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This era saw the first uses of pottery

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Mesolithic

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The Greek orders do not include:

Doric
Corinthian
Tuscan
Ionic

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Tuscan

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Who designed the interlocking thin shells on a structure found on the Australian bay

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John Utzon

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The title “Women of Avignon refers to

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Prostitutes in France

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Which artist and style are paired correctly?

Brancusi-Suprematism
Mondrian-De Stijl
Gropius-Prairie Style
Wright-Cubism

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Mondrian - De Stijl

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Which is not a feature of Fallingwater?

Cantilever
Reinforced Concrete
Glass walls
Skeletal construction

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Skeletal Construction

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What were the main characteristics of Romanticism

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Artistic emphasis on intuition, imagination and feeling

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Strawberry Hill refers to

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A Gothic Revival villa

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Who of the ff did not work for Napoleon

David
Ingres
Canova
Lebrun

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Le Brun

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Which least inspired Jefferson’s architectural style

Palladio
Gothic revival
The pantheon
Neoclassicism

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Gothic Revival

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Which is not a tenet of Romanticism

Nostalgia
Exoticism
Social realism
The sublime

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Exoticism

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The Houses of Parliament are examples of what style?

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Gothic Revival

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Which is not a theme in Goya’s painting?

Social injustice
Child psychology
Irrational thinking
Frivolity

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Frivolity

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Until the middle of the nineteenth century, bridges were designed according to what method?

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Truss

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The ff are court painters except

Rembrandt
Hans Holbein
Agnolo Bronzino
Diego Velasquez

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Agnolo Bronzino

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Oath of Horatii was painted by

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Jacques-Louis David

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Jacques-Louis David was a leading representative of what style?

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Neoclassicism

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Which term best describes Seurat’s brushstrokes?

Spiraling
Divisionist
Blurred
Smooth

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Divisionist

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Art Nouveau was a European response against

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Industrialization

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Which Pop Artist was most likely to have painted repetitious advertising images

Johns
Warhol
Lichenstein
Kahlo

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Warhol

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His design for the Bauhaus School, Dessau Germany (1925) was the first example of the new international style architecture

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Walter Gropius

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Egyptian monumental architecture is essentially

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Columnar and trabeated style

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Romanesque architecture had for its greatest patron the

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Christian church

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The leader of the Chicago School of architecture and a pioneer in skyscraper design. The Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887) was his first major work.

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Louis H. Sullivan

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Which of the following painters was a leading realist? Peter Paul Rubens Henri Rousseau Claude Monet Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
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"The house is a machine to live in."
Le Corbusier
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The designer of the Casa Mila is
Antoni Gaudi
28
Which architect designed the Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton
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The artist who constructed paintings by using tiny strokes of color and relied on the theory of optical mixing?
Georges Seurat
30
Dutch Post-Impressionist artist is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and had an enormous influence on 20th C art
Vincent Van Gogh
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What style of art breaks from traditional perspective and depicts the subject matter from multiple points of view, fragmenting a 3-dimensional form in order to depict it on the 2-dimensional surface?
Cubism
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The key design characteristics of De Stijl include all of the ff except Rectangularity Varied textures Primary colors Asymmetry
Varied textures
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The last Tudor monarch
Elizabeth I
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An austere Spanish Renaissance style that insisted on minimum ornamentation
Desornamentado
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Transition period bet gothic and renaissance architecture
Tudor architecture
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A character of French renaissance architecture is Dormer windows Paired columns Portico String cornices
Dormer windows
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One of Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture Fallingwater Robbie House Petronas Tower S.C. Johnson Co. Building
Fallingwater
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Moorish influence of muslim features such as horseshoe arch pierced stone tracery and excessive ornament in Spanish gothic was due to
Religion
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3 of these terms relate to works of ancient stone sculpture or architecture. Which does not belong? Megaron Menhir Mastaba Makemono
Makemono
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Which of the ff buildings is an example of Byzantine Architecture? Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey) Doge's Palace (Venice) Royal Courts of Justice (London) Versailles (France)
Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Which ancient Greek pottery item was not used to hold liquid? Rhyton Kylix Kore Amphora
Kore
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Continuous running or band ornament of interlacing circles
Guilloche
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The art of civilization depicted sea life and included statues of a female snake goddess
Minoan
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What style did much of ancient Egyptian art emphasize? Golden mean Distorted profile Contrapposto Hierarchical scale
Hierarchical scale
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What was contrapposto designed to do?
Put the body in an S-curve
46
Italian term for the bell tower
Campanile
47
Which of the ff was not from the renaissance period? Brunelleschi Donatello Raphael Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio
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His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1947-1948) from the Apocalypse series, the "Rhinoceros", and numerous self-portraits
Albercht Durer
49
What historical event was a major influence on religious art during and after the Baroque period?
The French Revolution
50
Although now commonly known as "The Colosseum", the building does have a more formal name
The Flavian Amphitheatre
51
Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of the Doric columns
Entassis
52
What is the correct name for a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface
Mural
53
The ff are parts of a Byzantine basilica except ``` Atrium Transept Bema Narthex None of the above ```
Bema
54
Last name of the artist Michelangelo
Buonarroti
55
The assumption that humans could reach godlike status (term)
Humanism
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In what area did Giotto make great advances in painting techniques
Perspective
57
A distinctive style in western Europe form 1000-1400
Romanesque
58
Which is not a feature of the typical Romanesque portal Tympanum Lintel Jamb Transpet
Transept
59
Which is not a pair? ``` Rose-circle Towers-vertical Gable-rectangle Apse-semicircle Dome-hemisphere ```
Gable-rectangle
60
Which is not a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents ``` Arcades Round arches Doric colonnettes Bays Pediments ```
Doric colonnettes
61
The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be
High contrast of light and dark
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Which is not a meaning related to the Mannerist style? ``` Affectation Mannered Restrained Stylized Elongated ```
Restrained
63
Palladio used the ancient texts of
Vitruvius
64
Which is the most characteristic feature of Baroque style Elongation Violent action Flat spaces Frontal figures
Violent action
65
The court portrait painter of Charles I of England
Anthony Van Dyck
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Which of the ff is not a Mesopotamian god? Anu Isis Ishtar Innana
Isis

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