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1. What term did the French Academy use to classify the idyllic subject matter of paintings such as Jean-Antoine Watteau’s A Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera?
1. (a) rocaille
2. (b) commedia dell’arte
3. (c) fête galante
4. (d) Chinoiserie
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
Answer: 3.(c). See pages 761-765. Watteau’s painting celebrated the tradition of love and eroticism in art, but did not conform to established categories of history or mythological subjects. The French Academy created the term fête galante to classify these scenes of “outdoor entertainments” that became popular in the 18th century.
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
Which artist is known for quiet domestic scenes that proclaimed values of hard work, frugality and honesty and appealed to France’s rising middle class?
1. (a) Boucher
2. (b) Chardin
3. (c) Fragonard
4. (d) Hogarth
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
2. Answer: 2.(b). See pages 769-771. In contrast to artists like Watteau who focused on aristocratic pleasures, Chardin drew inspiration from the tradition of Dutch genre and still life painting. His quiet scenes of bourgeois life commonly reveal an underlying moral. In Soap Bubbles, for example, the bubble’s brevity can refer also to the transience of life itself.
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
3. Rococo architects placed greatest emphasis on what area of private homes (hôtels) in Paris?
1. (a) the terrace
2. (b) the courtyard
3. (c) the facade
4. (d) the interior
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
3. Answer: 4.(d). See pages 772-773. Private hôtels in Paris were often situated in cramped spaces off city streets that did not allow for grand exterior facades. Architects turned their attention instead to the interior layout and décor of interior spaces. Designers collaborated with architects, painters, and sculptors to create elaborate rooms, decorated with expansive mirrors, gilding, paintings and other ornate works of art.
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
4. Canaletto’s _____________ were popular souvenirs among English visitors on the Grand Tour.
1. (a) landscape paintings
2. (b) painted porcelain objects
3. (c) satirical prints
4. (d) copies of ancient sculpture
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
4. Answer: 1.(a). See pages 775-776. Known as vedute (view paintings), Canaletto’s scenes provided lasting images of the Venetian cityscape and culture. For the most part, Canaletto’s works are accurate portrayals, but he sometimes made concessions for the sake of composition, or created composite images by combining multiple views.
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
5. Which element of Tiepolo’s The Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa is distinctively Rococo?
1. (a) the diagonal placement of the figures
2. (b) the gilt-stucco curtain pulled back to reveal the scene
3. (c) the use of a contemporary setting for an historical event
4. (d) all of the above
Davies, et. al., Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Eighth Edition , ©2011, Education
5. Answer: 2.(b.) See pages 781-782. Tiepolo’s paintings bring together Italian Baroque illusionism and the elaborate interiors of the Rococo. Here, in a fresco replacing a window, the combination of illusionistic painting and gilded stucco obscures any distinctions between ornament and architecture.
