Term Test #2

Question 1

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 1

Pieter Brugel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565

Question 2

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 2

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Fall of Icarus, ca. 1554-55

Question 3

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 3

Mattias Grunewald, Isenheim Alterpiece, 1510-15

Also, remember this is what the inside of the alterpiece looks like.

Question 4

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 4

Albrecht Durer, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), 1504

Question 5

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 5

Albrecht Durer, The Four Apostles, ca. 1526

Question 6

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 6

Pontormo, Descent from the Cross, 1525-28

Question 7

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 7

Annibale Carracci, Pieta, 1600

Question 8

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 8

Annibale Carracci, Farnese Gallery, 1597-1600

Question 9

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 9

Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600

Question 10

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 10

Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, 1498

Question 11

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 11

Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul, 1600-1601

Question 12

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 12

Carabaggio, Entombment, 1603-04

Question 13

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 13

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Triumph of the Name of Jesus, 1676-79

Know this image, too.

Question 14

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 14

Bernini, David, 1623

Question 15

Artist, Title, Location, Date

Answer 15

Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Cornaro Chapel, 1645-52

Close up of the angel mentioned often in class

Question 16

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 16

Bernini, Piazza of St. Peter’s, begun 1656

Question 17

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 17

Rubens, The Elevation of the Cross, 1610

Question 18

What is a Tripych?

Answer 18

A three panel alterpeice

Question 19

Define chiaroscuro

Answer 19

Contrast of light and shade

Question 20

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 20

Ruben, Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1615-18

Question 21

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 21

Rubens, Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles, 1622-25

Question 22

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 22

Rubens, Allegory of the Outbreak of War, 1638

Question 23

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 23

Rembrandt, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630

Question 24

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 24

Rembrandt, The Blinding of Samson, 1636

Question 25

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 25

Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, ca. 1665

Question 26

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 26

Rembrandt, The Company of Frans Banning Cocq (The Nightwatch), 1642

Question 27

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 27

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Bushy Hair, 1631

Question 28

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 28

Rembrandt, Slef-Portrait at the Age of 22, 1628

Question 29

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 29

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait at Afe 34, 1640

Question 30

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 30

Nicolas Poussin, Abduction of the Sabine Women, 1636-37

Question 31

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 31

Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, begun 1669. Gardens by Andre Le Nortre

Question 32

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 32

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701

Question 33

Where is this located and what is it called?

Answer 33

Interior of Versailles. Hall of Mirrors.

Question 34

Where is this located and what is it called?

Answer 34

Interior of Versailles. Salon de la Guerre.

Question 35

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 35

El Greco, Resurrection, ca. 1597-1604

Question 36

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 36

Francisco de Zurbaran, Vision of St. Peter Nolasco, 1629

Question 37

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 37

Jusepe de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Philip, ca. 1639

Question 38

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 38

Diego Velazquez, Water Carrier of Seville, ca. 1619

Question 39

Artist, Title, Date

Answer 39

Diego Velazquez, King Philip IV of Spain (Fraga Philip), 1644

Question 40

Artist, TItle, Date

Answer 40

Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Question 41

Define linear

Answer 41

describes a painting style that is often crisp and neat

Question 42

Define painterly

Answer 42

A style of painting that is usually unrealistic in the way that the brush strokes are visible and the figures are “fuzzy”

Question 43

What does it mean to say the painting has planes?

Answer 43

A plane is a clear cut focal area within an image. A painting can be described planier(?) if there are distinct visual planes.

Question 44

What does it mean to describe a painting that has recession?

Answer 44

Recession is the opposite of planes. The painting fades back seemlessly without clear cut points of dimension as the perspective.

Question 45

What is a closed/tectonic form?

Answer 45

A closed form is a painting or object that stays within the frame and does not suggest any movement outward.

Question 46

What is an open/a-tectonic form?

Answer 46

A painting or object that extends past the boundaries of the frame either through motion or physical parts of the objects.

Question 47

Define multiplicity

Answer 47

To say that a painting has multiplicity means that there are multiple objects within the painting–more clearly, certain forms can be subtracted from the painting and the image would still appear complete.

Question 48

Define unity

Answer 48

Unity is the opposite of multiplicity. While there may also be multiple forms within a painting with unity, not one can be taken out without changing the meaning or making the painting look incomplete.

Question 49

What is absolute clarity?

Answer 49

it means that the story or meaning of the art is understandable to all audiences. The subject is absolutely clear.

Question 50

What is relative clarity?

Answer 50

it means that the meaning of the artwork is only clear to certain people (ex. people of the time, religious people, etc.). The subject is only clear to the people that have a relationship with it.