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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Edmund Spenser
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Johannes Brahms
sitar
Seurat
Johannes Brahms
3. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Mary Shelley
Herman Melville
Monet
Gilbert Stuart
4. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
William Shakespeare
Pythagoras
Pilgrim's Progress
Zeno
5. 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 Art
Persian Rugs
Jonathan Swift
Issac Asimov
6. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Neoplatonism
IM Pei
Francesco Petrarch
french female pose
7. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
oratorio
Hector Berlioz
Libretto
french female pose
8. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Neoplatonism
Chopin
James Boswell
pop art
9. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Degas
Manichaeism
Masaccio
10. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
constantin brancusi
Honore de Balzac
Iambic pattern
obelisk
11. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Richard Sheridan
Socrates
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
alexander calder
12. 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.
Masaccio
Pieta
D.W. Griffith
Gilbert and Sullivan
13. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Serge Diaghilev
Andrea Palladio
Minimalist Music
Socrates
14. 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.
Persian Rugs
Merchant of Venice
Edmund Spenser
Samuel Beckett
15. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
multi-media
Serge Diaghilev
Shudras
Edgar Allen Poe
16. 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.
mannerism
Impressionistic Art came before
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Heraclitus
17. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
Rhymed Verse
Victor Hugo
Handel
18. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Vermeer
tragic figure
Roman Basilica
19. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Meter
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hagia Sophia
Flat
20. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Jonathan Swift
Serialism
Kouroi
Trompe l'oeil
21. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Leo Tolstoy
Frank Lloyd Wright
Plato
Gilbert and Sullivan
22. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Bayeux tapestry
Macbeth
gothic age architecture
Maia/Fauna
23. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Da Vinci
Mathew Brady
Bayeux tapestry
King Lear
24. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Gouche
Andrea Palladio
Delacroix
Hera/Juno
25. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Popular Transcendentalists
cellini
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
26. Slow
Georg W. F. Hegel
andante
Artemis/Diana
Stephen Crane
27. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
William Wordsworth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
louise nevelson
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
28. 20th Century American composer
Mies van der Rohe
Henry Dixon Cowell
Antonio Gaudi
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
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.
constantin brancusi
hagia sophia
Plato
Pallas Athena/Minerva
30. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Ballet
Stephen Crane
Mozart and Richard Strauss
allegro
31. 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
Hellenistic Period
Anapestic Pattern
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
tragic figure
32. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Stoicism
Giotto
Penny Marshall
Merry Wives of Windsor
33. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Picasso
Neo-classic period
constantin brancusi
Andre Previn
34. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Charles Dickens
Niccolo Machiavelli
Soliloquy
Eros/Cupid
35. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Degas
Pythagoras
Modern Period
36. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
James Boswell
Neo-classic period
Barcelona Pavilion
Giotto
37. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
french female pose
Scott Joplin
allegro
Chopin
38. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Lindisfarne Gospel
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lillian Gish
39. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
D.W. Griffith
Mies van der Rohe
Joseph Conrad
Aristotle
40. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
Francois Rabelais
Mary Shelley
Joan Miro
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.
James Joyce
A short syllable
Remington
louise nevelson
42. 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.
Charles Dickens
Heptameter
Bayeux tapestry
Frank Lloyd Wright
43. School of nonsense and anti-art
Dada school
Othello
Ray Bradbury
Issac Asimov
44. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Mary Wollstonecraft
El Greco
sculpture
45. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Jane Austen
Atomism
Eisenstein
46. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
T.S. Eliot
Henry Dixon Cowell
alexander calder
47. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Othello
pop art
pieta
48. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Manhattan Project
Flying buttresses
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe
49. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
gothic age architecture
andante
Pavane and the Polonaise
Post and Lintel
50. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Meter
Lindisfarne Gospel
Jonathan Swift
Pablo Picasso