Quiz a lot 6 , Art & Culture - Art History

1

Which of the following contemporary areas made up the territory known as the Netherlands in the 16th century?

2

Pronk still lifes are known for their ____________

3

Duchamp′s "Assisted Readymades" __________________

4

What is Edmund Burke's definition of the sublime?

5

Zhao Mengfu's Sheep and Goat exemplifies the style of __________.

6

A crossing arm at the eastern end of a church, the ________ was often extended in length to resemble a cross

7

Work by contemporary artist Fukami Sueharu shows that ___________continues to be a vibrant and lucrative field of Japanese artistic production today

8

What Old Kingdom structure adjoined the pyramid and was the site of ceremonies honoring the dead king?

9

The movement of a saint from one location to the next upon his or her request is called _____

10

Which early patron of Caravaggio gave the artist a steady income in exchange for a selection of his paintings?

11

At the Monastery of San Marco, __________ and his assistants frescoed paintings in the cells of the monks and their community rooms

12

What detail of the Mérode Altarpiece indicates that the scene of the Annunciation is a religious vision of the donors?

13

How is the representation of the natural world in the Hunt of the Unicorn tapestry series typical of northern European fifteenth-century art?

14

Polykleitos's canon of proportions was developed in the ________ period

15

What was the most common means of disposing of the dead in early Italy?

16

The artist Caspar David Friedrich believed that closeness with nature would lead to _____

17

At the "Last Supper," Jesus ate bread (calling it his body) and drank wine (calling it his blood) with his disciples and told them to do it in remembrance of him. This began the Christian tradition called the

18

Compare the sculptures of the Seated Scribe and Khafre

19

The characteristic form of Persian Islamic architecture is the __________.

20

The Swiss artist John Henry Fuseli specialized in depicting dramatic subjects drawn from literary sources including ___________

21

Manet viewed the picture plane as _________________

22

The first phase of Cubism is called _____

23

The newly established Joseon dynasty of __________ patterned its government after Ming-dynasty China

24

Which of the following was the likely reason Emperor Leo III chose to initiate iconoclasm?

25

In Ghana, the Ashanti ruler's spokesperson was identified

26

The use of ornamented initials such as the Initial R in the Moralia in Job can be traced back to the ____ period

27

The works of Camille Pissarro are recognizable because they are painted from which viewpoint?

28

Yoruba kings manifested their power through

29

The oldest known bronze tomb effigy is of

30

Diego Velázquez was the court painter for ____________

31

Which of the following is a term for semidomes?

32

A method of construction in which two upright materials support a horizontal element is called __________

33

In Analytic Cubism, artists __________.

34

The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was which of the following?

35

Which individual(s) interacted with the wooden spirit figures (asye usu) created by the Belau of Côte d’Ivoire?

36

Performance Art challenged art's function as _____

37

The tomb of which English monarch is located in Wells Cathedral?

38

Which artist created a dramatic reworking of the story of The Taking of Christ, a subject previously treated by both Giotto and Duccio?

39

Describe Stonehenge and discuss the theories that have surfaced regarding its meaning

40

Which of the following is the title of Martin Schongauer's engraving?

41

David's Oath of the Horatii became an emblem of __________.

42

The Fang people use what type of wooden sculpture as a point of mediation between ancestors and the living?

43

The destruction of religious images that are seen as heresy are know as:

44

The plan of Saint-Sernin is extremely regular and geometrically precise. It is based on a module seen in earlier church architecture. Which of the following churches is the prototype for this refined and rational structural approach?