Fine Art B: Week 1B

How does David, by Italian Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini, demonstrate a departure from Renaissance conventions?

• The figure is positioned in an unnatural pose that is not lifelike

• The figure breaks into the viewer's space and engages the viewer

• The figure has exaggerated proportions and elongated features

• The figure is posed in a pyramid configuration to create stability

How did Caravaggio's paintings depart from Renaissance traditions to reflect the Italian Baroque style?

• The paintings depict figures within settings that demonstrate the use of atmospheric perspective

• The paintings depict figures with idealized beauty and proportion

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    The paintings exaggerate human proportion in order to enhance the religious message

• The paintings focus on naturalism and create drama through an intense use of light and dark

What compositional technique did the Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velázquez use in Las Meninas?

• two-point perspective

• atmospheric perspective

• symmetrical composition

• pyramid configuration

Which of the following is a characteristic of Landscape with the Burial of Phocion by French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussin?

• It communicates a religious story about the life of a Christian saint

• It depicts a Roman landscape with photographic accuracy and realism

• It depicts an idealized landscape with all of the elements carefully constructed

• It depicts a heroic narrative with a sense of drama rather than restraint

What compositional technique did Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens of the Netherlands use in his painting Elevation of the Cross?

• He portrayed an idealized Dutch landscape that has one-point perspective

• He used a symmetrical composition to convey a sense of harmony and balance

• He posed and arranged figures to emphasize a sense of movement and drama

• He used a color palette and contrast in light and dark that are subtle and subdued