Deck 20: Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles

Question 1

Rococo architecture could best be described as

A) Classical.
B) sparse.
C) ornate.
D) functional.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which mythological figure was common to the paintings as well as the entablatures over the doorways of the Residenz?

A) Venus
B) Cupid
C) Apollo
D) Athena

Answer 2

Cupid

Question 3

Thomas Gainsborough was best known for what type of art?

A) satirical prints
B) still lifes of bourgeois objects
C) portraits set in landscapes
D) grandiose depictions of historical events

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Chiswick House was inspired by

A) Palladio's Villa Rotonda.
B) Hadrian's villa.
C) the Medici villa.
D) the Villa of the Mysteries.

Question 5

Who designed the Residenz in Würzberg, Bavaria?

A) Pöppelmann
B) Neumann
C) Walpole
D) Zimmermann

Question 6

Which artist's portrait of Paul Revere is indicative of the artist's more realistic, early style, which would later become more ornate?

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

Question 7

Robert Adam's architecture was strongly influenced by

A) Gothic revival.
B) chinoiserie
C) Rococo churches.
D) Classical excavations.

Question 8

Which is NOT a feature of Fragonard's The Swing?

A) frilly patterns
B) Classical imagery
C) erotic symbolism
D) religious allegory

Question 9

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill is an example of

A) Classical revival.
B) Gothic revival.
C) chinoiserie.
D) German Rococo.

Question 10

The Gothic revival was most closely aligned with what other movement?

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

Question 11

Perhaps the largest ceiling fresco was painted by Giovanni Tiepolo for which building?

A) the Zwinger
B) the Weiskirche
C) the Residenz
D) Osterley Park House

Question 12

The Wieskirche exhibited all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) a painted ceiling.
B) colors that deepen as one approaches the chancel.
C) a color scheme based on white, brown, gold, and pink.
D) an elaborately ornate exterior.

Question 13

Who designed Chiswick House?

A) Pöppelmann
B) Neumann
C) Burlington
D) Walpole

Question 14

Benjamin West's aroused controversy

A) by depicting contemporary figures in contemporary garb.
B) by depicting the fallen general in a satirical light.
C) by criticizing the British Crown's imperial policies.
D) through its attention to realistic detail in postures and gestures.

Question 15

Which artist's works had the most in common with the literature of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift?

A) Watteau
B) Fragonard
C) Hogarth
D) Labille-Guiard

Question 16

Which is NOT a feature of the Pilgrimage to Cythera

A) It is a fête galante.
B) The costumes have a silky texture.
C) It celebrates hard work and self-sacrifice.
D) It contains Classical imagery.

Question 17

Which artist's penchant for poking fun at manners and customs is evident in the series Marriage à la Mode?

A) Watteau
B) Hogarth
C) West
D) Walpole

Question 18

Who designed the Zwinger for Augustus the Strong?

A) Neumann
B) Copley
C) Vigée-Lebrun
D) Pöppelmann

Question 19

The term Bourgeois Realism is applied to works like Pipe and Jug, by which artist?

A) Chardin
B) Hogarth
C) Chambers
D) Copley

Question 20

Who painted the Neoclassical Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures?

A) Chardin
B) Gainsborough
C) West
D) Kauffmann

Question 21

John Locke was associated with empiricism, the belief that

A) all knowledge of facts derives from experience.
B) humans are born with innate knowledge of facts.
C) faith provides a surer means of finding truth than science.
D) the goal of knowledge is to expand political power.

Question 22

William Hogarth regarded modern art as worthless, and praised the unsurpassed virtues of old-master paintings.

Question 23

Who painted Pilgrimage to Cythera?

A) Fragonard
B) Hogarth
C) Labille-Guiard
D) Watteau

Question 24

Along with being a painter, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was also a notable salonnière.

Question 25

The tone and imagery of Joseph Wright's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is most closely aligned with

A) French Rococo.
B) literary satire.
C) chinoiserie.
D) a vanitas scene.

Question 26

What is the defining characteristic of Rococo style?

A) wit and frivolity
B) a concern for the plight of commoners
C) somber moralizing
D) religious allegory

Question 27

The German Sturm und Drang movement emphasized the indomitable power of

A) human reason.
B) the human will.
C) nature.
D) kings.

Question 28

Who designed the Wieskirche, a pilgrimage in the foothills of the Alps?

A) Kauffmann
B) Pöppelmann
C) Zimmermann
D) Walpole

Question 29

After the death of Louis XIV, royal patronage of the arts in France declined.

Question 30

The erection of a pagoda in Kew Gardens, Middlesex, England, is a good representation of the Rococo fondness for

A) coquille.
B) Neoclassicism.
C) rocaille.
D) chinoiserie.

Question 31

The American artist John Singleton Copley was a staunch supporter of the American Revolution.

Question 32

Whose ocial Contract (1762) argued that a social contract existed between the people themselves rather than between the people and their rulers?

A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Denis Diderot
C) John Locke
D) René Descartes

Question 33

English architects embraced Rococo style wholeheartedly.

Question 34

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's painting Self-Portrait with Two Pupils demonstrates that

A) the classical tradition had little influence over Rococo art.
B) Rococo art could convey serious messages.
C) Christian allegory was an essential element of Rococo art.
D) Rococo art was almost exclusively concerned with playful eroticism.

Question 35

The term Enlightenment represented a shift from the association of light with divine power to its association with reason and intellect.

Question 36

The Zwinger served as a private cathedral for the king of Poland.

Question 37

The Rococo style overlapped with a period of serious advancement in music and science.

Question 38

Élizabeth Vigée-Lebrun was best known for her depictions of fêtes galantes taking place amidst fanciful landscapes.

Question 39

The term Rococo derives from French words for "gaiety" and "pleasure."

Question 40

What was chinoiserie?

A) a type of glaze applied to stoneware pottery
B) an interest in Chinese imagery and art forms
C) the lace-like "frills" that adorned the walls of Rococo buildings
D) the use of bright, pastel colors to connote joy

Question 41

Discuss the status of women artists in the eighteenth century. Were they well respected? Had they become more respected? Were they confined to certain subject matters?

Question 42

What were the characteristics of Rococo? How did the style reflect the social concerns of its time?

Question 43

Discuss the various developments in eighteenth-century architecture. How did Rococo influences appear in architecture? What former architectural styles were revived?

Question 44

Using examples from your text, compare Rococo with Baroque. Consider style, context, and subject matter.

Question 45

Compare and contrast Gainsborough's Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan with Vigée-LeBrun's Marie Antoinette and Her Children. What qualities do the paintings share? How do they differ? What do they reveal about French and English Rococo styles more generally?

Question 46

Discuss the role of pleasure in Rococo art. What did such art identify as the sources of pleasure? How was pleasure conveyed through symbolism, subject matter, and style?

Question 47

Compare American painting of the eighteenth century with that of England and France. Use the examples in your text.