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CHAPTER 20
Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Romantic artists
a. were interested in the wild and ghostly.
b. yearned for the past or a golden future.
c. loved wild landscapes.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
2. 1830 is the date of
a. the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
b. the July Revolution in France.
c. the attack on Fort Sumter.
d. the Spanish-American War.
Answer: b
3. Which is NOT a tenet of Romanticism?
a. nostalgia
b. exoticism
c. chivalric tales
d. the sublime
e. social realism
Answer: e
4. The Houses of Parliament are an example of
a. Classical revival architecture.
b. Palladian architecture.
c. Gothic revival architecture.
d. Islamic revival architecture.
Answer: c
5. “La Marseillaise” is
a. a French city.
b. a French building.
c. the French anthem.
d. a French epic.
Answer: c
6. François Rude’s sculpture La Marseillaise represents
a. a parade in Paris.
b. Liberty leading France to protect the motherland.
c. the French Revolution led by Louis XVI.
d. the battle of the Centaurs.
Answer: b
7. The Brighton Pavilion is an example of
a. Gothic revival.
b. Islamic Gothic.
c. Classical revival.
d. Indian Gothic.
Answer: d
8. Gouache is a kind of
a. etching.
b. paint.
c. woodcut.
d. pigment.
Answer: b
9. Which best describes the work of William Blake?
a. Classical
b. Gothic
c. down-to-earth
d. military
e. visionary
Answer: e
10. Géricault’s paintings reflect his interest in
a. combating social injustice.
b. horsemanship.
c. psychology.
d. both psychology and combating social injustice.
e. All these answers are correct.
Answer: e
11. In the Raft of the “Medusa,” “Medusa” refers to
a. a jellyfish.
b. a life raft.
c. a ship.
d. a hospital.
e. a painting by Caravaggio.
Answer: c
12. Géricault’s Raft of the “Medusa” was based on
a. a Romantic concoction under the influence of opium.
b. an event taken from the newspapers of the day.
c. a scene from the French Revolution.
d. a mythological scene.
Answer: b
13. The Salon refers to
a. an official art exhibition.
b. a room in a château.
c. a room in a private Paris apartment.
d. an art gallery.
Answer: a
14. ________ marked the high point in Romantic influence on politics.
a. The publishing of Lyrics of Ballads
b. The “return to nature” movement
c. Charles X ascending to the French throne
d. The July Revolution
e. The Sturm und Drang movement
Answer: d
15. The war depicted in Massacre at Chios was between
a. America and England.
b. France and Italy.
c. Greece and Turkey.
d. Greece and Italy.
Answer: c
16. Massacre at Chios is sympathetic to
a. Greece.
b. Turkey.
c. Italy.
d. France.
e. England.
Answer: a
17. In Liberty Leading the People, the figure of Liberty is an example of
a. irony.
b. allegory.
c. satire.
d. metonymy.
e. realism.
Answer: b
18. Aquatint combines
a. watercolor and drawing.
b. engraving and oil.
c. watercolor and silverpoint.
d. watercolor and engraving.
Answer: d
19. Which is NOT a theme in Goya’s painting?
a. social injustice
b. child psychology
c. irrational thinking
d. frivolity
Answer: d
20. Chronos was
a. a bad Spanish father.
b. the father of the Olympians.
c. the father of Goya.
d. the father of Hermes.
Answer: b
21. Which is NOT a correct match?
a. Burke – the sublime
b. Goethe – Sturm und Drang
c. Freud – “The Uncanny”
d. Rousseau – Les Misérables
Answer: d
22. Constable’s painting of Salisbury Cathedral is an example of
a. Gothic revival.
b. Realism.
c. Romanticism.
d. watercolor.
Answer: c
23. Towards the end of his career, Turner painted
a. carefully delineated scenes of upper class virtue.
b. realistic landscapes.
c. broadly imagined, expressionistically colored landscapes.
d. photographic-quality portraits.
Answer: c
24. Which is NOT an American Romantic writer?
a. Coleridge
b. Thoreau
c. Emerson
d. Cooper
e. Poe
Answer: a
25. ________ was a literary movement that exalted individualism and nature as a reaction against French Classical taste.
a. Walden Pond
b. Gouache
c. Storm and Stress
d. Gothic Revival
e. Alhambra
Answer: c
26. Which of the following is a correct match?
a. Coleridge – “The Solitary Reaper”
b. Shelley – “Kubla Khan”
c. Byron – “Don Juan”
d. Keats – “Ozymandias”
Answer: c
Key Works
Sir Charles Barry and Augustus W. N. Pugin, Houses of Parliament, London, 1836–1870
Richard Upjohn, Trinity Church, New York, 1841–1852
John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England, 1815–1818
François Rude, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (La Marseillaise), 1833–1836
William Blake, God Creating the Universe (Ancient of Days), frontispiece of Europe:
A Prophecy, 1794
Théodore Géricault, Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard, 1812
Théodore Géricault, Madwoman with a Mania of Envy, 1822–1823
Théodore Géricault, Raft of the “Medusa”, 1819
Théodore Géricault, study for the “Father,” Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts
Eugène Delacroix, Massacre at Chios, 1822–1824
Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827–1828
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Eugène Delacroix, Women of Algiers, 1834
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Los Caprichos, plate 3, published 1799
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Witches’ Sabbath, 1798–1799
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Family of Charles IV, 1800
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Executions of the Third of May, 1808, 1814
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Chronos Devouring One of His Children, c. 1820–1822
Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 1819
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden, 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting “Téméraire” tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838
Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836
George Caleb Bingham, Squatters, 1850
Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise, Yosemite Valley, c. 1870
George Catlin, The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas, 1844–1845
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1834
Key Terms
aquatint
binder, binding medium
gouache
ground
luminism
monolith
rosin
wash
watercolor
