Who is the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London?
100
rooms designed for social gathering
What is a salon
100
inductive reasoning.
Drawing conclusions from direct and careful observation of natural phenomena is known as:
100
sonata da camera
Which of the following consists of a suite of dances?
100
Jan Vermeer
Who painted The Geographer, for which some scholars believe Leeuwenhoek served as the model?
200
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Who designed the colonnade to enclose St. Peter’s Square?
200
Chinese things
What is chinoiserie?
200
Venice
In the seventeenth century, which of the following cities became the center of musical innovation and practice in Europe?
200
Pope Paul V
Which Pope commissioned Carlo Maderno to design a new façade for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome?
200
Frans Hals
Which painter (originally from Haarlem) was particularly successful with group portraits?
300
St Peter
In Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, who is standing beside Christ?
300
architecture
Among the French during the seventeenth century, which of the arts was designed to convey the absolute power of the monarchy?
300
Turkish
From which language did the Dutch derive the term “tulip”?
300
use strong oblique shapes, high contrast, and religious subjects
What are paintings by Caravaggio
300
calculus
Among new forms of mathematics was
400
The Four Seasons
What did Antonio Vivaldi compose?
400
Charles Le Brun
Who served as chief painter to Louis XIV and directed the team of artists who decorated the interior of the Palace at Versailles?
400
Johannes Kepler
Which of the following challenged the traditional belief that the orbits of the planets were spherical, showing that the five known planets moved around the sun in elliptical paths?
400
Italian
So popular was Venice as a source of music that composers from across Europe came to Venice to study. As a result, which of the following languages became the international language of music?
400
light space and natural detail
What is the influence of science on Dutch painting
500
Caravaggio
Rembrandt’s The Supper at Emmaus recalls a similar painting by whom?
500
André Le Nôtre
Who was the landscape architect in charge of the grounds at the Palace at Versailles?
500
Volga
Which of the following rivers is NOT among those specifically mentioned as included in Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain in the Piazza Navona?