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How does Blake's Ancient of Days blend Romantic and other influences?

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Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rosa Bonheur did not depict ____.


A) social and political themes
B) animals
C) nature
D) everyday scenes

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In Rossetti's Beata Beatrix , the artist incorporated a ____ to commemorate his wife's death.


A) book
B) white dove
C) poppy
D) wedding ring

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Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced ____.


A) Realism
B) Positivism
C) Romanticism
D) Neoclassicism

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Géricault's Raft of the Medusa immortalized ____.


A) a Romantic dream image
B) the aftermath of a French shipwreck
C) the Greek war for independence
D) the Gothic emphasis on terror and the sublime

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Compare and contrast landscape painting in Europe and the United States in the early 19th century. What are the sociopolitical differences in landscape painting? Discuss at least three countries in your essay and use examples to support your argument.

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Landscape painting in Europe and the Uni...

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The ____ were the defenders of academism who insisted that line was superior to color.


A) Rubenistes
B) Romantics
C) Poussinistes
D) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Why were some of the subjects the French Realist artists considered subversive?

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French Realist artists of the 19th centu...

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Although François Rude's sculptures La Marseillaise for the Arc de Triomphe are neoclassical in style, the dramatic motion made it typical of ____.


A) Realism
B) Gothic art
C) the Barbizon School
D) Romanticism

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The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her ____.


A) inappropriate dress
B) exotic trappings
C) defiant look
D) unattractiveness

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Muybridge used a ____ to project his sequence of images onto a screen.


A) calotype
B) daguerrotype
C) camera obscura
D) zoopraxiscope

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Who studied with Eakins before moving to Paris?


A) Whistler
B) Cassatt
C) Tanner
D) Muybridge

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Compare and contrast the works of Eakins and Manet. How does each artist relate to his respective environment? How does each artist reflect the art of the 19th century? Use examples to support your essay.

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Thomas Eakins and Edouard Manet were bot...

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Explain the ways in which the interest in the sentimental, the heroic, and the sublime was expressed in art. Use examples to support your response.

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The interest in the sentimental, the her...

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How does the work of Goya relate to artistic movements of the 18th and 19th centuries? Use examples to support your essay.

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The work of Francisco Goya is closely re...

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The American artist Thomas Eakins may have modeled the The Gross Clinic on ____.


A) Homer's Veteran in a New Field
B) Blake's Ancient of Days
C) Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
D) Rosetti's Beata Beatrix

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What was the drawback to "wet-plate" processing?

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Napoleon converted La Madeleine in Paris from a church into a ____.


A) temple of glory for his armies
B) center of the 19th-century Jesuit revival
C) monument to the success of middle-class bankers
D) monument to the success of French revolutionary leaders

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Napoleon's favorite sculptor was _____.


A) Canova
B) David
C) Rude
D) Lewis

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Timothy O'Sullivan's photography aimed to impress on people ____.


A) the high cost of war
B) the importance of wealth
C) the importance of science
D) Realist concerns

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