Deck 10: Eighteenth-Century Art

Question 1

The eighteenth century in European cultural history is sometimes called the Age of Enlightenment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The view that human knowledge is pragmatically gained from experience and sensation is called:

A) empiricism.
B) Victorianism.
C) classicism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Robert Adam's style of remodeling of the fireplace niche at Osterly Park House is referred to as Neoclassicism,because the ornamentation is based on ____________.

Answer 3

antique prototypes

Question 4

Rosalba Carriera,as seen in her Portrait of Louis XV as a Young Man,was famous for her ability to render portraits in:

A) tempera.
B) fresco.
C) pastel.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 5

The term "Rococo" was first used to designate what style?

Question 6

To truly understand the "grand style," any artist who desired professional fame was almost obligated to do what?

Question 7

The French word that refers to a European artistic style of the 17ᵗʰ and 18ᵗʰ centuries characterized by fanciful imagery of an imaginary China is called:

A) orientalism.
B) Japonisme.
C) Chinoiserie.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 8

Because Reynolds depicts the subject as an allegorical figure in his Allegorical Portrait of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse and his composition recalls Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling figures,we find that Reynolds is aspiring to the ____________.

Question 9

Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe was stimulated by a serious study of
____________ and study of the works of Renaissance and Baroque artists.

Question 10

With Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera,a new category of painting was established for the French Royal Academy,listed as ____________.

Question 11

In the eighteenth century,a painting or print featuring a picturesque view of ancient ruins or a romanticized view of the contemporary cityscape was called:

A) rotonda.
B) veduta.
C) pastelli.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 12

In Chong Son's Twelve Thousand Peaks of Mount Kumgang,the artist rendered an actual place employing:

A) self consciousness.
B) traditional Chinese brush methods.
C) a new Korean aesthetic.
D) traditional Chinese pictorial ideas.
E) all of these.

Question 13

The shape of Neumann's Kaisersaal is too complicated to be either an oval or an octagon,but it is surmounted by a high oval dome pierced by windows.

Question 14

Fueling the Neoclassical style was:

A) the influential art historian Wittgenstein.
B) changing political realities.
C) the rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 15

David's Death of Socrates offered a guide for ____________ in the troubled social climate of France in the late 1780s.

Question 16

Kim Hongdo's painting Roof Tiling shows the interest in the actual appearances of powerful Korean rulers in eighteenth-century Korea.

Question 17

Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing reaffirms the pleasures of:

A) lovers' games.
B) playing chess.
C) idyllic partying.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 18

Jefferson's use of the combination of pedimented entrance and dome at Monticello can be traced back to the Pantheon in Rome.

Question 19

Because of the web of gold woodwork,the stucco ornament,the rhythmic curving cornice,and the delicate arches,the effect of Boffrand's Salon de la Princesse is:

A) spiritual and meditative.
B) elegant and ebullient.
C) robust and heroic.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 20

During the eighteenth century in Korea,heavy green celadon ceramics gradually replaced delicate white porcelain ware.

Question 21

What are the implicit meanings behind John Singleton Copley's Portrait of Paul Revere? How does the portrait work to convey these meanings? What do these meanings tell us about Copley as an artist?

Question 22

Describe the motivations,purposes,and allegorical meanings behind The Ocean's Coach commissioned by the Portuguese King John V.What was the iconography intended to do?

Question 23

Why would Thomas Jefferson's Virginia State Capitol have surprised many Richmond residents?

Question 24

What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?

Question 25

In William Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode,Scene II,what suggests that the wife's lover is the music teacher?