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Question #1

Goya created this work while:

A. serving as a soldier on the front lines against France

B. n political exile in England

C. studying Classical antiquity in Rome

D. working as the court painter to the king of Spain

Question #2

The photographer Nadar is known for his

A. double printing technique.

B. war documentation

C. portraits of celebrities.

D. scenic vistas.

Question #3

Turner's landscapes embody Romanticism by:

A. by demonstrating human endeavor as superior to the forces of nature

B. depicting mundane English landscapes that symbolized a nationalistic pride

C. by emphasizing both nature's intangible properties and uncontrollable power

D. focusing on the English way of life and docile English countryside

Question #4

Why was this painting offensive to many viewers at the Salon of 1850-1851?

A. The Ornans bourgeoisie depicted in the painting represented a political threat to the Parisians.

B. It elevated provincial events to the status of history painting.

C. It presented common people without any idealization.

D. all of the above

Question #5

Manet's Olympia was

A. refused from the Salon of 1865.

B. an attack on the practice of veiling eroticism with Classical references.

C. based on Titian’s Venus of Urbino.

D. both based on Titian’s Venus of Urbino and an attack on veiled eroticism in painting.