Name ____________________
1.
Antoine Watteau painted Gersaint’s Signboard: a) for a French king, b) for an art
dealer, c) both b and c, d) for Louis XIV (as evidenced by his picture in it).
2.
Saying Grace is a fine example of a ____________ style: a) rococo, b) bourgeois,
c) storm and stress, d) all of the above.
3.
Boucher’s figures lack the robust passion that is often found in _____________
painting: a) Watteau’s, b) Rubens’s, c) Poussin’s, d) all of the above.
4.
Watteau’s figures are trimmed down to slender and graceful proportions. This is
in contrast to the paintings of: a) Rubens, b) Poussin, c) Neumann, d) Voltaire’s uncle.
5.
Enlightenment thinkers were by and large _________________ about human
progress: a) optimists, b) pessimists, c) disbelievers, d) both a and c.
6.
In some ways this movement rejected the trust in the rational power of humans: a)
rococo, b) sensibility, c) storm and stress, d) Enlightenment.
7.
Don Giovanni is based on the character of: a) Augustus Caesar, b) Donovan
McNaB, c) Don Juan, d) none of these.
8.
The horns in Marriage a la Mode signify: a) erotic desire for one’s husband, b)
love for the devil, c) infidelity, d) none of these.
9.
Italy is to the __________________ of Germany, and Germany is to the
_____________ of England: a) North, East, b) North, West, c) South, East, d) South,
West.
10.
Taste was defined as “attaining a quick discernment, a sudden perception which,
like the sensations of the palate, anticipates reflection” by: a) David Hume, b) Voltaire,
Washington, d) Leibniz.
11.
The middle class in the 18th century tended to demand more __________ subjects:
a) mythological, b) fantastical, c) down-to-earth, d) heroic.
12.
All were novelists except for: a) Jane Austen, b) none of these.
13.
Chinese landscape paintings tended to show humans ____________________
from nature: a) separable, b) within, c) exploiting, d) making fun of.