7.05 Semester Test: Fine Art

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What Italian Baroque characteristic does David by Gianlorenzo Bernini exhibit?

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The sculpture engages the viewer by breaking into the viewer's space.

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Which is an accurate statement about Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio's approach to painting? Caravaggio focused on depicting narrative historical themes. Caravaggio created dramatic compositions that focus on realism. Caravaggio painted religious scenes with idealized figures. Caravaggio used foreshortening to depict a sense of flattened space.

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Caravaggio created dramatic compositions that focus on realism.

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What innovative and extreme lighting technique did Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio use in his paintings?

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tenebrism

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Which phrase best describes a characteristic of the paintings of French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussin? Options: the depiction of figures and landscapes from the artist's imagination, the depiction of a narrative subject within an organized, idealized landscape, the rejection of Classical Greek and Roman figurative and landscape ideals, the nearly photographic recording of figures within a landscape

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the depiction of a narrative subject within an organized, idealized landscape

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Which characteristic best describes a technique that Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velázquez used in his paintings?

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Velázquez captured many middle tones between dark and light to create structure and accentuate color.

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How did Baroque artist Rembrandt of the Netherlands apply paint to a canvas?

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Rembrandt applied expressive strokes of thick paint by using the impasto technique.

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What Rococo characteristic did French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau use in his paintings?

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the depiction of aristocrats within idyllic landscapes

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How did French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin use Naturalist conventions in his paintings?

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Chardin depicted ordinary people and activities with a sense of realism.

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What features of Neoclassical architecture did Thomas Jefferson include in the design of Monticello?

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Jefferson incorporated architectural features seen in Greek and Roman buildings.

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Why is Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix considered an example of Romantic art?

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The painting uses color, lighting, and movement to elicit an emotional response from viewers.