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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Mozart and Richard Strauss
John Dryden
Zeno
2. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Plato
Minimalist Music
Eugene O'Neil
Arthur Miller
3. Repititions of geometric lines
gouche
Chartres Cathedral
American Indian Rugs
pop art
4. Leucippus and Democritus
Da Vinci
Manhattan Project
Baroque art
Atomists
5. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
E.E. Cummings
Christopher Wren
Picasso
Mark Twain
6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
High Renaissance Painters
pop art
Friedrich Nietzsche
7. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Atomism
Atomists
Lillian Gish
louise nevelson
8. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francois Rabelais
IM Pei
Gilbert Stuart
9. Wrote Rivals
Edvard Greig
Richard Sheridan
Paleolithic
Monometer
10. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Mary Shelley
Aubrey Beardsley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Aubrey Beardsley
Jules Verne
Jonathan Swift
Artemis/Diana
12. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
American Indian Rugs
Apollo
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
chalice
13. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Leo Tolstoy
Persian Rugs
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Aubrey Beardsley
14. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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15. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Delacroix
Francesco Petrarch
flat
16. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Herman Melville
Transcendentalism
Eisenstein
17. Painted 'The Bathers'
Scott Joplin
Hera/Juno
King Lear
Jean Fragonard
18. Opaque watercolor
gouche
Simone De Beauvoir
Bolero
Dada school
19. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Honore de Balzac
Merchant of Venice
Hector Berlioz
20. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Lindisfarne Gospel
Heraclitus
french female pose
Geoffrey Chaucer
21. Composer - conductor and pianist
allegro
Baroque Period
Andre Previn
Celtic Art
22. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Stravinsky
Mathew Brady
Impressionism
Blank Verse
23. 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
Foot
Salvador Dali
Gilbert Stuart
24. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Henry Dixon Cowell
Honore de Balzac
Jules Verne
25. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Alexander Dumas
Herman Melville
Allegory
Mannerism
26. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Ballet
Brunelleschi
Satire
Soliloquy
27. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
tempura
Lindisfarne Gospel
Arthur Miller
Paleolithic
28. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Le Corbusier
Handel
29. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Socrates
Rhymed Verse
James Joyce
Peter Paul Rubens
30. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Aside
Josiah Wedgewood
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Brahmans
31. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
sculpture
Andrea Palladio
henry moore
Alliteration
32. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Mary Wollstonecraft
Christopher Wren
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Cervantes
33. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Trimeter
Reliquary
Remington
pieta
34. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Flying buttresses
Jonathan Swift
American Indian Rugs
Georgia O'Keeffe
35. 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
Hades/Pluto
Persian Rugs
multi-media
Roman Basilica
36. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Chopin
Da Vinci
Classical Period
Arthur Miller
37. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
soliloquy
Bayeux tapestry
multi-media
fresco
38. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Greek Corinthian
Personification
Jules Verne
Atomism
39. God of War
Free Verse
Ares/Mars
Symbolism
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
40. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Ares/Mars
Blank Verse
Hades/Pluto
Honore de Balzac
41. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Mathew Brady
French female pose
Parmenides
Hector Berlioz
42. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Vincent van Gogh
New Orleans
Pavane and the Polonaise
43. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Leo Tolstoy
Edmund Spenser
Daniel Defoe
Eisenstein
44. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Giotto
Andrew Wyeth
Pythagoras
Edmund Spenser
45. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
sculpture
George Sand
Andrea Palladio
Beethoven & Wagner
46. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Lillian Gish
Niccolo Machiavelli
Aristotle
47. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Mathew Brady
Andrea Palladio
andante
48. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Henry Dixon Cowell
Leonardo da Vinci
James Boswell
Art Deco Movement
49. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Degas
Lillian Gish
renaissance
Tempura
50. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Ray Bradbury
Leo Tolstoy
Aaron Copeland
Chopin