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


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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