Art History

Question 0

This style became common in Western Europe from 1000 to 1100 A.D. At this time, many churches were being built, and artists painted lovely pictures on the walls of the churches.

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Romanesque style

Question 1

The art completed during the period between 300 A.D. and the early 1300s.

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Medieval art

Question 2

This style replaced the Romanesque style during the 1200s. Its architectural styles featured many windows, which eliminated the wall space needed for the large Romanesque frescoes.

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Gothic style

Question 3

Began in Italy in 1300, and it spread northward until it had reached almost all of Europe by 1600. During this time, people became very interested in the arts. Religious subject matter was still the main focus, but artists turned more toward realism and tried to portray people and nature as it really appeared.

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The Renaissance

Question 4

He began Neo-Platonism, which combined religious ideas and mythology. His most important painting is The Birth of Venus.

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Sandro Botticelli

Question 5

He was probably the greatest and best-known artist of the 1400s. Besides painting, he was an inventor and drew many sketches of interesting inventions, from which inventors devised many of their ideas in later times. One of his most famous paintings was the Mona Lisa.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 6

In Italian, this painting is referred to as “La Giocanda”, and in French as “La Joconde”.

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Mona Lisa

Question 7

He painted a series of paintings of Madonnas.

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Raphael

Question 8

He decorated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, which took four years to complete.

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Michelangelo

Question 9

He was often called “The Greek.” His real name was Kyriakos Theotokopoulos. He distorted natural forms and used even stranger, more unnatural colors. He started a style called Baroque in Europe.

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El Greco

Question 10

This period in art began in Europe during the 1600s, or 17th century.

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Baroque

Question 11

Caravaggio and Carracci are from this artistic period.

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Baroque

Question 12

This was style during the late Baroque Period that appeared mainly toward the end of the 1600s in France. It was most popular from 1720 to 1780.

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Rococo

Question 13

Francisco de Goya, Eugène Delacroix, and Edouard Manet belonged to this artistic movement.

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Romanticism

Question 14

Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas belonged to this artistic period.

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Impressionism

Question 15

Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent Van Gogh belong to this artistic period.

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Post-Impressionism

Question 16

George Braque of France and Pablo Picasso of Spain belong to this artistic movement.

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Cubism

Question 17

Diego Rivera and José Orozco were muralists from what country?

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Mexico

Question 18

An artist and naturalist of the nineteenth century who painted hundreds of different pictures of birds. These pictures are shown in his book called The Birds of America.

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James Audubon

Question 19

An artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who spent much of her life in France, learning from the French impressionists. She mainly painted pictures of mothers and their children.

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Mary Cassatt

Question 20

Two business partners who joined together to produce colorful prints of everyday American life during the nineteenth century.

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Currier and Ives

Question 21

An American sculptor and cartoonist of the twentieth century who was known for his diagrams of detailed machines, which he designed to carry out simple tasks in progressive non-stop fashion.

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Rube Goldberg

Question 22

An American painter of the twentieth century who painted many Southwestern scenes, showing deserts, wildlife, and Indian artifacts.

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Georgia O’Keefe

Question 23

An artist and illustrator known for his illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post magazines. He portrayed rural scenes very realistically and showed the lifestyles of people who lived in rural locations.

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Norman Rockwell

Question 24

The artist known for American Gothic, which shows a farmer and a woman standing in front of a farmhouse. They both wear stern expressions, and the farmer is holding a pitchfork.

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Grant Wood

Question 25

An American sculptor who created the philosophy of organic architecture. He believed that the building should develop out of its natural surroundings.

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Frank Lloyd Wright