#29 GREAT MUSEUMS Quiz

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When and where did museums similar to those with which we’re familiar today actually start?

5 pont

twentieth-century New England states

sixth-century China

eighteenth-century Europe

seventeenth-century Russia

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Venus de Milo or Aphrodite, located in the Louvre can be linked to the Hellenistic period of Greek art by all but which of the following? *

5 pont

elongated silhouette

position in space

the archaic smile and front-facing position

sensual, realistic nudity

Da Vinci uses all but which of the following techniques in his painting of the Mona Lisa? *

5 pont

glazes (very diluted, quasi-transparent layers of paint)

playing with light and shade effects by making the contours hazy ("sfumato")

moving from brown to blue, creating an abstract landscape made up of earth and water

flat, Cubist fragmentation of body parts

In the painting, The Wedding Feast at Cana, the symbolic images of the butchers chopping up meat, the hourglass on the musicians' table, and the dog chewing a bone all herald _____. *

5 pont

the birth of Christ

the death of Christ

the four horsemen of the Apocalypse

the end of the world

I.M. Pei relies on abstract form and materials such as stone concrete, glass, and steel. He frequently works on a large scale and is renowned for _____. *

5 pont

his work in white marble

his imitations of Frank Lloyd Wright

his sharp, geometric designs

his use of whimsical surrealistic details

Make the correct match. *

14 pont

the royal art collections

public museum

visitors

half

the glass pyramid

prison

673 panels

Only ______ the collection of the Louvre is on display.

In addition to being a museum, the Louvre has also been a ____________.

The present palace was built to display ____________.

After the French Revolution, it became a __________.

In 1989 I.M. Pei designed ______________ for a new entrance.

Pei's design actually has _____________.

The new entrance was required to handle the growing number of ____________.

the royal art collections

public museum

visitors

half

the glass pyramid

prison

673 panels

Only ______ the collection of the Louvre is on display.

In addition to being a museum, the Louvre has also been a ____________.

The present palace was built to display ____________.

After the French Revolution, it became a __________.

In 1989 I.M. Pei designed ______________ for a new entrance.

Pei's design actually has _____________.

The new entrance was required to handle the growing number of ____________.

The building stone for the Getty Museum is _____. *

5 pont

travertine—the same source as the Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, and the colonnade of Saint Peter's Basilica

quartz—the same source as the Parthenon, the Piazza Navona, and the Mausoleum of Hadrian

iron—the same source as the Farnese Palace, the Arch of Titus, and the Domus Aurea

granite—the same source as the Stadium of Domitian, the Piazza of St. Peter's, and teh Santa Costanza

The Met was founded in 1870 by a group of _____. *

5 pont

American politicians, socialites and professors

American business people, financiers, artists and intellectuals

American teachers, schoolchildren and parents

federal officials, cabinet members and former first ladies

The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired its first object, a Roman sarcophagus, before it even had a building in which to exhibit it. *

5 pont

True

False

Picasso painted large pictures of China's communist leader Chairman Mao. *

5 pont

True

False

Architect Richard Meier prefers to use colorful materials in his buildings. *

5 pont

True

False

African-American artist Kerry James Marshall says that works by people of color were only admitted into museums after they have been colonized and began making art like the Europeans. *

5 pont

True

False

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