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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
The Iliad
Aside
bust
mosaics
2. 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.
Hyperbole
Hamlet
hagia sophia
Bolero
3. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Pieta
gothic age architecture
Merchant of Venice
Eugene O'Neil
4. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Peter Paul Rubens
Versailles
Rembrandt
5. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Noh Theatre
neo-classic period
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
William Shakespeare
6. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
hagia sophia
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Simone De Beauvoir
Vaishyas
7. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Giotto
obelisk
Brunelleschi
oratorio
8. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Pyrrhic Pattern
Sitar
Hermes/Mercury
9. Opaque watercolor
Le Corbusier
George Sand
Gouche
Georgia O'Keefe
10. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
reliquary
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Beethoven & Wagner
11. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Mary Shelley
Josiah Wedgewood
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
12. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Eugene O'Neil
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Andrea Palladio
13. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Irony
barbara hepworth
dada school
Pablo Picasso
14. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Cubism
Handel
Hector Berlioz
Pentatonic Scale
15. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Ares/Mars
Romanticism Movement
The Panthenon
obelisk
16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Giotto
Stephen Crane
Historians
17. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Joseph Conrad
T.S. Eliot
Henrik Ibsen
John Dryden
18. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Simone De Beauvoir
Jonathan Swift
louise nevelson
Remington
19. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
Lindisfarne Gospel
Hellenistic Period
20. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Verdi and Puccini
Artemis/Diana
Issac Asimov
Serge Diaghilev
21. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Picasso
Arthur Miller
Usonian
Noh Theatre
22. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Reliquary
Dada school
henry moore
Neo-classic period
23. God of Wine
Delacroix
Donatello
Dionysus/Bacchus
Rembrandt
24. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
El Greco
Modern Period
Church of San Vitale
Martin Heidegger
25. 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
Victor Hugo
korai
Samuel Beckett
26. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Alexander Dumas
Charles Dickens
E.E. Cummings
27. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Edmund Spenser
Francois Rabelais
Greek Doric
Mozart and Richard Strauss
28. God of the underworld - and wealth
Monet
Romanesque Style
Whole Tone Scale
Hades/Pluto
29. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Obelisk
Paleolithic
Trochaic pattern
30. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
pieta
gouche
James Joyce
Neoclassicism
31. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Paleolithic
Masaccio
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
32. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Mozart and Richard Strauss
James Boswell
New Orleans
Pablo Picasso
33. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
minuetto
Vincent van Gogh
Aubrey Beardsley
Buddhists
34. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
michelangelo
Othello
Leo Tolstoy
Handel
35. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
pieta
Honore de Balzac
Joseph Conrad
36. Georges Pierre Seurat
Mies van der Rohe
Lionel Hampton
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Langston Hughes
37. Russian composer
Post and Lintel
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Andre Previn
henry moore
38. 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).
Remington
Verdi and Puccini
Fresco
Heraclitus
39. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Giotto
Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
40. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Parmenides
French female pose
Persian Rugs
Eros/Cupid
41. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
William Blake
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Atomists
Aaron Copeland
42. School of nonsense and anti-art
Ballet
dada school
Dactylic
High Renaissance
43. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Mies van der Rohe
Lillian Gish
Charles Dickens
Gilbert Stuart
44. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Aaron Copeland
oratorio
Parmenides
James Boswell
45. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Surrealism
Chopin
46. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
Ionic
Plato
Andrea Palladio
47. Fast
Zeno
presto
Jane Austen
D.W. Griffith
48. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Serge Diaghilev
Claude Monet
George Sand
Mathew Brady
49. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Chloris/Flora
Arthur Miller
Leo Tolstoy
Johannes Brahms
50. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Merry Wives of Windsor
bust
Dionysus/Bacchus
Pearl Buck