Deck 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789

Question 1

Though an accomplished Neoclassical painter, Angelica Kauffmann was not permitted to join the Royal Academy because she was a woman.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Who designed English Neoclassical interiors based on the antique without slavishly imitating it?

A) Houdon
B) Adam
C) Copley
D) Kauffmann

Answer 2

B

Question 3

George Stubbs specialized in paintings of:

A) Dogs
B) Horses
C) Heroic battle scenes
D) Mythological subject

Answer 3

B

Question 4

This sculptor is often described as the portraitist of the Enlightenment:

A) David
B) Greuze
C) Houdon
D) Soufflot

Question 5

Who was known as a portrait painter of the British aristocracy?

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

Question 6

Who was the artist who produced romanticized depictions of monumental buildings and ruins from Roman antiquity?

A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Greuze
C) Piranesi
D) Kauffmann

Question 7

The climax of the Grand Tour of the eighteenth century was often a trip and extended visit to which city?

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

Question 8

Which architect had a strong influence on Neoclassical architecture?

A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Greuze
C) Fischer von Erlach
D) Palladio

Question 9

Neoclassicism was a reaction against:

A) The control of the French Academy
B) The Enlightenment
C) Napoleon
D) Rococo

Question 10

The painting of Anton Raphael Mengs combines the planarity and linearity as the basis of his style.

Question 11

Who promoted the art and culture of ancient Greece as a foundation for Neoclassical culture?

A) Winckelmann
B) Greuze
C) Watteau
D) Palladio

Question 12

Gavin Hamilton's Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector was widely available for viewing to the public because:

A) it was an engraving
B) it was loaned to many museums
C) its monumental size made it easy to view
D) Hamilton painted many copies

Question 13

Who was an American painter who established a thriving practice in London?

A) Benjamin West
B) Thomas Cole
C) Thomas Eakins
D) Joshua Reynolds

Question 14

Whose paintings have a moralizing quality saying that war is noble and that no sacrifice is too great for the good of the state?

A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze

Question 15

Which French sculptor best exemplifies Enlightenment empiricism?

A) Houdon
B) Rodin
C) Greuze
D) Clodion

Question 16

What style is characterized by a revival of classical forms and motifs, embraced Enlightenment ideals, valued intellect over emotion, and line over color?

A) Rococo
B) Baroque
C) Romanticism
D) Neoclassicism

Question 17

The Age of the Enlightenment was exclusively a European phenomenon.

Question 18

Neoclassical art often illustrated what were considered the virtuous actions and deeds of which ancient peoples?

A) Romans
B) Egyptians
C) Mesopotamians
D) Mycenaeans

Question 19

Who was the most important history painter in England in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

A) Kauffmann
B) Copley
C) Adam
D) West

Question 20

Which artist was an important genre painter in eighteenth-century France?

A) Greuze
B) David
C) Ingres
D) Watteau

Question 21

Compare Rococo and Neoclassicism in terms of subject matter, style, and purpose.

Question 22

Discuss David's Oath of the Horatii as a political work of art.

Question 23

What is traditionally classical and what is distinctly new, and Neoclassical, about Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Barrière de l'Etoile that once stood in Paris?

Question 24

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux designed 50 or more tax gates or customs houses for Rome using an inventive neoclassical vocabulary of architectural forms.

Question 25

Interest in classical antiquity was influenced by what archaeological discoveries? How did this have an impact on the arts? How did writers and philosophers of the time influence French Neoclassicism?

Question 26

How does Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe combine imagery and ideas from the history of art and Christianity to comment upon a contemporary military event? What message does West seek to communicate about the death of the English general?

Question 27

The Chiswick House by Lord Burlington demonstrates a movement away from Palladio's influence in English Neoclassical architecture.