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Question #1

Goya created this work while:

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

B. studying Classical antiquity in Rome

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

D. n political exile in England

Question #2

The photographer Nadar is known for his

A. double printing technique.

B. war documentation

C. scenic vistas.

D. portraits of celebrities.

Question #3

Turner's landscapes embody Romanticism by:

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

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

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

D. depicting mundane English landscapes that symbolized a nationalistic pride

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 presented common people without any idealization.

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

D. all of the above

Question #5

Manet's Olympia was

A. refused from the Salon of 1865.

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

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

D. based on Titian’s Venus of Urbino.