The first known northern European self-portrait by a woman is purportedly by which artist?
A. Levina Teerlinc
B. Judith Leyster
C. Lavinia Fontana
D. Caterina van Hemessen
Answer: D
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You are in a lighting design class at your local university. In this class, the instructor has you write a paper about lighting design. For your paper, you plan to discuss how there are different characteristics of light that designers can manipulate in order to create the pictures on stage. You then develop a list that contains characteristics such as intensity, distribution, and color. Part of the assignment requires you to meet with your instructor and discuss the progress of your paper; during this meeting, the instructor looks over your list and asks you if any of these characteristics is more important to a lighting designer. You would most likely respond that ________ is the most important characteristic.
A. intensity B. distribution C. color D. none of these choices
For a number of years this composer was granted a substantial stipend by a wealthy patron, Countess Nadezhda von Meck, an unusual occurrence in the late nineteenth century
A) Claude Debussy B) Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov C) Modest Mussorgsky D) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Why is Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man considered one of the great manifestos of humanism?
A. He promoted individual free will and the ability to make of themselves what they wish. B. He greatly influenced the sculptural style of the age through this written manifesto on Praxiteles. C. Through his dissemination of this material, he halted a military coup on the Medici family by warring factions in Flanders. D. He thought humans are pure potential, able to make of themselves what they wish through virtue and knowledge.
Figure-ground reversal can best be seen in
Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop. Kiki Smith's Ginzer. Lee Friedlander's Bismarck, North Dakota. M.C. Escher's Sky and Water I.