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Neoclassicism was the revival of what type of art?
The Code of Hammurabi is preserved in the
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1
The Code of Hammurabi is preserved in the
Louvre Museum
Vatican Museum
Hermitage Museum
British Museum
2
Neoclassicism was the revival of what type of art?
Roman
Byzantine
Greek and Roman
Greek
3
The most famous Egyptian tomb is of King
Tut
Akhenaten
Nefertiti
Ankhesenamun
4
Ribbed vaults were what type of style?
Greek
Roman
Etruscan
Gothic
5
Oldest works of art we consider are cave paintings are found in southeastern
France
Italy
Germany
Turkey
6
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a ___ scholar
German
Spanish
French
Dutch
7
Der Blaue Reiter was a(n)
Realistic
Impressionist
Cubist
Expressionist
8
Pliny the Elder sought to analyze art in his text
The Elder Pliny's chapters on the history of art
Natural History
The Lives of the Artists
The History of the World
9
Die Brucke was a/were
Group of artists
Person
10
Who is credited with making innovations in the subject matter of landscapes?
Botticelli
Raphael Sanzio
Giorgione
Tintoretto
11
Sfumato is from the Italian word fumo which means
Color
Fume
Pizza
Smoke
12
Baroque art was between what centuries?
15th-16th
16th-18th
15th-17th
18th-20th
13
The Persian Empire flourished in what is present-day
Iraq
Iran
Turkey
Afghanistan
14
Pre-Raphaelites were people that were dissatisfied with (the)
Realism
Industrial Revolution
Reformation
Impressionism
15
Whose painting is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Giorgio Vasari
16
Contrapposto is a
Pose
Blend
Material
Color
17
One human cave painting was found in (the)
Altamira
Chauvet Cave
Lascaux
18
Which of the following is NOT an example of a "fine art"?
Pottery
Drawing
Paintings
Paint
19
Venus means
Men
Birth
Women
Fertility
20
The civilization of Mesopotamia was between what river(s)?
Yellow River
Indus
Nile
Tigris and Euphrates
21
Tintoretto is most often linked with (the)
Reformation
Oil paints
Baroque
Mannerism
22
Stonehenge is where in England?
Wiltshire
Sheffield
Manchester
Norwich
23
Art Nouveau was characterized by the depiction of
Nature in winding lines
Arches
Different colors
Romance
24
What type of work is best known from the Byzantines?
Vault
Arch
Ionic
Mosaic
25
What inventions allowed for MInimalist painters to achieve very precise outlines?
Acrylic paint and airbrushes
Pencil and watercolors
Fine tipped art supplies and oil paints
Rulers and craft glue
26
Temples were typically built with what type of columns?
Contrapposto
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
27
What is the hierarchical scale?
The status of a person
The size of the pieces based off of what the person wants
Uses status of figures to determine the size of their pieces
Like a caste system
28
Contextual analysis focuses on
History
Context
Perspective
Visuality
29
The paintings and engravings in Chauvet Cave were created using
Red ochre and black charcoal
Yellow ochre
Stone/rocks
30
The oldest cave paintings are found in
Altamira
Stonehenge
Lascaux
Chauvet Cave
31
The best known ancient Greek art is from
Athens
Rhodes
Kavala
Delphi
32
Flying buttresses were used as additional bracing material where on a building?
Interior
Exterior
33
Formal analysis focuses on what type of quality?
Structure
Contextual
Historical
Visual
34
The Counter Reformation was against the
Methodists
Presbyterians
Protestants
Catholics
35
Rococo works were celebrations of
Romance
Frivolity
Cheerfulness
Energy
36
The cave paintings date from
40,000 BCE
10,000 BCE
30,000 BCE
20,000 BCE
37
Who was NOT a Renaissance artist?
Botticelli
Masaccio
Francois Boucher
Michelangelo
38
Romanesque churches are usually formed of a tunnel of arches called a
Flying buttresses
Barrel vault
Ribbed vault
Groin vault
39
Egypt was conquered by
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Cyrus the Great
Genghis Khan
40
Oil paints were used mostly by the
East
South
North
West
41
Modern art history was strongly influenced by (the)
Enlightenment
Middle Ages
Reformation
Renaissance
42
Who pioneered the arch?
Roman
Greek
Etruscan
Byzantine
43
Which of the following disciplines is NOT is not closely related to art history?
Anthropology
Literature
Sociology
History
44
Color Field Paintings often feature
Dripping technique
Geometric forms
Dramatic brushstrokes
45
Who was one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Sanzio
Masaccio
Donatello
46
Doric and Ionic column styles were
Greek
French
Roman
Etruscan
47
The Armory Show was the first
art gallery in the US
art gallery
major showing of modern art in the US
48
What was a major achievement to architecture?
Limestone
Concrete
Quartz
Brick
49
Art criticism is
Writing reviews about the art's quality
Looking at art and deciding which one you like best
The explanation of current art events to the general public
50
What kinds of items were labeled as "crafts" in the past?
Interior Decor (sofas, utensils, furniture)
Textiles, pottery, and body art
Paintings & Drawings
Photography & Prints
51
Which piece is best known for small stone female figures with exaggerated body parts?
Venus of Willendorf
Venus de Milo
Sistine Madonna
The Birth of Venus
52
Where were the Sumerians from?
Indus
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
53
Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of ___ in an art piece
Beauty
Importance
Quality
Craftsmanship
54
Ziggurats were/was
Stepped pyramids
A religious area
Religious people
Upper class people
55
Hagia Sophia was Byzantine architecture that was built in
Macedonia
Constantinople
Croatia
Alexandria
56
Corinthian columns were against what type of background?
Floral
Silhouetted figures
Concrete
Black
57
Which one of these is a formal quality of art?
Color
Shape
Form
Line
58
The Academy was established under
Louis XI
Louis XV
Louis XIV
Louis X
59
What is one building where Roman engineering can still be seen today?
Hadrian's Wall
Pantheon
Arch of Constantine
Basilica of Maxentius
60
Stonehenge features concentric rings made with
Lithic
Sarsen
Quartz
Feldspar
61
Eugene Delacroix was a part of
Romanticism
Baroque
Realism
Neoclassicism
62
Fauves also means
Wild beasts
Wild colors
Strong color
Smoke
63
What is minimalism?
Using smaller canvases
Having multiple artists work on the same piece
Reducing art to its barest essentials
Using limited colors
64
The old cave paintings include outlines of what human body part?
Mouth
Hands
Head
Feet
65
Which art piece readily uses sfumato?
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
David
Guernica
66
Sumer came under the rule of who in 2334 BCE?
Sargon of Akkad
Ashurbanipal
Hammurabi
Sargon II
67
Dada originated among intellectuals living in
Geneva
Munich
Zurich
Bern
68
Realism included what in its pieces?
Light changes
The positives and negatives
Light and dark colors
Real people
69
Sfumato is
The use of warm colors and a blurred outline
Creating a picture that is blurred
Using light and dark colors
Making disproportional features
70
The linear perspective is also known as
Straight point
Lined perspective
Single vanishing point
71
De Stijl works use what type of colors?
Neutral
Secondary
Complementary
Primary
72
Who was most closely associated with the Counter Reformation?
Durer
E Greco
Giorgione
Tintoretto
73
Ziggurats functioned as
Palaces
Administrative centers
Temples
Economic centers
74
What color are the smaller rocks in Stonehenge?
Red
Blue
Black
Yellow
75
Who commissioned Michelangelo to design his tomb?
Pope Leo X
Pope Clement VII
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Julius II
76
Who was one of the most prolific of the Venetian painters?
Tintoretto
Durer
Titian Vecelli
El Greco
77
The cave paintings were discovered in
1996
1994
1992
1990
78
Giorgio Vasari gathered biographies of great Italian artists in
The Lives of the Artists
Natural History
The History of the World
79
Arbitrary colors are colors that are
Realistic
Light
Unrealistic
Dark