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Which group of artists is well known for painting en plein air?
a. the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
b. the Impressionists
c. the Romanticists
d. the Pointillists
During the eleventh century, Byzantium gave special trade status to this city, which
allowed it to control much of the commerce between the Eastern Empire and Western
Europe.
a. Rome
b. Kiev
c. Venice
d. Milan
Which best describes the painting of John Constable?
a. turbulent
b. fantastic natural scenery
c. naturalistic scenes of rural stability
d. depicting natural disasters
Along with organizing lands into twenty tribute-paying areas, what practice made
Darius an effective and able administrator?
a. a system of fair taxation
b. a large building project
c. a nationalistic tradition
d. a standardized religion
What medium did Honor Daumier use to create biting caricatures and social
commentary in print form?
a. woodblock
b. lithography
c. sculpture
d. painting
What is the act of a human being elevated to divine status?
a. augury
b. crenellation
c. apotheosis
d. dharma
Which artist depicted Jesus with a broad-brimmed hat and a shovel?
a. Veronese
b. Tintoretto
c. Grnewald
d. Fontana
How was portraiture different during Egypt's Middle Kingdom?
a. It was not included in tombs.
b. It showed more emotion.
c. It displayed more idealism.
d. It was larger in scale.
Which of the following is a large rectangular Roman administration building?
a. a basilica.
b. a forum.
c. a peristyle.
d. an agora.
Which Islamic art form was most well known and accepted best in Europe?
a. tugras
b. carpets
c. ceramics
d. silks
Which artist produced the first truly nonrepresentational work of art?
a. Pablo Picasso
b. Vasily Kandinsky
c. Piet Mondrian
d. Kazimir Malevich
What formal element is part of the original painting, Spotted Horses and Human
Hands?
a. the natural environment of the horses
b. the illusion of three-dimensional space
c. the outline of human handprints
d. the natural contour of the cave wall
Which of the following is defined as a line running back into the represented space of a
picture that converges with other lines that are parallel in reality?
a. perspective line
b. vanishing line
c. orthogonal
d. giornata
Augustus' triumphal return to Rome after establishing Roman rule in Gaul is
commemorated in the
a. Augustus of Primaporta.
b. Temple of Portunus.
c. Gemma Augustea.
d. Ara Pacis.
Which of the following best describes Mesoamerican society?
a. a sharply divided class structure
b. egalitarian
c. communist
d. democratic
Which of the following is our source for information about Etruscan temples?
a. Etruscan homes
b. writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius
c. the one remaining at Cerveteri
d. models in Etruscan tombs
What is the setting for Robert Campin's Annunciation?
a. in a first-century home in Palestine
b. in a fifteenth-century Flemish home
c. in a Gothic church
d. a landscape in Judea
How did the Inca finance their 23,000 miles of roads and 1,000 storehouses and
lodgings that they built for transportation and communication?
a. with their gold mines
b. with labor taxation
c. with slavery
d. road-use fees
What is the study of art as a product of its broad cultural context?
a. naturalism
b. iconography
c. aesthetics
d. contextualism
Which Third Dynasty king is buried at Saqqara?
a. Senusret III
b. Djoser
c. Ramses II
d. Hatshepsut
Which artist is best known for the photographs of herself in various assumed roles?
a. Judy Chicago
b. Betye Saar
c. Faith Ringgold
d. Cindy Sherman
Other than being an interesting work of art, what is the function of the painting
Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte?
a. It provides a metaphor for eternal judgment.
b. It records seventeenth-century building practices.
c. It documents religious tolerance.
d. It shows the strength of the painters' guild.
Which style of art did Winslow Homer say he thought was most appropriate for a
democracy?
a. Impressionism
b. Romanticism
c. Realism
d. Neoclassicism
Which ancient Americans developed the most advanced writing system?
a. Olmec
b. Aztec
c. Nazca
d. Maya
The title "Augustus" means
a. important.
b. sacred.
c. untouchable.
d. immortal.
The word for woven textiles among the Ashanti culture is
a. kente.
b. ere ibeji.
c. bilongo.
d. weft.
Which group first organized exhibitions independent from the official Salon?
a. the Realists
b. the Impressionists
c. the Post-Impressionists
d. the Symbolists
Which of the following is a horizontal lintel consisting of three other horizontal
elements?
a. architrave
b. entablature
c. echinus
d. metopes
Which structure was thought to have been built by Merlin, the legendary magician of
King Arthur, during the Middle Ages?
a. Stonehenge
b. Newgrange
c. Durrington Walls
d. atalhyk
The religious reformers were most vocal against
a. art in churches.
b. nudity in art.
c. the sale of indulgences.
d. the granting of divorces.
What was the important contributing tradition that resulted in Roman veristic
portraiture?
a. celebrity status of the gladiators
b. fame of the Roman people
c. death masks of deceased relatives
d. honor given to the Roman senators
In architecture, what is a regulated decorative system called?
a. a stylobate
b. an order
c. a peristyle
d. a forum
What was Georges Seurat's technique called?
a. Impressionism
b. pointillism
c. symbolism
d. synthetism
Which ancient Greek is noted for developing a "canon" of proportion, which he
illustrated in the Spear Bearer?
a. Phidias
b. Polykleitos
c. Pericles
d. Praxiteles
In manuscripts during the Gothic age, illuminators used columns of medallions and
colors, both of which were derived from
a. stained-glass windows.
b. cloisonn metalwork.
c. portal sculpture.
d. Italian frescos.
