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MS 2 - Visual Artist and Their Works (Classics)

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

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Class
Date
1.

In Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, the title goddess stands on which of the following?

a)

a leaf

b)

a seashell

c)

a chariot

d)

a rose

2.

Vermeer’s most famous portrait depicts a girl wearing what piece of jewelry?

a)

a pearl earring

b)

an emerald broach

c)

a sapphire bracelet

d)

a diamond necklace

3.

Which artist below created portraits of the Infanta Margarita Teresa while serving as King Philip IV’s court painter?

a)

Anthony van Dyck

b)

Peter Paul Rubens

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Diego Velázquez

4.

This work is an Albrecht Dürer engraving. What is its title?

a)

Adam and Eve

b)

The Four Apostles

c)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

d)

Knight, Death, and the Devil

5.

In the painting at right, Michelangelo depicts which of the following biblical events?

a)

The Great Flood

b)

The Creation of Adam

c)

The Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt

d)

The Last Judgment

6.

Examine the painting at right. Based on its style and subject matter, it was MOST likely created by which artist below?

a)

Albrecht Dürer

b)

Hieronymus Bosch

c)

Jan Vermeer

d)

Raphael

7.

Michelangelo’s sculpture Pietà depicts which of the following?

a)

Paul’s conversion to Christianity

b)

the Virgin Mary cradling Christ’s body

c)

God’s creation of Adam

d)

a dying slave

8.

Flora, Zephyrus, and Spring are all figures in which Botticelli painting?

a)

Mars and Venus

b)

Adoration of the Magi

c)

Pallas and the Centaur

d)

La Primavera

9.

Diego Velázquez painted three of the works below. Which one did Jan Van Eyck create?

a)

The Surrender of Breda

b)

Old Woman Frying Eggs

c)

The Arnolfini Wedding

d)

The Lady with a Fan

10.

Tenebrism, an art technique closely related to chiaroscuro, is a hallmark of his work. Which artist below

painted The Calling of St. Matthew and Judith Beheading Holofernes?

a)

Bruegel

b)

El Greco

c)

Caravaggio

d)

Donatello

11.

At right is Michelangelo’s sculpture of which Roman god, whom he depicted holding a wine goblet and a tiger skin?

a)

Apollo

b)

Neptune

c)

Saturn

d)

Bacchus

12.

Botticelli’s La Primavera includes three mythological sisters dancing in filmy tunics. Which choice below gives their collective name?

a)

Fates

b)

Gorgons

c)

Muses

d)

Graces

13.

Which of the following artists made a woodcut of a rhinoceros without actually having seen one, but worked from a model to paint Young Hare?

a)

Albrecht Dürer

b)

Titian

c)

Peter Paul Rubens

d)

Hieronymus Bosch

14.

In the Vermeer painting at right, the woman is holding what kind of instrument?

a)

virginal

b)

sackbut

c)

lute

d)

recorder

15.

At right is Diego Velazquez’s portrait of what pope?

a)

Julius II

b)

Gregory I

c)

Innocent X

d)

Urban VIII

16.

Monet worked from a boat-turned-studio in a Parisian suburb, where he lived with his family for five years.

Which choice below names that location, whose poppy fields and snow he recorded in paintings?

a)

Argenteuil

b)

Nice

c)

Marseille

d)

Arles

17.

Originally in color, who painted the depiction of the Rhone River shown?

a)

Peter Paul Rubens

b)

Vincent van Gogh

c)

Rembrandt van Rijn

d)

Pablo Picasso

18.

Diego Velazquez created a portrait of his slave, who became a painter himself after Velazquez freed him in

1650. Which choice below names that man?

a)

Lorenzo de Medici

b)

Anthony van Dyck

c)

Giovanni di Arnolfini

d)

Juan de Pareja

19.

Three of the following Albrecht Durer artworks are engravings or woodcuts. Which one is a painting?

a)

Saint Jerome in His Study

b)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

c)

Knight, Death, and the Devil

d)

Young Hare

20.

The image at right is taken from a Michelangelo painting in which he depicts the creation of which biblical figure?

a)

Jesus

b)

Adam

c)

Eve

d)

Moses

21.

Which of the following artists counted cafés, cypress trees, wheat fields, and Provence among his favorite subjects?

a)

Johannes Vermeer

b)

Paul Cezanne

c)

Paul Gauguin

d)

Vincent van Gogh

22.

Diego Velázquez served as court painter for the family of which ruler below?

a)

Charles IV

b)

Nicholas II

c)

Henry VIII

d)

Philip IV

23.

Pablo Picasso collaborated with which of the following artists to create the style known as Cubism?

a)

Georges Braque

b)

Salvador Dalí

c)

Wassily Kandinsky

d)

Henri Matisse

24.

Rembrandt painted many biblical stories. One of his artworks shows the blinding of what strongman from the

Book of Judges?

a)

Joshua

b)

Samson

c)

Solomon

d)

David

25.

Which Renaissance artist below sculpted the relief The Battle of the Centaurs shortly before losing the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici?

a)

Donatello

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Raphael

26.

Picasso painted three of the following works during his Rose Period. Which one did he create during his Blue Period?

a)

Acrobat and Young Harlequin

b)

The Actor

c)

Family of Acrobats with Monkey

d)

The Old Guitarist

27.

Which choice below gives the official title of Rembrandt’s Night Watch?

a)

The Stoning of St. Stephen

b)

The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch

c)

Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer

d)

Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild

28.

Vincent van Gogh included what kind of towering evergreen tree in the foreground of Starry Night, as well as in a landscape featuring a wheat field?

a)

maple

b)

oak

c)

cypress

d)

birch

29.

Which one of the following men is NOT a subject of Albrecht Dürer’s painting Four Apostles?

a)

Luke

b)

Peter

c)

Paul

d)

John

30.

Which artwork below did Claude Monet create?

a)

Luncheon of the Boating Party

b)

The Artist’s Garden at Giverny

c)

The Absinthe Drinker

d)

Bathers at Asnières

31.

Which of the following Botticelli works includes dancing Graces, a blue-faced Zephyrus, and a woman scattering flowers?

a)

The Birth of Venus

b)

Mars and Venus

c)

La Primavera

d)

Annunciation

32.

In which of the paintings below does the artist include a self-portrait, as well as a young princess surrounded by ladies-in-waiting?

a)

Las Meninas

b)

The Arnolfini Wedding

c)

Girl with a Pearl Earring\

d)

The Night Watch

33.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Melancolia I are works by which of the following artists?

a)

Rubens

b)

Caravaggio

c)

Raphael

d)

Dürer

34.

At right is Vermeer’s hometown portrait. Which of the following cities is it?

a)

Paris

b)

Delft

c)

Amsterdam

d)

Brussels

35.

At right is Botticelli painting that depicts Mary holding the infant Jesus. What is its title?

a)

The Last Judgment

b)

Adoration of the Magi

c)

The Annunciation

d)

The Ascension

36.

Which of the artists below created numerous domestic portraits, including The Lacemaker, The Music Lesson, and The Milkmaid?

a)

Rembrandt van Rijn

b)

Peter Paul Rubens

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Johannes Vermeer

37.

Which of the following choices names the Diego Velázquez military painting that shows a defeated Dutch

army commander giving keys to a triumphant Spanish general?

a)

The Surrender of Breda

b)

Guernica

c)

View of Toledo

d)

The Second of May 1808

38.

Art critics characterize three of the works below as Albrecht Dürer’s Master Engravings. Which one is NOT?

a)

Melancolia I

b)

Knight, Death, and the Devil

c)

Praying Hands

d)

St. Jerome in His Study

39.

Michelangelo depicted Moses, Bacchus, and a dying slave in which of the artistic genres below?

a)

fresco

b)

mosaic

c)

sculpture

d)

collage

40.

The Vermeer work at right shows A Lady Seated at what kind of instrument?

a)

cornet

b)

violoncello

c)

glockenspiel

d)

virginal

41.

In various paintings, Sandro Botticelli depicted which of the following biblical women with young St. John the Baptist, writing the Magnificat, and holding a pomegranate?

a)

the Virgin Mary

b)

Esther

c)

Sarah

d)

Eve

42.

From 1520 to 1534, Michelangelo designed and sculpted the tomb of which man below, depicting him deep in thought?

a)

Niccolo Machiavelli

b)

Dante

c)

Lorenzo de Medici

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

43.

Which of the following people was NEVER the subject of a Diego Velázquez portrait?

a)

Prince Balthasar Charles

b)

King George III

c)

Pope Innocent X

d)

Infanta María Teresa

44.

At right is a self-portrait that which of the following artists, who also created larger-than-life apostles, painted at age 26?

a)

Hans Holbein

b)

Albrecht Dürer

c)

Anthony van Dyck

d)

Jan van Eyck

45.

Michelangelo designed Florence’s New Sacristy as a funerary chapel for which of the following families, whose members included his patrons Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII?

a)

Sforza

b)

Borgia

c)

Habsburg

d)

Medici