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Question #1
Caravaggio's dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, light and position of main characters brought the viewer into
A.   the scene with psychological distance.
B.   the scene with emotional void.
C.   none of these answers.
D.   the scene with boldness and psychological connection.
Question #2
The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio and Gentileschi was characterized by
A.   a focus on religious imagery.
B.   All of these answers
C.   emotional intensity.
D.   dramatic contrast between light and dark.
Question #3
French absolutist monarch Louis XIV endeavored to shift the mythic base of culture from
A.   God to Science
B.   God to Humanist Naturalism
C.   God to King
D.   All of these answers
Question #4
The "Camera Obscura" refers to
A.   a photographic process for developing film
B.   box with a small hole through which an image can be projected and traced.
C.   an obscure object that used a box, a small hole and plastic film.
Question #5
French painter Jacques Louis David
A.   None of these answers
B.   All of these answers
C.   was famous before the revolution for paintings like "Oath of the Horatii"
D.   directed the French Revolution's search for new icons for the state.
E.   created idealized images of Napoleon.
Question #6
The function(s) of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was/were
A.   to use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
B.   to establish and maintain artistic standards
C.   to develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
D.   none of these answer
E.   all of these answer
Question #7
Artemisia Gentileschi was
A.   the real name of Marie Antoinette
B.   the first woman to join the Academy in Florence
C.   None of these answers
D.   the woman who sat for the Mona Lisa
Question #8
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was
A.   the real name of Marie Antoinette
B.   the most celebrated woman artist of her time
C.   none of these answers
D.   the woman who sat for the Mona Lisa
Question #9
The Baroque period was characterized by
A.   All of these answers
B.   the Counter Reformation and absolutist monarchs in Southern Europe
C.   remarkable scientific advances
D.   None of these answers
E.   Protestantism and capitalism in Northern Europe
Question #10
Spanish artist Diego Velazquez is famed for, among other things
A.   his dramatic depiction of Judith with the head of Holofernes
B.   the depiction of light and reflection in his masterwork "Las Meninas"
C.   his multi-media portrayal of "Santa Teresa in Ecstasy"

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