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Art of the Western World part 3

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Michelangelo's Pieta was made for a French cardinal. Which characteristic of the staue probalbly was a concession to French taste?   Mary's drapery falls in complex folds  
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When Michelangelo first started carving the David, where did he think it was going to be placed?   Along the roof line of Florence Cathedral  
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The sistine Chapel ceiling   was Michelangelo's first commission for a fresco  
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The School of Athens   is one of four paintings representing areas of knowledge  
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Raphael's teacher was   Perugino  
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Rapheal's Madonna paintings typically   use pyramidal compositions  
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Bramante's plan for the rebuilding of St Peter's   was a central plan based on a Greek cross  
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Venetian painitng in the early sixteenth century   often shows vouptuous women in a landscape setting  
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The artist who painted The Tempest is   Giorgione  
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Titian's paintings were most often done   in oil paint on canvas  
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Palladio designed   Many villas around Venice, including the villa Rotonda  
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Which of the followoing artisits is not usually considered a mannerist?   Veronese  
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The later phase of mannerism (form the 1530s and 1540s)   was cool and ploished and appealed to the people in the courts of France and Italy  
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Michelangelo's late work   is deeply spiritual  
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An artist who was called before the inquistion to defend his work is   Veronese  
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Caravaggio's style of painting   used very deep shadows in a technique called tenebrism  
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in Italy, the leaders of the Counter-Reformation   reaffirmed the importance of images as a way to teach people about religion  
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Artemisia Gentilischi's paintings   often show female heroines  
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The Carracci wanted to reform painting because   they felt mannerism had become too far removed from High Renaissance ideals  
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Bernini's David   shows more intense emotion than Michelangelo's David  
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The Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy   is presented as if it were being renacted on a stage.  
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The colonnade around the piazza in front of St. Peter's   seems to represent two arms embracing the oval piazza and the people within it.  
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Peter Paul Rubens   was employed by European courts most of his life  
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The most important painter in England in the seventeenth century was   the Flemish painter Van Dyck  
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Brithish architecture in the seventeenth century   shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance architect Palladio  
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El Greco's work is most similar   to italian mannerism  
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Zurbaran's painting reflects a form of mysticism called   Quietism  
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Velazquez's Las Meninas   is a portrait of the spanish royal family in the artist's studio  
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The patrons of most Dutch painting in the seventeenth century were   merchants and businessmen  
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Judith Layster's self-portait   displays an exuberant style, similar to Frans Hals'  
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Rembrandt's favorite printmaking technique was   etching  
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Rembrandt's self-portraits   are always rather glomy because he was often bankrupt  
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Vermeer probably experimented with a devisce called   the camera obscura  
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Dutch still life paintings   often can be read as allegories of vanity.  
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The main lines of the plan of the Palais de Versilles converge at   the Kings bedroom  
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