From Reformation to Romanticism

Question 1

He created romanticized portraits he called "fancy pictures" appealing to British wealthy class

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Thomas Gainsborough

Question 2

Rousseau's term for the agreement establishing the rule of law and civil society:

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the social contract

Question 3

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, how is the central figure of the doctor best characterized?

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a Prometheus with God-like ambitions but morally blind

Question 4

How did Beethoven substantially alter the Classical symphony form of Haydn and Mozart?

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used the motif to expand and unify the symphony structure

Question 5

In what phenomenon did the Parisian Madame Geoffrin play an important role?

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the success of the salon as a social & intellectual occasion

Question 6

What statement best describes the effect of Martin Luther's teachings?

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gave individual believers more responsibility than priests

Question 7

Francois Boucher's The Toilet of Venus most clearly illustrates what idea or topic?

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the luxurious self-indulgence of the rococo style

Question 8

Of these, what would you most expect of an empiricist?

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base conclusions on experimentation and observation

Question 9

What baroque musical form, perfected by Handel, consisted of (biblical) stories set to music?

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oratorio

Question 10

What northern Renaissance humanist writer expressed his skepticism in personal essays?

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Michel de Montaigne

Question 11

Which statement best applies to Goya's The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters?

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realizes romantic fascination with evil and the grotesque

Question 12

Which of these statements best applies to Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

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a masterpiece of the baroque concerto grosso

Question 13

Which Renaissance work would most likely have been encountered in the court of Elizabeth I?

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performance of a motet by William Byrd

Question 14

What best describes Thomas More's Utopia?

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depicts a fictional land of pious industry

Question 15

What statement best describes Francesco Borromini, designer of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?

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Bernini's architectural rival in baroque Rome

Question 16

One would likely hear the term madrigal in a discussion of what topic?

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music in Renaissance England

Question 17

What leading painter of the French Revolution became the "First Painter" of imperial France?

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Jacques-Louis David

Question 18

Which is the best example of romantic exotic fascination with Islamic and Oriental styles?

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Nash's Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Question 19

Jean-Baptiste Lully was a central figure in the development of what baroque art?

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French opera and ballet

Question 20

What poet wrote a poem based on medieval legend of a scholar who sells his soul to the devil?

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 21

Bruegel's The Hunters in the Snow (Winter) shows the painter's interest in this subject/method:

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the humble life of villagers and peasants

Question 22

What aspect of the romantic sensibility is expressed in Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada?

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fascination with the unspoiled beauty of nature

Question 23

The term associated with the musical works of Giovanni Gabrieli performed in Venice's St Marks:

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polychoral

Question 24

What statement is most likely to describe a painting by Johannes Vermeer?

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hung in a middle-class home

Question 25

The romantic hero who strives excessively for greater love, power & knowledge is illustrated by

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Goethe's Faust

Question 26

What best describes the achievement of Jonathan Swift?

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a satirical commentator on human folly

Question 27

What statement best describes Goya's Executions of the Third of May, 1808?

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expresses a romantic protest against tyranny and oppression

Question 28

What best states the hero's thoughts at the end of Voltaire's tale Candide?

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we must work without theorizing

Question 29

Which statement best describes the aim of the Enlightenment philosophes?

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the practical application of reason to human problems

Question 30

What would one expect to hear during a performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo?

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a recitative and aria

Question 31

What interest did the Dutch painter Rembrandt share with the Italian Caravaggio?

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use of dramatic light and shadow

Question 32

Which movement aimed to compile all human knowledge as a practical guide to improving society?

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the Encyclopedists

Question 33

What would the Academy, as established under the rule of Louis XIV, most likely do?

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impose absolutist neoclassical rules on artists

Question 34

Which two artists are most associated with the rococo style in art?

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J.-H. Fragonard and Antoine Watteau

Question 35

Which of these terms is most closely associated with the religious ideas of John Calvin?

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predestination

Question 36

Which of these values is associated with the "Protestant ethic"?

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self-sacrifice and the virtues of work

Question 37

Which is the best example of the vivid and precise realism of northern Renaissance painting?

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Van Eyck's Marriage of Arnolfini

Question 38

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an early feminist manifesto, was written by:

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 39

Which of these works would most likely be performed at the court of Louis XIV at Versailles?

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a ballet de cour by Lully

Question 40

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart is an example of what musical form?

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opera

From Reformation to Romanticism

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From Reformation to Romanticism

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