Exam 2

Question 1

How do you read a painting?

Answer 1

1) Identify the figures and objects in the picture
2) Identify symbolic meanings behind each figure
3) Combine separate meanings into coherent statements

Question 2

Displays the dead and the fight between angels and devils for a soul

Answer 2

• Grandes Heures de Ronan
• “A dead man before God”

Question 3

What was Brunolesky known for?

Answer 3

-Vanishing points in painting
- The study of math and geometry to do art

Question 4

Perspective drawing of a chalice

Answer 4

Poalo Vccello

Question 5

Why are biblical events used so often in art?

Answer 5

It is present in contemporary art to show politics

Question 6

What does a cedar represent? (Half man half goat)

Answer 6

Represents animalistic tendencies, drunkenness’ and lust

Question 7

A winged baby (Venus accompanied by cupid)

Answer 7

A Putto

Question 8

Describe a medieval painting vs Renaissance

Answer 8

They were sectioned with no interactions in altarpieces and ren had interactions and perspectives in one space

Question 9

For the Medacci family, Zephyrus blows on Chloris who becomes flora, displays 9 figures of greek gods, three woment dancing, hermes waving a wand, mary in the center, cupid.
-Zephorus
-Chlorus
-Flora
-Primavera
-The three graces
-Murcery
- Cupid

Answer 9

Primavera

Question 10

The first milky way painted in art

Answer 10

Rest on the flight into Egypt

Question 11

The outline of one body over another
- Mucery passing in front of Venus

Answer 11

Transit

Question 12

Ludovivo Cigoli

Answer 12

• A friend of Galileo
  -Painted “Immaculata” , which displays moon as cratered
  -Madona on a more realistic moon

Question 13

Describe the Baroch period

Answer 13

Covers every single with decoration and fru fru

Question 14

Woman weighing gold, the astronomer, the geographer

Answer 14

Jan Vermeer

Question 15

Renaissance vs Baroque

Answer 15

Renaissance art: Idealistic, light, nice land scape
Baroque art: Expressional, sinical, drama and tension.
-Exaggerated motion, appeals to pathos
-Should communicate religious themes
- Grandiosity and opulence
-Architecture should express power, triumph and control

Question 16

Gian-Lorenzo Bernini

Answer 16

“Larger than life”
-Sculptures of David
- Ecstacy of st thersa
-Daphne and apollo

Question 17

Bernard de Fontenelle

Answer 17

-Wrote “Conversation of the plurality of world”

Question 18

Deism

Answer 18

God creates universe but it runs under law

Question 19

Pantheism

Answer 19

Gods existence in all things

Question 20

Satire

Answer 20

Humor, irony to criticize or attack an idea

Question 21

Voltaire

Answer 21

• defender of religious freedom, social reform, limitations in censorship
• Influenced french and american revolutions

Question 22

Micromegas

Answer 22

• What is out position in the universe?
  -Look at images in notes

Question 23

Hentri Matisse

Answer 23

The Dance

Question 24

What does Neo-Classical mean?

Answer 24

New classical

Question 25

Neoclassicism

Answer 25

- Draws inspiration from the classical art and culture - Balance, Harmony, formal design, symmetry - Not giving way to uncontrolled emotional expression - Remind us of things that we are taught

Question 26

Jaques-Louis David

Answer 26

-Most popular in neoclassicism - The death of Socrates - The oath of Horatii

Question 27

Angelica Kauffmann

Answer 27

Look at slides

Question 28

What important building was made during this time

Answer 28

The palace of Versalies

Question 29

Storm clouds, naked mother and a baby sickling, man looking over, division down the center.

Answer 29

Giorgione, the tempest

Question 30

A drunk cedar on green grass with storm clouds, A baby with a compass and a shield, a hill leading into heavens

Answer 30

Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory

Question 31

Two cedars, a sleeping women on a stump, and a putto pouring powder on the women

Answer 31

Allegory of vice and virtue

Question 32

Two women sitting on a well, a putto, one is clothed very nicely, the other is half naked with a candle, landscape in the background

Answer 32

Sacred and profane love Wise and foolish virgins Aphrodite pandemos and urania laura bargoratto and truth

Question 33

Mary and other saint talking together and interacting

Answer 33

The sacred conversation

Question 34

Displays a realistic moon with craters and shape

Answer 34

Jan Van Eyck - The crucifixion

Question 35

Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes

Answer 35

Caravaggio , Judith and Holofernes

Question 36

Simplistic paintings and straight lines

Answer 36

Piet Mondrian

Question 37

Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza Claimed to be Leonardo

Answer 37

La Bella Principessa

Question 38

Newton is ?

Answer 38

Alec Jasper Kilton

Question 39

Einstein is?

Answer 39

Joseph Eisler of the Eisler effect