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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?
(a) Beastly.
(b) Reality.
(c) Devout.
(d) Fantasy.
2. What is extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?
(a) Patrons do not typically comission paintings of children.
(b) The artist must capture their likeness with little time viewing the subject.
(c) Artists must entertain the subject while completing the painting.
(d) Children are not a symbol of wealth or well-being, and so are rarely commissioned.
3. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?
(a) Art collectors must actively take part in their collections.
(b) Art collectors are the most wealthy of collectors.
(c) An art collector is surrounded by pictures that show him the sights of what he may posses.
(d) An art collector typically has more social standing than collectors of other objects.
4. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Oil paintings.
(b) Heavy tapestries.
(c) Busts of prominent persons.
(d) Nude photos.
5. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
(a) Publicity images.
(b) Black and white photography.
(c) Oil paintings and some photographs.
(d) Abstract mixed media.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
2. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
3. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?
4. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?
5. How is Rembrandt portrayed in his second self-portrait?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?
2. What objects are common subjects for traditional oil paintings, and how are they conventionally depicted?
3. Describe how the wealthy influence the ways of seeing through oil paintings, as explained by Berger et al.
4. Chapter 5 begins with an oil painting showing several items contemporaneous with the Dutch school in 1665. Describe the painting and the objects it depicts.
5. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.
6. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?
7. In Chapter 4, explain what interconnections can be made between the images of death on pages 68 and 69, and the images of food, wine, and the hunt on pages 70 and 71.
8. Describe the mood of the collection of religious iconic images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67.
9. How are pages 72 and 73, which contain images of mythological characters and fanciful human figures, different than the previous images that are displayed in Chapter 4?
10. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".
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