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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 emotional void.
B.   none of these answers.
C.   the scene with boldness and psychological connection.
D.   the scene with psychological distance.
Question #2
The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio and Gentileschi was characterized by
A.   emotional intensity.
B.   a focus on religious imagery.
C.   All of these answers
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 Humanist Naturalism
B.   God to Science
C.   All of these answers
D.   God to King
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.   was famous before the revolution for paintings like "Oath of the Horatii"
B.   created idealized images of Napoleon.
C.   None of these answers
D.   All of these answers
E.   directed the French Revolution's search for new icons for the state.
Question #6
The function(s) of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was/were
A.   to establish and maintain artistic standards
B.   none of these answer
C.   all of these answer
D.   to develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
E.   to use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
Question #7
Artemisia Gentileschi was
A.   the first woman to join the Academy in Florence
B.   the woman who sat for the Mona Lisa
C.   the real name of Marie Antoinette
D.   None of these answers
Question #8
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was
A.   none of these answers
B.   the woman who sat for the Mona Lisa
C.   the most celebrated woman artist of her time
D.   the real name of Marie Antoinette
Question #9
The Baroque period was characterized by
A.   None of these answers
B.   All of these answers
C.   Protestantism and capitalism in Northern Europe
D.   the Counter Reformation and absolutist monarchs in Southern Europe
E.   remarkable scientific advances
Question #10
Spanish artist Diego Velazquez is famed for, among other things
A.   his multi-media portrayal of "Santa Teresa in Ecstasy"
B.   his dramatic depiction of Judith with the head of Holofernes
C.   the depiction of light and reflection in his masterwork "Las Meninas"

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