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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






2. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which






3. 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.






4. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






5. 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






6. Rebirth






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






8. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.






9. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?






10. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms






11. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






12. 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






13. School of nonsense and anti-art






14. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






15. God of Wildlife






16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






17. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.






18. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






19. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during






20. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.






21. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere






22. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






23. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






24. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






25. A capella singers






26. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






27. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






28. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd






29. Impressionistic Music






30. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






31. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.






32. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






33. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






34. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






35. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






36. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






37. Painted 'The Bathers'






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






39. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






40. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






41. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






42. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






43. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.






44. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






45. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






46. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






47. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy






48. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






49. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






50. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'