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.
Which of the following is not true of The Triumph of the Name of Jesus?
It carried baroque ceiling painting from the two- to the three-dimensional
It presents a Roman god driving his chariot as he follows the sun.
It presents a large oval in which some characters float up to a light while others fall down to the church floor.
It exists inside the famous church Il Gesú.
It presents a Roman god driving his chariot as he follows the sun.
Which of the following is not a feature of la Tour’s St. Irene Curing St. Sebastian?
spiritual figures shown in a common setting
figures shown close-up intensely dramatic and hyper emotional
night scene illuminated by candles
exaggerated chiaroscuro
intensely dramatic and hyper emotional
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Italian baroque art?
preoccupation with virtuosity and technique interest in psychological aspects
exaggerated emotions
a focus on stability, calm, and restrained emotion
reaching out into space
extreme physical size
a focus on stability, calm, and restrained emotion
Which of the following was not one of the ways in which painting in the Dutch Republic differed from painting in Flanders?
It focused on middle class merchant values.
Paintings became material objects to decorate modest homes and sell on the open market.
The works were typically small and focused on ordinary people.
It was used extensively to decorate religious spaces.
The works focused on realistic detail and precision
It was used extensively to decorate religious spaces.
recitative
the conversational moments of an opera
Which of the following is not true about the new style of Italian music emerging in the early 1600s?
It involved freer use of dissonant harmonies.
It involved a return to a classical kind of sound such as existed in earlier medieval music.
It involved the more dynamic, theatrical, and emotional expression of words.
It involved a return to a classical kind of sound such as existed in earlier medieval music.
Which of the following is not true about Cervantes’ Don Quixote?
Don Quixote’s delusional world is actually a more noble and Christian place than the real world.
Prefiguring modern fiction, the characters don’t remain the same, but evolve in their characters and personalities.
As Don Quixote grows saner chapter by chapter, he grows sadder.
Sancho Panza starts out shrewd and pragmatic, but becomes more visionary at the end of the book.
None of the above
None of the above
Florentine Camerata
a group of artists and intellectuals who first came up with the idea of creating stories told entirely through music
Which is not true about art in Italy during the 1600s?
It was fueled by the energies of the Catholic Reformation, which sought to use art to show how the church was re-invigorated.
The style was called “baroque” by a later era that disliked its gaudiness and flamboyance.
It had almost nothing to do with religion.
It maintained prominence, influencing developments all throughout Europe.
It had almost nothing to do with religion.
Which of the following is not true about Corelli’s Trio Sonataop. 3, no. 2?
Each movement expresses a different emotional state.
The third movement is slow and the fourth movement is fast.
The third movement is a gigue in 6/8 meter.
The piece requires four performers.
The third movement is a gigue in 6/8 meter.
Which of the following is not a feature of Maderno’s façade for Santa Susanna?
The decorations “speed up” as they move to the center.
It stresses stability and timelessness with its low-slung horizontal lines and its neoclassical pediments.
It introduced curvaceous volutes.
It emphasized the vertical by creating a narrow rectangle standing on its end.
It steps into space, moving outward as it progresses to the middle.
It stresses stability and timelessness with its low-slung horizontal lines and its neoclassical pediments.
Which of the following is not true about Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea?
It’s about an affectionate relationship between a king and his daughter.
The last section is accompanied by the full orchestra.
The first section is accompanied only by the basso continuo.
The final scene consists of a recitative by court counsels, an instrumental sinfonia, and a love duet.
It’s about an affectionate relationship between a king and his daughter.
Here is a set of features for a specific work of literature: (1) it was a tragedy, (2) it celebrated classical values (the Aristotelian unities of place, time, and action), (3) the characters spoke in an elevated way, and (4) there was a great deal of heavy irony.
Which of the following works do these features apply to?
Moliere’s Tartuffe
Corneille’s Alceste
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Donne’s Canonization
Racine’s Phaedra
Racine’s Phaedra
John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding is important because
it explores what humans can and cannot know.
argues that the human mind at birth is a blank slate (thus with no pre-fixed notions of God or good and evil).
argues that a human mind works empirically: it takes in sensory impressions, stores them, and then sorts them into simple and complex ideas.
argues that, since humans can never know anything for certain, they must sacrifice their liberty to absolute rulers who will provide order for them.
explores what humans can and cannot know.
Which of the following is not a feature of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew?
A gospel scene is set in an everyday, common place.
The focus here is on naturalism and interior psychology.
The work captures a split-second moment when the holy collides with the worldly.
Matthew sits on a dark horse as he is conducted to heaven by angels.
A drama is injected by sharp contrasts of light and dark.
Matthew sits on a dark horse as he is conducted to heaven by angels.
