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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Andrew Wyeth
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Classical Period
chalice
2. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Pilgrim's Progress
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mark Twain
3. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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4. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Frank Gehry 1929
John Locke
Thomas Edison
Heraclitus
5. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Spondaic Pattern
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
6. French impressionist painter
Pavane and the Polonaise
Monet
Simone De Beauvoir
Francois Rabelais
7. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Arthur Miller
High Renaissance
french female pose
Leo Tolstoy
8. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
T.S. Eliot
Bronte Sisters
flat
9. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Handel
Romanesque Style
Satire
10. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Gilbert Stuart
Mark Twain
Henrik Ibsen
Fauvism
11. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
sculpture
Charles Dickens
Johannes Brahms
Mathew Brady
12. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Lionel Hampton
Hector Berlioz
Cimabue
fresco
13. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Arthur Miller
madrigal
Epic
14. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Gothic age architecture
Mary Shelley
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
15. Spanish surrealist painter
Versailles
Salvador Dali
Mathew Brady
Romanesque Style
16. 1900 to the Present
ballet
Stravinsky
Brussels tapestries
Modern Period
17. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Delacroix
Mathew Brady
Heraclitus
Victor Hugo
18. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Lillian Gish
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
neo-classic period
19. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Bronte Sisters
Francesco Petrarch
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Versailles
20. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
The Muses
Eugene O'Neil
Charles Dickens
21. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Augustine Age
Mary McCarthy
Martha Graham
Edmund Spenser
22. 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
Kshatriyas
Atomism
Merchant of Venice
Ray Bradbury
23. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Barcelona Pavilion
Eugene O'Neil
Johannes Brahms
Alexander Dumas
24. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
french female pose
Greek Doric
Islam
25. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Andrea Palladio
Lionel Hampton
gouche
26. 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
Brahmans
Bayeux tapestry
Johannes Brahms
Neoplatonism
27. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Obelisk
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
alexander calder
28. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Remington
Mosaic
Brussels tapestries
29. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
korai
Zeus/Jupiter
Thomas Edison
Charles Dickens
30. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
Friedrich Nietzsche
Federico Fellini
31. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Taoism
Art Deco Movement
barbara hepworth
32. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Simile
Beethoven & Wagner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
33. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Vermeer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Richard Sheridan
Lao Tzu
34. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Flat
Martin Heidegger
Picasso
35. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Henrik Ibsen
William Faulkner
Classical Period
scrim
36. 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.
Moral Philosophers
Langston Hughes
D.W. Griffith
Metaphor
37. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Serge Diaghilev
Atomists
Henrik Ibsen
Buddhists
38. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
henry moore
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Atomism
Tragic figure
39. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Ernest Hemingway
Zeno
Socrates
Mies van der Rohe
40. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Giotto
Joan Miro
Mary Wollstonecraft
Hamlet
41. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Plato
Hermes/Mercury
Pavane and the Polonaise
Stravinsky
42. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Flying buttress
Hellenistic Period
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Fauvism
43. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Aside
alexander calder
Dactylic
Johannes Brahms
44. Pre-Socrates
Simone De Beauvoir
Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
A short syllable
45. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Gilbert Stuart
bel canto
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Rococo
46. 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
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Cynics
El Greco
Meter
47. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
aside
King Lear
Othello
Scott Joplin
48. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
William Blake
Hades/Pluto
Aubrey Beardsley
Mary McCarthy
49. Rebirth
Simile
renaissance
Richard Sheridan
Picasso
50. God of Wildlife
Cimabue
Artemis/Diana
Onomatopoeia
Monet