History of Art and Architecture
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This course offers an in-depth exploration of the history of art and architecture from antiquity to the modern era, examining key works, movements, and styles from diverse cultures around the world. Students will learn to analyze visual and structural forms, understand the social, political, and religious contexts in which art and architecture were produced, and trace the evolution of artistic techniques and architectural methods. Emphasis is placed on the development of visual literacy, critical thinking, and comparative analysis, equipping students with the tools to appreciate the significance and impact of art and architecture throughout human history.
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Art Across Time Combined 4th Edition by Laurie Schneider Adams
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Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory
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Q1) Old Stone Age people
A)had stone houses.
B)used stone tools.
C)worshipped in stone temples.
D)built stone tombs.
E)used stone for building.
Answer: B
Q2) The term "Paleolithic" refers to
A)the Old Stone Age.
B)the Middle Stone Age.
C)the New Stone Age.
D)Old Stones.
E)the Old Dispensation.
Answer: A
Q3) Stonehenge dates from the ________ period.
A)Paleolithic
B)Late Jurassic
C)Mesolithic
D)Neolithic
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East
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Q1) Rahotep and Nofret are NOT
A)a prince and a princess.
B)two seated sculptures.
C)a king and a queen.
D)depicted in high relief.
E)seated in rigid poses.
Answer: A
Q2) Most Assyrian wall decoration included
A)domestic scenes.
B)war scenes.
C)royal hunting scenes.
D)both war scenes and royal hunting scenes.
Answer: B
Q3) A bull capital is most likely found at A)Persepolis.
B)Lagash.
C)Babylon.
D)Anatolia.
E)Assyria.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt
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Q1) The temple at Abu Simbel honors
A)Ramses II.
B)Hatshepsut.
C)Akhenaten.
D)Nefertiti.
Answer: A
Q2) Rahotep and Nofret are NOT
A)a prince and a princess.
B)two seated sculptures.
C)a king and a queen.
D)depicted in high relief.
E)seated in rigid poses.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is true?
A)Isis is the mother of Horus.
B)Bes is a death god.
C)Anubis is in the shape of a crocodile.
D)Horus opens the mouth of the dead.
E)Amon is the sun disk.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Aegean
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Q1) The term Helladic comes from
A)Helen of Troy.
B)the Greek name for Greece.
C)the Greek name for Helen.
D)the islands of the Hellades.
E)the Greek name for Troy.
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a Trojan?
A)Priam.
B)Paris.
C)Menelaus.
D)Kassandra.
Q3) Cycladic civilization is prehistoric because
A)it had not invented the wheel.
B)it did not have monumental architecture.
C)it did not have a writing system.
D)it had no agriculture.
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Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece
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Q1) The Riace bronzes were found in A)Riace.
B)a cave.
C)the sea.
D)a grave.
E)a temple.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a Greek god or goddess?
A)Ares
B)Artemis
C)Hestia
D)Poseidon
E)Venus
Q3) The lively,rectilinear meander patterns circling the body of a vase is typical of A)changes from the Archaic to Hellenistic style.
B)the Geometric style.
C)the Classical style.
D)the Orientalizing style.
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Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans
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Q1) A popular Etruscan building material was A)concrete.
B)tufa.
C)travertine.
D)terracotta.
Q2) The Etruscans buried their dead in A)citadels.
B)pyramids.
C)above-ground graves.
D)tombs made like houses in "cities of the dead."
Q3) The Capitoline Wolf and the Wounded Chimera were made
A)with the lost-wax method.
B)by baking terracotta in a kiln.
C)by carving stone.
D)by modeling clay.
Q4) Etruscan art
A)is lively.
B)is functional.
C)incorporates rigid frontality and symmetry.
D)is geometric.
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Chapter 7: Ancient Rome
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Q1) Which is NOT a feature of the Pantheon?
A)an oculus
B)a rectangular cella
C)a rotunda
D)a portico
E)a curved entablature
Q2) The Punic Wars were fought between
A)Rome and Carthage.
B)Rome and Greece.
C)Rome and Phoenicia.
D)Rome and Etruria.
Q3) The Column of Trajan is uniquely Roman because of A)its enormous height.
B)its narrative frieze.
C)its setting.
D)its material.
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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Q1) A homunculus is
A)an imp.
B)a devil.
C)an evil spirit.
D)a little man.
E)a midget.
Q2) Christianity was legalized
A)by the emperor Caracalla.
B)by the Edict of Milan.
C)in the first century A.D.
D)in Jerusalem.
Q3) The first bishop of Rome was
A)Constantine.
B)St.Paul.
C)St.Peter.
D)Eusebius.
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Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) The Vikings inhabited
A)Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
B)Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
C)Lapland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
D)Lapland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Q2) Charlemagne was crowned Roman Emperor
A)in the year 800.
B)at Aachen, in Germany.
C)because he defeated the pope in Rome.
D)at Aix-la-Chapelle on December 25.
Q3) Hibernia means
A)Scandinavia in Italian.
B)Ireland in Latin.
C)Germany in Anglo-Saxon.
D)Scotland in Latin.
Q4) Muslims must pray
A)in a mosque.
B)facing west.
C)facing Mecca.
D)facing a qibla.
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Chapter 10: Romanesque Art
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Q1) The cleric who criticized the extravagant decoration of places like the cloister of St-Pierre,Moissac,was
A)St.James of Compostela.
B)St.Bernard.
C)St.Francis.
D)St.Benedict.
Q2) Saint-Pierre at Moissac demonstrates a comprehensive sculptural program in A)its portal.
B)its porch.
C)its westwork.
D)both its portal and its porch.
Q3) The text on the Bayeux Tapestry is in A)French.
B)English.
C)Norwegian.
D)Latin.
E)Anglo-Saxon.
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) Which is NOT a correct pairing?
A)Villard de Honnecourt - sketchbook
B)Augustine - The City of God
C)Panofsky - Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
D)Suger - Liberscivias
Q2) The Visitation is when
A)Gabriel visits Mary.
B)Christ visits Joseph.
C)Mary visits Elizabeth.
D)the angel visits Constantine.
Q3) The west portal of ________ has an important sculptural program.
A)Salisbury Cathedral.
B)Florence Cathedral.
C)Reims Cathedral.
D)Cologne Cathedral.
Q4) Which is NOT an element of Gothic architecture?
A)rib vaults
B)flying buttresses
C)round arches
D)stained glass windows
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Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance
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Q1) What event in Padua fostered an interest in Classical thought and literature?
A)Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel
B)a tempera panel found in the Scrovegni Chapel
C)the opening of a Roman theater
D)professional interest in Roman law
Q2) Giotto was important because he
A)went back to nature as his guide, as had the Greeks and Romans.
B)used direct experience to judge truth.
C)believed that what we see is the basis of art.
D)All these answers are correct.
Q3) "The mortal pestilence" described by Boccaccio refers to
A)the sinfulness of Florence.
B)the failure of the Bardi and Peruzzi banks.
C)the triumph of Death.
D)the Black Death.
Q4) Which is NOT a feature of the Divine Comedy?
A)It was written in Latin.
B)Virgil is Dante's guide through hell and pergatory.
C)It is divided into three parts.
D)It is a source for Italian history.
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Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) ________ is credited with the Renaissance invention of linear perspective.
A)Ghiberti
B)Brunelleschi
C)Uccello
D)Leonardo da Vinci
Q2) Which is NOT a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents?
A)arcades
B)round arches
C)Doric columns
D)pediments
E)bays
Q3) Ghiberti's style is
A)aligned by orthogonals of true perspective.
B)realistic.
C)classically inspired.
D)All these answers are correct.
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy
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Q1) Jacopo Bellini's style is best known today from his A)drawings.
B)paintings.
C)autobiography.
D)etchings.
E)biography.
Q2) The theme of Titian's Venus of Urbino is
A)sensuality and illicit love.
B)marital love and fidelity.
C)seduction and erotic desire.
D)not definitively agreed upon.
Q3) What shape was associated with divinity and was an ancient notion of the ideal shape?
A)the Latin cross
B)the pyramid
C)the Greek cross
D)the circle
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Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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Q1) Serpentinata refers to A)Cellini's lizard.
B)the salamander of Francis I.
C)a Mannerist pose.
D)Bronzino's iconography.
Q2) Which of the following correctly matches artist with work?
A)Parmigianino - allegory called Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
B)Bronzino - Madonna of the Long Neck
C)Cellini - saltcellar of Francis I
D)Giambologna - Palazzo del Tè
Q3) Which of the following correctly matches work with patron?
A)the design of the Church of Il Gesù - Palladio
B)Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time - the king of Spain
C)Palazzo del Tè - Federigo Gonzaga
D)Villa Rotonda - Pythagoras
Q4) Giambologna was born in A)Italy.
B)Germany.
C)Flanders.
D)France.
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Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
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Q1) In the myth of Icarus,who made the wings?
A)Icarus
B)Zeus
C)Breugel
D)Daedalos
E)the plowman
Q2) The word "melancholy" is derived from which two Greek words?
A)choleros meaning "anger" and bilas meaning "bile"
B)melas meaning "black" and ira meaning "anger"
C)chola meaning "depression" and melas meaning "bile"
D)cholos meaning "bile" and melas meaning "black"
Q3) Which is the best match?
A)hubris - folly
B)alchemy - melancholy
C)etching - painting
D)proverbs - myths
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Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe
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Q1) ________ worked for Louis XIV in a style called the Classical Baroque.
A)Poussin
B)Caravaggio
C)Bernini
D)Rubens
Q2) Rembrandt's painted light is typically
A)yellow.
B)white.
C)light blue.
D)gray.
E)light green.
Q3) Which does NOT appear in Bernini's Pluto and Proserpina?
A)contrapposto
B)Cerberus
C)figura serpentinata
D)Ceres
E)Pluto
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Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The Enlightenment
A)started in 1650.
B)was the entire 18th century.
C)was limited to the first half of the 19th century.
D)dates from the early 19th century.
Q2) Paul Revere's 1770 portrait was painted by A)West.
B)Copley.
C)Adam.
D)Locke.
E)Swift.
Q3) ________ dominated the architectural style of the 18th century.
A)Borromini
B)Michelangelo
C)Bramante
D)Palladio
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Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) Plato's defense of Socrates is
A)the Death of Socrates.
B)The Apology.
C)not recorded.
D)a treatise on political philosophy used by Napoleon.
Q2) Bacchantes are
A)wine gods.
B)priestesses of Dionysos.
C)wine goddesses.
D)priests of Dionysos.
Q3) Marat's assassin was
A)Napoleon's messenger.
B)Colbert.
C)Richelieu.
D)Corday.
E)never identified.
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Chapter 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) Géricault's paintings reflect his interest in
A)combating social injustice.
B)horsemanship.
C)psychology.
D)both psychology and combating social injustice.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Which is NOT an American Romantic writer?
A)Coleridge
B)Thoreau
C)Emerson
D)Cooper
E)Poe
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Chapter 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism
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Q1) In Modern Painters,Ruskin wrote a defense of A)Constable.
B)Turner.
C)Cole.
D)Nash.
E)Millais.
Q2) Which was NOT among the advantages of the Crystal Palace?
A)It was fireproof.
B)It was prefabricated.
C)It was relatively inexpensive.
D)It was constructed quickly.
Q3) Gargantua is a (an)
A)tyrant.
B)greedy king.
C)good-natured giant.
D)gargoyle.
E)ogre from French folklore.
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Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
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Q1) The trial between Whistler and Ruskin exemplified
A)the rise of the art critic as a force in the art world.
B)the insanity of misjudging art.
C)the conflict between the Rubenists and the Poussinists.
D)the new role of art galleries and dealers.
E)the mishandling of a jury.
Q2) Kabuki and Noh are
A)characters in a Japanese play.
B)Japanese playwrights.
C)types of Japanese theater.
D)types of Japanese actors.
Q3) Balzac was
A)an Impressionist sculptor.
B)a French novelist.
C)a French photographer.
D)a French actor.
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Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Beardsley's pictorial style can be described as A)perverse and macabre.
B)elegant and courtly.
C)Post-Impressionist.
D)colorful.
Q2) Polyphemos was
A)a musician.
B)a satyr.
C)an Olympian.
D)a Cyclops.
E)a dwarf.
Q3) A maenad is a
A)follower of Medea.
B)follower of Dionysos.
C)follower of Orpheus.
D)follower of Hermes.
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Chapter 24: Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse
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Q1) Matisse's arabesques refer to A)dancers.
B)musicians.
C)a kind of black curve.
D)bright colors.
Q2) 1917 marks the
A)beginning of World War I.
B)onset of the Russian Revolution.
C)first year of the Great Depression.
D)rise of National Socialism.
Q3) What was the most striking quality of Fauvism?
A)line
B)abstraction
C)light
D)color
E)jungle subject matter
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Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related
Twentieth-Century Styles
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A)Brancusi - Suprematism
B)Mondrian - De Stijl
C)Wright - Cubism
D)Gropius - Prairie Style
Q2) In Girl before a Mirror,Picasso aims at achieving
A)formal reality.
B)figurative reality.
C)spiritual reality.
D)psychological reality.
E)historical reality.
Q3) Which was NOT a feature of Futurism?
A)the destruction of the museums
B)the elimination of archaeology
C)the exaltation of technology
D)the promotion of feminism
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Chapter
States Between the Wars
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Q1) L.H.O.O.Q.is an example of a A)collage.
B)Ready-Made.
C)graffiti poster.
D)Ready-Made-Aided.
E)found object.
Q2) "The lost generation" was a phrase coined by
A)Ernest Hemingway.
B)F.Scott Fitzgerald.
C)Zelda Fitzgerald.
D)Gertrude Stein.
E)Frank Lloyd Wright.
Q3) Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of A)Cubism and Surrealism.
B)Surrealism and Futurism.
C)Cubism and Pointillism.
D)Dada and Futurism.
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Chapter 27: Mid-Century Abstraction
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Q1) Who of the following is NOT an action painter?
A)Albers
B)Gorky
C)Pollock
D)de Kooning
Q2) Which of the following correctly matches artist with country of birth?
A)de Kooning - Germany
B)Stella - Italy
C)Gorky - Armenia
D)Rothko - the United States
E)Noguchi - China
Q3) Which is NOT true of acrylic?
A)It is water-based.
B)It can be used on paper but not canvas.
C)It comes in bright colors.
D)It dries quickly and does not fade.
E)It can be poured, dripped, or splattered.
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Chapter 28: Pop Art, OP Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
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Q1) Kitaj's Juan de la Cruz combines which two political situations?
A)the Vietnam War and the Spanish-American War
B)the Spanish-American War and the First World War
C)the Vietnam War and the Inquisition
D)the Inquisition and the American Civil War
Q2) Which Pop artist was most likely to have painted repetitious advertising images?
A)Johns
B)Warhol
C)Lichtenstein
D)Hamilton
Q3) The term "Op" is short for A)optimum.
B)optical.
C)opulent.
D)optional.
Q4) The most painterly of the Minimalists was A)Hesse.
B)Flavin.
C)Martin. D)Judd.
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Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization
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Q1) Who of the following is NOT an environmental artist?
A)Smithson
B)Holt
C)the Christos
D)Smith
Q2) Which is NOT a reference in the iconography of The Dinner Party?
A)Hatshepsut
B)Virginia Woolf
C)The Last Supper
D)Stieglitz
E)O'Keeffe
Q3) Sherman's self-portrait as the figure in La Fornarina differs from La Fornarina in being
A)more accurate because it is a photograph.
B)more idealized.
C)satirical.
D)anti-women.
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Chapter 30: Introduction
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Q2) All these terms refer to color purity EXCEPT A)intensity. B)saturation. C)chroma. D)hue.
Q3) The Greek word chroma means A)chrome.
B)color. C)colorless. D)value.
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