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Total questions: 84

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1.

This 1893 dual portrait's muted colors emphasize the human subjects, who take up most of the canvas. A dark-haired woman holds her daughter on her lap as she dips the girl's feet in a basin of water. Identify this everyday domestic scene captured by Mary Cassatt.

a)

Mother and Child

b)

The Bath

c)

The Boating Party

d)

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

2.

Edgar Degas referred to this painting as "the infant Jesus and his English nurse." A golden-haired woman holds her toddler son, whose head is framed by an oval mirror in an imitation of a Renaissance halo. Identify this painting, whose title hints at the favorite subject of its creator, Mary Cassatt.

a)

The Child's Bath

b)

Mother and Child

c)

Sara Holding a Cat

d)

At the Theater

3.

This artist popularized the alla prima technique of completing a canvas in one session--a process favored by the Impressionists. A mirrored wall reflects a lively party atmosphere in his Bar at the Folies-Bergere, while Goya's Nude Maja inspired his portrait Olympia. Identify this artist, who scandalized the Salon with his 1863 group portrait Luncheon on the Grass.

a)

Claude Monet

b)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

c)

Édouard Manet

d)

Edgar Degas

4.

This artist became a Knight of the Golden Spur after painting a well-received portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fifth. A native of Venice, he leant his name to a reddish-brown hue. Who was this Renaissance painter of Sacred and Profane Love, as well as Venus of Urbino?

a)

Giorgione

b)

Titian

c)

Tintoretto

d)

Veronese

5.

This artwork, whose short brushstrokes and thickly applied paint contribute to its dynamism, includes a sleepy French village in the foreground. A towering cypress connects the homes and steeples with the sky, where concentric circles of white and yellow light swirl. Name this most famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

a)

The Potato Eaters

b)

Sunflowers

c)

Starry Night

d)

Irises

6.

This artist depicted popular sporting events of his day in The Wolf and Fox Hunt and The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt. A trio of his characteristically fleshy nudes dance in The Three Graces, while more stand before the title man in The Judgment of Paris. Which Flemish artist also painted The Elevation of the Cross and The Descent from the Cross?

a)

Anthony van Dyck

b)

Peter Paul Rubens

c)

Jacob Jordaens

d)

Jan Brueghel

7.

The only clearly visible person in this painting is a blonde usher in a blue uniform. A wall separates her from cinema patrons who stare up at a large, flickering screen. Give the title of this Edward Hopper work.

a)

Nighthawks

b)

Automat

c)

New York Movie

d)

Office at Night

8.

To raise money for the war bond drive, a print of this painting toured the U.S. during World War Two. Against an American flag backdrop sits a brawny woman holding a ham sandwich as

a)

Rosie the Riveter

b)

Mona Lisa

c)

The Scream

d)

Starry Night

9.

Identify this May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell.

a)

We, Too, Have a Job to Do

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Freedom from Want

d)

The Problem We All Live With

10.

This artist explored Old Testament stories in The Fall of the Rebel Angels and The Tower of Babel. Among his most famous works are Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and The Hunters in the Snow. Identify this Northern Renaissance artist, who earned his nickname by painting works like The Peasant Wedding.

a)

Hieronymus Bosch

b)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

c)

Jan van Eyck

d)

Rogier van der Weyden

11.

The collective title for these fourteen works, which the artist painted on the walls of his 'Deaf Man's House,' hint at their frightening, pessimistic themes. Among them are Witches' Sabbath, Judith and Holofernes, and Saturn Devouring His Son. Give the name for these bleak works by Francisco de Goya.

a)

The Disasters of War

b)

Los Caprichos

c)

Black Paintings

d)

The Tauromaquia

12.

This work was commissioned to decorate the main hall of the shooting range where its eighteen subjects practiced. Among those subjects are Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch and Captain Frans Banning Cocq. Give the commonly accepted nickname of Rembrandt's masterpiece.

a)

The Anatomy Lesson

b)

The Syndics

c)

The Night Watch

d)

The Jewish Bride

13.

Among his most famous works are Blue Poles, Autumn Rhythm, and Full Fathom Five. An Abstract Expressionist, he also painted Lavender Mist. By using a stick to drip or splash paint from all four sides of a canvas, who earned the nickname 'Jack the Dripper'?

a)

Willem de Kooning

b)

Jackson Pollock

c)

Mark Rothko

d)

Franz Kline

14.

The Catholic Church disapproved of this man's Rokeby Venus painting because it showed a nude female figure. Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, Old Woman Frying Eggs, and Prince Balthasar Charles demonstrate the depth and breadth of his interests. Identify this artist who, like Picasso, once created a work titled The Three Musicians.

a)

Francisco de Goya

b)

Diego Velázquez

c)

El Greco

d)

Bartolomé Murillo

15.

This man's Victorian Survival and Appraisal are owned by a library, but are on long-term loan to the Dubuque Museum of Art. Arbor Day, Return from Bohemia, and Haying display his Regionalist pride in his rural upbringing. Identify the painter of Fall Plowing and Stone City, Iowa.

a)

Thomas Hart Benton

b)

Grant Wood

c)

John Steuart Curry

d)

Edward Hopper

16.

In this painting, the first work acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art, a set of train tracks in the foreground imply movement. Behind the tracks sits a large home which, despite the clear, sunny weather, appears to sit dormant. Name this portrait of isolation by Edward Hopper.

a)

Gas

b)

House by the Railroad

c)

Chop Suey

d)

Room in New York

17.

This artist of The Geographer and The Astronomer created a musical series that includes Girl with a Flute and Woman with a Lute. Deemed a master of genre painting, he often focused on domestic scenes, as in Young Woman with a Water Pitcher and The Milkmaid. Who, in 1660,

a)

Johannes Vermeer

b)

Pieter de Hooch

c)

Rembrandt

d)

Frans Hals

18.

This artist showed a lone service station on a country road at dusk in his 1940 painting Gas. Fifteen years earlier, he depicted a Victorian house with tracks in the foreground in House by the Railroad. Who switched to urban settings--but still maintained a sense of isolation--in Automat and Chop Suey?

a)

Grant Wood

b)

Edward Hopper

c)

Georgia O'Keeffe

d)

Charles Sheeler

19.

This artist, who graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a pictorial design degree, won the Art Directors' Club Medal in 1957 for a shoe advertisement. Five years later, he shook the art world with his giant reproductions of Brillo boxes, as well as repetitive paintings of soda bottles. Identify this preeminent pop artist, who also gained notoriety for portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.

a)

Roy Lichtenstein

b)

Andy Warhol

c)

Jasper Johns

d)

Robert Rauschenberg

20.

This artist's trip to Venice inspired his 1506 painting The Feast of the Rosary. He also completed a brush drawing on prepared paper of An Elderly Man of 93 Years. Give the name of this Northern Renaissance artist, who created a master engraving of St. Jerome in His Study.

a)

Lucas Cranach

b)

Albrecht Dürer

c)

Hans Holbein

d)

Matthias Grünewald

21.

This painter's birth name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. He chose a gloomy atmosphere for his interpretation of the city where he spent most of his life: View of Toledo. Name this best-known Mannerist, whose masterpiece is The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

a)

Parmigianino

b)

El Greco

c)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

d)

Bronzino

22.

This man collaborated with his brother Hubert on Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, better known as the Ghent Altarpiece. He completed a double portrait just after an Italian merchant's marriage. Give the name of this Flemish painter of The Arnolfini Wedding.

a)

Rogier van der Weyden

b)

Jan van Eyck

c)

Robert Campin

d)

Petrus Christus

23.

This painter developed a special form of chiaroscuro, called tenebrism, to highlight dramatic gestures and facial expressions. He created a self-portrait dressed as the Roman god Bacchus, but turned to Judeo-Christian subjects in Judith Beheading Holofernes and The Sacrifice of Isaac. Name this Renaissance artist of The Calling of St. Matthew.

a)

Annibale Carracci

b)

Caravaggio

c)

Guido Reni

d)

Artemisia Gentileschi

24.

This artist began his career at age nineteen, when his job of art editor for Boys' Life magazine earned him the nickname "Boy Illustrator." He created a young World War Two enlistee in his Willie Gillis series and, two decades later, tackled topics like the Peace Corps and the moon landing. Identify this long-time illustrator of covers for The Saturday Evening Post.

a)

J.C. Leyendecker

b)

Norman Rockwell

c)

Howard Pyle

d)

N.C. Wyeth

25.

Vincent van Gogh.

a)

Café Terrace at Night

b)

The Starry Night

c)

Starry Night Over the Rhône

d)

The Night Café

26.

This artist of The Millinery Shop and The Racecourse, Amateur Jockeys was fascinated by all aspects of everyday Parisian life. He exhibited only one sculpture publicly: Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. Who was this Impressionist artist responsible for Ballet Rehearsal and The Dance Class?

a)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Gustave Caillebotte

d)

Berthe Morisot

27.

This painter's belief that "civilization is what makes you sick" led him to abandon his wife, his four children, and his career as a stockbroker. He explored a three-part story in Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, and delved further into Symbolism with The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch. Identify this friend of van Gogh, who celebrated his adopted home in Two Tahitian Women.

a)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

b)

Paul Gauguin

c)

Émile Bernard

d)

Paul Sérusier

28.

This artist's monochromatic portrait The Old Guitarist is housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. He finished it in 1904, toward the end of his Blue Period. Who was this co-founder of Cubism?

a)

Georges Braque

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Henri Matisse

d)

André Derain

29.

This man painted murals for the Boston Public Library, a genre he returned to after retiring from portrait painting in 1910. He spent most of his career capturing his portrait subjects' personalities, as in Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth and The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. Give the name of this artist, whose best-known work is Portrait of Madame X.

a)

James McNeill Whistler

b)

John Singer Sargent

c)

Winslow Homer

d)

Thomas Eakins

30.

This painter was an aristocrat whose unusual physique resulted from broken legs at the ages of twelve and fourteen. He spent much of his time in Montmartre, where he sketched Jane Avril and other dancers. Name this Post-Impressionist remembered for his prints of the Moulin Rouge.

a)

Edgar Degas

b)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

c)

Pierre Bonnard

d)

Édouard Vuillard

31.

This "Master of Aix" viewed each of his subjects from multiple angles, recombining those views into "a harmony parallel to nature." He titled two of his still lifes The Basket of Apples and Curtain, Jug, and Fruit, and reimagined the same subject in Bathers and The Large Bathers. Name this painter of The Card Players, whose Post-Impressionist works influenced Cubism.

a)

Paul Gauguin

b)

Paul Cézanne

c)

Georges Seurat

d)

Paul Signac

32.

This Baroque artist solemnly treated the biblical idea of mercy in his painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. He was famous for his group portraits, including one of seven surgeons, a physician, and a cadaver. Identify the artist of The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.

a)

Frans Hals

b)

Rembrandt van Rijn

c)

Johannes Vermeer

d)

Jacob van Ruisdael

33.

This Impressionist was born in the Danish West Indies, an area that is today part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was influenced by the Realists, but mentored Monet and Renoir before turning to Neo-Impressionism, or Pointillism. Who painted The Boulevard Montmartre at Night?

a)

A) Claude Monet

b)

B) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

c)

C) Camille Pissarro

d)

D) Georges Seurat

34.

This painter of The Three Graces also completed The Sistine Madonna at Pope Julius the Second's request. His best-known work features classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Give the name of this Renaissance artist, who painted The School of Athens.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Sandro Botticelli

35.

This artist of 1911's Gray Tree titled two of his paintings--one realistic, one abstract--Still Life with Gingerpot. His Composition No. 10, which is also called Pier and Ocean, consists solely of intersecting horizontal and vertical black lines on a white background. Name this developer of the abstract art style called Neoplasticism.

a)

Wassily Kandinsky

b)

Piet Mondrian

c)

Kazimir Malevich

d)

Theo van Doesburg

36.

This man's medieval allegorical paintings include the triptych The Temptation of St. Anthony. His masterpiece juxtaposes the chaos of Hell with the Garden of Eden at the moment of Eve's creation. Who was this Dutch painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights?

a)

Jan van Eyck

b)

Hieronymus Bosch

c)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

d)

Rogier van der Weyden

37.

This painter of Church at Auvers completed a portrait of his physician, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, shortly before the artist's 1890 death. In 1888, he tried his hand at still lifes with Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase. Who was this Expressionist painter of Starry Night Over the Rhone?

a)

Paul Gauguin

b)

Vincent van Gogh

c)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

d)

Paul Cézanne

38.

This painting was the first work its artist began after arriving at the asylum at Saint-Remy. Influenced by Japanese wood blocks, it features one white blossom amid a sea of purple flowers. Give the title of this Vincent Van Gogh painting.

a)

Sunflowers

b)

Irises

c)

The Mulberry Tree

d)

Almond Blossoms

39.

This painting series features parents tucking their two children into bed, and people of all ages folding their hands in prayer. It also highlights a town meeting at which a man voices an unpopular opinion, and a family gathered around a table for a holiday meal. Name this series, based on a Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech, and painted by Norman Rockwell.

a)

The Four Freedoms

b)

The Saturday Evening Post Covers

c)

American Chronicles

d)

Main Street America

40.

This painting, which spent two decades sequestered by the Inquisition, was commissioned by Manuel de Godoy. It has always hung near its companion piece, which features the same dark-haired model reclining on a green sofa. Identify this--at the time, shocking--portrait by Francisco de Goya.

a)

The Clothed Maja

b)

The Nude Maja

c)

The Duchess of Alba

d)

The Family of Charles IV

41.

The title of this painting is:

a)

The Starry Night

b)

Mona Lisa

c)

The Persistence of Memory

d)

Girl with a Pearl Earring

42.

This Vincent van Gogh painting?

a)

The Potato Eaters

b)

The Night Café

c)

Café Terrace at Night

d)

The Bedroom

43.

This painting was created for the 1944 Brown & Bigelow Boy Scout Calendar. It shows a teenage boy in uniform giving the scout salute in front of an American flag backdrop. Name this painting meant to stir civilian support for the war effort, created by Norman Rockwell.

a)

Freedom from Fear

b)

We, Too, Have a Job to Do

c)

The Problem We All Live With

d)

Breaking Home Ties

44.

This 1787 painting, whose primary source was Plato's Phaedo, expressed the artist's belief in resisting unjust authority. It shows the demise of the title historical figure, whom Athenian officials sentenced to death for impiety and corrupting the city's youth. Give the title of this historical painting by Jacques-Louis David.

a)

The Oath of the Horatii

b)

The Death of Socrates

c)

The Death of Marat

d)

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

45.

This painting's influences include Hemingway's short story "The Killers" and Van Gogh's painting Café at Night. It was supposedly modeled on a Greenwich Avenue eatery, and shows three figures seated at a counter as an employee serves them. Identify this Edward Hopper painting.

a)

Automat

b)

Nighthawks

c)

Chop Suey

d)

New York Movie

46.

This portion of the Vatican Palace was built between 1473 and '81 for Pope Sixtus the Fourth. Its best-known artwork is a group of frescoes adorning its west wall and ceiling, including The Last Judgment and The Creation of Adam. Name this site, where Michelangelo worked for four years.

a)

The Raphael Rooms

b)

The Sistine Chapel

c)

St. Peter's Basilica

d)

The Apostolic Palace

47.

The artist hoped to establish this painting's title structure as a "studio of the south" where friends like Gauguin could visit him and create. Its bright exterior features green shutters, and abuts a pink restaurant the painter frequented. What is this painting of a butter-colored residence, created by Vincent Van Gogh?

a)

The Bedroom

b)

The Yellow House

c)

The Café Terrace

d)

The Starry Night

48.

This large painting, which the artist completed in three weeks, was commissioned by Spain's Republican government. Its monochromatic palette and bizarre, disjointed imagery unsettled viewers at the 1937 World's Fair. Which Picasso work protested the bombing of a Basque village?

a)

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

b)

Guernica

c)

The Old Guitarist

d)

Three Musicians

49.

The artist once considered this work finished, but changed his mind, and left strips of colored tape on it when he died in 1944. Like its similarly-named predecessor, it is a combination of black, white, and primary color squares, but the canvas is lozenge-shaped. Give the title of this work, created in anticipation of an Allied victory in World War Two, by Piet Mondrian.

a)

Broadway Boogie-Woogie

b)

Victory Boogie-Woogie

c)

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

d)

New York City

50.

This painting's utility poles resemble crosses, a hint at the work's funerary title. On a steep, narrow country road, a semi heads straight for a black car as another car stops a short distance away. What is this macabre Grant Wood artwork?

a)

American Gothic

b)

Death on the Ridge Road

c)

Stone City, Iowa

d)

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

51.

In this painting, a young woman in a yellow hat and green coat sits staring into her coffee cup. She is alone at a circular table, with a rectangular window behind her that reflects rows of fluorescent lighting. Give the one-word title of this Edward Hopper painting.

a)

Nighthawks

b)

Automat

c)

Office at Night

d)

Hotel Room

52.

Sometimes deemed the world's first modern painting, this 1815 work depicts the atrocities committed by the French army seven years earlier. Soldiers stand with guns aimed at a white-shirted figure, whose outstretched arms echo Christ's crucifixion. Name this commemoration of the Napoleonic Wars, created by Francisco de Goya.

a)

The Second of May 1808

b)

The Third of May 1808

c)

The Disasters of War

d)

Saturn Devouring His Son

53.

This painting incorporates elements of a royal portrait with a behind-the-scenes perspective native to genre painting. The artist places himself to the left of the Infant Margarita Teresa, who is surrounded by attendants as her parents look on. Identify this masterpiece by Diego Velázquez.

a)

The Surrender of Breda

b)

Las Meninas

c)

The Rokeby Venus

d)

Portrait of Pope Innocent X

54.

This artist's head adorns an animal's body in The Wounded Deer, but Weeping Coconuts is a still life. The Broken Column, Henry Ford Hospital, and My Birth reflect the pain of a bus accident and multiple miscarriages. Identify this artist, whose numerous self-portraits include one with cropped hair, and another with her pet monkey Fulang-Chang.

a)

Georgia O'Keeffe

b)

Frida Kahlo

c)

Remedios Varo

d)

Leonora Carrington

55.

This unfinished painting shows the exact moment the infant Jesus reveals his divine nature. The Holy Family, in the center, is surrounded by a semicircular procession that includes the Three Wise Men. Give the title of this early Leonardo Da Vinci work.

a)

The Last Supper

b)

Adoration of the Magi

c)

The Annunciation

d)

The Virgin of the Rocks

56.

This 82-print series portrays scenes from the Peninsular War, as well as the Madrid famine of 1811 and '12. The later prints criticized Ferdinand the Seventh's repressive post-war reign, which resumed in 1814. Give the collective title of these aquatint etchings by Francisco de Goya.

a)

Los Caprichos

b)

The Disasters of War

c)

The Tauromaquia

d)

Los Disparates

57.

This man's The Crucifixion of St. Peter and The Conversion of Saul are both frescoes still visible in the Vatican Palace. The only sculpture he signed was commissioned by a French cardinal, and has spent centuries in St. Peter's Basilica. Name this Renaissance artist of the Pietà.

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

c)

Raphael

d)

Donatello

58.

In this painting, a blonde, blue-eyed woman in an apron stands next to an older, balding, dour-faced man in overalls. The pair are situated in front of a farmhouse whose real-life

(a)  

59.

Give the title of this Depression-era painting by Grant Wood.

a)

Stone City, Iowa

b)

American Gothic

c)

Daughters of Revolution

d)

Arbor Day

60.

The technical mistakes and dark colors present in this 1885 group portrait drew criticism. The subjects are peasants with bony hands and coarse faces, whose drab surroundings are appropriate for the simple meal they're consuming. Give the title of this early Van Gogh work.

a)

The Bedroom

b)

The Potato Eaters

c)

The Weavers

d)

Peasant Woman Cooking

61.

This two-word architectural feature is designed to receive a vault's or roof's thrust. A half-arch supports a straight bar that extends from a wall's upper section to a pier located some distance away. What phrase names this feature of many Gothic cathedrals?

a)

Rose Window

b)

Flying Buttress

c)

Pointed Arch

d)

Ribbed Vault

62.

This architectural style melded Arts and Crafts ideas with the principles set forth by Louis Sullivan. Asymmetric, open floor plans; stucco or brick exteriors; large central chimneys; and restrained ornamentation were among its hallmarks. What was this Chicago-based style popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright?

a)

Art Deco Style

b)

Prairie School

c)

International Style

d)

Craftsman Style

63.

This building, which was designed by Antonio da Sangallo, includes interior frescoes by Annibale Carracci. At the request of Pope Paul the Third, Michelangelo designed its balcony and coat of arms, as well as the upper story's windows and the main façade's cornice. What Roman palace currently serves as the French embassy?

a)

Palazzo Massimo

b)

Palazzo Farnese

c)

Palazzo Altemps

d)

Palazzo Barberini

64.

This hilltop belvedere, or summer home, has a symmetrical plan with six columns on each of its four sides. Designed for Giulio Capra, its central circular halls are topped by domes. What is this Vicenza residence designed by Andrea Palladio?

a)

Villa Barbaro

b)

Villa La Rotonda

c)

Villa Emo

d)

Villa Cornaro

65.

This weekend retreat home features a noticeable cantilever that projects its large balcony into free space. Designed for the Kaufmann family, it sits southeast of Pittsburgh, near the former Bear Run, Pennsylvania. Identify this example of organic architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

a)

Taliesin

b)

Fallingwater

c)

Unity Temple

d)

Robie House

66.

This structure was designed with a rotating door that allowed mothers to drop off infants without being seen. Florence's silk guild commissioned it to deal with the city's child abandonment epidemic. Give the name of the world's first orphanage, which was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.

a)

Foundling Hospital

b)

Hospital of the Innocents

c)

Ospedale Maggiore

d)

Santa Maria Nuova

67.

Give the name of this founder of the Weimar design school called the Bauhaus.

a)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

b)

Walter Gropius

c)

Le Corbusier

d)

Marcel Breuer

68.

This architect of the Basilica di San Lorenzo was also likely responsible for the Pitti Palace, which remained unfinished at his death. He designed the hoists and cranes that helped put his masterpiece in place. Who was this Renaissance man, who also rediscovered the principles of linear perspective?

a)

Leon Battista Alberti

b)

Filippo Brunelleschi

c)

Donato Bramante

d)

Andrea Palladio

69.

Born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, this architect experimented with unconventional forms of expression as a reaction against Modernism. He is responsible for Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture, formerly the Experience Music Project, and Barcelona's Olympic Fish Pavilion. Which architect additionally designed the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Walt Disney Concert Hall?

a)

Santiago Calatrava

b)

Frank Gehry

c)

Zaha Hadid

d)

Daniel Libeskind

70.

Mesopotamian ziggurats informed the design of this man's now-demolished Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. His "autobiography in wood and stone" were the companion houses Taliesin and Taliesin West. Who exemplified the Prairie Style with Chicago's Robie House?

a)

Louis Sullivan

b)

Frank Lloyd Wright

c)

Daniel Burnham

d)

Henry Hobson Richardson

71.

This architectural order, which dates from around 425 B.C., features columns with thin, fluted shafts. In addition to a floral motif, their capitals also feature scrolls, although on a smaller scale than the Ionic. Name this most elaborate of the three Greek architectural orders, whose columns are topped by sculpted acanthus leaves.

a)

Doric Order

b)

Corinthian Order

c)

Ionic Order

d)

Tuscan Order

72.

This sculpture was originally intended to adorn a buttress of Florence Cathedral. Instead, its magnificence convinced city leaders to place it at the entrance of the Palazzo dei Priori to symbolize the Florentine Republic. Identify this statue of a young biblical giant slayer, fashioned by Michelangelo.

a)

Perseus

b)

David

c)

Goliath

d)

The Pietà

73.

This architect designed a building whose construction the city of Dessau financed in 1925. It housed the academic institute that resulted from the merger of the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts. Give the shared name of this building designed by Walter Gropius, and of the school he founded.

a)

Werkbund

b)

Bauhaus

c)

De Stijl

d)

Constructivism

74.

Like the Corinthian, this architectural order sometimes adorned the top story of superposed Roman buildings. It was only recognized as a separate order during the Renaissance, when it became a feature of decorative pilasters. What is this type of column, whose capital mixes scrolls with acanthus leaves?

a)

Tuscan Order

b)

Composite Order

c)

Ionic Order

d)

Doric Order

75.

Name this masterpiece of Jan van Eyck.

a)

The Ghent Altarpiece

b)

The Arnolfini Wedding

c)

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

d)

Portrait of a Man

76.

This architectural order, which originated on Greece's western shore, has an entablature consisting of alternating metopes and triglyphs. Its column lacks a base, but has a dish-shaped capital topped by a square abacus. Give the name of this simplest Greek architectural order.

a)

Doric Order

b)

Ionic Order

c)

Corinthian Order

d)

Tuscan Order

77.

This structure, built inside an abandoned fortress, includes a backdrop painted using linear perspective to resemble seven streets. Its scaenae frons resembles a triumphal arch, and its cavea is semieliptical rather than semicircular. Name this theater in Vicenza, Italy, which Palladio designed shortly before his death.

a)

Teatro San Carlo

b)

Teatro Olimpico

c)

Teatro La Fenice

d)

Teatro alla Scala

78.

The lowest portion of this architectural feature, the architrave, was originally a simple beam running between supports. Its uppermost portion is the cornice, while the better-known middle section, the frieze, may be a continuous band of sculpture. Give the word for a horizontal construction situated between a building's eaves and columns.

a)

Pediment

b)

Entablature

c)

Capital

d)

Stylobate

79.

This residence's art glass windows softly filter light to blend exterior and interior spaces. Its use of brick and wood, low-pitched roof, and numerous horizontal lines make it the quintessential Prairie Style building. What private dwelling was originally designed for a Chicago businessman by Frank Lloyd Wright?

a)

Unity Temple

b)

Frederick C. Robie House

c)

Darwin D. Martin House

d)

Susan Lawrence Dana House

80.

This architectural element can be made of timber, stone, steel, brick, or reinforced concrete. Like the entablature, it supports the load from the structure above it. Name this horizontal member which, with two posts, forms openings like doors and windows.

a)

Architrave

b)

Lintel

c)

Frieze

d)

Cornice

81.

This church is the early modern era's only great cathedral to have been designed and completed by a single architect. Over thirty-five years, its architect combined Gothic, Baroque, and Neoclassical styles, culminating in a three-layered dome. Name this London landmark designed by Christopher Wren.

a)

Westminster Abbey

b)

St. Paul's Cathedral

c)

Southwark Cathedral

d)

St. Bartholomew's

82.

In this three-word construction system, the vertical members are sometimes called columns or piers, while the horizontal ones can be known as girders, beams, or rafters. Perhaps the most famous example is England's Stonehenge. Identify this precursor of the arch, in which two upright structures support a horizontal one laid on top of them.

a)

Arch and Vault

b)

Post-and-Lintel System

c)

Truss Construction

d)

Frame Structure

83.

A Vicenza villa designed by Palladio is named for this architectural feature. Perhaps the world's most famous one is located in the U.S. Capitol. Identify this type of circular building topped by a dome.

a)

Pantheon

b)

Rotunda

c)

Baptistery

d)

Mausoleum

84.

The ancient Romans often supported their water-carrying aqueducts with this type of architectural innovation. The Colosseum has ones with eighty openings on each of its three stories. Give the word for a series of arches supported by piers or columns.

a)

Colonnade

b)

Arcade

c)

Portico

d)

Peristyle