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This era saw the first uses of pottery

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Mesolithic

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The Greek orders do not include:

Doric
Corinthian
Tuscan
Ionic

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Tuscan

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3
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Who designed the interlocking thin shells on a structure found on the Australian bay

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John Utzon

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4
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The title “Women of Avignon refers to

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Prostitutes in France

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5
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Which artist and style are paired correctly?

Brancusi-Suprematism
Mondrian-De Stijl
Gropius-Prairie Style
Wright-Cubism

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Mondrian - De Stijl

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6
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Which is not a feature of Fallingwater?

Cantilever
Reinforced Concrete
Glass walls
Skeletal construction

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Skeletal Construction

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7
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What were the main characteristics of Romanticism

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Artistic emphasis on intuition, imagination and feeling

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8
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Strawberry Hill refers to

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A Gothic Revival villa

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9
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Who of the ff did not work for Napoleon

David
Ingres
Canova
Lebrun

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Le Brun

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10
Q

Which least inspired Jefferson’s architectural style

Palladio
Gothic revival
The pantheon
Neoclassicism

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Gothic Revival

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11
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Which is not a tenet of Romanticism

Nostalgia
Exoticism
Social realism
The sublime

A

Exoticism

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12
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The Houses of Parliament are examples of what style?

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Gothic Revival

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13
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Which is not a theme in Goya’s painting?

Social injustice
Child psychology
Irrational thinking
Frivolity

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Frivolity

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14
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Until the middle of the nineteenth century, bridges were designed according to what method?

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Truss

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15
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The ff are court painters except

Rembrandt
Hans Holbein
Agnolo Bronzino
Diego Velasquez

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Agnolo Bronzino

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16
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Oath of Horatii was painted by

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Jacques-Louis David

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17
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Jacques-Louis David was a leading representative of what style?

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Neoclassicism

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18
Q

Which term best describes Seurat’s brushstrokes?

Spiraling
Divisionist
Blurred
Smooth

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Divisionist

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19
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Art Nouveau was a European response against

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Industrialization

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20
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Which Pop Artist was most likely to have painted repetitious advertising images

Johns
Warhol
Lichenstein
Kahlo

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Warhol

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21
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His design for the Bauhaus School, Dessau Germany (1925) was the first example of the new international style architecture

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Walter Gropius

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22
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Egyptian monumental architecture is essentially

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Columnar and trabeated style

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23
Q

Romanesque architecture had for its greatest patron the

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Christian church

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24
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The leader of the Chicago School of architecture and a pioneer in skyscraper design. The Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887) was his first major work.

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Louis H. Sullivan

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25
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Which of the following painters was a leading realist?

Peter Paul Rubens
Henri Rousseau
Claude Monet
Gustave Courbet

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Gustave Courbet

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26
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“The house is a machine to live in.”

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Le Corbusier

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27
Q

The designer of the Casa Mila is

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Antoni Gaudi

28
Q

Which architect designed the Crystal Palace

A

Joseph Paxton

29
Q

The artist who constructed paintings by using tiny strokes of color and relied on the theory of optical mixing?

A

Georges Seurat

30
Q

Dutch Post-Impressionist artist is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and had an enormous influence on 20th C art

A

Vincent Van Gogh

31
Q

What style of art breaks from traditional perspective and depicts the subject matter from multiple points of view, fragmenting a 3-dimensional form in order to depict it on the 2-dimensional surface?

A

Cubism

32
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The key design characteristics of De Stijl include all of the ff except

Rectangularity
Varied textures
Primary colors
Asymmetry

A

Varied textures

33
Q

The last Tudor monarch

A

Elizabeth I

34
Q

An austere Spanish Renaissance style that insisted on minimum ornamentation

A

Desornamentado

35
Q

Transition period bet gothic and renaissance architecture

A

Tudor architecture

36
Q

A character of French renaissance architecture is

Dormer windows
Paired columns
Portico
String cornices

A

Dormer windows

37
Q

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture

Fallingwater
Robbie House
Petronas Tower
S.C. Johnson Co. Building

A

Fallingwater

38
Q

Moorish influence of muslim features such as horseshoe arch pierced stone tracery and excessive ornament in Spanish gothic was due to

A

Religion

39
Q

3 of these terms relate to works of ancient stone sculpture or architecture. Which does not belong?

Megaron
Menhir
Mastaba
Makemono

A

Makemono

40
Q

Which of the ff buildings is an example of Byzantine Architecture?

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
Doge’s Palace (Venice)
Royal Courts of Justice (London)
Versailles (France)

A

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)

41
Q

Which ancient Greek pottery item was not used to hold liquid?

Rhyton
Kylix
Kore
Amphora

A

Kore

42
Q

Continuous running or band ornament of interlacing circles

A

Guilloche

43
Q

The art of civilization depicted sea life and included statues of a female snake goddess

A

Minoan

44
Q

What style did much of ancient Egyptian art emphasize?

Golden mean
Distorted profile
Contrapposto
Hierarchical scale

A

Hierarchical scale

45
Q

What was contrapposto designed to do?

A

Put the body in an S-curve

46
Q

Italian term for the bell tower

A

Campanile

47
Q

Which of the ff was not from the renaissance period?

Brunelleschi
Donatello
Raphael
Andrea Palladio

A

Andrea Palladio

48
Q

His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1947-1948) from the Apocalypse series, the “Rhinoceros”, and numerous self-portraits

A

Albercht Durer

49
Q

What historical event was a major influence on religious art during and after the Baroque period?

A

The French Revolution

50
Q

Although now commonly known as “The Colosseum”, the building does have a more formal name

A

The Flavian Amphitheatre

51
Q

Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of the Doric columns

A

Entassis

52
Q

What is the correct name for a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface

A

Mural

53
Q

The ff are parts of a Byzantine basilica except

Atrium
Transept
Bema
Narthex
None of the above
A

Bema

54
Q

Last name of the artist Michelangelo

A

Buonarroti

55
Q

The assumption that humans could reach godlike status (term)

A

Humanism

56
Q

In what area did Giotto make great advances in painting techniques

A

Perspective

57
Q

A distinctive style in western Europe form 1000-1400

A

Romanesque

58
Q

Which is not a feature of the typical Romanesque portal

Tympanum
Lintel
Jamb
Transpet

A

Transept

59
Q

Which is not a pair?

Rose-circle
Towers-vertical
Gable-rectangle
Apse-semicircle
Dome-hemisphere
A

Gable-rectangle

60
Q

Which is not a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents

Arcades
Round arches
Doric colonnettes
Bays
Pediments
A

Doric colonnettes

61
Q

The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be

A

High contrast of light and dark

62
Q

Which is not a meaning related to the Mannerist style?

Affectation
Mannered
Restrained
Stylized
Elongated
A

Restrained

63
Q

Palladio used the ancient texts of

A

Vitruvius

64
Q

Which is the most characteristic feature of Baroque style

Elongation
Violent action
Flat spaces
Frontal figures

A

Violent action

65
Q

The court portrait painter of Charles I of England

A

Anthony Van Dyck

66
Q

Which of the ff is not a Mesopotamian god?

Anu
Isis
Ishtar
Innana

A

Isis

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