Deck 14: Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe

Question 1

Who was Saint Serapion?

A)a Christian martyr
B)a Christian monk
C)a Spanish artist
D)a Spanish monarch

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following artists was a strong influence on the early career of Velázquez?

A)Michelangelo
B)Caravaggio
C)Carracci
D)Raphael

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In the seventeenth century,what was the Catholic Church's reaction to the Renaissance's Humanism rationality and independence?

A)It encouraged independence.
B)It nurtured Humanism.
C)It turned to an authoritarian position.
D)It removed art from the churches and whitewashed the walls.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What caused repeated rebellions in the early seventeenth century in Spain?

A)the economic decline of agriculture and trade
B)religious disagreements
C)failing monarchy
D)excess spending by the ruling class

Question 5

What did Rubens do for the Duke of Mantua?

A)painted court portraits
B)copied famous paintings
C)painted the story of the duchess's life
D)acted as a military engineer

Question 6

What inspired the spiral turned columns of Bernini's Baldacchino?

A)a tornado
B)the Hall of One Hundred Columns at Persepolis
C)columns from Solomon's Temple
D)columns from Djoser's funerary complex

Question 7

How does Diego Velázquez proclaim the dignity and importance of painting as one of the liberal arts through his painting Las Meninas?

A)He included the religious figures within the scene.
B)He highlighted the Infanta.
C)He included a dog in the foreground.
D)He shows himself dressed as a courtier with the keys of the palace.

Question 8

In which category of painting did Anthony van Dyke specialize?

A)portraiture
B)landscapes
C)history and mythology
D)religious art

Question 9

Which of the following processes typically makes the fewest prints?

A)etching
B)drypoint
C)engraving
D)mezzotint

Question 10

For which subject is Judith Leyster best known?

A)genre scenes
B)mythological scenes
C)religious subjects
D)portraiture

Question 11

How did Bernini incorporate the Cornaro family into his sculptural group at the Cornaro Chapel?

A)with their family coat of arms on the base
B)with their emblems-honeybees and laurel leaves on the columns
C)as figures of angels watching from above
D)with statues of them in two balconies on either side

Question 12

Which of the following artists inspired Peter Paul Rubens' technique in The Raising of the Cross?

A)Michelangelo
B)Caravaggio
C)Diego Velázquez
D)Annibale Carracci

Question 13

Which of the following is often considered to be one of the greatest group portraits ever painted?

A)Portuguese Synagogue,Amsterdam,de Witte
B)Las Meninas,Velázquez
C)Burial of Count Orgaz,El Greco
D)The Company of Captain Frans Banning COCQ,Rembrandt

Question 14

Why was Caravaggio's work sometimes rejected?

A)It was too brutally naturalistic.
B)It was too idealized.
C)His patrons wanted larger work.
D)His patrons wanted greater realism.

Question 15

Other than being an interesting work of art,what is the function of the painting Portuguese Synagogue,Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte?

A)It provides a metaphor for eternal judgment.
B)It records seventeenth-century building practices.
C)It documents religious tolerance.
D)It shows the strength of the painters' guild.

Question 16

What renewed the patronage of foreign artists in England after the Puritan takeover led by Oliver Cromwell?

A)the restoration of the Hapsburgs
B)the death of Charles I
C)the restoration of the Stuarts under Charles II
D)the exile of Marie de' Medici

Question 17

Why was the figure of the Virgin Mary often shown standing on a crescent moon?

A)It signified the New World.
B)It symbolized her ability to cure the plague.
C)It represented the woman of the Apocalypse.
D)It showed her piety.

Question 18

Whose life story did Rubens paint?

A)Phillip IV,King of Spain
B)Pope Innocent X
C)Marie de' Medici,Queen of France
D)Charles I,King of England

Question 19

Which is the inspiration for the Farnese ceiling?

A)Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
B)Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
C)Gaulli's frescoes in Il Gesu
D)Mantegna's Camera Picta

Question 20

What made the flower paintings of Rachel Ruysch so highly prized?

A)the personal expression
B)the historical context
C)the color harmonies
D)the linear perspective

Question 21

The French Academy was based upon the art of which style?

A)Mannerist art
B)Baroque art
C)Renaissance art
D)Classical art

Question 22

Discuss the style and result of the collaboration between Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders in Prometheus Bound.

Question 23

Discuss the composition and arrangement of space in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas.What is the role of the viewer?

Question 24

Which word best describes Nicolas Poussin?

A)Medievalist
B)Classicist
C)Modernist
D)Realist

Question 25

Who originally built the small hunting château at Versailles?

A)Louis XIII
B)Henry IV
C)Louis XIV
D)Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Question 26

How is Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance both a genre painting and an allegorical vanitas painting?

Question 27

How does Hyacinthe Rigaud represent the figure of the king? How is this typically Baroque?

Question 28

What was the subject of Charles Le Brun's painted ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors?

A)hunting scenes
B)military triumphs of Louis XIV
C)imaginary landscapes
D)luxurious fêtes galantes

Question 29

To whom does the phrase le Roi Soleil ("the Sun King")refer?

A)Phillip IV of Spain
B)Charles I of England
C)Louis XIV of France
D)Henri IV of France

Question 30

How does Bernini's Cornaro Chapel reveal the characteristics of Baroque art?