Deck 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Question 1

A piazza is

A) an Italian pie
B) an Italian villa
C) an Italian costume
D) an Italian square
E) an Italian palace

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which is the best match?

A) Poussin -- color -- Apollo -- Moderns
B) Rubens -- color -- Apollo -- Ancients
C) Poussin -- line -- Dionysos -- Moderns
D) Rubens -- color -- Moderns -- Dionysos
E) Poussin -- line -- Dionysos -- Ancients

Answer 2

D

Question 3

_______ worked for Louis XIV in a style called the Classical Baroque

A) Poussin
B) Cravaggio
C) Bernini
D) Rubens

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which is the most characteristic feature of Baroque style?

A) elongation
B) violent action
C) restraint
D) flat spaces
E) frontal figures

Question 5

The two main shapes used by Bernini in front of Saint Peter's are

A) a square and a circle
B) a trapezoid and an oval
C) a rectangle and an oval
D) a trapezoid and a circle

Question 6

Borromini's buildings are characterized by:

A) dramatic frontality and heightened proportion
B) curved movement from space to space
C) contrasting concave and convex forms
D) curved movement from space to space and contrasting concave and convex forms

Question 7

Bernini's colonnades outside St.Peter's are made of

A) marble
B) travertine
C) tufa
D) concrete
E) stucco

Question 8

Which is the best match?

A) Hobbes -- astronomy
B) Copernicus -- political philosophy
C) Galileo -- biology
D) Kepler -- heliocentrism

Question 9

The "Throne of Saint Peter" is

A) an elaborate chair in St. Peter's cathedral
B) a baldacchino
C) a reliquary
D) a triptych
E) an altarpiece

Question 10

High Baroque style is

A) dynamic
B) sensual
C) theatrical
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 11

Baroque intellectuals and artists were interested in

A) showing the hand of God at work in an orderly the world
B) demonstrating the laws of creation in action
C) illustrating the hierarchy of authority in society and religion
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 12

Which is by Borromini?

A) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
B) the facade of the Louvre
C) Saint'Ivo della Sapienza
D) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, the facade of the Louvre, and Saint'Ivo della Sapienza
E) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Saint'Ivo della Sapienza

Question 13

Which gained new status in the 17^th century?

A) landscape, mythology, genre
B) portraiture, mythology, still life
C) landscape, portraiture, mythology
D) landscape, genre, still life

Question 14

Nicolas Poussin was a Classical Baroque painter because we can see __________ in his work.

A) restraint
B) passion
C) moderation
D) restraint and moderation

Question 15

Which is true of the interior dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?

A) it has square coffers only
B) it has square, hexagonal, and octagonal coffers
C) it has hexagonal, square, and cross-shaped coffers
D) it has hexagonal, octagonal, and cross-shaped coffers

Question 16

Louis XIV moved the court to Versailles in

A) 1665
B) 1660
C) 1667
D) 1650

Question 17

Which is the best match?

A) Philip IV -- Habsburg
B) Charles I -- Protector
C) Louis XIII -- the Sun King
D) Cromwell -- Stuart

Question 18

The purpose of Louis XIV's Academy was to

A) educate artists in humanism
B) establish a national style
C) have a school for the court painters
D) teach the principles of Baroque style
E) revive the Socratic method

Question 19

___________ was the place Baroque art was born.

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

Question 20

The Collegiate Church of St.Ivo della Sapienza was Baroque because of its

A) centralized, but asymmetrical plan
B) all-embracing arms as at St. Peter's
C) remarkably classical façade
D) orderly, symmetrical floor plan

Question 21

Rubens's paintings are characterized by

A) strong angular compositions
B) brilliant colors and textures
C) the human body in motion
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 22

Anchises was

A) the lover of Ceres
B) the lover of Juno
C) the father of Aeneas
D) the lover of Ceres and the lover of Juno
E) the father of Aeneas and the lover of Ceres and the lover of Juno

Question 23

The Greek god most closely associated with Louis XIV was

A) Zeus
B) Ares
C) Dionysos
D) Apollo
E) Poseidon

Question 24

The Farnese Grand Gallery ceiling frescoes illustrate

A) Christian scenes
B) scenes of the Farnese family
C) mythological scenes
D) scenes of Roman history

Question 25

Gaulli's Triumph of the Name of Jesus

A) is in the vault of Saint Peter's
B) is in the vault of the Gesú
C) is a collaboration between Gaulli and Bernini
D) was commissioned by the pope

Question 26

Which is the best match?

A) Catholic -- Holland
B) Catholic -- Switzerland
C) Protestant -- Holland
D) Protestant -- France

Question 27

Caravaggio's Calling of Matthew quotes visually from

A) the gospel of Matthew
B) the Amor Vincit Omnia
C) Gaulli's ceiling
D) Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling

Question 28

Which does not appear in Bernini's Pluto and Proserpina?

A) contrapposto
B) Cerberus
C) figura serpentinata
D) Ceres
E) Pluto

Question 29

The Italian Baroque equivalent of Vasari was

A) van Mander
B) Carracci
C) Cortona
D) Bellori

Question 30

The landscape architect at Versailles was

A) Le Brun
B) Le Nôtre
C) Le Vau
D) Hardouin-Mansart
E) Colbert

Question 31

The Great Fire of London occurred in

A) 1666
B) 1677
C) 1688
D) 1655

Question 32

When Christopher Wren designed St.Paul's Cathedral in London he was influenced by

A) Borromini
B) Bernini
C) the architecture of Louis XIV
D) a synthesis of all the choices.

Question 33

Caravaggio's Medusa

A) was based on the features of his lover
B) was a wedding present
C) is oil on wood
D) is the same figure as the boy in the Boy with a Basket of Fruit.

Question 34

Which is not a feature of Wren's facade of St.Paul's?

A) pediment
B) columns
C) entablature
D) towers
E) pointed arches

Question 35

Which is not true of Pietro da Cortona's Reign of Urban VIII

A) it is on a ceiling in the Palazzo Barbarini
B) it depicts three huge bees
C) it exalts the Catholic Church
D) it is organized like a Last Judgment
E) it contains mythological figures

Question 36

Tenebrism refers to

A) chiaroscuro
B) a preponderance of cast shadows
C) a preponderance of darkness
D) the tenets of shading

Question 37

Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by

A) Rubens
B) El Greco
C) Tintoretto
D) Caravaggio

Question 38

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes is based on

A) the Bible
B) the Old Testament Apocrypha
C) the Metamorphoses
D) the New Testament Apocrypha

Question 39

Caravaggio was described by van Mander as

A) combining the qualities of Mars and Minerva
B) violent but charming
C) a realist and a Neoplatonist
D) a good tennis player

Question 40

Which is not true of Bernini's Saint Teresa?

A) she has erotic quality
B) she is on a horizontal plane
C) she is in the process of levitating
D) she is both relaxed and aroused
E) she synthesizes emotion with mysticism

Question 41

Rubens synthesized the ideas

A) Caravaggio
B) Michelangelo
C) Titian
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 42

The seventeenth-century artist most interested in the science of optics was __________.

A) Spinoza
B) Rubens
C) Vermeer
D) Ucello

Question 43

The Dutch East India Company secured a monopoly on

A) textiles
B) slaves
C) spices
D) tulips
E) porcelain

Question 44

The Taj Mahal was a memorial to

A) Akbar
B) Mumtaz
C) Shah Jehan
D) Jahangir

Question 45

Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in __________.

A) landscape
B) moralizing pictures
C) vanitas
D) portraits

Question 46

The Baroque artist best known for self-portraits is

A) Poussin
B) Rubens
C) Rembrandt
D) Vermeer
E) Bernini

Question 47

The "writing on the wall" appears in

A) The Blinding of Samson
B) The Night Watch
C) Belshazzar's Feast
D) The Assumption of the Virgin

Question 48

The court portrait painter to Charles I of England was

A) Anthony van Dyck
B) Christopher Wren
C) Hans Holbein
D) Oliver Cromwell

Question 49

Which artist is matched with the incorrect city of origin?

A) Hals -- Haarlem
B) Rembrandt -- Leiden
C) Vermeer -- Delft
D) Leyster -- Amsterdam

Question 50

Diego de Velázquez was strongly influenced by

A) Annibale Carracci
B) Caravaggio
C) Tintoretto
D) El Greco

Question 51

The predominant planes in Baroque painting are

A) horizontal
B) vertical
C) curvilinear
D) spiral
E) diagonal

Question 52

Rembrandt's painted light is typically

A) yellow
B) white
C) light blue
D) gray
E) light green

Question 53

Vanitas is the Latin word for

A) emptiness
B) vanity
C) vainglory
D) lies

Question 54

The Baroque artist known to have used the camera obscura was

A) Vermeer
B) Rubens
C) Leyster
D) Rembrandt
E) Hals

Question 55

Rembrandt's religious work was

A) contemplative
B) spiritual
C) heated and exotic
D) contemplative and spiritual but not heated and exotic

Question 56

The figure in Rubens's The Straw Hat was

A) a wealthy patron
B) the artist's sister
C) the artist's wife
D) the artist's future sister-in-law
E) the artist's future mother-in-law

Question 57

Which best describes Rubens's women?

A) they are overweight
B) they are voluptuous
C) they are pious
D) they are mythological
E) they are peasants

Question 58

___________ was one of the "Little Dutch Masters."

A) Holbein
B) Anthony Van Dyck
C) Velázquez
D) Jan Vermeer

Question 59

Which is least likely to appear as vanitas iconography?

A) a skull
B) a windmill
C) a watch
D) a candle
E) a shell

Question 60

Three emperors who patronized Mughal painting in India were

A) Genghis Khan, Akbar, and Shah Jehan
B) Genghis Khan, Akbar, and Jahangir
C) Mumtaz, Jahangir, and Akbar
D) Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jehan

Question 61

The most "classical" of the following Baroque artists was

A) Bernini
B) Caravaggio
C) Poussin
D) Rubens
E) Rembrandt

Question 62

Which is not by Velázquez?

A) The Nightwatch
B) The Surrender of Breda
C) The Rokeby Venus
D) Las Meninas

Question 63

Velázquez's main patron was

A) Philip II
B) Louis XIV
C) Philip IV
D) Charles V