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Humanities Quiz: Baroque Art: 10 Questions | Art

Test your knowledge of European Baroque art...Good Luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by musettae. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
musettae

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
16,366

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What Dutch artist is known for his quiet paintings of solitary, contemplative figures in interior settings? Hint

Jan Vermeer

Jan Van Eyck

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rogier van der Weyden

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Question 2 of 10

2. What Italian artist popularized the use of chiaroscuro in Baroque art? Hint

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Artemisia Gentileschi

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Ludovico Caracci

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Spanish artist was court painter to Philip IV and the Habsburg family, producing such works as Las Meninas for the royal family? Hint

Diego Velazquez

Francisco Goya

Francisco de Zurbaran

Jusepe de Ribera

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which Dutch artist is known for the numerous and naturalistically rendered self-portraits he painted throughout the course of his life? Hint

Jan Vermeer

Frans Hals

Peter Paul Rubens

Rembrandt van Rijn

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Italian artist designed and built the Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica? Hint

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Raphael

Donatello

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Question 6 of 10

6. What French-born Italian artist often painted tenebrist, candlelight scenes, including several of the Repentant Magdalene? Hint

Oratio Gentileschi

Nicholas Poussin

Georges La Tour

Annibale Carracci

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Question 7 of 10

7. What female artist painted several versions of the apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes, emphasizing the woman's active role in the story? Hint

Judith Leyster

Artemisia Gentileschi

Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun

Clara Peeters

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Question 8 of 10

8. What historical event was a major influence on religious art during and after the Baroque period? Hint

The Great Schism

Thirty Years' War

The French Revolution

The Council of Trent

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Question 9 of 10

9. Of the following artists, which was the only one not to die under the shadow of financial difficulties? Hint

Rembrandt van Rijn

Peter Paul Rubens

Jan Vermeer

Frans Hals

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Question 10 of 10

10. Name the style of art that developed in Europe during the 18th century as a reaction against Baroque art. Hint

Rococo

Neo-Classicism

Impressionism

Gothic

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What Dutch artist is known for his quiet paintings of solitary, contemplative figures in interior settings?

Answer: Jan Vermeer

2. What Italian artist popularized the use of chiaroscuro in Baroque art?

Answer: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio's innovative use of chiaroscuro, or modeling of figures in light and dark to produce a three dimensional effect, lead several other painters, such as LaTour and Artemisia Gentileschi, to use 'caravaggesque' techniques.

3. Which Spanish artist was court painter to Philip IV and the Habsburg family, producing such works as Las Meninas for the royal family?

Answer: Diego Velazquez

Velazquez painted a la prima, or without preparatory drawings. As a result, pentimenti, visible corrections he made to his work on the canvas, are often noticeable in his paintings.

4. Which Dutch artist is known for the numerous and naturalistically rendered self-portraits he painted throughout the course of his life?

Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt's earlier self-portraits tend to emphasize his material wealth and good fortune, while his later self-portraits are more introspective and personal.

5. Which Italian artist designed and built the Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica?

Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The iconography of the Baldacchino was designed to link the current pope, Urban VIII, to the first pope, St. Peter, who received his authority directly from Christ. Linking the two popes served to emphasize the authority of the Catholic church through tradition.

6. What French-born Italian artist often painted tenebrist, candlelight scenes, including several of the Repentant Magdalene?

Answer: Georges La Tour

La Tour often employed tenebrism, or a strong contrast between light and dark used for dramatic effect, in his paintings.

7. What female artist painted several versions of the apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes, emphasizing the woman's active role in the story?

Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi

From the book of Judith, the story is about the town of Bethulia, which is being besieged by the Assyrians, who are led by Holofernes. Judith, a young woman of Bethulia, goes to the enemy camp, succeeds in getting Holofernes drunk, and decapitates him, saving Bethulia.

Instead of depicting Judith as a beautiful but rather meek female (as was the tradition in Italian art), Gentileschi's Judith is strong and capable.

8. What historical event was a major influence on religious art during and after the Baroque period?

Answer: The Council of Trent

The Council of Trent (1545-1563), formed during the Counter Reformation to reestablish the authority of the Catholic Church, also reaffirmed the validity of religious images, within certain guidelines: they had to be accurate, clear, decorous, and a stimulus to piety. These restrictions played a major role in the choice and depiction of religious subjects in subsequent art.

9. Of the following artists, which was the only one not to die under the shadow of financial difficulties?

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens

Hals lived out his last years accepting aid from a charity house, Vermeer left behind eleven children and a large debt when he died, and Rembrandt was forced to auction off all of his belongings in order to pay his debts during the last decade of his life.

10. Name the style of art that developed in Europe during the 18th century as a reaction against Baroque art.

Answer: Rococo

Rococo art is characterized by pastel colors, curving forms, dainty figures, and a light-hearted mood.

Source: Author musettae

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