| What is the significance of drawing in relation to art history? | Art history has proven that drawing is the most fundamental activity of the artist. |
| What was or is naturalism? | The creation of convincing realism through methodical observation. |
| In what country did the renaissance mainly occur? | Italy. |
| What was the legacy of the Renaissance period? | Naturalism. |
| What style was the most powerful influence on drawing? Why? | It was the High Renaissance because it was the first to use Naturalism. |
| Who was the first relevant artist to paint on canvas rather than wood panels? | Titian. |
| What is a fresco painting? | A painting on a wall or ceiling into moist plaster. |
| Who was the father of printmaking? | Albrecht Durer. |
| Explain Albrecht Durer's two types of printmaking techniques. | Woodcuts, and Copper engraving. |
| What is foreshortening? | Making an appendage, like an arm, come directly out toward the viewer. |
| What was the main subject of Hieronymous Bosch's paintings? | Good and Evil, though with some traces of humor. |
| Who greatly influenced Pieter Bruegel's artistic style? | Bosch. |
| What were the main topics of Brugel's artwork? | The moral defects of man. |
| How did the Mannerist style of art come about? | The mannerist style was reactions to the beliefs and styles of the high renaissance. |
| How did the Mannerist artists display the human figure? | They twisted and stretched it to unnatural heights. |
| What did the word Baroque originally mean? | Gross, a insult |
| What countries became the most powerful during the Baroque Period? | England, Holland, France, Spain. |
| What was the artist's main contribution to science? | Observation skills. |
| Were artists of the Baroque Period universal men like DaVinci? Why or why not? | No, science became to complex. |
| How did Caravaggio use light? | Caravagio spotlit his subjects, and made his backround very dark. |
| What were Bernini's three influences (He studied this things when he and his family moved to Rome)? | Greek Sculpture, Raphael, and Michaelangelo. |
| Which artist created several major foundations in Rome? | Bernini. |
| What did Bernini's artwok often convey in terms of emotions? | Extreme excitement, and violent realism. |
| What High Renaissance artist influence Peter Paul Rubens the most? | Michaelanglo. |
| Who was noted to be the greatest self-portrait painter? | Rembrant |
| What was invented light? Which Baroque artist was known to use this? | Invented light means that he used figures and faces often showing light from within that glows outward, rembrant showed this. |
| What is a genre artwork? Give an example of an artist that painted genre subjects. | Genre artwork is making everyday common objects, through the painting process, seem special and unique. Jan Vermeer is an artist who did this. |
| What is chiaroscuro? | To put light on one side of a subject, then quickly describing shadows on the opposite side. |
| What country in Europe became the most powerful and richest during the Rococo Period? | France |
| The Rococo Period's beginning was termed what? | The age of Versialle. |
| What city replaced Rome as the capital of art in Europe during the Rococo Period? | Paris |
| What was the official task of the arts in France at the time? | To glorify the king. |
| How did the aristocracy spend their time during the Rococo Period? | Persuing pleasure, going on holidays, and playing. |
| What was Rococo art in terms of sytyle and subject matter? | Aristocratic with love of elegance, style, and subject matter. |
| What is aerail perspective? | Also known as atmostpheric perspective, it is making a background look far away by using less detail, paste colors, and lighter values or tones. |
| Who was England's greatest portrait painter? | Thomas Gainsborough |
| What signaled the end of the Renaissance-Baroque era? | When religion and kingship ceased to command that allegiance of western peoples. |
| What occured in America and France to bring about the age of Romanticism? | An emotional reaction to the established order (religion and polotics) |
| As Romanticism grew, what did the artists worship of express in their art? | Wild, strange, marvelous, melancholy, space, time, classic greece, middle age, american forest. |
| What did they revive or resurrect in their art? | Early styles revived. |
| Who painted propaganda artworks at the beginning of the Romantic Period? | Jacques Louis David |
| Who was the first neo-classicist artisit that we studied? | David |
| As freedom swept over France during the 19th century, on what did David base his artwork? | Greek and Roman art. |
| Considering Gericault broke away from classism, on what was his artwork based? | Emotionalism and Melodrama |
| In what did Gericault feel nature's truth could be found? | In battle frenzy, suffering, insanity, and the instant of death. |
