Question 1: In the ________ period realism largely ceased to be a priority for artists, and the recovery of the realist tradition is a constant strand in the history of Western medieval art.
Question 2: In the late 16th century, the prevailing mode in European art was ________, an artificial art of elongated figures in graceful but unlikely poses.
Question 3: In the Early Renaissance, the development of a system of linear perspective in Italy, and the inclusion of naturalistic detail in ________ both contributed to the advance of realism in Western painting in different ways.
Question 5: The ________ made particular progress in developing realistic depictions of both the human figure and its surroundings, in sculpture and painting.
Question 6: A fondness for humble subjects and homely details characterizes much of Dutch art, and ________ is an outstanding realist in the naturalist sense with his renunciation of the ideal and his embrace of the life around him.
Question 7: All emphasized the depiction of everyday subjects, but by no means always discarding ________, Romantic or sentimental approaches to their treatment.
Question 8: In England the ________ rejected what they saw as the formulaic idealism of the followers of Raphael, which led some of them to an art of intense illusionistic, and sometimes naturalistic, realism.
Question 9: Caravaggio emerged to change the direction of art by depicting religious figures as the Italian poor in their natural surroundings, though composed with ________ energy.