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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
Epicureans
cellini
mannerism
Samuel Beckett
2. God of the underworld - and wealth
George Sand
Hades/Pluto
renaissance
Alexander Dumas
3. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
andante
Frank Gehry 1929
Pearl Buck
4. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Pablo Picasso
Brussels tapestries
Monet
Gothic age architecture
5. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Penny Marshall
Delacroix
Degas
Henri Matisse
6. 20th Century American composer
Merchant of Venice
Henry Dixon Cowell
Cimabue
Libretto
7. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Aubrey Beardsley
pieta
Cubism
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
8. British abstract sculptor
Pavane and the Polonaise
french female pose
barbara hepworth
Didactic-ism
9. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Charles Dickens
Edmund Spenser
Hestia/Vesta
Honore de Balzac
10. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Islam
obelisk
Bronte Sisters
Corinthian
11. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Trochaic pattern
neo-classic period
Alexander Dumas
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
12. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Eisenstein
Edmund Spenser
Gilbert and Sullivan
Greek Doric
13. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
French female pose
Demeter/Ceres
louise nevelson
tragic figure
14. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Tyche/Fortuna
Degas
Christopher Wren
michelangelo
15. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Issac Asimov
Eugene O'Neil
Artemis/Diana
16. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Claude Debussy
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Eros/Cupid
New Orleans
17. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Aristotle
Vincent van Gogh
Obelisk
Kshatriyas
18. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pythagoras
presto
James Boswell
19. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Bronte Sisters
Serge Diaghilev
Mary Wollstonecraft
Niccolo Machiavelli
20. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
flying buttress
Tchaikovsky
Stravinsky
21. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
French female pose
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Gainsborough
Classical Period
22. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Usonian
hagia sophia
tempura
23. A capella singers
Chopin
Henry Dixon Cowell
madrigal
bust
24. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
chalice
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Fresco
25. Repititions of geometric lines
Bolero
Salvador Dali
American Indian Rugs
Epic
26. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
tempura
Jean Fragonard
Geoffrey Chaucer
Modern Period
27. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Obelisk
Jane Austen
Aristotle
Heraclitus
28. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Brussels tapestries
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hermes/Mercury
Pavane and the Polonaise
29. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Jonathan Swift
Eisenstein
Martha Graham
Salvador Dali
30. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Socrates
Leo Tolstoy
Modern Period
Jules Verne
31. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Al Jolson
neo-classic period
scrim
Richard Sheridan
32. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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33. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
William Faulkner
alexander calder
Minimalist Music
allegro
34. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Rembrandt
Pavane and the Polonaise
Georg W. F. Hegel
Mies van der Rohe
35. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Christopher Marlowe
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Stephen Crane
Theme
36. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Jane Austen
Chloris/Flora
sitar
Issac Asimov
37. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
James Boswell
Mathew Brady
minuetto
Charles Dickens
38. 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.
renaissance
Persian Rugs
Handel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Richard Sheridan
Lillian Gish
Penny Marshall
Mannerism
40. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Seurat
Thomas Edison
John Roebling
41. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Serge Diaghilev
Georgia O'Keeffe
William Shakespeare
sculpture
42. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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43. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Lao Tzu
pieta
sculpture
Giotto
44. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Johannes Brahms
cellini
scrim
American Indian Rugs
45. 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
Edmund Spenser
Beethoven & Wagner
Federico Fellini
Neoplatonism
46. Georges Pierre Seurat
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
mannerism
Imagery
47. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
Alliteration
Andrea Palladio
Celtic Art
48. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Charles Dickens
obelisk
Chopin
Aside
49. Russian composer
Hamlet
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Lillian Gish
Thomas Edison
50. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Pyrrhic Pattern
Charles Dickens
The Parthenon
Dante Aligheri
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