Test 1

Question 1

Answer 1

John Vanbrugh – Blenheim Palace, 1715

Time: Early 18th century
Style: Baroque (English)
Nationality: British

nothing completely new was created in this period other than Rococo (light hearted version of the Baroque of 17th century, Louis 15th in France, asymmetry, naturalistic motif, very organic style, exteriors were simple)
contrast between what’s happening in Europe other than England
Gothic is French in origin, Rococo is French in origin, never fully accepted in England
Queen Anne in 1704, built for Duke of Marlboro
VanBrugh was ridiculed for the design

Question 2

Answer 2

Richard Boyle and William Kent – Chiswick House

Time: Early 18th Century
Style: Palladian (Neo-Palladian)
Nationality: British

looks very classical, simple symmetry
built in a style to downplay the monarchy
Palladian Classicism went on until the 1760s

Question 3

Answer 3

German Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, 1735-1740

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

inside Hotel de Soubise, much more extravagant than the outside

Question 4

Answer 4

Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera, 1717

Time: Early 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

most associated with the Rococo (“French Taste”)
Flemish by birth, style inspired by Peter Paul Reubens
Artists in France frequently debated the merits between Peter Paul Rubens (the Flemish baroque, voluptuous lines and colors) and Nicolas Poussin (rational control, proportion, Roman classicism)
Watteau is Reubenist, color is most important

Question 5

Answer 5

Francis Boucher, Birth and Triumph of Venus, 1751

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

“Venus of the Doves”
Boucher’s fame rests on allegorical images
based on Baroque styles

Question 6

Answer 6

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing, 1766

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

studied with Boucher
first rate colorist
typical Rococo
final segment in Rococo style
French Revolution destroyed Rococo

Question 7

Answer 7

Clodion (Claude Michel)

Nymph and Satyr (The Intoxication of Wine), 1775

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

playful eroticism
uses terracotta to look more like flesh

Question 8

Answer 8

Etienne-Maurice Falconet,

Madame de Pompadour (“Venus of the Doves”), 1776?

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo (French)
Nationality: French

Question 9

Answer 9

Francois de Cuvillies, The Amalienburg, 1734-1739

Time: Early 18th Century
Style: Rococo (German)
Nationality: Belgian

interior: Hall of Mirrors
Cuvillies from Belgium
didn’t add a mural on the top in order to prevent burdening the space

Question 10

Answer 10

Giovanni Baptiste (Giambattista) Tiepolo

Apotheosis of the Pisani Family, 1761-1762

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (Italian)
Nationality: Italian

Venetian master, one of best paint
bright, cheerful palate
avoids heavier forms for forms with great elegance and grace

Question 11

Answer 11

Balthasar Neumann

facade of the Vierzehnheiligen, 1743-1772

Time: Mid to Late 18th Century
Style: Late Baroque with stylistic affinities to Rococo
Nationality: German

chief influence was not French, but Italian stemming from the 17th century

Question 12

Answer 12

Egrid Asam, Assumption of the Virgin, 1725

Time: Early 18th Century
Style: Rococo (German)
Nationality: German

Question 13

Answer 13

Antonio Canaletto,

Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day(?), 1735-1740

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (Venetian)
Nationality: Italian (Venetian)

increased interests with workings in the world
resurgence of interest in landscapes and cityscapes
very popular with English tourists
Canaletto trained as a scenic painter

Question 14

Answer 14

Antonio Canaletto

The Portello and Brenta Canal of Padua, 1740

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Rococo (Italian)
Nationality: Italian

Question 15

Answer 15

Antonio Canaletto

Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Monument to Colleoni, 1735-1738 (1741?)

Time: Mid 18th Century
Style: Baroque (Italian)
Nationality: Italian

Question 16

Answer 16

Rosalba Carriere, Portrait of a Boy, 1721

Time: Early 18th Century
Style: Rococo (Venetian)
Nationality: Italian (Venetian)

worked in pastel
pioneer of pastel medium, raised it to the art of painting
the Venetian school of art is the only one that could compete with France in terms of art in the 18th century

Question 17

Answer 17

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, 1787

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Neoclassicism
Nationality: British

Question 18

Answer 18

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Lord Heathfield, Governor of Gibraltar, 1787

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo
Nationality: British
England was supremely exceptional in portrait paintings

Question 19

Answer 19

Thomas Gainsborough

The Blue Boy, after 1760 before 1780 (1770?)

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo
Nationality: British

homage to van Dyke
Watteau was an influence on Gainsborough

Question 20

Answer 20

Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1787

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo
Nationality: British

structure in weak, bur stroke is light and beautiful

Question 21

Answer 21

Thomas Gainsborough, The Market Cart, 1787

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Rococo
Nationality: British

Question 22

Answer 22

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Paul Revere, 1768-1770

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Neoclassicism
Nationality: American

self taught artist
has symbols of the work ethic

Question 23

Answer 23

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778

Time: Late 18th Century
Style: Romanticism
Nationality: American

Question 24

Answer 24

John Singleton Copley

Head of a Negro, 1777
Time: Late 18th
Style: Neoclassicism
Nationality: American

Question 25

Answer 25

Vigee-LeBrun, The Duchesse de Polignac, 1783 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Rococo Nationality: French

Question 26

Answer 26

Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, 1778 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French finest french sculptor of the 18th century deals with classical themes

Question 27

Answer 27

Joseph Wright of Derby Experiment with the Air Pump, 1768 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: British was very interested in science

Question 28

Answer 28

Joseph Wright of Derby Philosopher Giving a Lecture (The Orrery), 1766 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: British

Question 29

Answer 29

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Back from Market, 1739 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: His Own Style (maybe Baroque also?) Nationality: French “poet of the common place” considered one of the best painters of the 18th century briefly served as Fragonard's teacher

Question 30

Answer 30

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, The Kitchen Maid, 1738 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Baroque Nationality: French

Question 31

Answer 31

William Hogarth The Marriage Contract (Marriage a la Mode, Scene 1), 1743-1745 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Rococo Nationality: British series of 6 paintings meant to satirize marriage

Question 32

Answer 32

William Hogarth The Tete a Tete (Marriage a la Mode, Scene 2), 1745 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Rococo Nationality: British designed all of his series to be a set of engravings

Question 33

Answer 33

Jean Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride, 1761 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Rococo Nationality: French melodramatic emotion also trusted feelings over thought, intuition over reason moral and sentimental approach sought to encourage the individual

Question 34

Answer 34

Benjamin West Agrippina and the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: American history painting

Question 35

Answer 35

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Rococo Nationality: American contemporary costume and realism led to the great battle paintings of the 19th century Romanticism 1750-1850

Question 36

Answer 36

Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, 1749-1777 Time: Mid to Late 18th Century Style: Gothic (British) Nationality: British

Question 37

Answer 37

Jacques-Germain Soufflot The Pantheon (Sainte-Genevieve), 1755-1792 Time: Mid to Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French distinguishes Greek art from Roman style first great monument of Neoclassicism in French Architecture Johann Winckelmann – first art historian

Question 38

Answer 38

Angelika Kauffmann Cornelia Presenting her children...(Cornelia Africana) 1785 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: transition artist, has rococo and neoclassicism style

Question 39

Answer 39

Jaques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French his classical style soon because a voice of the revolution

Question 40

Answer 40

Jaques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French depicts Marat as a martyr, like Jesus

Question 41

Answer 41

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, 1770-1806 Time: Late 18th Century to Early 19th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: American continues well into the 19th century and 20th century saw neoclassicism as the perfect style of the representation of democracy

Question 42

Answer 42

Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, 1819-1826 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: American masterpiece of early federal architecture Neoclassicism became the style for building in America

Question 43

Answer 43

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, 1750 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Romanticism? Nationality: Italian invoked feelings of the sublime

Question 44

Answer 44

George Stubbs, Lion Attacking a Horse, 1763 Time: Mid 18th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: British developed animal history painting

Question 45

Answer 45

John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: Swiss born Swiss, but career is in England

Question 46

Answer 46

William Blake, Ancient of Days, 1794 Time: Late 18th Century Style: Symbolism Nationality: British painted what he saw within himself, rather than with the eye

Question 47

Answer 47

Pierre Vignon, La Madeline, 1807-1842 Time: Early to Mid 18th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French based on Roman forms symbolic link between Napoleon and the Roman Empire

Question 48

Answer 48

Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: Italian

Question 49

Answer 49

Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1832-1841 Time: Mid 19th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: American first of American Sculptors to go to Italy and learn under Canova

Question 50

Answer 50

Charles Berry, House of Parliament, 1835 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Palladian/Gothic? Nationality: British

Question 51

Answer 51

John Nash, Royal Pavilion (Brighton Pavilion), 1815-1818 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Indo-Saracenic? Nationality: British eastern influence cast iron skeleton underneath

Question 52

Answer 52

Francois Rude, Arc de Triomphe, 1833-1836 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Neo classicism Nationality: French

Question 53

Answer 53

Francois Rude La mar/seil/laise (the Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), 1833-1836 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Neo-Baroque Nationality: French patriotic element

Question 54

Answer 54

Antoine Louis Barye Jaguar Devouring A Hare, 1850-1851 Time: Mid 19th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: French very real aspect of untamed nature

Question 55

Answer 55

J.L. Charles Garnier, The Paris Opera House, 1861-1874 Time: Late 19th Century Style: Baroque Nationality: French would influence theatre design into the 20th century

Question 56

Answer 56

Richard Morris Hunt, The Breakers, 1892 Time: Late 19th Century Style: Neo-Baroque and Renaissance elements Nationality: American

Question 57

Answer 57

Richard Morris Hunt, Biltmore, 1895 Time: Late 19th Century Style: Châteauesque Nationality: American

Question 58

Answer 58

Anne Louis Girodet – Trioson, The Burial of Atala, 1808 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: French Romanticism prominent in painting result of literary efforts technically Neo-classical work, but conceptually Romanticism

Question 59

Answer 59

Baron Antoine Jean Gros Plague House at Jaffa (Pest House at Jaffa), 1804 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: French trained at a Noe-Classicist but is Romantic

Question 60

Answer 60

Theodore Gericault, Raft of Medusa, 1818-1819 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Romanticism Nationality: French manifesto of the Romantic style

Question 61

Answer 61

Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman, 1822-1823 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Romanticism (Realistic) Nationality: French

Question 62

Answer 62

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres La Grande Odalisque, 1814 Time: Early 19th Century Style: Neoclassicism Nationality: French figure has longer back and longer arm than most humans