Exam 4: The Eighteenth Century

Give an example of a work in which the choice of style, either Rococo or Neoclassical, was determined by the message that the artist, musician, or writer was trying to convey.

__________ composed the famous opera Don Giovanni.

The composer __________ began in the Classical vein and later became known for his Romantic style.

Give an example of a mock epic.

How was the Neoclassical style used to promote the ideals of the French Revolution?

__________ is a style that emerged as artists turned away from the Rococo and back toward ancient classical ideals.

Carolus Linnaeus developed the biological classification system used to identify species that is still in use today.

The French Committee's Reign of Terror had all of these goals, except to __________.

Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington .symbolized the states by __________.

The Chiswick House is an excellent example of the __________ style.

Ludwig van Beethoven's body of music moves one from an era of heavy reliance on the classical to a more romantic mood.

The George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon stands in the contrapposto pose derived from antiquity.

The Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris is an example of architecture in the __________ style.

All of the following were painters of the Rococo except __________.

__________, an artist of the Parisian Rococo is noted for his rapid brushwork, painting an entire work inside of an hour.

The English artist __________ produced picture series that were equivalent to chapters in a novel.An example is Marriage à la Mode that sought to teach by example, and he referred to his narratives as "modern moral subjects."

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication on the Rights of Woman is an anti-revolutionary tract.

Jane Austen's novels are classified as __________.

The __________ style is marked by a shift in court taste from the poussiniste style to a more rubéniste one.

__________ occurred during the Enlightenment.