Deck 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Question 1

François Rude's sculpture La Marseillaise represents

A) a parade in Paris
B) Liberty leading France to protect the motherland
C) the French Revolution led by Louis XVI
D) the battle of the Centaurs

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In the Raft of the Medusa,"Medusa" refers to

A) a jellyfish
B) a life raft
C) a ship
D) a hospital
E) a painting by Caravaggio

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which is not a tenet of Romanticism?

A) nostalgia
B) exoticism
C) chivalric tales
D) the sublime
E) social realism

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Gouache is a kind of

A) etching
B) paint
C) woodcut
D) pigment

Question 5

Kronos was

A) a bad Spanish father
B) the father of the Olympians
C) the father of Goya
D) the father of Hermes

Question 6

In Liberty Leading the People,the figure of Liberty is an example of

A) irony
B) allegory
C) satire
D) metonymy
E) realism

Question 7

The Salon refers to

A) an official art exhibition
B) a room in a château
C) a room in a private Paris apartment
D) an art gallery

Question 8

Géricault's Raft of the Medusa was based on

A) a Romantic concoction under the influence of opium
B) an event taken from the newspapers of the day
C) a scene from the French Revolution
D) a mythological scene

Question 9

La Marseillaise is

A) a French city
B) a French building
C) a French song
D) a French epic

Question 10

The Romantic movement in French literature was led by

A) Voltaire
B) Rousseau
C) Descartes
D) Hugo
E) Delacroix

Question 11

Which does not match?

A) Burke -- the sublime
B) Goethe -- Sturm und Drang
C) Freud -- the Uncanny
D) Rousseau -- Les Misérables

Question 12

Aquatint combines

A) watercolor and drawing
B) engraving and oil
C) watercolor and silverpoint
D) watercolor and engraving

Question 13

Romantic artists

A) were interested in the wild and ghostly
B) yearned for the past or a golden future
C) loved wild landscapes
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 14

The Houses of Parliament are examples of

A) Classical revival architecture
B) Palladian architecture
C) Gothic revival architecture
D) Islamic revival architecture

Question 15

The war depicted in the Massacre at Chios was between

A) America and England
B) France and Italy
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Greece and Italy

Question 16

The Brighton Pavilion is an example of

A) Gothic revival
B) Islamic Gothic
C) Classical revival
D) Indian Gothic

Question 17

Which is not a theme in Goya's painting?

A) social injustice
B) child psychology
C) irrational thinking
D) frivolity

Question 18

Géricault's paintings reflect his interest in

A) combating social injustice
B) horsemanship
C) psychology
D) all of the choices are correct.
E) combating social injustice and psychology only

Question 19

The Massacre at Chios is sympathetic to

A) Greece
B) Turkey
C) Italy
D) France
E) England

Question 20

Which best describes the work of William Blake?

A) Classical
B) Gothic
C) down-to-earth
D) military
E) visionary

Question 21

Who is not an American Romantic writer?

A) Coleridge
B) Thoreau
C) Emerson
D) Cooper
E) Poe

Question 22

Constable's painting of Salisbury Cathedral is an example of

A) Gothic revival
B) Realism
C) Romanticism
D) watercolor

Question 23

Towards the end of his career,Turner painted

A) carefully delineated scenes of upper class virtue
B) realistic landscapes
C) broadly imagined, expressionistically colored landscapes
D) photographic-quality portraits

Question 24

Match the author with his work

A) Coleridge -- The Solitary Reaper
B) Shelley -- Kubla Khan
C) Byron -- Don Juan
D) Keats - Ozymandias

Question 25

Pippin's Holy Mountain quotes from which of the following?

A) Cole
B) Hicks
C) Bingham
D) Turner

Question 26

Who wrote The Seven Lamps of Architecture?

A) Nash
B) Jefferson
C) Ruskin
D) Upjohn