Chapter 23 (Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789)
1. Enlightenment philosophy declared that _______________.
a. the past offers no guidance for the present
b. is needed
c. all human affairs ought to be ruled by reason and the common good
d. emotions are supreme to reason
2. Who was the leading Neoclassical painter in France?
a. Greuze
b. Houdon
c. Kauffmann
d. David
3. s The Oath of the Horatii (23.27) _______________.
a. relates to the ideas of Poussin
b. was influenced by Caravaggio
c. is a history painting
d. all of the above
4. The Swiss female artist who earned an international reputation as a Neoclassical
painter was _______________.
a. Copley
b. Kauffmann
c. Boullée
d. Millet
5. The Nightmare (23.17) is ____________.
a. unknown
b. well known
c. based on an actual event
d. a landscape painting
6. s Neoclassical sculptures __________________.
a. primarily dealt with mythological themes
b. established new standards for physical and psychological truth in
portraiture
c. did not portray contemporary figures
d. revived the Greek mastery of bronze
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7. Neoclassicism was stirred by which of the following experiences?
a. the rediscovery of Greek art as the original source for the classic style
b. the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum
c. both A and B
d. neither A nor B
8. The English garden was designed to evoke the Classical past and
_________________.
a. to cater to a Neoclassical patriotism
b. to cater to a Romantic sensibility
c. to cater to a Baroque intensity
d. to ca
9. The Nightmare (23.17) is _____________.
a. well-documented
b. unknown
c. patriotic
d. lost
10. Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (23.18)
was a _____________.
a. dancer
b. actor
c. singer
d. artist
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a. a rational design
b. an irrational design
c. a Classical design
d. a Neoclassical design
12. In Voltaire Seated (23.26), Houdon classicizes the subject by __________.
a. having him wear a laurel wreath
b. dressing him in a Roman toga
c. dressing him like a Greek god
Odyssey in one hand
13. Vigéee-Lebrun was the court painter to ___________.
a. Louis XV
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b. Philip IV
c. Charles I
d. Marie-Antoinette
14. Tomb of the Archduchess Maria Christina (23.31) is located in _______.
a. Rome
b. Venice
c. Vienna
d. Madrid
15. The Panthéon (23.20) is located in _____________.
a. Rome
b. Paris
c. Madrid
d. London