Art

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an image in art that depicts the Virgin Mary holding the dead christ

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pieta

Question 1

commonly a religious image that includes at the sacred event the people who have paid for the artwork

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donor portrait

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an image in art that depicts the dead christ coming down from the cross

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deposition

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the first gothic church conceived by abbot sugar and consecrated in 1137. this building ushered in the first gothic aesthetic

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saint denis

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the main isle of a basilica, it translates as the bottom of a ship

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nave

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the depiction of Jesus and disciple eating their last meal with Jesus

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last supper

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a region that is present day Belgium, Luxembourg and part of France and the Netherlands, famous as a cultural arts center

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Flanders

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a roman civil building adapted as a church by the christian religion

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basilica

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a painting made up of more than 3 separate pieces

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polyptych

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a pigment body mixed with a linseed oil binder

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oil paint

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a journey of a religious nature, the main purpose of which is to seek or repay divine intervention

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pilgrimage

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the concept of creating pictorial space on a two dimensional surface using a system of vanishing points and lines of convergence

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mathematical perspective

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the rebirth of ideals and concepts from greco roman antiquity

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renaissance

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religious drawings and or paintings illustrating books with biblical or scriptural imagery

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illuminated manuscript

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structural support that allowed the heightening of and lightening of walls of gothic buildings. this particular engineering structure is attached tot he outside of the building

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flying buttress

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the process of adding material to create a sculpture

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modeling

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the process of subtracting material to create a sculture

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carving

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a pose in art presenting the figure with the weight shifted on one leg. it also creates a more natural appearance

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contrapasto

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the technique of painting water based paint directly into wet plaster, italian for fresh

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fresco

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female greek sculpture

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kore

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a functional load bearing column carved to appear as a human figure

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caryatid

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a metal composed of tin and copper commonly used as structure material

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bronze

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an architectural building system using 2 or more uprights with crossbeams

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post and lentil

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a male greek sculpture

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kouros

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the presentation of red colored figures on greek pottery

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red figure style

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roman civil building adapted as a church by the christian religion

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basilica

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from the portuguese for misshapen or irregularly formed

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baroque

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an image of the Virgin Mary holding the dead christ

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pieta

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an intaglio print making technique that uses acid to bite into a printing plate

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etching

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a wealthy Florentine banking family that wielded massive influence in shaping the Italian Renaissance

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Medici

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a dominican priest who began the protestant reformation by nailing his 95 thesis to the Wittenberg cathedral door

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Martin Luther

Question 31

a printing process that prints the raised areas of a printing plate

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relief print

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a printing process that prints the low or incised areas of the plate

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intaglio print

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an artwork that includes the people responsible for paying for the art

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donor portrait

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pigment suspended in a linseed oil binder

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oil paint

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a painting technique that uses a hazy blurring of the imagery. it is italian for smoky

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sfumato

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the government sponsored school of art in france

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french academy

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the rebirth of humanistic ideals and concepts derived from classical antiquity

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renaissance

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in art a formal device that creates a spinning motion similar to a tornado

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vortex

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a strong dark light contrast in art that is the Italian word for out of obscurity or to emerge from shadows

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chiaroscuro

Question 40

in art an image depicting christ taking a meal with his Disciples

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Last Supper

Question 41

tf to be a true gothic building it must have ribbed vaulting, pointed arches, and flying buttresses

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true

Question 42

tf the gothic movement is considered to be the first international style since roman antiquity

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true

Question 43

tf no free standing sculpture was created in the gothic period

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true

Question 44

tf at the end of the gothic period the church and the church building itself were giving way an artistic and patronage of the up and coming middle class

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true

Question 45

tf sculpture changed little during the gothic period because of Abbot Sugar's ultra conservative attitudes about art and graven imagery

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false

Question 46

tf with the rebirth of greco roman ideals, Petrarch was instrumental in developing humanistic ideas that would put florence in the fore front of the italian renaissance

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true

Question 47

tf the renaissance is the first time artists commonly sign their works

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true

Question 48

tf oil paint and mathematical perspective were 2 of the great technical innovations of the renaissance

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true

Question 49

tf renaissance artists may have used lenses and mirrors to create more naturalistic images faster and more efficiently

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true

Question 50

tf classical illusionist painting found in the early italian renaissance had some of its roots in byzantine painting

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true

Question 51

tf the Black Plague held up the renaissance for about 50 years. many people believed it was punishment from god due to a recurrence of interest in classical (pagan) ideas

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true

Question 52

tf baroque art included the manipulation of space, light, and mass, volume, and texture to express power: religious, political, and social

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true

Question 53

tf mannerism looked to nature as its artistic model

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false

Question 54

tf leonardo da vinci was a genius and an underachiever

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true

Question 55

tf jan vermeer's work was forged int he 20th century and sold to the nazis

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true

Question 56

tf venetians thought design to be superior to color

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false

Question 57

tf bernini was one of the mast masterful printmakers of 17th century italy

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false

Question 58

tf Michelangelo was reputed to have been calm and shy

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false

Question 59

tf raphael sanzio was a great synthesizer of artistic information

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true

Question 60

tf despite its protestant religious climate, holland had enormous church supported art

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false

Question 61

tf rembrandt was known exclusively as a painter and sculptor

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false

Question 62

tf the driving force behind greek art and culture was feudalism

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false

Question 63

tf a major engineering component that the romans employed so well was the arch

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true

Question 64

tf the post and lentil architectural building system was invented by the Egyptians

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false

Question 65

tf the name of the hilltop where the athenians built the parthenon was the erecthium

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false

Question 66

tf classical illusionist painting was widely know and executed during the romanesque period

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false

Question 67

tf romanesque architecture is considered to be the first mature style of the Middle Ages

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true

Question 68

tf the lost wax process is a process used in casting bronze sculpture

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true

Question 69

tf roman sculpture shifted away from the greek model and more in line with Egyptian and other middle eastern concepts toward the end of the roman imperial period

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true

Question 70

tf monasteries were self-sufficient therefore they did little to keep learning and literacy alive during the romanesque period

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false

Question 71

tf roman sculpture in the early periods was much more connected with the ideas of realism than in the later imperial period

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true

Question 72

tf greek architecture commonly uses the dome

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false

Question 73

tf post impressionism was basically a rehashing of old impressionist concepts

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false

Question 74

tf mary cassat was instrumental in getting French impressionist works into the hands of wealthy american collectors

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true

Question 75

tf edgar degas became a bitter recluse later in life

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true

Question 76

tf monet painted in a pronouncedly more blurry way exclusively because of his failing eyesight

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false

Question 77

tf Paul Gauguin was a great artist and an absolute rectum of a human who abandoned his wife and family, infected countless young tahitian girls with syphilis, and at the same time influenced many of the 20th century artists with his concepts and art

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true

Question 78

tf george suerat painted a large number of large canvases because he worked indoors over his long life rather that en plein aire

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false

Question 79

tf paul cezannes work will make a major impact on pablo picasso's cubism

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true

Question 80

tf james mcneil whistler was like camille pissaro a very kind hearted family man

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false

Question 81

tf edgar degas along with being a great painter was also a prolific printmaker

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false

Question 82

tf monet made some of his finest works as a result of the impressionist crisis of the 1880s. it was during that time that he moved to germany and began painting in "series"

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true

Question 83

tf edouard manet is considered to be by many the father of modern art

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true

Question 84

tf impressionist's subject matter was light and color

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true

Question 85

whistler named many of his paintings like musical compositions

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true

Question 86

tf john singer sergeant was one of america's best watercolorists

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true

Question 87

tf the people in henry toulouse-lautrec's paintings are always kind of happy scoundrels, like peter breughals's peasants

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false

Question 88

the artist's use of two or more pistaches of color put side by side to blend optically int he viewers eye as opposed to the palette

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optical color

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a term referring to painting outdoors int he open air

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en plein aire

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the technique used to create an image using dots of color

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pointillism

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the color of an object or image in a verbal sense

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local color

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the color of an object or image that is created using paint

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pistache

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artist's paint supplies that come in portable collapsible containers

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tube paint

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similar to impressionism but taking on more broad ranging content concerns including spiritual, expressionistic, or formal concerns

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post impressionism

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the name of the french art dealer who championed the impressionists artists

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durand-ruel

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a small bit of paint fleck applied to the canvas and not smoothed or blended in any way

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broken color

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an art movement begun in france int he late 19th century characterized by loose brush work, broken and optical color, and a sketchy finish

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impressionism

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vincent Van Gogh's brother

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theo