Art History Final Exam Part 2

The Renaissance movement began in ____.

In linear perspective, parallel lines appear to recede in the distance and converge at the ____.

Masaccio's Holy Trinity is the first known painting to demonstrate true ____.

In _______ perspective, the background becomes more blue and has less contrast as it recedes.

When did the High Renaissance end?

In Raphael's School of Athens, the artist shows _____ as a Greek philosopher.

In painting his Last Supper, Leonardo was trying to develop new methods for wall painting. Soon after he completed the fresco, _____.

In Leonardo's Last Supper, the disciples are reacting to what accusation just uttered by Christ?

Leonardo's inspiration was ______.

Michelangelo was only 27 when he started to carve the David for _____.

Michelangelo's David was the first monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since ______.

Originally, Michelangelo's David was to have been placed where?

After having been smuggled in to see Michelangelo's unfinished Sistine Ceiling, Raphael may have included a portrait of the older artist in his School of Athens. What evidence may indicate that this is indeed a portrait of Michelangelo?

In Titian's Venus of Urbino, the nude goddess is brought into the bedroom. In the background, a handmaid leans over a wooden chest that symbolizes ______.

What city did artists flock to during the Counter Reformation to design and ornament churches?

What is the name of the art style that reflected the optimism and assertiveness of the 17th century Church?

What is one reason that Caravaggio was always on the run from the police?

Why did Caravaggio revolt against idealized depictions of religious figures and instead base his saints and Virgins on everyday people?

In which work of art did Gianlorenzo Bernini incorporate his self-portrait?

Which Baroque element is evident in Gianlorenzo Bernini's David?

Which painting by Velázquez probably gives us an informal glimpse into the artist's working environment?

In Diego Velázquez's The Maids of Honor, who are the two figures whose reflections are in the mirror on the back wall?

Rembrandt is famous for, among other things, his many ______.

The Impressionists started out as _____.

The first major scandal of Édouard Manet's career was his Le Déjeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), which was rejected by _____.

With Manet's Olympia, viewers were shocked by the simple painting style and the ______, which was unlike academic painting.

At the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, critics complained that the paintings looked unfinished with their visible ______ and imprecise definition of form.

One of _______'s painted sketches, Impression, Sunrise, caused the naming of the group as Impressionists.

In the 1880s, a number of young artists tried to push beyond the Impressionist technique in a variety of ways. we call them ______.

Georges Seurat developed a systematic method of painting called ______, in which he applied his paint by means of small dots.

One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, _______, shows his attempt to make a modern, religious art.

Post-Impressionist painters moved away from the real world, rejecting external appearances, in favor of an inner, personal, imaginative truth.
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In the early years of the 20th century, one city was viewed as the center of modernism; and one artist in this city is still for us the modern artist. Who is the artist and what is the city?

Pablo Picasso’s ______ is repeatedly claimed to be the first modern painting of the 20th century.

Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d′Avignon opened the way to the 20th century movement: _______.

In Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d′Avignon, multiple viewpoints and the flattening of space were to be characteristic of ______ painting.

The nudes in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d′Avignon are presented to us as ______.

______ artists attacked truth, beauty, reason, and science.

Marcel Duchamp produced his _____, ordinary items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them.

In the early 1920s, ______ became one of the first Western artists to paint in a pure, abstracted manner.

Through his naturalistic style, ______ gives a sense of reality to images that are unreal, inspired by nightmares and visions.

As Nazi persecution grew more intense, many artists fled to London and especially to _____.

Around the years 1939- 1940, the center of creative vitality in the Western visual arts moved away from Paris to ______.

The leading Abstract Expressionist was ______. 

Raised in the American Southwest, Pollock was influenced by ______.

With Pollock, we are shown that _____ has nothing to do with value in art.

Mark Rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only ______ on his canvases.

When did Pop Art come of age?

Where did Christo mount his work Running Fence?