How Well Can You Answer the Following Ancient Painting History Flashcards

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The painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel includes a _________.
Self-portrait of Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin
Choose the artist, title and time period of the following image:
Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, Realism
Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?
Because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art
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4. Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Medieval
Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night, this technique is called ________.
3. impasto
Napoleon III asked the Baron Haussmann to do what?
2. widen the Paris streets, provide street lights and a sewer system
Neoclassical paintings, such as Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii _________
All of the other answers
Who called himself the Sun King?
Louis XIV
Choose the artist, title and period for the following image:
Monet, Impression: Sunrise, Impressionism
Which of the following terms refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Western Europe, a period when there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?
Baroque
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Modern
Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?
All of the other answers
American artists found their equivalent of European History Painting in _________.
1. the American landscape
Large-scale paintings like Cole's Voyage of Life or Bierstadt's Rocky Mountians suggested the idea of the ______ to 19th century viewers.
The sublime
A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?
Claude Monet