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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






2. God of Wine and Theatre






3. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






4. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






5. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






6. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






7. Goddess of Fortune






8. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






9. Short-Short-Long






10. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






12. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






13. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific






14. Death of a Salesman






15. 20th Century American composer






16. 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






17. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






18. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






19. Three-foot line






20. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






22. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






23. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






24. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






25. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.






26. Painted 'The Bathers'






27. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






28. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






29. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.






30. Eight-foot line






31. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme






32. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks






33. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr






34. Beautiful Italian singing






35. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors






36. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.






37. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






38. French impressionist painter






39. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






40. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.






41. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






42. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






43. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century






44. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






45. School of nonsense and anti-art






46. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






47. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women






48. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






49. God of Marriage






50. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure