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1.     What tools did cave dwelling humans use to express themselves artistically?
     stone and bones
2.     During the Gallo-Roman period, what was the name Romans gave to the province that is presently known as France?
     "Gaul"
3.     Which artistic period was greatly effected by religion?
     the Middle Ages
4.     The cathedral of ________ ________ is an early example of Gothic architecture in Paris and features the ______, or pointed arch.
     Notre Dame, ogive
5.     What were prayer books that contained paintings and decorations called during the Middle Ages?
     illuminated manuscripts
6.     During the Renaissance movement known as ______________, artists were mainly concerned with man and his human achievements.
     Humanism
7.     Who did French King Francis I commission to embellish his chateau at Fontainebleau?
     Leonardo da Vinci
8.     Only members of which two estates, or "classes," of French society were allowed to enter Louis XIV's new chateau at Versailles in the 17th century?
     nobility and clergy
9.     The ________ style, during the early 18th century, displayed a taste for pastel colors and less heavy decoration.
     Rococo
10.     The ________ ___________ made French society and art accessible to members of the lower class.
     The French Revolution
11.     What artistic style used intense, glowing colors, strong contrasts of light & shadow and fantastic, mythical subject matter?
     Romanticism
12.     What movement developed from the Romantics and focused on the simplicity of everyday life?
     Realism
13.     Impressionism was based on ________ colors and ______, ______ brush strokes.
     bright, light, short
14.     What sculptor, famous for the Thinker and the Gates of Hell, reflected light off of bronze and marble in his statues?
     August Rodin
15.     What movement, headed by Picasso and Braque, showed several surfaces at once so that a woman could be seen from the front and the side at the same time?
     Cubism
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