century were the "Poussinistes" and the

A) Rubenistes
B) Watteauists
C) Canaletti
D) Caravaggisti

Question 19

Vedute refers to:

A) visionary scenes
B) paintings of canals
C) view paintings
D) still Life paintings

Question 20

The eighteenth-century academies of art referred to the arts that did not include painting, sculpture, architecture and drawing as:

A) Minor arts
B) Major arts
C) Secondary arts
D) Art for art's sake

Question 21

Compare and contrast Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Saying Grace. How do subject matter and style differ in these two works?

Question 22

Discuss the principal characteristics of Rococo art and architecture and reference a work of painting, sculpture, and architecture where those characteristics are in evidence.

Question 23

Describe the subject, style, and mood of Watteau's A Pilgrimage to Cythera. How might this painting reflect the nature and concerns of aristocratic society in France in the eighteenth century?

Question 24

Describe the nature of William Hogarth's art and how it formed a type of visual satire in eighteenth-century England.

Question 25

The Rococo style was popular throughout Europe.

Question 26

What social functions did Pineau's Varengeville Room and Neumann's Kaisersaal serve and how were those functions furthered in expression by the architectural and ornamental styles that these designers/architects chose?

Question 27

What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?

Question 28

Architects in Germany and Austria proved immune to the allure of Rococo design.