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CHAPTER 19
Neoclassicism:The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Neoclassicism conveyed
a. democratic ideals.
b. broad, enlightened culture.
c. civil virtue.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
2. 1793 is the year that
a. the French Revolution began.
b. the Directory began.
c. Louis XVI was guillotined.
d. Napoleon became First Consul.
e. Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo.
Answer: c
3. Bacchantes are
a. wine gods.
b. priestesses of Dionysos.
c. wine goddesses.
d. priests of Dionysos.
Answer: b
4. Psyche is
a. the lover of Cupid.
b. the Greek word for soul.
c. the goddess of love.
d. both the lover of Cupid and the Greek word for soul.
e. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
5. The artist of the French Revolution was
a. Jacques-Louis David.
b. Angelica Kauffmann.
c. Antoine Watteau.
d. Chardin.
Answer: a
6. Oath of the Horatii
a. is by Ingres.
b. is an event from Roman tradition.
c. is described in Classical texts.
d. is the subject of a tragedy by Racine.
Answer: b
7. Oath of the Horatii was commissioned by
a. Louis XIV.
b. Napoleon.
c. Louis XVI.
d. Marie Antoinette.
Answer: c
8. Plato’s defense of Socrates is
a. the Death of Socrates.
b. The Apology.
c. not recorded.
d. a treatise on political philosophy used by Napoleon.
Answer: b
9. The architectural style of Ancient Greece was resurrected in the late 18th century because
a. it was believed to inspire citizenship.
b. it seemed to encourage heroic sacrifice.
c. its crystalline lines seemed to reject the decadence of the Rococo.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
10. Marat’s assassin was
a. Napoleon’s messenger.
b. Colbert.
c. Richelieu.
d. Corday.
e. never identified.
Answer: d
11. “L’An Deux” refers to
a. 2 B.C.
b. 2 A.D.
c. the second year of the French revolutionary calendar.
d. 1776.
Answer: c
12. In Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass, Napoleon is compared to
a. Charlemagne and Caesar.
b. Hannibal and Scipio.
c. Caesar and Scipio.
d. Hannibal and Charlemagne.
Answer: d
13. Which of the following did NOT work for Napoleon?
a. David
b. Ingres
c. Vigée-Lebrun
d. Benoist
e. Canova
Answer: c
14. 1787 is the year that
a. the U.S. Constitution was signed.
b. George Washington became president.
c. Thomas Jefferson became president.
d. The American Revolution broke out.
Answer: a
15. As depicted in Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Capitol Rotunda has a(n) ________ frieze on the upper part of the walls.
a. Ionic
b. Corinthian
c. Tuscan
d. Federal
e. Doric
Answer: e
16. Jefferson based his design for Monticello on the architecture of
a. Christopher Wren.
b. Michelangelo.
c. Palladio.
d. Borromini.
Answer: c
17. Which LEAST inspired Jefferson’s architectural style?
a. Palladio’s Four Books on Architecture
b. Gothic Revival
c. Chiswick House
d. the Pantheon
e. Neoclassicism
Answer: b
18. Which was NOT designed by Jefferson?
a. the University of Virginia
b. Monticello
c. the U.S. Capitol Building
d. the Richmond Capitol Building
Answer: c
19. Greenough’s George Washington was based on
a. Napoleonic iconography.
b. Pharaonic iconography.
c. Jeffersonian iconography.
d. Phidian iconography.
Answer: d
20. Antonio Canova created which of the following?
a. Nymph and Satyr Carousing
b. Cupid and Psyche
c. both Nymph and Satyr Carousing and Cupid and Psyche
d. both Paolina Borghese as Venus and Cupid and Psyche
Answer: d
Key Works
Clodion (Claude Michel), Nymph and Satyr Carousing, c. 1780–1790
Antonio Canova, Cupid and Psyche, 1787–1793
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784–1785
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass, 1800
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin et al., Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1806–1836
Jacques Gondouin and Lepère, Place Vendôme column, Paris, 1806–1811
Antonio Canova, Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix, 1808
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of a Negress, 1800
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon Enthroned, 1806
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Princesse de Broglie, 1853
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, study for La Princesse de Broglie, 1853
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Thomas Jefferson, 1789
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, 1769–84 (rebuilt 1794–1809)
Thomas Jefferson, State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, 1785–1789
Thomas Jefferson, Rotunda, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1817–1826
John Trumbull, Declaration of Independence, 1818
Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1832–1841
Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Reconstruction of Zeus at Olympia, frontispiece of Le Jupiter Olympien, 1815
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Map of the Napoleonic Empire, 1812
Map of the United States during Jefferson’s presidency, c. 1803
Key Terms
metope
portico
satyr
terracotta
triglyph
