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What were the rules about representing humans in Ancient Egyptian art?

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All parts of the body must be made visible

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What was the purpose of art in Ancient Egyptian culture?

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To represent the deceased in the most presentable light possible

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The only Greek painting remaining is in what form?

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Vases

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Ancient Greeks thought what was the height of beauty?

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The human body

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What was the subject of most Greek art?

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Heroism and human passion

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Painting during the Dark Ages took what physical form?

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Illustrated manuscripts

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What is an example of Dark Ages art?

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The Book of Kells

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What was the subject of almost all paintings during the Dark Ages?

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Religious subjects

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What are two examples of Middle Ages painting?

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The Wilton Diptych and the Book of Hours.

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What is a Book of Hours?

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A book illustrating the bible man’s wealth, society of the court, and the peasants in the realm.

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Why was art of the Middle Ages said to have an “international style”?

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Artists we’re more widely traveled and learned from each other.

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In what way did art from the Middle Ages differ from art from the Dark Ages?

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Middle Ages art focused less on religious themes.

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What is a diptych?

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A painting in two panels

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Who was the artist hero of the Gothic period?

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Giotto

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How does Giotto’s art differ from Duccio’s?

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Giotto have people individual faces while Duccio prevented heaven and earth from mixing.

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How did Hieronymus Bosch view humanity?

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Ugly, evil, lazy, needing the teachings of the church to reach salvation

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How is Roger van der Weyden’s painting of The Last Judgement more like a Renaissance painting than a gothic one?

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It shows people taking responsible for their actions.

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The Renaissance begins with which artist and which painting?

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Massacio’s painting Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden

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Which artist painted Mars and Venus and Birth of Venus?

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Bottecelli

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What two major Renaissance inventions drastically improved painting?

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Oil paint and patrons

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Who were the major patrons of Renaissance art in Florence and in Rome?

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The Medici family

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What three artists represented the High Renaissance?

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Leonarda da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Rafael

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What was the relationship between science and art?

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Both meant making sense of the world

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Who were the three artists in the Venice school?

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Titian, Bellini, and Giorgione

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What was Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas about?
The stages of being an artist
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What quality did Giorgione bring to painting?
Mystery
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Who raised the status of the artists of Northern Europe with his self portrait?
Albrecht Durer
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What made Caravaggio unique?
His use of light and shadow
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What is Caravaggio's most famous painting?
Calling of St. Matthew
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Who was Artemisia Gentileschi?
The first female painter; painted Judith and Her Maidservant
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What made El Greco unique?
Stretched his figures toward heaven; Burial of Count Orgaz
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Who was Peter Paul Rubens?
King of the Baroque painters; Peace and War, Portrait of Helena
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What made Jan Vermeer unique?
He painted individual women in silence and stillness and light
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What made Rembrandt special?
Painted a bunch of self-portraits; showed the strength and vulnerability of being human; Bathseba
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What French painting was done during the Rococo period and represents a transition from Rococo to Neoclacissicism?
Chardin's House of Cards
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Who are two famous artists who painted Neoclassicist works?
Jacques Louis David and Dominique Ingres
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What was emphasized in impressionist paintings?
The effects of light
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What two inventions enabled impressionists to paint outside more easily?
Portable easels and paint tubes
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Which impressionist artist did a painting called Impression Sunrise?
Claude Monet
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Which artist was considered to be a catalyst for Impressionism, but didn't really paint in that style?
Eduard Manet
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Which Impressionist artist painted the Waterlilies series?
Claude Monet
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Which artist painted a behind the scene perspective of dancers?
Edgar Degas
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What American female artist painted in Paris?
Mary Cassatt
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Who painted the Luncheon of the Boating Party?
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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George Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh we're considered to be what type of artists?
Post-impressionist
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Who are the three Giants of 20th century art?
Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse
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Who was considered the first modern painter?
Paul Cezanne
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Which two artists invented Cubism?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
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What are characteristics of Cubism?
Cubists painted multiple views of objects.
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Which painter "painted with scissors" and "painted joy, light, and color"?
Henri Matisse
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Who were two artists who were part of the Surrealist movement?
Salvador Dali and Paul Klee
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Which artist from the New York School created drip paintings and painted Lavender Mist?
Jackson Pollack
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Which artist from the New York School painted brightly colored abstract paintings of women?
Willem deKooning
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Which artist from the New York School created colorful paintings with no subject mater that were intended to express lasting emotions and invoke a spiritual experience?
Mark Rothko
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Who painted the Marilyn Series and the Marilyn Diptych?
Andy Warhol
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Who was Agnes Martin and what was her style of painting called?
Agnes Martin painted simple paintings about beauty, happiness, and innocence; this was known as minimalism.
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What were paintings from the London School like?
Paintings were a little more classical.
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Who painted the Screaming Popes series?
Francis Bacon
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Who was a descendant of Sigmund Freud and painted Painter Working: Reflection?
Lucien Freud
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Who created a classical-looking painting of the artist and his adolescent model?
Balthus
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Who painted the Birth of Adam?
Renais
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Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michaelangelo
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Who painted the Calling of St. Matthews?
Carravagio
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Who painted Maids of Honor?
Diego Velasquez
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What made Diego Velasquez's Maids of Honor special?
He included the viewer in the scene.
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Who painted Fish Magic?
Paul Klee
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What surrealist painter was considered to be a "degenerate" by the Nazi government?
Paul Klee
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Who painted Les Demoiselles D'Avignon?
Pablo Picasso
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Who painted The Last Judgement?
Rogier van der Weyden
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Who painted for Henry VIII?
Hans Holbein
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Who painted the Feast at the House of Levi?
Veranase
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Which artist made completed works in the medium of cut paper?
Henri Matisse

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