3^ media: History of Art - 1st term exam

Inanimate subjects are depicted for the sake of their quality, form, colour, texture and composition.

The painter who crafted peculiar portraits of people made out of vegetation, animals, and found objects

The Baroque style started in Italy and the Catholic Church encouraged it in art and architecture as a response to...

Due to his ability to assimilate his predecessor, he was named by his contemporaries as ........... redivio

This ceiling painting was made by....

The Cornaro Chapel carries Bernini’s ideal of a three-dimensional picture to its apex. Why?

Along with the main commissioned paintings, painters started to also represent domestic interior scenes known as...

He was a pioneer of the Mannerist style, he rendered figures with impossibly elongated limbs and oddly positioned body

Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is a typical Baroque sculpture as it is ...

Tiepolo brightened his colours and used pastels in complimentary schemes

Velazquez could possibly have advertised himself as an artist in this painting.

This statue portrays the futile romance between .............; he is deeply in love with her, but she abhors him.

Quadratura technique (from the Italian 'quadro') is used to put painting in a frame

The Council of ................ (1545-1563) had discussed how to make religion and God closer to the faithful.

In Palazzo Archivescovile, the ceiling above the main staircase, is depicting the...

The term Baroque derives from the Portuguese barroco, which means....

Velazquez's capacity to capture the real man simmering beneath the esteemed robe is mastered in his portrait of...

Quadratura technique creates the illusion that the space is smaller

Baroque Architecture: convex and concave forms were used to describe movement on church .........

Quadratura technique, differently from the sotto in su, incorporates architectural elements

Mannerism is named after maniera, an Italian term for “style” or “...................”

Nobody that goes to Rome should miss the great experience of seeing this masterpiece at...

The religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants caused the beginning of a terrible war, the Thirty Years War

Tiepolo was an international artist and his commissions came from Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden and....

Illusionistic ceiling painting techniques help to increase the drama of the scene

The paintings during the Baroque period became more emotional and .......

The patronage of the Roman Catholic Church was fundamental to the Baroque style

We are in the Palazzo Archivescovile in Udine. Who's the man depicted on the right?

The frescoes of the Palazzo Arcivescovile of Udine were commissioned by...

This Mannerist artist abandoned the naturalistic colours and instead employed artificial and garish—tones

At the centre of P.zza di Spagna and at the bottom of the Spanish Steps, you can find a curious fountain commissioned by

The combination of precision, apparent ease, and liveliness was referred to as...

Tiepolo was recognised by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative...

The bees are one of the symbols of....

His paintings are capable of orchestrating an utterly realistic theatre of contrasts: darkness and light, life and death

In 1866, the Glorious Revolution gave rise to constitutional monarchy in England and nobody got killed in the process

Sotto in su and quadratura are visible not only in Italy but also elsewhere in Europe

Mannerism is a style that emerged in ........... and lasted until the end of the century.

In 1755 Giambattista Tiepolo was elected Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in....

Mannerist artists were interested in the perfectionism portrayed by High Renaissance artists, but they...