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Neoclassicism was the revival of what type of art?
Ziggurats were/was
2018 AcDec Art Section 1
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Ziggurats were/was
Stepped pyramids
Upper class people
Religious people
A religious area
2
Neoclassicism was the revival of what type of art?
Roman
Byzantine
Greek and Roman
Greek
3
What is one building where Roman engineering can still be seen today?
Basilica of Maxentius
Hadrian's Wall
Pantheon
Arch of Constantine
4
Dada originated among intellectuals living in
Zurich
Geneva
Munich
Bern
5
Stonehenge features concentric rings made with
Quartz
Feldspar
Sarsen
Lithic
6
Modern art history was strongly influenced by (the)
Reformation
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Enlightenment
7
The Academy was established under
Louis XIV
Louis XI
Louis X
Louis XV
8
The Persian Empire flourished in what is present-day
Turkey
Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
9
What inventions allowed for MInimalist painters to achieve very precise outlines?
Rulers and craft glue
Fine tipped art supplies and oil paints
Pencil and watercolors
Acrylic paint and airbrushes
10
Contrapposto is a
Material
Pose
Color
Blend
11
Sfumato is from the Italian word fumo which means
Color
Fume
Smoke
Pizza
12
Doric and Ionic column styles were
Etruscan
French
Roman
Greek
13
Hagia Sophia was Byzantine architecture that was built in
Constantinople
Alexandria
Croatia
Macedonia
14
Which of the following disciplines is NOT is not closely related to art history?
Literature
History
Sociology
Anthropology
15
Rococo works were celebrations of
Frivolity
Romance
Energy
Cheerfulness
16
Stonehenge is where in England?
Manchester
Norwich
Sheffield
Wiltshire
17
The Counter Reformation was against the
Protestants
Presbyterians
Catholics
Methodists
18
Who is credited with making innovations in the subject matter of landscapes?
Tintoretto
Raphael Sanzio
Botticelli
Giorgione
19
Temples were typically built with what type of columns?
Doric
Corinthian
Contrapposto
Ionic
20
Who commissioned Michelangelo to design his tomb?
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Clement VII
Pope Leo X
Pope Julius II
21
The cave paintings were discovered in
1990
1996
1992
1994
22
What color are the smaller rocks in Stonehenge?
Blue
Black
Red
Yellow
23
Der Blaue Reiter was a(n)
Realistic
Expressionist
Cubist
Impressionist
24
Corinthian columns were against what type of background?
Concrete
Silhouetted figures
Black
Floral
25
The Code of Hammurabi is preserved in the
Louvre Museum
Vatican Museum
British Museum
Hermitage Museum
26
The old cave paintings include outlines of what human body part?
Head
Feet
Hands
Mouth
27
Ziggurats functioned as
Palaces
Administrative centers
Economic centers
Temples
28
Romanesque churches are usually formed of a tunnel of arches called a
Groin vault
Barrel vault
Flying buttresses
Ribbed vault
29
Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of ___ in an art piece
Importance
Craftsmanship
Beauty
Quality
30
The best known ancient Greek art is from
Kavala
Athens
Delphi
Rhodes
31
Fauves also means
Smoke
Wild beasts
Wild colors
Strong color
32
Color Field Paintings often feature
Dramatic brushstrokes
Geometric forms
Dripping technique
33
Who pioneered the arch?
Byzantine
Roman
Greek
Etruscan
34
The cave paintings date from
40,000 BCE
10,000 BCE
20,000 BCE
30,000 BCE
35
Art Nouveau was characterized by the depiction of
Nature in winding lines
Different colors
Romance
Arches
36
Flying buttresses were used as additional bracing material where on a building?
Interior
Exterior
37
Who was one of the most prolific of the Venetian painters?
Durer
Tintoretto
Titian Vecelli
El Greco
38
Giorgio Vasari gathered biographies of great Italian artists in
The Lives of the Artists
The History of the World
Natural History
39
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
40
Who was most closely associated with the Counter Reformation?
Giorgione
Tintoretto
E Greco
Durer
41
Arbitrary colors are colors that are
Light
Realistic
Dark
Unrealistic
42
Tintoretto is most often linked with (the)
Mannerism
Baroque
Oil paints
Reformation
43
Contextual analysis focuses on
Context
Visuality
Perspective
History
44
Who was one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance?
Leonardo da Vinci
Masaccio
Donatello
Raphael Sanzio
45
Ribbed vaults were what type of style?
Greek
Roman
Gothic
Etruscan
46
The Armory Show was the first
art gallery in the US
major showing of modern art in the US
art gallery
47
The most famous Egyptian tomb is of King
Tut
Akhenaten
Nefertiti
Ankhesenamun
48
The paintings and engravings in Chauvet Cave were created using
Stone/rocks
Red ochre and black charcoal
Yellow ochre
49
Oil paints were used mostly by the
West
South
East
North
50
What type of work is best known from the Byzantines?
Arch
Mosaic
Vault
Ionic
51
Die Brucke was a/were
Person
Group of artists
52
Pliny the Elder sought to analyze art in his text
The Lives of the Artists
The Elder Pliny's chapters on the history of art
The History of the World
Natural History
53
Which piece is best known for small stone female figures with exaggerated body parts?
The Birth of Venus
Sistine Madonna
Venus of Willendorf
Venus de Milo
54
Oldest works of art we consider are cave paintings are found in southeastern
Germany
France
Turkey
Italy
55
Sfumato is
Using light and dark colors
Creating a picture that is blurred
Making disproportional features
The use of warm colors and a blurred outline
56
Art criticism is
The explanation of current art events to the general public
Writing reviews about the art's quality
Looking at art and deciding which one you like best
57
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a ___ scholar
Spanish
Dutch
French
German
58
What was a major achievement to architecture?
Concrete
Brick
Quartz
Limestone
59
Pre-Raphaelites were people that were dissatisfied with (the)
Reformation
Impressionism
Realism
Industrial Revolution
60
The civilization of Mesopotamia was between what river(s)?
Tigris and Euphrates
Nile
Yellow River
Indus
61
One human cave painting was found in (the)
Altamira
Chauvet Cave
Lascaux
62
Baroque art was between what centuries?
15th-17th
16th-18th
18th-20th
15th-16th
63
The linear perspective is also known as
Lined perspective
Single vanishing point
Straight point
64
Which art piece readily uses sfumato?
Guernica
The Last Supper
David
Mona Lisa
65
Sumer came under the rule of who in 2334 BCE?
Sargon of Akkad
Hammurabi
Sargon II
Ashurbanipal
66
Whose painting is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Giorgio Vasari
67
Formal analysis focuses on what type of quality?
Visual
Historical
Contextual
Structure
68
Which of the following is NOT an example of a "fine art"?
Paint
Pottery
Paintings
Drawing
69
What kinds of items were labeled as "crafts" in the past?
Photography & Prints
Interior Decor (sofas, utensils, furniture)
Textiles, pottery, and body art
Paintings & Drawings
70
Venus means
Fertility
Men
Birth
Women
71
Where were the Sumerians from?
Indus
Egypt
China
Mesopotamia
72
De Stijl works use what type of colors?
Complementary
Neutral
Primary
Secondary
73
Which one of these is a formal quality of art?
Line
Form
Shape
Color
74
The oldest cave paintings are found in
Altamira
Chauvet Cave
Lascaux
Stonehenge
75
Realism included what in its pieces?
Real people
Light changes
The positives and negatives
Light and dark colors
76
Eugene Delacroix was a part of
Realism
Neoclassicism
Baroque
Romanticism
77
What is minimalism?
Having multiple artists work on the same piece
Reducing art to its barest essentials
Using smaller canvases
Using limited colors
78
Who was NOT a Renaissance artist?
Francois Boucher
Botticelli
Masaccio
Michelangelo
79
Egypt was conquered by
Cyrus the Great
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan