unit 4

Question 1

Supper at Emmaus

Answer 1

Caravaggio

Question 2

________ painted scenes of biblical females that served as metaphors for her own tormented life.

Answer 2

Gentileschi

Question 3

What is the name of this structure that was built for King Louis XIV?

Answer 3

palace of Versailles

Question 4

Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

Answer 4

Claude

Question 5

Rubens created _______.

Answer 5

The Three Graces

Question 6

Which was the Baroque era marked by?

Answer 6

artistic genius of Velazquez
artistic genius of Caravaggio
artistic genius of Rembrandt
art was more accessible to the ordinary person

Question 7

__________ was a Dutch artist who had the incredible ability to capture the personality of his model, largely through fleeting facial expressions.

Answer 7

Hals

Question 8

In the 17th century, the two most powerful countries in Europe were _________ and England.

Answer 8

France

Question 9

Artists full of enthusiasm created a plethora of high-quality art, and many of these artists began to specialize in specific subjects like _______, landscapes, animals, and interior portraits.

Answer 9

still lifes

Question 10

Why did Pope Paul III gather together high-level Catholic leaders in 1542 to the city of Trent, Italy?

Answer 10

to discuss ways in which the Catholics could address their doctrine

Question 11

One trait that was common to all Baroque artists was mastery in _____ to achieve a deeply rich and emotional impact.

Answer 11

the use of light

Question 12

Las Meninas

Answer 12

Velazquez

Question 13

El Greco’s style is known as mannerism, which consisted of intense, inward-looking emotion and figures that look _____, rather than in their natural state.

Answer 13

posed

Question 14

__________ was the foremost master of the most elusive texture to perfect: human skin, especially on the hands and faces of older people.

Answer 14

Rembrandt

Question 15

created Magdalen with the Smoking Flame.

Answer 15

Georges de La Tour

Question 16

created The Girl with a Wineglass.

Answer 16

Vermeer

Question 17

Baroque artists came from all over Europe to ___.

Answer 17

Italy

Question 18

The mission of the ___ was to build an order on a very strict set of rules for living and developing spiritually.

Answer 18

Jesuits

Question 19

In the early ___, the Catholic Church took a huge hit.

Answer 19

1500s

Question 20

King Charles I at the Hunt

Answer 20

van Dyck

Question 21

The financial patronage of the Catholic Church during the Baroque era helped Italian and Spanish artists experiment in new ideas like ________ and spiritual emotion.

Answer 21

facial

Question 22

__________ loved complex special arrangements and often created precise visual illusions of objects in a confined space.

Answer 22

Vermeer

Question 23

Rembrandt’s early paintings are based on physical action, _______ emotion, and used dramatic contrasts of dark and light to add to the emotion of his pieces.

Answer 23

melodramatic

Question 24

Belshazzar’s Feast

Answer 24

Rembrandt

Question 25

Bacchus

Answer 25

Caravaggio

Question 26

Because religious-themed art was the norm in the Belgian south, and strictly forbidden in the strict Calvinist churches of the Dutch north, the result in the Netherlands was _______.

Answer 26

a typically secularized subject matter

Question 27

Flanders was dominated by the Catholic Church and a ruling _________, while Holland was an independent democracy with Protestant ties.

Answer 27

monarchy

Question 28

_____________ start popping up more and more in art of the Baroque era, as they started to become a symbol for the competition between artists and nature in producing an image that is as real as possible.

Answer 28

mirrors

Question 29

__________ was one of the most outstanding Baroque painters, simply for the way he reflected the social representation of what he could call "ideal beauty."

Answer 29

Rubens

Question 30

The Allegory of Painting

Answer 30

Vermeer

Question 31

What was the mission of the Holy Office of the Inquisition?

Answer 31

to round up heretics and deal with them

Question 32

Why did artists often extend invitations to the viewer in their artwork?

Answer 32

It made the viewer an essential part of the work and it gave the viewer a sense of ownership of the scene depicted.

Question 33

The Election Entertainment

Answer 33

Hogarth

Question 34

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

Answer 34

Gainsborough

Question 35

The Arcadian Shepherds

Answer 35

Poussin

Question 36

What did people like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and Ulrich Zwingli start in protest when they pointed out the flaws in the Catholic way of doing things?

Answer 36

Protestant Christian faiths

Question 37

Since religious art was prohibited in the Puritan churches of England, English Baroque art took the form of ________ that defined and elevated one's status in the eyes of others.

Answer 37

portraiture

Question 38

Dutch artists emphasized the economic strata of its prosperous population, while the French Baroque was focused on being _____.

Answer 38

flamboyantly detailed

Question 39

The Laughing Cavalier

Answer 39

Hals

Question 40

The Night Watch

Answer 40

Rembrandt

Question 41

_____ was the most beloved book of the Spanish.

Answer 41

The Bible

Question 42

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Answer 42

Gentileschi

Question 43

The Burial of Count Orgaz

Answer 43

El Greco

Question 44

Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid

Answer 44

Vermeer

Question 45

Conversion on the Way to Damascus

Answer 45

Caravaggio

Question 46

_________ focused on painting idyllic landscapes and gave them a dreamlike, almost unbelievable beauty.

Answer 46

Claude

Question 47

Chiaroscuro is an Italian term that literally translates as ___.

Answer 47

from light to dark

Question 48

Gainsborough developed into an incredible portrait artist in his own right, usually having his sitters wear casual, ________ dress, which echoed his easygoing, laid-back personality and style.

Answer 48

contemporary