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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Joseph Conrad
Roman Basilica
gothic age architecture
Pilgrim's Progress
2. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Flying buttresses
sitar
William Shakespeare
3. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Thomas Edison
William Blake
Jules Verne
scrim
4. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Scrim
Islam
Honore de Balzac
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Pavane and the Polonaise
Pavane and the Polonaise
Popular Transcendentalists
6. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Al Jolson
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Martha Graham
Donatello
7. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
Neo-classic period
Renaissance Art
neo-classic period
8. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
El Greco
Penny Marshall
Usonian
9. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Atomists
Byzantine Style
Cerros
Claude Monet
10. French impressionist painter
Langston Hughes
Monet
Greek Corinthian
Abstraction
11. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lillian Gish
Mary McCarthy
Lorraine Hansberry
12. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Stephen Crane
Neo-classic period
Bolero
Jane Austen
13. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Cubism
Christopher Wren
The Parthenon
gothic age architecture
14. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Aside
Reliquary
Merry Wives of Windsor
Frank Lloyd Wright
15. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Whole Tone Scale
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Martha Graham
New Orleans
16. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Aaron Copeland
Daniel Defoe
Eugene Delacroix
Cervantes
17. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Joan Miro
Rembrandt
Langston Hughes
Degas
18. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
neo-classic period
Alexander Dumas
Manichaeism
bust
19. The text of the opera
Libretto
El Greco
Mary Shelley
Pearl Buck
20. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
Henry Dixon Cowell
sitar
El Greco
neo-classic period
21. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Allegory
Honore de Balzac
soliloquy
Spondaic Pattern
22. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
dada school
mosaics
Jules Verne
23. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Lorraine Hansberry
Arthur Miller
Honore de Balzac
Andre Previn
24. Repititions of geometric lines
Penny Marshall
tragic figure
American Indian Rugs
Da Vinci
25. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Giotto
James Boswell
Arthur Miller
26. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Lorraine Hansberry
Daniel Defoe
Salvador Dali
Epic
27. A dance
Herman Melville
T.S. Eliot
minuetto
Salvador Dali
28. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Lao Tzu
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
sculpture
29. French 20th century architect
Whole Tone Scale
Le Corbusier
louise nevelson
Martha Graham
30. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Parmenides
Neolithic
Jackson Pollock
Ares/Mars
31. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Noh Theatre
oratorio
pieta
ballet
32. God of the sea
John Roebling
Tragic figure
Poseidon/Neptune
Da Vinci
33. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Picasso
French Romantic painter
Aaron Copeland
Geoffrey Chaucer
34. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Verdi and Puccini
Remington
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Aristotle
35. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
tempura
Mary Wollstonecraft
Christopher Wren
36. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Eugene Delacroix
tempura
henry moore
Mary Shelley
37. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
minuetto
Classical Period
Peter Paul Rubens
William Blake
38. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Libretto
Edmund Spenser
Transcendentalism
Chopin
39. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jane Austen
Artemis/Diana
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scott Joplin
40. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Aristotle
High Renaissance
Edvard Greig
Mosaic
41. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Chopin
Minimalist Music
Ballet
42. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Alice Walker
James Boswell
Socrates
43. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Victor Hugo
Joan Miro
Pythagoras
Imagery
44. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Dionysus/Bacchus
Zeus/Jupiter
Corinthian
Handel
45. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Alfred Hitchcock
King Lear
Mary McCarthy
Tyche/Fortuna
46. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Honore de Balzac
Macbeth
Martha Graham
Pyrrhic Pattern
47. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
michelangelo
Stephen Crane
New Orleans
Mary McCarthy
48. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Dante Aligheri
french female pose
Lionel Hampton
Immanuel Kant
49. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Imagery
Roman Basilica
Flat
multi-media
50. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Penny Marshall
IM Pei
Art Deco Movement