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

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