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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Spondaic Pattern
Blank Verse
2. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Simone Martini
Niccolo Machiavelli
Giotto
Bronte Sisters
3. Impressionistic Music
Macbeth
Humanism
Impressionistic Art came before
Frank Lloyd Wright
4. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Humanism
Aubrey Beardsley
Simile
Alfred Hitchcock
5. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Giotto
Atomists
Seurat
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
6. 20th Century American composer
tragic figure
Charles Dickens
Henry Dixon Cowell
scrim
7. 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.
alexander calder
soliloquy
Aristotle
Beethoven & Wagner
8. 20th Century American composer
Claude Monet
Aside
Greek Ionic
Henry Dixon Cowell
9. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
T.S. Eliot
Greek Corinthian
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
10. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Charles Dickens
Richard Sheridan
Zeus/Jupiter
Honore de Balzac
11. 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.
Charles Dickens
Mathew Brady
hagia sophia
King Lear
12. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Existentialism
Pablo Picasso
Byzantine Style
Al Jolson
13. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Romanticism Movement
Antonio Gaudi
Mies van der Rohe
14. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Leo Tolstoy
The Pigeon House
Mary Wollstonecraft
Edgar Allen Poe
15. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Claude Debussy
Christopher Marlowe
Andre Previn
Chopin
16. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Donatello
James Joyce
mannerism
Chloris/Flora
17. Painted 'The Bathers'
Aubrey Beardsley
Gilbert and Sullivan
Jean Fragonard
Samuel Beckett
18. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Pablo Picasso
Modern Period
Noh Theatre
Andrea Palladio
19. 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
Le Corbusier
louise nevelson
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Roman Basilica
20. British abstract sculptor
louise nevelson
Seurat
barbara hepworth
Frank Lloyd Wright
21. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Hermes/Mercury
Cynics
Corinthian
22. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Jane Austen
Edmund Spenser
Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arthur Miller
William Faulkner
henry moore
24. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Eisenstein
El Greco
Issac Asimov
25. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Zeus/Jupiter
Aaron Copeland
Herman Melville
Renoir
26. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Francois Rabelais
Macbeth
Mathew Brady
Minimalist Music
27. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Issac Asimov
french female pose
King Lear
Lorraine Hansberry
28. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Stephen Crane
Jonathan Swift
Modern Period
Victor Hugo
29. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Mary Shelley
James Boswell
Kronos/Saturn
Dactylic
30. Science fiction writer
Jane Austen
Issac Asimov
Pearl Buck
Apollo
31. God of War
Ares/Mars
Martin Heidegger
Mary Wollstonecraft
Trochaic pattern
32. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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33. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
bel canto
Johannes Brahms
bust
Geoffrey Chaucer
34. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Free Verse
Mosaic
Aristotle
Issac Asimov
35. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
John Dryden
Aristotle
New Orleans
El Greco
36. Wrote operas
Chopin
Jane Austen
Aubrey Beardsley
Verdi and Puccini
37. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Twelve Tone System
The Pigeon House
Gilbert Stuart
The Iliad
38. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Mannerism
Renoir
Atomism
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
39. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Peter Paul Rubens
Herman Melville
Gilbert and Sullivan
40. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Arnold Schoenberg
Lillian Gish
John Locke
James Boswell
41. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Picasso
gothic age architecture
Honore de Balzac
42. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Artemis/Diana
Anapestic Pattern
Salvador Dali
43. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Mies van der Rohe
Herman Melville
Chartres Cathedral
Impressionistic Art came before
44. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Delacroix
Jean Fragonard
Plato
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Medieval Architecture
The Panthenon
Mannerism
Friedrich Nietzsche
46. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Parmenides
Aaron Copeland
Daniel Defoe
Scott Joplin
47. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
T.S. Eliot
neo-classic period
Macbeth
Francois Rabelais
48. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Charles Dickens
Daniel Defoe
King Lear
William Shakespeare
49. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
El Greco
Leo Tolstoy
Onomatopoeia
Atomists
50. French impressionist painter
Monet
IM Pei
Hamlet
pop art