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CLEP Humanities All In One

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






2. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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3. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






4. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'






5. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital






6. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts






7. 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.






8. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






9. Leucippus and Democritus






10. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






11. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






12. Opaque watercolor






13. 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






14. 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).






15. Pre-Socrates






16. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






17. God of Wine and Theatre






18. Fast






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






20. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






21. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






22. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






23. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






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






25. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






26. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






27. Goddess of Hunting






28. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






29. 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






30. Repititions of geometric lines






31. DNA of the song






32. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier






33. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






34. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






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






36. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






37. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






38. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion






39. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






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






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






42. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy






43. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






44. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






45. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






46. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote






47. French 20th century architect






48. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.






49. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point






50. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to






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