History of Western Art Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive survey of the major developments, movements, and figures in Western art from Antiquity to the modern era. Students will explore the evolution of styles, techniques, and cultural contexts that have shaped artistic production in Europe and the broader Western world, from Classical Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, and into the 20th century. Attention is given to key works of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the social, political, and philosophical influences that informed artistic expression throughout history. The course emphasizes critical analysis and visual literacy, equipping students to appreciate and interpret works of art within their historical frameworks.
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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) The Book of Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux by __________ contains special prayers to be recited during the day and into the evening.
A) Jean Pucelle
B) Jan van Eyck
C) the Rohan Master
D) Gislebertus
Answer: A
Q2) __________ was a master mason for Exeter Cathedral .
A) Richard de Montefort
B) Thomas of Whitney
C) Thomas Acquinas
D) Nicholas of Verdun
Answer: B
Q3) The doors for the Florentine Baptistery by __________ display scenes from the life of John the Baptist.
A) Andrea Orcagna
B) Bernardo Daddi
C) Andrea Pisano
D) Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) The major work of the Limbourg brothers was __________ commissioned for Jean,the Duke of Berry.
A) the Ghent Altarpiece
B) the Tres Riches Heures (Very Sumptuous Book of Hours)
C) the Merode Altarpiece
D) the Portinari Altarpiece
Answer: B
Q2) What symbolic meaning is NOT suggested in Hunt of the Unicorn series of tapestries?
A) the Incarnation of Christ
B) moral character and bravery
C) romantic love
D) Christ's death on the cross
Answer: B
Q3) Explain the technique of painting with an oil medium.Include examples of artists and their work as part of your discussion.
Answer: Not Answer
Q4) Define the Flamboyant style.Cite specific examples.
Answer: Not Answer
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) What fostered the extensive production of art in Florence during the fifteenth century?
A) economic prosperity
B) civic patriotism and desire to express the city's importance
C) a humanist interest in individual accomplishment
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The term used to describe Italian works of art in the style of ancient Greek and Roman art is __________.
A) giornata
B) sinopia
C) albarello
D) all'antica
Answer: D
Q3) Which artist first demonstrated the principles of linear perspective?
A) Brunelleschi
B) Alberti
C) Perugino
D) Masaccio
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) Federigo II Gonzaga enticed Guilio Romano to build a palace in __________.
A) Florence
B) Mantua
C) Rome
D) Siena
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Mannerism?
A) irrational spatial environments
B) esoteric subject matter
C) subtle coloration and lighting effects
D) elongated proportions
Q3) Why is Michelangelo's David so well regarded and revered?
Q4) What was the cause of the extensive damage to Leonardo's painting of The Last Supper that occurred shortly after its completion?
A) the humid climate in Milan
B) the experimental technique used in its production
C) bombings during World War II
D) poor attempts at restoration of the work
Q5) How was Titian regarded as an artist?
Q6) What role did the Jesuits play in patronizing Roman artists or architects?
Q7) Who were the main figures in the Venetian Renaissance?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) In 1586,the __________ family commissioned El Greco to paint a large altarpiece honoring a great fourteenth-century ancestor.
A) Orgaz
B) Manuel
C) Luther
D) Augustine
Q2) The German-born painter Hans Holbein shaped the tastes of the ____________ courts.
A) Portuguese
B) French
C) English
D) Spanish
Q3) In Burial of Count Orgaz ,El Greco has crowded the pictorial field with figures and obscured the spatial setting of the scene in a way that recalls ___________paintings in Italy.
A) medieval
B) Raphael's
C) Venetian
D) Mannerist
Q4) How is Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece arranged and why?
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) How is Bernini's David different from sculptures by Michelangelo and Donatello on the same subject? Discuss the artist's viewpoint,the expression,the moment in time,and the techniques.
Q2) __________ succeeded Maderno in 1629 as Vatican architect.
A) Rubens
B) Prandtauer
C) Vignola
D) Bernini
Q3) Genre scenes were popular in the Netherlands for their _______________.
A) idealized portrayal of the peasant lifestyle
B) symbolic references to moral virtues
C) biting political satire
D) detailed depictions of flowers and fruit
Q4) The Carracci family consciously rejected the artifice of ______________ instead fusing their style with the Italian High Renaissance.
A) etching
B) Mannerism
C) tenebrism
D) the poussinistes
Q5) How did Vermeer make his paintings?
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) Both the Burmese and Thai kingdoms produced ceramics,often inspired by stoneware and porcelain vessels from ________.
A) India
B) Persia
C) China
D) Malaysia
Q2) The art of ____________developed into a major subject of painting in the court of Jahangir.
A) history paintings
B) war
C) landscapes
D) portraiture
Q3) The Minaret at Kudos Mosque contains decorative niches reminiscent of earlier Hindu____________.
A) Buddha statues
B) palaces
C) shrine towers
D) stupas
Q4) Discuss the temple complex at Madurai .What are its characteristics?
Q5) Define the movement known as bhakti.
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) Which art form was NOT considered an accomplishment suited to the literati?
A) calligraphy
B) poetry
C) music
D) painting
Q2) Unlike ceramic decoration in China,the painting on the best Korean porcelain from the fifteenth century onward closely approximated that on paper and__________.
A) palm leaves
B) silk
C) canvas
D) granite
Q3) What is porcelain? How did it acquire its name? How is it produced? Cite an example.
Q4) Who was Marco Polo? What was his significance?
Q5) Discuss the use of seals in Chinese painting? What was their function and how do they contribute to a particular work of art?
Q6) How did conditions in Korea from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century affect its artistic development?
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) What subject was NOT popular among ukiyo-e artists?
A) courtesans
B) Kabuki actors
C) popular sights in Japan
D) famous samurai
Q2) The __________ period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was one of the most creative eras in Japanese history.
A) Heian
B) Nara
C) Asuka
D) Momoyama
Q3) Describe the means of access to Himeji Castle ?
Q4) What was the impact of Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mt.Fuji on the arts?
Q5) Describe the utensils of the tea ceremony.
Q6) Describe the dry garden at Ryoan-ji.What is its purpose? Consider its design.Where is it located? What does it represent?
Q7) What is a writing box? Describe the actual object and identify an artisan who made such writing boxes.
Q8) What is the Kano school? What artist was a product of this school?
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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300
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Q1) What visual feature is NOT typical of Chilkat Tlingit blankets ?
A) stylized animal images composed of ovoids and formlines
B) fringe formed from loose hanging warp threads
C) intricate geometric patterns made using undyed sheep's wool
D) symmetrical designs
Q2) __________ were widely used in Mesoamerican art.
A) Feathers
B) Papers
C) Prints
D) Diamonds
Q3) What is quillwork?
Q4) Many Native American cultures stage ritual dance ceremonies to call upon __________ spirits.
A) feather
B) guardian
C) neighbor
D) future
Q5) What are the common traits of the different Native American peoples in their art?
Q6) What is the Four Corners region?
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) Which Micronesian site known for its extensive architectural complex had been abandoned before Europeans discovered it in the nineteenth century?
A) Marshall Islands
B) Palau
C) Yap
D) Nan Madol
Q2) What element of tattooing is most sacred to people of the Marquesas islands?
A) the symbolism of the designs and patterns
B) the process of shedding blood
C) the display of status and wealth
D) the ceremony involved upon the completion of the tattoo
Q3) What common artistic interest appears in most of Pacific cultures?
A) monumental structures used for religious purposes
B) tattooing and performative arts related to ritual
C) narrative imagery depicting cultural history
D) an emphasis on the sea and marine life
Q4) What are Moai?
Q5) What is a mattang or wapepe?
Q6) How did the Aboriginal artists use cross-hatching?
Q7) What is the malangan?
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) Among the Chokwe peoples,the nganga,or __________,interprets the results of multiple tosses of the ngombo.
A) diviner
B) chief
C) mother
D) son
Q2) How is the authority of the Kuba nyim displayed publically?
A) he carries a gilded wooden scepter
B) the geometric woven decoration on the walls of royal buildings
C) elaborate kente cloth regalia characterized by a distinctive royal pattern
D) a large palace decorated with carved sculpture
Q3) Why does African art idealize the spirits of community leaders and others?
Q4) When first carved,nkisi nkonde are __________,but then gain power through use.
A) memories
B) neutral
C) curved
D) toys
Q5) How is contemporary African art different than tradition-based African art?
Q6) How does art in Africa relate to the world of ancestors and other spirits?
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Q7) Why do some contemporary African artists continue to use indigenous traditions?
Chapter 13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art in
Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) Neumann used Borromini's Baroque design as the basis for his church in
A) Rome
B) London
C) Paris
D) Würzburg
Q2) Known best for his vedute of ancient monuments and ruins,Piranesi became one of the most accomplished ____________in the eighteenth century
A) sculptors
B) printmakers
C) history painters
D) landscape painters
Q3) Rosalba Carriera specialized in painting portraits with __________.
A) ink
B) acrylic
C) pastels
D) wood
Q4) What are the main features of Rococo style in art and architecture?
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Q5) What impact did the French Revolution have on art?
Q6) Why did Diderot encourage artists to work for the common good?
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Chapter 14:
mid-to late
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Q1) __________ was devoted to anarchist philosophies and developed an exhibition for Impressionists apart from the official Salon.
A) Pissaro
B) Manet
C) Eakins
D) Morris
Q2) Important to the works of Seurat _________ observed that adjacent objects cast reflections on their neighbors and create the effect of their complementary color.
A) Michel-Eugène Chevreul
B) Edmund Burke
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Cornelius Vanderbilt
Q3) Van Gogh's insistence on his emotional state over fidelity to nature contributed to the development of which subsequent movement in modern art?
A) Symbolism
B) Japonisme
C) Expressionism
D) Art Nouveau
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1900-1950
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Q1) __________ exhibited with the Surrealists from the beginning and embraced biomorphic abstraction.
A) Lawrence
B) Moore
C) Hepworth
D) Miró
Q2) Abstract Expressionism can be interpreted as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A) The artists rebelled against artistic traditions of the past.
B) It reflected a sense of social alienation and existential crisis.
C) It was a manifestation of the artists' radical political views.
D) Artists hoped to express universal truths and sublime experience.
Q3) The paintings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are ____________ than those by Diego Rivera.
A) more historical
B) more modern
C) more personal
D) more abstract
Q4) How did Russian Constructivists combine Modern styles with practical needs?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) Critic Lawrence Alloway named Pop Art after __________.
A) movie popcorn
B) his father
C) a Tootsie Pop
D) a popping balloon
Q2) Jeff Wall creates his ________________ like a movie director by carefully designing the sets and posing his actors.
A) videos
B) posters
C) femmages
D) photographs
Q3) Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro collaborated with their students on the creation of __________,a collaborative art environment.
A) Women of Allah
B) Third Text
C) Cremaster
D) Womanhouse
Q4) How has audience interaction changed in Postmodern art?
Q5) What did artists do from 1955 to 1965 to bring the real world into their art?
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