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Which term can best be defined as a philosophical movement that rejected traditional authority in favor of rational and scientific inquiry into all aspects of human life?

Which of the following was an unusual aspect of Francisco de Goya’s The Third of May at the time Goya painted it?

What makes Rachel Ruysch’s Flowers in a Glass Vase an idealized impossibility?

Identify each of the paintings and compare why each painting was shocking to critics and the public of its own day in 5-8 college-level sentences. Analyze ways in which each artist represents new “modern styles” in contrast to the conventional European Academy art of the time.

Which term is defined as a style of Baroque architecture, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration, of Spain and its Latin American colonies?

What was the main means by which Francisco de Goya earned his living?

How was the female figure in this painting categorized in order to make her nudity acceptable to the European audience of the artist’s own era?

How does Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath achieve emotional resonance in a personal way?

 Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe was based on what Italian Renaissance painting?

Which of the following categories of painting was ranked highest in the hierarchy of genres promoted by the French Academy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?