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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






2. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles






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






4. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






5. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater






6. Long-Long






7. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r






8. Painted 'The Bathers'






9. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






10. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'






11. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






12. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






13. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.






14. School of nonsense and anti-art






15. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






16. 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.






17. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore






18. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






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






20. 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






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






22. Architect who like a statue at every corner






23. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.






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






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






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






27. Rebirth






28. Composer - conductor and pianist






29. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy






30. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






31. School of nonsense and anti-art






32. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






33. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






34. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






35. 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






36. Architect who like a statue at every corner






37. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






38. Spanish surrealist painter






39. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






40. 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






41. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






42. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting






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






44. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






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






46. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry






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






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






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






50. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.