European Art: Renaissance to Present Exam Bank

Course Introduction

This course explores the development of European art from the Renaissance through to the present day, examining major movements, artists, and works that have shaped the Western artistic tradition. Students will analyze the cultural, political, and technological factors that influenced art production and aesthetics, beginning with the innovations of the Renaissance and tracing the evolution of styles through Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Contemporary Art. Emphasis is placed on visual analysis, the interpretation of meaning and context, and the ongoing dialogue between art and society, enabling students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic history of European visual culture.

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Art History 5th Edition Volume 2 by Marilyn Stokstad

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Chapter 1: Fourtheenth-Century Art in Europe

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Q1) How did the artists convey that the angel Gabriel is speaking to Mary in the Annunciation by Simone Martine and Lippo Memmi?

A) They included iconographic details that symbolize Gabriel's message.

B) They placed the figures in a conversational pose.

C) They incised scriptural text into the gold leaf.

D) They reference the chapter and verse from Luke in the framework.

Answer: C

Q2) Which stylistic characteristic distinguishes fourteenth-century figure painting in Siena from that produced in Florence?

A) the use of modeling to suggest three-dimensional forms

B) the placement of figures in naturalistic and architectural settings

C) an emphasis on jewel-like coloring and elegantly posed forms

D) the use of tempera paint

Answer: C

Q3) Who was Christine de Pizan? In what ways did she contribute to her profession and to her era?

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Q4) Discuss the techniques of buon fresco and fresco secco,citing examples of each.

Answer: Not Answer

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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe

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Q1) __________ emerged in Europe at the end of the fourteenth century with the development of printing presses and the wider availability of paper.

A) Oil painting

B) Printmaking

C) Manuscript Illumination

D) Fresco

Answer: B

Q2) Petrus Christus's A Goldsmith in His Shop includes a small__________,which unites the interior and exterior spaces and draws the viewer into the painting.

A) vase of lilies

B) water basin

C) sheath of hay

D) mirror

Answer: D

Q3) Discuss the importance of the fiber arts in -fifteenth century Flanders.Cite specific examples.

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Q4) Define the Flamboyant style.Cite specific examples.

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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy

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Q1) The most prolific painting workshop of the later fifteenth century was the workshop of

A) Michelozzo

B) Ghiberti

C) Ghirlandaio

D) Masaccio

Answer: C

Q2) __________ by Pollaiuolo reflects the taste among the wealthy for collectibles that were reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.

A) David

B) The Four Crowned Martyrs

C) Equestrian Statue of Erasmo da Narni

D) Hercules and Antaeus

Answer: D

Q3) What were Cosimo de Medici the Elder's primary concerns for the commission of the Medici Palace in Florence?

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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy

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Q1) Why did Raphael change his painting style?

Q2) Sofonisba Anguissola's father consulted with the artist __________ about his daughter's artistic talents.

A) Tintoretto

B) Michelangelo

C) Cellini

D) Veronese

Q3) Cellini's fanciful ____________made for King Francis I demonstrates how Mannerist practices in painting were transferred into exquisite sculptures.

A) apple

B) saltcellar

C) facade

D) engraving

Q4) Charles V sacked __________ in 1527.

A) the Netherlands

B) Venice

C) Rome

D) Antwerp

Q5) How did Julius II support and complicate Michelangelo's artistic life?

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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula

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Q1) In the Netherlands,the sixteenth century was an age of religious and political

A) harmony

B) resolution

C) accord

D) conflict

Q2) The Italian artist __________ was summoned to France by King Francis I.

A) Michelangelo

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Giulio Romano

D) Juan de Herrera

Q3) The Edict of __________ granted toleration to Protestants.

A) Paris

B) Würzburg

C) Nantes

D) Munich

Q4) What kind of art was favored in the Tudor Court?

Q5) How was Northern Renaissance art an amalgam of early Northern and Italian sources and influences?

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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe

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Q1) How are Baroque naturalism and Baroque classicism similar and different?

Q2) Pope Paul V commissioned __________ to provide Saint Peter's Basilica with a longer nave and a new façade.

A) Michelangelo

B) Borromini

C) Maderno

D) Cruyl

Q3) How did Rubens portray Marie de Medici in the series of portraits she commissioned?

A) He represented her as a powerful Greek goddess in well-known myths.

B) He depicted scenes from her life as a continuous triumph overseen by Classical gods and goddesses.

C) He emphasized her religious convictions by showing her praying and performing good deeds.

D) He depicted her as a powerful presence who physically dominates each composition.

Q4) How did Vermeer make his paintings?

Q5) Why did women artists gain success and notoriety in seventeenth century art?

Q6) How did portraiture change in the seventeenth century?

Q7) What is Baroque naturalism?

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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200

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Q1) Who is the designer of the Victoria Terminus ,the massive train station built in Mumbai in 1887?

A) Sir Bartle Frere

B) King George V

C) George Wittet

D) Frederick Stevens

Q2) The painting of Jahangir and Shah Abbas is a strong reminder of the power of what period in India?

A) Ancient

B) Modern

C) British Colonial

D) Mughal

Q3) Before the fourteenth century,most painting in India had been on __________ or __________.

A) walls; palm leaves

B) walls; calf skin

C) walls; copper

D) walls; bamboo reeds

Q4) Explain the term cenotaphs.Cite an example of this term and define the particular architectural features.

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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279

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Q1) A __________ was often part of a handscroll and could consist of inscriptions related to the work,such as a poem or comments by various owners of the scroll over time.

A) index

B) antiphon

C) forward

D) colophon

Q2) Korean secular painting came into its own during the __________ dynasty.

A) Goryeo

B) Joseon

C) Qing

D) Ming

Q3) The northern city of __________ developed as a walled,rectangular city with streets laid out in a grid.

A) Shanghai

B) Taipei

C) Beijing

D) Guangzhou

Q4) Explain the Silhak movement.What is the meaning of the word "silhak"?

Q5) What is distinctive about Korean painted porcelain?

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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333

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Q1) __________ was the first artist to design woodblock prints to be printed in more than one color.

A) Toshusai Sharaku

B) Suzuki Harunobu

C) Utagawa Hiroshige

D) Katsushika Hokusai

Q2) Reaching great refinement in the Momoyama period,__________ are upper-class residences that combine a number of traditional features,always asymmetrically arranged.

A) fusuma

B) shoin

C) tatami

D) veranda

Q3) The designation of craftsmakers as _______________originated in 1897 as a means to safeguard Japan's rich artistic heritage.

A) Living National Treasures

B) Living National Icons

C) Living National Educators

D) Living National Heroes

Q4) Who are daimyo?

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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300

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Q1) What method did the Inca use to keep detailed accounts and historical records?

A) a written language based on pictographs

B) visual images recorded on stele and in manuscripts

C) knotted and colored cords called quipu

D) cylindrical purple and white shell beads called wampum

Q2) How did the ideas of Dorothy Dunn impact Native American art in the United States?

A) She encouraged the practice of native traditions in the production of authentic tribal arts.

B) She taught native artists to create work that would appeal to tourists and collectors.

C) She organized regional craft festivals where native artists could sell their wares.

D) All of the above.

Q3) Decorative beadwork did not become commonplace until after __________ contact.

A) Chinese

B) Japanese

C) Russian

D) European

Q4) How did the Aztecs use feathers?

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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures

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Q1) While today some Asmat bisj poles are sold to outsiders,traditionally they were____________________.

A) buried with the bodies of the deceased

B) left in swamps to deteriorate

C) placed permanently in front of special houses belonging to the village men's society

D) burned in ritual ceremonies

Q2) What changes have occurred in the modern manufacture and use of bilum work bags in New Guinea?

A) Machines are used for greater efficiency.

B) Contemporary fibers including nylon and acrylic yarn are used.

C) They are worn by men as well as women.

D) All of the above.

Q3) How did the Aboriginal artists use cross-hatching?

Q4) Which ritual structure is involved in the initiation of girls?

A) Korambu

B) Malagan

C) Bisj

D) Te-Hau-ki-Turanga

Q5) What are the four geographic areas of Oceania?

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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era

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Q1) Terra cotta figures created by Nok artists are the earliest known __________ from sub-Saharan Africa.

A) toys

B) weapons

C) money

D) sculptures

Q2) Prior to the twentieth century,African art collections in the West were typically housed in ___________.

A) art museums

B) museums of natural history and ethnography

C) private universities

D) all of the above

Q3) Yoruba sculptural figures are typically __________ in size and static in position.

A) tall

B) rotund

C) short

D) mismatched

Q4) Why does tradition-based art in Africa appear in such a wide variety of forms?

Q5) What is an example of tradition-based art produced in Africa today?

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Chapter 13:

Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth

century

Europe and NORTH America

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Q1) What does the term Rococo mean?

Q2) How did art develop in New Spain in the eighteenth century?

Q3) How did French artists Jacques-Louis David incorporate ideas of Grand Manner painting into his depiction of Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard ?

A) He represented their subjects in classical settings and costumes.

B) He used artistic license to suggest a heroic quality, similar to the ancient past.

C) He adhered to models for history painting set out by Joshua Reynolds in England.

D) All of the above.

Q4) What about Goya's Third of May,1808 epitomize Romanticism in art?

A) It is not factual

B) It glorifies the victors

C) It is an image of terror

D) It is a mythological subject

Q5) David's Death of Marat echoes the pose of Christ in a sculpture by ___________.

A) Reynolds

B) Boucher

C) Carriera

D) Michelangelo

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Chapter 14: mid-to late nineteenth-century art in Europe and the united states

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Q1) Which artist associated with Realism in the nineteenth century found great success in the Salon system,including receiving France's highest honor of membership in the Legion of Honor?

A) Courbet

B) Manet

C) Bonheur

D) Millet

Q2) __________ accused Whistler of "flinging pots of paint in the public's face."

A) Morris

B) Ruskin

C) Homer

D) Eakins

Q3) Reflecting Richard Morris Hunt's architectural training at the École des Beaux-Arts,the ideal American city he designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was based on the symbolism of __________.

A) the American factory

B) Greek and Roman architecture

C) the skyscraper

D) Gothic cathedrals

Q4) How are the first skyscrapers designed and ornamented?

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1900-1950

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Q1) A distinctive feature of Le Corbusier's Modern architecture is its ______________.

A) lack of ornamentation

B) domino construction system

C) emphasis on rational functional design

D) all of the above

Q2) Apollinaire labeled the art of Robert and Sonia Delaunay as ____________.

A) assemblage

B) Futurist

C) non-objective

D) Orphism

Q3) __________,a term which comes from the French term "to glue" was an important aspect of Synthetic Cubism.

A) readymade

B) merz

C) Collage

D) bauhaus

Q4) Why did the Nazis suppress avant-garde art and how did they exhibit it?

Q5) What is an example of Modern artists looking to non-western art during this period?

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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950

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Q1) Because her figures are all silhouettes,which does not identify race,the artist Kara Walker forces the viewer to read the narrative by ___________________.

A) recalling the novel from which the story was taken

B) comparing the scene to other artists

C) looking for other visual markers of race

D) reading the text panels accompanying each character

Q2) Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary was at the center of a controversy about public __________ in the arts.

A) history

B) funding

C) access

D) communication

Q3) ________________ is the term for artists' use of actions,movements,and gestures of their own bodies.

A) Process art

B) Pop art

C) Feminist art

D) Happenings

Q4) What is Performance Art?

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