History of art revision

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  1. 4. Which word is used to describe the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition?
  2. 10. What is the name of the official exhibitions set up by the French artistic academies?
  3. 12. What animal is usually used in paintings as a symbolic representation of marital fidelity?
  4. 13. In what career did Borromini first train, prior to becoming an architect?
  5. 15. A flat and planar support which separates a sculpture from the environment.
  6. 16. Which artist was enrolled at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on 31 May 1783?
  7. 18. Which building is the largest Ottoman-era mosque in Istanbul?
  8. 19. Who bought Cabanel’s ‘Birth of Venus’?
  9. 22. Which artist’s parents owned a gallery that dealt primarily in antique tapestries?
  10. 24. Which English art critic described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature".?
  11. 26. Name the American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
  12. 27. What was the name of the first sculpture Bernini produced entirely independently?
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  1. 1. Who was the architect of Süleymaniye Mosque?
  2. 2. Which artist is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector?
  3. 3. An architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.
  4. 5. In Catholic mass, the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ.
  5. 6. Marc Quinn was a notable member of which artistic movement?
  6. 7. What was Marc Chagall’s birth name?
  7. 8. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was a key patron to which sculptor?
  8. 9. What does the ‘J. M. W.’ in J. M. W. Turner stand for?
  9. 11. What style of painting is Gauguin’s ‘Vision after the Sermon’?
  10. 14. Which artist painted a double portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino in the 1530s?
  11. 17. Who designed the Albert Memorial?
  12. 20. A paint made of pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk.
  13. 21. In which country was Frida Kahlo born?
  14. 23. Which architect is also known as the ‘Queen of Curves’?
  15. 25. Who painted 'Glass tazza with peaches, Jasmine flowers, quinces and a grasshopper'?