Cultures of Europe 1 – Quiz: What have we learnt?

1. Fill in the gaps with the given words.

14th, 15th and 16th centuries	Modernism
decoration 			Romanticism
Gothic				Classicism
Middle Ages			“Image”
Romanesque			Renaissance
Art Nouveau			Impressionism Cubism

1. In __________ the modes of representation come to the foreground: the particular way of seeing was emphasized by the various arts.
2. The artistic style appearing in the late seventeenth century and becoming dominant in the second half of the eighteenth century is called __________. This style sought simple, clear structures, symmetry and well-arranged divisions, applied weighty and stable forms, modest ornamentation.
3. “__________ is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.” Jacques Lipchitz
4. The term __________ is used to describe a like a style of architecture which was common in Europe between the 12th and the 16th centuries, and which has pointed arches and windows, high, vaulted ceilings and tall, thin columns.
5. __________ is a style of art and decoration dominant at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries that applies curling lines and plant and flower shapes.
6. __________ refers to a style of art, music and literature that was common in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which emphasizes openness towards the beauty of nature and concentrates on human emotions.
7. Baroque refers to the style of art, building, and music that took shape in European art in the 16th century and became the dominant style in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Applies dense__________.
8. The term __________ describes a style of architecture popular in Western Europe from the 10th to the 12th centuries and is characterized by round arches, thick walls, tall pillars, small openings.
9. The style in painting which began in France in the 1860s and applied patches of colour in presenting artistic surfaces was called __________. Among its most well-known representatives were Claude Monet and Éduard Manet.
10. Renaissance is the name of the period in Europe during the __________ when people became interested in the ideas and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and applied the insight into these in their own art.
11. According to Ezra Pound, an __________ “is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

12. The __________ lasted from the 4th to the 15th centuries.

2. Give the names of the styles you think appropriate for the given works of art.

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The Staircase Dome of Home House, London 

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Diego Velázquez, Philip IV on Horseback 

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Ják Abbey, Hungary (Ják)

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Pablo Picasso, The girls of Avignon

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Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People

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Interior of Matthias Church, Budapest

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, David

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Ödön Lechner, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

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Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise

3. Match the corresponding parts.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	

1. Zeus was the head of the family of the Olympian gods 

2. Ares is the god of war. He appears 

3. Dionysus is the god of fertility and wine, 

4. Athena is the Greek virgin goddess of reason, 

5. Hephaestus is said to have been born 

6. The English word “Bible” refers to the Scriptures of the Christian church, 

7. The Christian Bible, or The Holy Bible is made up 

8. The opening chapter of the Bible begins with these words,
 
9. The Divine Comedy is the title designating an epic poem
 
10. The most conspicuous French dramatists of the 18th century are considered to be

a. as the lover of Aphrodite. 

b. Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Moliére.

c. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

d. but it may also denote the canon of the Jewish scriptures.

e. who were called the Olympians, named after their dwelling-place, Mount Olympus.

f. later considered a patron of the arts. He invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes.

g. of the “Old Testament” and the “New Testament”. The Hebrew Bible includes only the books known to Christians as the “Old Testament”.

h. intellect, arts and literature. Athena is the daughter of Zeus. She sprang full grown in armour from his forehead, thus has no mother.

i. by Hera alone, in revenge for the birth of Athena. He is lame.

j. written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321.