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1
The Merovingian looped fibulae most closely resembles this weapon...
Sword
Bow & Arrow
Shield
Crossbow
2
The Chateau of Versailles was originally used by Louis XIII as a...
winter home
political getaway
hunting lodge
a museum of history
3
This baroque painting of a royal family suggests that "art, and life, are an illusion"
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Las Meninas
A Tete a tete
4
Il Gesu is a Jesuit church in Rome with an interior space intended to portray...
A theatrical platform
The power of Christ
The obedience of the Pope
The prestige of the Catholic church
5
The Nasrid Dynasty in Ummayad Islam built this "red fort" in Spain...
Alahambra
Great Mosque at Cordoba
Mosque of Selim II
Hagia Sophia
6
The Bible story of the Virgin receiving news of the impending birth of Christ is called...
The Crucifixion
The Resurrection
The Anunciation
The Lamentation
7
The Allegory of Law and Grace was...
A woodcut
An etching
An illuminated manuscript
An engraving
8
The Arena Chapel's "Lamentation" painting includes all these artistic techniques EXCEPT
Composite View
Shading
Perspective
Foreshortening
9
In Rembrandt's self-portrait with Saskia, this is the first time the artist is depicted...
In lavish costume
As larger than life
As a working artist
With a sketch technique
10
The Arnolfini Portrait is meant to be an artwork intended to...
Symbolize the future marriage of the couple
Show a husband directing orders at his wife
Document the process of marriage vows within a family home
Bless the current marriage of the Arnolfini family
11
The devotional style of the Rottgen Pieta was meant to portray this emotion in its viewer...
Disgust
Anger
Empathy
Betrayal
12
In his Marriage-a-la-mode series, William Hogarth satirizes the concept of...
the wealth of the aristocracy
arranged marriages
counter-productive French ethics
starting a family young
13
Vermeer perceived this photographical phenomenon when he painted...
Vanitas
Camera obscura
Circle of confusion
Foreshortening
14
This biblical piece of art shows two episodes of a story in Genesis...
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well & Jacob Wrestling the Angel
Bayeux Tapestry
Lindisfarne Gospels
Virgin and Child (Theokotos) Between Two Saints
15
What architectural form showed Justinian's power & became the centerpiece of Constantinople?
San Vitale
Hagia Sophia
Alahambra
Great Mosque
16
In the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Henry IV receives Marie de'Medici's portrait from...
Zeus and Hera
Cupid and Hymen
Two small angels
Apollo and Athena
17
The Virgin of Guadalupe became a symbol of identity and represented this indigenous saint...
Juan Rodriguez Juarez
Juan Diego
Miguel Gonzalez
Juan Velazquez
18
The Old Testament story of Passover is found in this piece of late Gothic art...
The Bible Moralisses
Jacob Wrestling the Angel
The Golden Haggadah
Scenes of the Apocalypse
19
Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait was intended to be created for...
admission into a guild
a commission from her husband
practicing her relaxed painting technique
documenting the artist herself
20
The Counter-Reformation was launched by...
Turks
Muslims
Catholics
Protestants
21
In the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, the angel over St. Teresa holds this in his hand...
A small dagger
A golden spear
A thin arrow
A burning torch
22
What was the Iconoclasm?
A classical revival
A crisis of religious images
A Reformation of Christians
Creation of barbarian art
23
The Bayeux Tapestry is a Romanesque embroidery that shows the struggle between which groups?
The Goths and the English
The Spanish and Italians
The Spanish and English
The Normans and English
24
The Sistine Chapel frescos contain Delphic Sibyls. What are they?
Greek oracles
Holy mortals
Roman scribes
Christian angels
25
The Palazzo Rucellai has a linear design with three tiers, similar to what Roman building?
The Forum of Trajan
The Pantheon
The Colosseum
26
A central concern of Protestant reformers was the question of how Christians could achieve...
Redemption
Peace
Salvation
Grace
27
The Isenheim Altarpiece would have been placed in this location...
A chapel
A home
A refectory
A hospital
28
Raphael's "School of Athens" depicts which of the four walls of the Stanza della Segnatura?
Theology
Poetry
Philosophy
Law
29
What Renaissance artwork displays a sensual Italian woman in her bedchamber?
Madonna of the Long Neck
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Venus of Urbino
The Birth of Venus
30
Who was the first Renaissance sculptor to portray the classical male nude in statuary?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo
Donatello
31
Biombo enconchado is Spanish for...
a shell-encrusted folding screen
a decorative Japanese screen
a folding screen with mosaic inlay
a painted wooden screen
32
Why does the illuminated manuscript of Queen Blanche & Louis IX have apocalyptic scenes?
to dedicate the page to the Queen and her Son
to convey power of Queen Blanche
to establish rules of the kingdom of France
to aid in the training of Louis IX
33
Unlike Donatello's David, Michelangelo's David's pose suggests that he is...
content and pleased
cautious and prepared
nervous and tense
angry and emotional
34
The symbol of the prickly pear cactus with an eagle perched on top is symbolic to...
Nauhatl
Templo Mayor
Lake Texcoco
Tenochtitlan
35
The type of genre painting known as "pinturas de casta" typically display...
A father and one child
A mother and two children
A mother, father, and their unborn children
A mother, father, and child
36
The Catholic Counter-Reformation believed the church was a military force led by...
Monsters
Soldiers
Warriors
Angels
37
Albrecht Durer's "Adam and Eve" were inspired by which Greco-Roman mythological figures?
Zeus and Aphrodite
Zeus and Hera
Athena and Apollo
Apollo and Venus
38
Marie de'Medici commissioned Peter Paul Rubens to create a series of works for her son...
Louis XV
Louis XII
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
39
A pyxis was a cylindrical box given as a gift and intended to be used for what?
Jewels
Garments
Cosmetics
Ashes
40
A reliquary was a holy item used at pilgrimage sites that contained what...
A secret message of a pope
Blessed items of a saint
Jewels and other holy relics
The remains of a holy person
41
The purpose stained glass windows in Gothic architecture was to...
transform natural light into a mystical setting
display the power of the monarch with visual art
to connect the viewer to the physical world
illuminate the interior with bright light
42
Where are the mosaics of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his wife, Theodora, found?
Hagia Sophia
Great Mosque
Santa Sabina
San Vitale
43
A printmaking process in which a copper plate is coated with a waxy, acid-resistant material
Etching
Engraving
Biombo
Woodcut
44
The Orant Fresco in the Catacomb of Priscilla describes this scene...
A painting of ancestors of a deceased person
A scene of animals and Christ
The good shepherd and his flock
A woman's significant life events
45
What is the painting technique that uses wax as a medium to carry color?
Tenebrism
Contour
Encaustic
Tesserae
46
The Mosque of Selim II was built here because it was the first city on the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Cordoba, Spain
Granada, Spain
Edirne, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey
47
In the 15th century Flemish Renaissance "donor portraits" became popular. What are they?
Donated artworks to religious sites
Portraits of artists donated to churches
portraits of the patrons of the artwork
Papal authority commissioning artists
48
This painter depicted a secular scene of a particularly harsh winter in Brussels in 1565...
Matthias Grunewald
Hieronymous Bosch
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
49
Rachel Ruysch developed her love of painting nature from her father, who was a professor of...
painting and biology
alchemy and botany
anatomy and botany
architecture and biology
50
The Church of Sainte-Foy is a pilgrimage church that contained this scene on its tympanum..
The Anunciation
The Last Judgment
The Resurrection of Christ
The Entombment of Christ
51
The Pazzi Chapel was a chapter house, but its ulterior motive for the Pazzi family was...
conducting secret meetings of the monks
becoming a meeting place for Counter-Reformation members
holding the treasury for the Medici
displaying the wealth and power of the Pazzi family
52
Fra Filippo Lippi portrayed The Virgin in "Madonna and Child with Two Angels" as...
Young and beautiful
Playful and precious
Solemnly sad
Weathered and maternal
53
The thickness of classical decor in this building shows visual weight and divine light...
Hagia Sophia
Santa Sabina
Great Mosque
San Vitale
54
What is the painting technique of using dramatic light and shadow to convey drama?
Tenebrism
Obscura
Chiaroscuro
55
A jardin à la française a style of garden meant to show the relationship between...
Peasant and aristocrat
beauty and power
God and man
man and nature
56
The Lindisfarne Gospels are illuminated manuscript created by this member of the clergy...
Pope
Monk
Cardinal
Nun
57
In Islamic culture this is used to identify the wall that faces Mecca (the birthplace of Islam)
Mihrab
Pyxis
Hypostyle Hall
Horseshoe arch
