History of Western Art
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History of Western Art provides an overview of significant artistic movements, styles, and works from the ancient world through the modern era in Western Europe and North America. The course explores the social, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped the production and interpretation of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms. Students will examine iconic pieces and influential artists, analyze visual elements and techniques, and consider how art reflects and influences historical change. The course fosters critical thinking and visual literacy, equipping students with the tools to appreciate and evaluate the enduring legacy of Western artistic traditions.
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Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities 8th Edition by Lawrence S. Cunningham
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Chapter 1: Beginnings
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Q1) _______________________ Vertical shafts running down through Minoan palaces.
Answer: Light wells
Q2) What are three universal themes touched upon in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Answer: The universal themes touched upon in the Epic of Gilgamesh include:
-The elevation of some human beings over others
-The disregard for nature and the natural order of things
-The virtues and rewards of the simple life
-The pleasures of love, companionship, food, and drink
-The fear of death
-The desire for fame and glory
Q3) _______________________ Family of languages including Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
Answer: Semitic
Q4) What do archaeologists believe the Venus of Willendorf depicts?
A)a Greek goddess
B)a female fertility figure
C)a famous queen
D)a child
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greece
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Q1) _______________________ The first author of Greek epic poetry. Answer: Homer
Q2) What kinds of information does painted pottery give us about early Greek culture?
A)It includes images from mythology, history, and everyday life.
B)It includes long passages of text from Homer and Sappho's writing.
C)It includes clear historical records about trade and warfare.
D)It includes allegorical depictions of Greek religious beliefs.
Answer: A
Q3) What did the archaic smile signify?
A)That the subject was from the upper class
B)That the subject was a happy person
C)That the subject was a living human being
D)That the subject was a shepherd
Answer: C
Q4) How did the Doric style differ from the Ionic style or order of architecture consider the base, capital, frieze)?
Answer: The Doric order architecture differed from the Ionic style or order of architecture in the following ways: 11ed8695_3a24_c2e1_9427_7361939026c9_TB3409_11
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Chapter 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
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Q1) Who was the first important Athenian tragic dramatist author of the Oresteia trilogy)?
A)Sophocles
B)Euripides
C)Aeschylus
D)Sappho
Answer: C
Q2) How did the Peloponnesian War influence the plays of Euripides?
A)He wrote comedies to lighten the post-war mood
B)He wrote mythological plays that offered an escape from reality
C)He wrote propagandistic plays that promoted Greek leaders
D)He wrote realistic plays that dealt with the consequences of war
Answer: D
Q3) _______________________ The lighthearted play that followed the trilogy of tragedies in the festival of Dionysus.
Answer: Satry play
Q4) Why are Greek tragedies still read and performed?
Answer: Greek tragedies are read and performed today because they deal with human experiences which still have emotional and intellectual power and relevance.
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Chapter 4: Rome
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Q1) What was the significance of the Battle of Actium 31 B.C.E.)in the history of the Roman Republic?
A)Seneca became the leader of the Roman army.
B)Cleopatra was given Roman citizenship.
C)Carthage temporarily annexed parts of the Roman Republic.
D)Octavian became supreme ruler of Rome.
Q2) What was the name of the large open space in the center of Rome used for meetings of the Senate and the assemblies of the people?
A)Pantheon
B)Tribune
C)Forum
D)Great Hall
Q3) What Greco-Roman philosophy is associated with Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius?
A)Stoicism
B)Epicurianism
C)Animism
D)Tarquinianism
Q4) What was significant about the Jus Civile?
Q5) _______________________ Roman lyric poet during the 1<sup>st</sup> century BCE
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Chapter 5: Ancient Civilizations of India and China
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Q1) What prompted the Christian church to create the position of cantor?
Q2) What is responsorial singing?
A)Singing in which the choir responds to the congregation's lines
B)Singing in which two sections of the congregation alternate in chanting lines from psalms
C)Singing in which the congregation chants beneath cantor's line
D)Singing in which the congregation responds to cantor's lines
Q3) What was a common symbol of early Christianity?
A)An anchor
B)A crucifix
C)A lion and a lamb
D)A fountain in a garden
Q4) Which grouping of Hebrew texts contains the Torah?
A)The Psalms
B)The Gospel
C)The New Testament
D)The Law
Q5) What did excavators of Dura-Europus find? What does this tell us about religious life in the third century?
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Q6) What factors contributed to the success of the spread of Christianity?
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Chapter 6: The Rise of the Biblical Tradition
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Q1) What is the encaustic method of painting?
A)Painting using hot colored wax
B)Painting using oil-based paints on wood
C)Painting using water-based paints on canvas
D)Painting using pigments mixed with egg whites
Q2) What name is given to the sequence of the various parts of a worship service?
A)Order
B)Mass
C)Liturgy
D)Agnus Dei
Q3) How does the shape of the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna differ from traditional basilica design?
A)It is rectangular.
B)It is hexagonal.
C)It is has a tripartite dome.
D)It is octagonal.
Q4) _______________________ Sixth-century C.E.church designed by Anthemius and Isidorus.
Q5) What was Emperor Justinian's most important legal achievement? Why was it so significant?
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Chapter 7: Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium
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Q1) _______________________ The fasting month in the Muslim calendar
Q2) _______________________ The pulpit in an Islamic mosque
Q3) Where was the founder of Islam born?
A)Damascus
B)Mecca
C)Baghdad
D)Hadith
Q4) What was the goal of the Reconquista?
A)To drive the Muslims out of Spain
B)To conquer the remnants of the Roman Empire
C)To eliminate Christianity in Spain
D)To promote Islam in all reaches of the known world
Q5) _______________________ Niche inside mosque which faces Mecca
Q6) What language did the Sufi mystic Rumi use in writing his religious verse?
A)Persian
B)Arabic
C)Hindu
D)Urdu
Q7) What religious legends surround the location of the Dome of the Rock?
Q8) What are the five pillars of Islam?
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Chapter 8: Islam
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Q1) What is an "illuminated" book?
A)A compilation of religious teachings
B)A lavishly decorated book
C)A book written by a scholar of Greek philosophy
D)A book thought to have been directly inspired by the word of God
Q2) Who were the jongleurs?
A)jurists
B)court musicians
C)traveling minstrels
D)judges
Q3) What illuminated book is considered the literary masterpiece of the Carolingian Renaissance?
A)The Dagulf Psalter
B)The Quadrivium
C)The Book of Hours
D)The Utrecht Psalter
Q4) What were the important economic developments of Charlemagne's reign?
Q5) _______________________The room used by monks for the copying of manuscripts
Q6) _______________________Chanson de geste about Charlemagne's Spanish campaign
Q7) _______________________Symbols used for notation in Gregorian chant Page 10
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture
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Q1) _______________________ Musical compositions with three voices, often singing in different languages.
Q2) Who invented the system of musical notation that we use today?
A)Guillaume Dufay
B)Guido d'Arezzo
C)Perotin
D)Boethius
Q3) Who was the most famous teacher at the University of Paris in the early 1100s?
A)Thomas Aquinas
B)Peter Abelard
C)Dante Alighieri
D)Peter Lombard
Q4) How did the cathedral play an integral part in the lives of the townspeople?
Q5) What was the subject of the Summa Theologica?
A)The struggle of Christianity against Islam
B)Reconciling classical philosophy and Christian faith
C)The conflict between love and duty
D)Renouncing war
Q6) What factors explain the rise of formal educational institutions in twelfth-century Europe?
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Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) Who was the primary subject of the 300 sonnets and 49 canzoni songs in Petrarch's Canzoniere Songbook?
A)Augustina
B)Laura
C)Maria
D)Christina
Q2) _______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes
Q3) _______________________Author of Lives of the Artists
Q4) In what respects did the art of Cimabue and Duccio di Buoninsegna move beyond the Italo-Byzantine tradition?
Q5) Who was the greatest English writer of the 1300s?
A)Geoffrey Chaucer
B)William Shakespeare
C)Peter Abelard
D)John Wycliff
Q6) What style is exemplified by Simone Martin's Annunciation?
A)The Byzantine Style
B)The International Style
C)The Florentine Style
D)The Venetian Style
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Chapter 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition
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Q1) _______________________ Famous book by Machiavelli
Q2) According to Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860), how did the values and beliefs of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?
Q3) Which artist wrote the first theoretical treatise about creating perspective in art?
A)Piero della Francesca
B)Paolo Uccello
C)Fra Angelico
D)Masaccio
Q4) What was the primary source of the Medici family's wealth?
A)shipping
B)banking
C)wool trade
D)agriculture
Q5) What was most revolutionary about Masaccio's painting?
A)Its two-dimensionality
B)Its expressive force and realism
C)Its juxtaposition of "warm" and "cool" colors
D)Its mastery of the oil-on-wood medium
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) _______________________ A painting technique using strong contrasts of light and darkness
Q2) _______________________ Music with two or more independent melodies sounded together
Q3) Which Venetian poet wrote verses in terza rima, including seductive poetic dialogues?
A)Vittoria Colonna
B)Veronica Franco
C)Benvenuto Cellini
D)Baldessare Castiglione
Q4) What book is based on Castiglione's experiences at the court of Urbino from 1504 to 1516?
A)The Book of the Courtier
B)The Prince
C)The Last Judgment
D)The Last Supper
Q5) _______________________ Supporting structure for a dome
Q6) _______________________ A technique used in painting to organize figures through triangular forms
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Q7) _______________________ An educated Venetian companion and entertainer
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Chapter 13: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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Q1) What does the image of Christ in the Isenheim Altarpiece suggest about Grünewald's interest in the Renaissance conception of ideal beauty and the humanist interest in classical antiquity? How does Grünewald depict the Crucifixion?
Q2) Who explained how blood circulates by postulating the existence of capillaries?
A)Max Weber
B)John Napier
C)Sir William Harvey
D)William Gilbert
Q3) Who painted Hunters in the Snow?
A)Dürer
B)Grünewald
C)Bruegel
D)Altdorfer
Q4) What religious views did Renaissance humanists and Protestant reformers often share?
Q5) Which were converted to Protestantism?
A)The British Isles, Italy, and Southern Germany
B)Germany, Portugal, and England
C)Spain, Italy, and France
D)England, Scandinavia, and Switzerland
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in the North
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Q1) _______________________ Musical form in which the same themes are repeated and combined in counterpoint
Q2) _______________________ Court created by the Catholic Church to try those accused of heresy, including Galileo
Q3) What two musical genres emerged in the seventeenth century?
A)Opera and concerto grosso
B)Madrigal and ayre
C)Symphony and string quartet
D)Motet and rondo
Q4) Which German composer worked for 27 years as the music director at a church school?
A)Johann Sebastian Bach
B)Georg Frederic Handel
C)Heinrich Schütz
D)Jean Philippe Rameau
Q5) What was the response of the Roman Catholic Church to Protestant criticism of its belief in purgatory, transubstantiation, and celibacy for the clergy? What is meant by the doctrine of "transubstantiation"?
Q6) _______________________ Keyboard instrument, the forerunner of the modern piano
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Chapter 15: The Seventeenth Century: the Baroque Era
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Q1) Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?
A)Mozart
B)Monteverdi
C)Couperin
D)Haydn
Q2) What was Jonathan's Swift's best-known novel? What two aspects of human nature are represented by Swift's Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?
Q3) Whose play The Marriage of Figaro was interpreted as an attack on the lifestyle of the ruling classes?
A)Beaumarchais
B)Fragonard
C)Hogarth
D)Swift
Q4) _______________________ Economic principle of letting the market determine prices
Q5) _______________________ Eighteenth-century English literary group who revered Rome
Q6) Why did Montesquieu favor establishing a system of "checks and balances" in government?
Q7) _______________________ Controversial author of Candide
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Chapter 16: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk?
A)The Higher Realm
B)Super Consciousness
C)Complete Art Work
D)Total Immersion
Q2) Which French painter was the creator of Raft of the Medusa 1818)?
A)Gustave Courbet
B)Girodet-Trioson
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix
Q3) _______________________ German literary movement that rebelled against Neoclassicism's structure and order
Q4) Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?
A)Ingres
B)Velázquez
C)Goya
D)Chateaubriand
Q5) What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?
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Chapter 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography
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Q1) _______________________ Formal name for the right to vote
Q2) What does Edgar Degas' The Rehearsal suggest about the world of the ballet?
A)The loneliness of a life in theater
B)The glamour of the world of ballet
C)The pain and tedium experienced by ballet dancers
D)The eminence of dance in Parisian culture
Q3) What was the main focus of the women's movement during the late 19<sup>th</sup> century?
A)Equal pay for equal work
B)Freedom from domestic responsibilities
C)The right to vote
D)Equal representation in government
Q4) What event launched the Impressionist movement?
A)The opening of the Museum of Paris
B)The beginning of WWI
C)The death of Eugène Delacroix
D)The exhibition at the Café Guerbois
Q5) What are the central characteristics of Fauvism? What was it about the use of color and form in Matisse's Red Room Harmony in Red)that would cause critics to call him a "wild beast"?
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Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914
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Q1) _______________________ Style of painting that draws its content from unconscious, irrational sources
Q2) What leading American composer and bandleader gained his fame at the Cotton Club in the 1920's?
A)Chet Baker
B)Tommy Dorsey
C)Lionel Hampton
D)Duke Ellington
Q3) What were the subjects of Sergei Eisenstein's films? What innovations did Eisenstein introduce through his filmmaking?
Q4) _______________________ Shift to a new key in music
Q5) Which Depression-era photographer recorded the livestyles of the rural poor?
A)Margaret Bourke-White
B)Leni Riefenstahl
C)Dorothea Lange
D)Alfred Eisenstaedt
Q6) _______________________ Overthrow of the Tsars and the emergence of Marxist government in Russia
Q7) What are some of the characteristics of the modernist temper in literature?
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Q1) What two American poets wrote from a feminist perspective?
A)Kerouac and Ginsberg
B)Wiesel and Beckett
C)Sexton and Plath
D)Updike and Albee
Q2) What term is applied to the music of Steve Reich, which builds lengthy pieces out of multiple repetitions of simple chords and rhythms?
A)serialism
B)minimalism
C)structuralism
D)aleatorialism
Q3) How do the Bulgarian artists Christo and Jean-Claude create art?
A)They paint murals on public buildings.
B)They cover large areas with cloth.
C)They build sculpture from garbage.
D)They use their bodies in a staged setting.
Q4) What are the origins of Deconstructivist Architecture? How are its principles evident in Frank Gehry's design of the Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?
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