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The painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a _________.

self-portrait of Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin

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Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, Realism

Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?

because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art

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4.

Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Medieval

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night, this technique is called ________.

3.

impasto

Napoleon III asked the Baron Haussmann to do what?

2.

widen the Paris streets, provide street lights and a sewer system

Neoclassical paintings, such as Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii _________

all of the other answers

Who called himself the Sun King?

Louis XIV

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Monet, Impression: Sunrise, Impressionism

Which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Western Europe, a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?

Baroque

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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Modern

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

all of the other answers

American artists found their equivalent of European History Painting in _________.

1.

the American landscape

Large-scale paintings like Cole's Voyage of Life or Bierstadt's Rocky Mountians suggested the idea of the ______ to 19th century viewers.

the sublime

A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?

Claude Monet

Paris Street: Rainy Day shows us Paris as _____________.

modern spectacle

Which painter's "passages" of paint on landscapes of the mountain he painted repeatedly helped inspire Cubism?

Paul Cezanne

Why was Tilted Arc controversial?

all of the above

The legend of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolzauqui is a metaphor for the actual observation of ________.

an eclipse of the moon

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Woman from Willendorf - Prehistoric

Western expansion as seen in Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains was justified in 19th century America by the concept of _________.

Manifest Destiny

The pigment that covered the mummy of the Red Queen at Palenque was __________.

1.

cinnabar

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Raphael, The School of Athens, High Renaissance

Rococo style was in which century?

18th
Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome? Renaissance

Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from _______.

the Middle Ages

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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Modern

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Michelangelo, The Last Judgment, Late Renaissance

Donald Judd's Untitled is part of which movement?

Minimalism
Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid-to late-sixteenth-century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal? Mannerism

What does the dog in The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize?

that the couple are wealthy and faithful

Some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas are _______.

Clovis points

This man was responsible for the first Encyclopedia.

Denis Diderot

The way that Jackson Pollock painted focused on the process of making art.

True

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed by:

Frank Lloyd Wright

The medium of the artwork that decorates the Sistine Chapel ceiling is __________.

fresco

Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 - 1900?

all of the other answers

This was the philosophy that was popular during the Renaissance especially in the court of Lorenzo de Medici which elevated aesthetics and beauty into a spiritual realm.

humanism

Brunelleschi's design for the dome of Florence Cathedral was a triumph over adversity because _______.

4.

building such an enormous dome was a technological challenge

In the Andes, textiles were considered _______gold and silver.

more valuable than

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3.

Velazquez, Baroque

A "deposition" scene shows which of the following:

1.

Jesus's body being removed from the cross

Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare is an example of _______ Gothic Romanticism

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Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Cubism

Matisse used his cutouts __________.

5.

sometimes like preparatory sketches, sometimes as finished artworks

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4.

Jacque-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, Neoclassical

Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?

5.

all of the other answers

Which of the following artwoks was made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

1.

a landscape filled with ordinary people, which humorously depicts everyday proverbs

Luminist paintings are characterized by __________.

1.

horizontality and Zen-like quiet

Rococo style is characterized by:

4.

lightness, frivolity, excess, playful eroticism

Conceptual art emphasizes _______.

4.

the ideas behind the artwork over its realization

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Modern

The early itinerant painters in America were known as ___________.

3.

Limners

Bernini depicts his David at exactly the same moment in the story as the versions by his predecessors Donatello and Michelangelo.

False

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3.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, High Renaissance

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street Berlin is part of the ______ movement as seen ________.

4.

Expressionist - in the painting's intentionally raw and aggressive intensity

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2.

Hagia Sophia - Byzantine

What invention of the Renaissance allowed for the spread of knowledge?

1.

the printing press and moveable type

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de las Galette _____________.

4.

depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time