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Chapter 10 – Eighteenth-Century Art
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
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.
3. 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.
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4. As the first president of England’s Royal Academy of Arts, Joshua Reynolds endorsed
an education based on imitating:
a. the perfection of nature.
b. High Renaissance art.
c. classical art.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
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8. The unusual French Rococo artist, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, was inspired by:
a. Watteau.
b. the grand style of Reynolds.
c. Dutch 17th century naturalism.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
9. 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.
10. 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.
Fill–in–the-Blank Questions
11. 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 ____________.
12. With Watteau’s Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, a new category of painting was
established for the French Royal Academy, listed as ____________.
13. 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 ____________.
14. David’s Death of Socrates offered a guide for ____________ in the troubled social
climate of France in the late 1780s.
15. Benjamin West’s Death of General Wolfe was stimulated by a serious study of
____________ and study of the works of Renaissance and Baroque artists.
True-False Questions
16. The eighteenth century in European cultural history is sometimes called the Age of
Enlightenment.
17. During the eighteenth century in Korea, heavy green celadon ceramics gradually
replaced delicate white porcelain ware.
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18. Kim Hongdo’s painting Roof Tiling shows the interest in the actual appearances of
powerful Korean rulers in eighteenth-century Korea.
19. 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.
20. Jefferson’s use of the combination of pedimented entrance and dome at Monticello
can be traced back to the Pantheon in Rome.
Short Answer Questions
21. The term “Rococo” was first used to designate what style?
22. To truly understand the “grand style,” any artist who desired professional fame was
23. In William Hogarth’s Marriage à la Mode, Scene II, what suggests that the wife’s lover
is the music teacher?
24. What about Egid Quirin Asam’s Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
25. Why would Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia State Capitol have surprised many
Richmond residents?
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Essay Questions
26. Describe the motivations, purposes, and allegorical meanings behind The Ocean’s
Coach commissioned by the Portuguese King John V. What was the iconography
27. 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?