Survey of Art II Test Bank
Course Introduction
Survey of Art II is a continuation of the foundational exploration of the visual arts, examining major artistic movements, styles, and works from the Renaissance through the modern era. The course covers significant developments in painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media across various cultures and regions, analyzing the social, historical, and cultural contexts that influenced artistic production. Students will gain a deeper understanding of key artists, artworks, and critical concepts, as well as the evolution of artistic techniques and themes. By engaging with visual analysis and art historical frameworks, students will enhance their appreciation of the diversity and impact of artistic expression throughout history.
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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) According to Millard Meiss,artists working after the Black Death reverted to a __________ in religious art.
A) softly modeled style
B) highly detailed naturalism
C) classically-posed figures
D) hieratic linearity
Answer: D
Q2) In England,during the later years of the thirteenth century and the early years of the fourteenth century,a distinctive and influential style developed,known as __________.
A) the Courtly Style
B) the Decorated Style
C) the Perpendicular
D) the Military Style
Answer: B
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.
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) The French church of __________ is an outstanding example of the Flamboyant style.
A) Saint-Maclou
B) St. Wolfgang
C) Cathedral of Ghent
D) St. Stephen's
Answer: A
Q2) One reason for the limited number of female artists in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was that women__________________.
A) were not allowed to learn skills of drawing or painting
B) could not work professionally as artists
C) were not allowed formal apprenticeships
D) were not admitted to guilds
Answer: C
Q3) _________ belonged to the second-generation of Flemish painters.
A) Jan van Eyck
B) Robert Campin
C) Petrus Christus
D) Roger van der Weyden
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) In fifteenth-century Italy,__________ were the men whom a city-state could hire,for a sum of money,to organize and lead an army in its defense.
A) condottiere
B) giornata
C) sinopia
D) maestro
Answer: A
Q2) Brunelleschi's arcade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti deviates from Roman architecture,which ___________________.
A) employed post and lintel architecture
B) featured pointed arches
C) combined columns with straight architraves
D) used only solid walls
Answer: C
Q3) Explain Brunelleschi's design for the Florence Cathedral .Be specific in your explanation.
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) Michelangelo's Pietà was installed as a tomb monument in __________.
A) Gesù
B) Palazzo
C) Old St. Peter's
D) Tempietto
Q2) What element of Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks best embodies the principles of art in the High Renaissance?
A) the references to classical subject matter
B) the balanced pyramidal grouping of figures
C) the somber mood created through darkened tones
D) the unusual landscape of the background
Q3) Pope Julius II's vision for a new,worldwide Church based on ___________values inspired such artists as Raphael and Michelangelo to develop the artistic style of the High Renaissance.
A) Christian
B) classical
C) humanist
D) reformist
Q4) Why is Michelangelo's David so well regarded and revered?
Q5) For what reasons did Michelangelo's art change?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) The Spanish painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos,known as El Greco,was originally from __________.
A) Wittenberg
B) Paris
C) Crete
D) Lisbon
Q2) What was the impact of the Reformation on art in Northern Europe?
Q3) The elaborate steel armor with gold inlay made for George Clifford would have been
A) used as sculptural decoration in Clifford's study
B) worn at royal functions to demonstrate his family's military legacy
C) worn in jousting competitions at festivals and public celebrations
D) worn only once at the ceremony when the queen knighted him
Q4) __________ was the foremost artist of the German Renaissance.
A) Charles V
B) Tintoretto
C) Dürer
D) Fontana
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Q5) How is Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece arranged and why?
Q6) How did Bruegel's travels impact his art?
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) The __________ family,two brothers and a cousin,founded an art academy in Bologna.
A) Cortona
B) Tassi
C) Borromini
D) Carracci
Q2) How did the patronage change in seventeenth-century art and what impact did it have on art?
Q3) A popular form of Dutch still-life painting,showing a table set for a meal,is called a
A) vanitas
B) stilleven
C) breakfast piece
D) trompe-l'oeil
Q4) 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
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) The Minaret at Kudos Mosque contains decorative niches reminiscent of earlier Hindu____________.
A) Buddha statues
B) palaces
C) shrine towers
D) stupas
Q2) The emperor Akbar established an imperial workshop of painting that transformed _________traditions into a distinctive Mughal style of painting.
A) Afghan
B) Thai
C) Persian
D) Indian
Q3) In Buddhism,__________ vows to forego buddahood until all others become buddhas.
A) Minar
B) Avalokiteshvara
C) Luna Vasahi
D) Madurai
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of Tantric Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara .
Q5) Who is Krishna? Give examples of his representation in Indian art.
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) Dong Qichang created his Qingbian Mountains in what standard format of Chinese painting?
A) hanging scroll
B) handscroll
C) album leaf
D) plate scroll
Q2) What was the impact of the Yuan dynasty on the arts? Build your discussion using specific examples.
Q3) What is the Garden of the Cessation of Official Life ? Discuss it in terms of the appropriate dynasty,artistic influences and distinctive features.How did it receive its name?
Q4) What were the different formats commonly used for Chinese painting? Describe the characteristics and distinctive features of each.
Q5) The Joseon court dispatched artists from the royal painting academy to the kilns 30 miles southeast of Seoul to train __________.
A) landscape painters
B) porcelain painters
C) portrait painters
D) wildlife painters
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) __________ are paper-covered sliding doors and can be decorated with paintings.
A) Bhakti
B) Stupas
C) Fusuma
D) Haniwa
Q2) Who are daimyo?
Q3) What characterizes works by the Kano school of artists?
A) a revived interest in Chinese art and culture
B) a painting style that combined traditions of ink-painting with brightly colored decorative subjects
C) monochrome paintings in black and diluted grays
D) a preference for rustic unadorned surfaces and asymmetrical forms
Q4) The eighteenth-century artist,___________,was known for his ukiyo-e of courtesans such as The Flowers of Beauty in the Floating World: Motoura and Yaezakura of the Minami Yamasakiya .
A) Nagasawa Rosetsu
B) Suzuki Harunobu
C) Toshusai Sharaku
D) Otani Oniji
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Q5) 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 is the Hamatsa?
Q2) The focal point of the sacred precinct of the city of Tenochtitlan was the
A) Great Pyramid
B) game area
C) headdress
D) scull rack
Q3) Why has the divide between craft and art persisted in the art of indigenous peoples?
Q4) The Whirling Log Ceremony sand painting ,woven into tapestry,depicts part of the ____________creation myth.
A) Abenaki
B) Pueblo
C) Iroquois
D) Navajo
Q5) The term Inca refers to both the ruler and to the __________.
A) feathers
B) communication
C) roads
D) people
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) Why were feathers considered such prestigious objects in Hawaii?
A) Feathers were associated with a sacred bird-man cult.
B) Certain colors were exceedingly rare and collecting them was very laborious.
C) Birds were believed to have spiritual connections to ancestors.
D) Feathers were widely available and symbolic of nature's abundance.
Q2) What natural resource was used by the people of Nan Madol to construct an architectural complex of 92 artificial islands set within a network of canals that was protected by massive seawalls and breakwaters?
A) volcanic stone (tufa)
B) basalt from nearby cliffs
C) mangrove trees
D) coral
Q3) Contemporary ____________among Pacific cultures has (have)been a useful way to involve young people in learning about their heritage and traditions.
A) art
B) festivals
C) scholarship
D) all of the above
Q4) What is the malangan?
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) Olowe of Ise was a highly regarded __________ woodcarver.
A) Yoruba
B) Dama
C) Bwa
D) Baule
Q2) The performance of children in Yoruba masquerades is viewed as _____________.
A) entertainment for the adults
B) training for the future
C) a taboo practice
D) a rite of passage
Q3) Swahili developed from the longtime mingling of Arabic with local __________ languages.
A) Latin American
B) Indo-European
C) Asian
D) African
Q4) How is contemporary African art different than tradition-based African art?
Q5) Why does African art idealize the spirits of community leaders and others?
Q6) How do the Chokwe use divination?
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Q7) In what contexts are African art objects used?
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Chapter 13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art in
Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) When did the Romantic movement in England begin?
Q2) The academicians were so impressed with Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera that they created a new category of painting for it called ___________.
A) capriccio
B) veduta
C) fête galante
D) Rome Prize
Q3) Goya's goal with the Los Caprichos series was to _____________.
A) convey the value of Enlightenment ideals
B) alert the Spanish people to the error of their ways
C) communicate a need to maintain the monarchies of Europe
D) state the need for Christianity in a time of political unrest
Q4) __________ are typical Rococo elements in architectural decoration.
A) Cantilevers
B) Arabesques
C) Iron rods
D) Striations
Q5) How do scientific discoveries impact on art during the eighteenth century?
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Q6) What are the main features of Rococo style in art and architecture?
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Chapter 14: mid-to
late
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Q1) In what ways was Henry Ossawa Tanner unlike his contemporaries in the Paris art world?
Q2) The influence of Japonisme can best be seen in the paintings of which artist?
A) Courbet
B) Moreau
C) Rossetti
D) Van Gogh
Q3) In contrast to some of the other Impressionist painters,Renoir focused on the
A) marketplace
B) street light
C) racecar
D) figure
Q4) In order to emphasize the abstract nature of his paintings,Whistler often chose titles that were more commonly used in ________.
A) psychology
B) music
C) poetry
D) mathematics
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Q5) How did Manet break with conventions in his paintings?
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Chapter 15: modern art in Europe and the Americas,
1900-1950
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Q1) What are the names of the most important government-sponsored public works organizations?
Q2) The politically charged expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz can be most closely aligned with the artists of which modern movement?
A) The Bridge
B) Dada
C) Regionalism
D) none of the above
Q3) In what ways did artists give their art a deeper social relevance in the period between the wars?
Q4) Which modern art movement professed a radical political agenda based on their love of machines,speed,and war?
A) Constructivism
B) Futurism
C) Dada
D) Suprematism
Q5) How did the de Stijl artists make art that would purify the human mind with pure colors and simple forms?
Q6) Why did the Futurists embrace "the beauty of speed" in their art?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) Eva Hesse embraced __________ in her art,making works that used the vocabulary of Minimalism for emotional ends.
A) optical illusion
B) Earthworks
C) Pop Art
D) absurdity
Q2) Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a large sculptural installation,celebrating women's __________.
A) altars
B) history
C) libraries
D) cuisine
Q3) 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
Q4) What are Earthworks?
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