Fine Art 4 Quiz 23.24

Which term can BEST be applied to the composition of the bronze plaque?

• a. symmetry
• b. freestanding figure
• c. diagonal emphasis
• d. revetment
• e. chiaroscuro

In this painting, Artemisia Gentileschi adapted what style quality of the artist Caravaggio?

• a. placement of the light source within the scene
• b. methodical use of linear perspective
• c. dramatic effects of light and shadow
• d. idealized figures, derived from studying ancient Greek sculpture
• e. an impasto technique that gives texture to the surface

Where can the cristallo technique be seen?

• a. the Behaim Beaker
• b. the South Rose Window of Chartres Cathedral
• c. the USAD Art Resource Guide's Chinese Jar with Dragon
• d. glass mosaic walls of San Vitale, Ravenna
• e. the Magnet TV sculpture

The story of Judith and Holofernes is found in:

• a. the Apocryphal Gospels
• b. Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend
• c. Ovid's Metamorphoses
• d. Boccaccio's The Decameron
• e. Jewish Biblical scripture or the Old Testament

What print process did Albrecht Dürer use for Melencolia I?

• a. screen print
• b. intaglio
• c. woodcut
• d. lithograph
• e. fresco

Who is thought to have invented linear perspective?

• a. Sandro Botticelli
• b. Leon Battista Alberti
• c. Jan van Eyck
• d. Leonardo da Vinci
• e. Filippo Brunelleschi

For fifteenth-century seafaring navigation, the compass relied on:

• a. the stars' positions
• b. magnetism
• c. land sightings
• d. global positioning systems
• e. measurement of water depth