Question 1

In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?

Accepted Answer

Canaletto's painting "The Bucintoro at t

Question 3

To admit Watteau as a member, the French Academy created the new classification of painting called

Accepted Answer

A)  fêtes galantes 
B)  vedute 
C)  femme savant 
D)  bénédicité 
A)  fêtes galantes 
B)  vedute 
C)  femme savant 
D)  bénédicité

Question 4

Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?

Accepted Answer

A)  Boucher 
B)  Hogarth 
C)  Neumann 
D)  Reynolds 
A)  Boucher 
B)  Hogarth 
C)  Neumann 
D)  Reynolds

Question 5

Compare and contrast Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Saying Grace. How do subject matter and style differ in these two works?

Accepted Answer

Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Sayi

Question 6

Who made his mark with a new kind of genre painting that he described as "modern moral subjects…similar to representations on the stage"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hogarth 
B)  Boucher 
C)  Fragonard 
D)  Chardin 
A)  Hogarth 
B)  Boucher 
C)  Fragonard 
D)  Chardin

Question 7

Chardin's Saying Grace:

Accepted Answer

A)  Appealed to members of the rising bourgeoisie 
B)  Was commissioned by Louis XIV 
C)  Served as a domestic altarpiece 
D)  Is the only painting like this that the artist produced 
A)  Appealed to members of the rising bourgeoisie 
B)  Was commissioned by Louis XIV 
C)  Served as a domestic altarpiece 
D)  Is the only painting like this that the artist produced

Question 8

The term Rococo was taken from the French word rocaille meaning:

Accepted Answer

A)  rough 
B)  pebble 
C)  frivolous 
D)  pastel-colored 
A)  rough 
B)  pebble 
C)  frivolous 
D)  pastel-colored

In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.

What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?

To admit Watteau as a member, the French Academy created the new classification of painting called

Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?

Compare and contrast Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Saying Grace. How do subject matter and style differ in these two works?

Who made his mark with a new kind of genre painting that he described as "modern moral subjects…similar to representations on the stage"?

Chardin's Saying Grace:

The term Rococo was taken from the French word rocaille meaning:

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Exam 22: The Rococo

In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.

What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?

To admit Watteau as a member, the French Academy created the new classification of painting called

Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?

Compare and contrast Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Saying Grace. How do subject matter and style differ in these two works?

Who made his mark with a new kind of genre painting that he described as "modern moral subjects…similar to representations on the stage"?

Chardin's Saying Grace:

The term Rococo was taken from the French word rocaille meaning:

Prehistoric Art

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Egyptian Art

Aegean Art

Greek Art

Etruscan Art

Roman Art

Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art

Islamic Art

Early Medieval Art

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy

Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe

The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy

The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520

The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Renaissance and Reformation Throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe

The Baroque in Italy and Spain

The Baroque in the Netherlands

The Baroque in France and England

Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789

Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848

The Age of Positivism

Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905

Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914

Art Between the Wars

Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980

The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980

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