Fundamentals
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Works
History
Potpourri
100
Neoclassical style was developed to be in direct opposition of this style.
What is Rococo?
100
Who painted Soap Bubbles?
Who is Jean Simeon Chardin?
100
This goddess is portrayed protecting the young king of Rome in Romagnesi's plaster sculpture.
Who is Minerva?
100
Louis XVI was this relation to Louis XV.
What is grandson?
100
Delacroix, Vernet, and Chasseriau all admired the story of Mazeppa, as told in one of our short selections by this author.
Who is Lord Byron?
200
This type of color refers to the effect that special lighting, such as moonlight or twilight, has on the color of objects.
What is optical color?
200
This artist revived the contrapposto pose in his work Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome.
Who is Joseph Antoine Romagnesi?
200
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct was painted during this era.
What is Romantic?
200
Neoclassicism evolved in the middle of this century.
What is 18th?
200
The interior of the Pantheon's Dome is said to look like this
What is a peach pit?
300
This process works in the opposite manner from relief printmaking?
What is Intaglio printmaking?
300
He won the Prix de Rome in 1782.
Who is Carle Vernet?
300
Royal Tiger is this type of art, as opposed to a painting.
What is lithograph?
300
This type of art was often critiqued upon whether or not it was "feminine or masculine."
What is Rococo?
300
There are this many children portrayed in Boucher's Shepherd's Idyll.
What is 2?
400
This type of perspective takes into account the ways that fog, smoke, and airborne particles change the appearance of things when viewed from a distance.
What is aerial or atmospheric perspective?
400
This pottery maker imitated classical forms and reestablished the style in England.
Who is Josiah Wedgewood?
400
The character depicted in Watteau's Mezzetin would most likely have appeared in this type of theater?
What is Comedie Italienne?
400
This aspect of already completed art was incredibly significant to how well known a painter would become and how many commissions he would garner.
What is the position of display?
400
The broken eggs in Greuze's painting are a symbol for this.
What is lost virginity?
500
Egg yolks, linseed oil, and wax are all used as this.
What are binders?
500
This artist was a founding member of the institution that replaced the Academy in 1795.
Who is Jacques Louis David?
500
This color was first developed at Vincennes in 1753 and is the primary color adorning the wine cooler.
What is bleu celeste?
500
This town, along with Pompeii, was covered in ash after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
What is Herculaneum?
500
In ancient Egypt, grave markers were painted with a wax-based paint known as this.
What is encaustic?