Exam 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848

Who was the artist most closely associated with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon?

British painters during the Romantic era devoted most of their energies to subjects of urban blight as opposed to nature.

Goya's The Third of May, 1808 was made in response to whose occupation of Spain?

David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St.-Bernard

In which painter's work are the sick and dying human cargo thrown into the sea during a typhoon?

The Altes Museum in Berlin was modeled after:

Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?

Which artist, who used lively, colorful, fluid brushwork, looked to literature for exotic subject matter to excite the imagination?

The philosophy of the Romantic period that saw God and the universe as ultimately identical was:

What incident did Géricault's The Raft of the "Medusa" illustrate? Discuss the work as an example of political commentary.

The Barbizon painters were interested in combining which English painter's direct approach to nature with a student of Dutch seventeenth-century landscapists?

The nineteenth-century Western fascination with the culture of the Muslim world of North Africa and the Near East is known as

Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?

Which leader of the Hudson River School depicted the vastness of the American wilderness?

Romanticism dealt with themes of:

Françoise Rude's The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 ("La Marseillaise") on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris captures the spirit of nationalism.

Eugène Delacroix's Scenes from the Massacre at Chios expresses support for Greek independence as well as the Romantic passion for democracy and individual freedom.

Who made a painting of an exotic harem woman?

Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa was a pictorial commentary on the ancient myth of the Medusa.

Who is best known for his peaceful English countryside scenes, often making oil sketches outdoors?