Test 4 Speedbacks Flashcards
Which of the following is not true of Bernini’s St. Theresa in Ecstasy?
It was designed for the chapel of a wealthy family.
The central scene is placed between two sculptured opera boxes.
It is designed so that golden shafts of light actually reflect real outdoor light.
It was designed for the outdoor courtyard of a secret, privately own church.
It is part of a total art environment, not just a single free-standing sculpture.
It was designed for the outdoor courtyard of a secret, privately own church
How is Bernini’s David different from Michelangelo’s?
It is more dynamic, showing a figure in the midst of strenuous activity.
It lets the figure stretch beyond its niche.
It stands upon the gigantic head of Goliath.
It captures the figure’s inner psychology
It stands upon the gigantic head of Goliath.
Which of the following does not belong to Poussin’s “grand manner”?
paintings about serious subjects
only the presentation of ideas lucidly, without excessive emotion
the placement of spiritual figures in seedy, impoverished locales
paintings about loft themes
only a preference for mythology, ancient history, or biblical history over everyday themes
the placement of spiritual figures in seedy, impoverished locales
Which of the following is not a feature of Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?
It consists of a complex interplay of ovals.
The façade consists of many hollowed-out niches, which give it a dramatic chiaroscuro.
It is built from a single geometrical cube repeated symmetrically all the way down a long corridor.
The façade consists of a rich interplay of convex and concave forms
It is built from a single geometrical cube repeated symmetrically all the way down a long corridor.
Which of the following is not true about Caravaggio?
He idolized Renaissance masters and copied their work slavishly.
He was a ruffian who lived beyond the edge of respectable society.
He purposefully shocked audiences, as in his Bacchus, which shows a Greco-Roman god as a luridly sexual cross-dressing boy.
He idolized Renaissance masters and copied their work slavishly.
Which of the following is not true about Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp?
The figures are stiff and stylized and unnatural.
The work reflects the newfound respect given to men of science in this age
This is a subject that many artists were commissioned to paint.
The artist depicted a dynamic, complex human event that is happening in a split second.
The figures are stiff and stylized and unnatural.
Which of the following is not true about Zurbaran’s St. Serapion?
The saint is shown prostrate on the ground, having fallen off his horse
The coloring and symmetry convey a hushed stillness
Like Caravaggio, the painter eliminates background and brings the figure close to the viewer
The saint is shown prostrate on the ground, having fallen off his horse
Which of the following does not apply to Louis XIV?
stopped divine-rights rule by agreeing to parliamentary limitations on his power
patronized the arts by supporting Racine, Molière, and Lully
drained France of money because of his continual wars
practiced royal absolutism
built a massive palace at Versailles
stopped divine-rights rule by agreeing to parliamentary limitations on his power
Which of the following is not true of Bernini’s Baldachin?
It mimics the sedate, calming shapes of the nearby works of Michelangelo.
The columns introduce gyrating, spiraling movements.
It exists as a giant canopy.
It is located inside St. Peter’s, near the site of St. Peter’s tomb.
It mimics the sedate, calming shapes of the nearby works of Michelangelo.
basso continuo
the accompaniment ensemble that was first created for the earliest operas
aria
the songs of an opera
Which of the following is not true about Frescobaldi’s Toccata no. 3?
It was written for two violins and a basso continuo.
It is designed to sound like free improvisation.
It consists of numerous small sections, each with contrasting speeds and textures.
It was written for two violins and a basso continuo.
Which of the following ideas were not overthrown by the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution?
that earthly and heavenly matter were different
that the universe revolved around the earth
that the earth consisted of four elements that were always going up or down
Copernicus’s notion that the earth revolved around the sun that the heavens were unchanging
that the earth consisted of four elements that were always going up or down
Read the passage and then answer the question: . . . [Satan’s] other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-born, that warr’d on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th’ Ocean-stream: Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The Pilot of some small night-founder’d Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes: So stretched out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay
Which of the following is not true about the epic simile quoted above?
It is dynamic rather than static.
It contains images that are organically related to the general theme.
It is much longer than the similes used in Homer. Its monsters progress from pagan to Christian ones.
None of the above
None of the above
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Which of the following is not true about the passage quoted above?
It was written by a man who believed that the universe consisted only of matter
. It comes in a book entitled Leviathan.
It was written by Locke.
It was written by a man advocating the need for a single, absolute ruler.
It was written by Locke.
