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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Berger et al. describe Rembrandt's first self-portrait?

2. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?

3. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?

4. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?

5. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?

2. What is demonstrated about the visual arts in comparing the photograph of "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

3. Describe the mood of the collection of religious iconic images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67.

4. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

5. Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.

6. 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".

7. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?

8. How does Courbet's two paintings, reproduced in Chapter 6 on facing pages 124 and 125, titled "Girl in White Stockings" and "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine" illustrate two distinct styles of his work?

9. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay to describe the word "glamour" according to Berger et al. What is glamour? How does glamour fuel the consumer society? What is considered glamorous and how does this shape culture? How is glamour the modern day substitute for the qualities presented in European oil paintings?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay to compare the techniques of traditional oil painting and early photographic techniques. In your writing, cover the following questions. Which techniques are better at exposing details in the subject? Which technique gives more life to a subject? What affect does early photography have on oil painting? Give an example from the text that compares an oil painting to early photography, and describe the obvious differences that appear to the viewer.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the development of the singular eye of perspective with the following three-part essay.

Part 1 - Explain Berger et al.'s metaphor of the lighthouse beacon.

Part 2 - Describe how the singular eye of perspective shapes the way viewers can see a sight.

Part 3 - Explain how the invention of the camera changed the singular eye of perspective, and describe its consequences on the art world.

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