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Question 1

The Tempest

Answer 1

Giorgione piece; emphasizes the landscape, not its figures

Question 2

The Stonebreakers

Answer 2

A Realist piece by Courbet; depicts workmen repairing a road

Question 3

The School of Athens

Answer 3

Raphael painting; honors Greek philosophers and scientists

Question 4

The Night Watch

Answer 4

Rembrandt painting with nontraditional character groupings; also
titled Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic Guard

Question 5

The Four Horsemen of the

Apocalypse

Answer 5

A piece created by Dürer in 1498

Question 6

Sistine Madonna

Answer 6

Piece by Raphael; influenced representations of the Virgin Mary

Question 7

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Answer 7

Piece by Michelangelo for Pope Julius II; recently restored

Question 8

Sfumato

Answer 8

A technique featuring blurred outlines; shown in Mona Lisa

Question 9

Renaissance Man

Answer 9

Person skilled in many areas; exemplified by Leonardo da Vinci and
Michelangelo

Question 10

Pre-Raphaelites

Answer 10

Group that attempted to return to Pre-Renaissance art; religious
elements incorporated in their work

Question 11

Optical mixing

Answer 11

Eyes visually blend applied dots of complimentary color

Question 12

Oath of the Horatii

Answer 12

Painting by Jacques Louis David; reflects republican values

Question 13

Naturalism

Answer 13

A realistic technique employed in Donatello’s later work

Question 14

Moses

Answer 14

One of the pieces Michelangelo created for Pope Julius II

Question 15

Le Déjeuner sur L’herbe

Answer 15

Translates to Luncheon on the Grass; shows naked women among

clothed men; created by Manet

Question 16

Isenheim Altarpiece

Answer 16

Piece by Grünewald with two sets of folding wings and two panels

Question 17

Individual genius

Answer 17

Idea that emerged during the Renaissance; placed more emphasis
on the individual

Question 18

Impression, Sunrise

Answer 18

A piece created by Monet; criticized for being an “impression”;
inspired the name of the Impressionist movement

Question 19

High Renaissance

Answer 19

Exemplified by artists such as da Vinci and Michelangelo

Question 20

Gates of Paradise

Answer 20

A set of doors depicting the sacrifice of Isaac created by Lorenzo
Ghiberti; Michelangelo named them

Question 21

Fête galante

Answer 21

Style developed by Watteau; featured elegantly dressed nobility in
the countryside

Question 22

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Answer 22

A painting by Bernini; set in Cornaro Chapel altar

Question 23

Dome of the Florence

Cathedral

Answer 23

Piece by Brunelleschi; features a double-shelled dome design

Question 24

Chiaroscuro

Answer 24

Dramatic contrasts between light and dark

Question 25

Caravaggesque

Answer 25

A technique with very strong contrasts between light and dark; an
exaggerated form of chiaroscuro

Question 26

Yoruba

Answer 26

Cultural group influenced by the Nok civilization

Question 27

Toltec-Mayan figure

Answer 27

In the Louvre; influenced Henry Moore’s signature form

Question 28

Qibla wall

Answer 28

Wall of mosques that faces Mecca

Question 29

Pyramid of the Sun

Answer 29

Structure created in Mexico; rivals Egyptian pyramids

Question 30

Oba

Answer 30

Term used to describe a Benin Kingdom ruler

Question 31

Nok

Answer 31

Emerged in present-day Nigeria in c. 500 BCE; this civilization
created terracotta sculptures of leaders

Question 32

Dome of the Rock

Answer 32

Structure located in Jerusalem; indicates the presence of Islam in a
city sacred to Jewish and Christian faith

Question 33

Asmat

Answer 33

Practiced head-hunting; influenced Melanesian art

Question 34

Benin Kingdom

Answer 34

Kingdom that succeeded the Nok civilization in 900 CE