Art 102 - Art History » Fall 2019 » Chapter 17 Quiz

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Question #1
The kneeling figures at the lower left and lower right of the painting represent:
A.   prophets
B.   saints
C.   sibyls
D.   donors/patrons
Question #2
Which of the following is true of Anguissola's career?
A.   She enjoyed the patronage of the Spanish family as a court painter.
B.   She was imprisoned for creating prints sympathetic to Protestant reform.
C.   She created works that influenced fashion in sixteenth-century Paris.
D.   She created a scandal by recording dissection experiments in a series of notebooks.
Question #3
Why did Michelangelo depict Moses with horns on the Tomb of Julius II?
A.   because of a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "ray" in the Latin Bible
B.   because he believed that Moses as an Old Testament figure was consigned to Hell
C.   because of his translation of the Bible conflated the image of Moses with the Golden Calf
D.   to demonstrate the status of Moses as before the salvation of Christ
Question #4
What is represented in this painting?
A.   the pantheon of the Greek gods
B.   famous Greek philosophers
C.   the first public education system in ancient Greece
D.   important Greek architectural monuments
Question #5
What qualities of painting did Venetians value above all?
A.   composition and line
B.   light and shadow
C.   light and color
D.   perspective and line

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