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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
michelangelo
Baroque art
Thomas Gainsborough
Medieval Architecture
2. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Symbolism
Plato
3. 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
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mary Wollstonecraft
aside
Augustine Age
4. Rebirth
pop art
michelangelo
Renaissance
Donatello
5. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Zeno
Mies van der Rohe
Simile
Atomism
6. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Alice Walker
Stoicism
New Orleans
James Boswell
7. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Greek Ionic
Donatello
Plato
Merry Wives of Windsor
8. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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9. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
tragic figure
Mathew Brady
Phoebus/Apollo
American Indian Rugs
10. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Arthur Miller
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Eugene Delacroix
James Boswell
11. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
henry moore
Ray Bradbury
Christopher Marlowe
Peter Paul Rubens
12. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
gouche
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Charles Dickens
Jules Verne
13. 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.
Thomas Gainsborough
Bayeux tapestry
Zeus/Jupiter
James Joyce
14. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Cimabue
Peter Paul Rubens
Dada school
Impressionism
15. 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.
King Lear
Bayeux tapestry
Flat
neo-classic period
16. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
louise nevelson
Christopher Wren
Vincent van Gogh
17. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Samuel Beckett
Aristotle
Shudras
18. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
andante
Dada school
Jonathan Swift
minuetto
19. Short-Short-Long
Eugene Delacroix
Anapestic Pattern
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
sitar
20. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Thales
Aside
Daniel Defoe
french female pose
21. Short-Short
Kouroi
Aphrodite/Venus
Pyrrhic Pattern
Tempura
22. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Edvard Greig
William Faulkner
Dionysus/Bacchus
23. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
James Boswell
madrigal
Blank Verse
24. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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25. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Flying buttress
Antonio Gaudi
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
26. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Tchaikovsky
Dimeter
Jane Austen
Zeno
27. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Eisenstein
Al Jolson
Kshatriyas
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
28. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Simile
T.S. Eliot
flat
29. Beautiful Italian singing
Book of Durrow
Guggenheim Museum
sitar
bel canto
30. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Francois Rabelais
Apollo
Gilbert and Sullivan
Herman Melville
31. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Theme
Apollo
Rembrandt
Langston Hughes
32. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hector Berlioz
Delacroix
33. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Poseidon/Neptune
Jules Verne
henry moore
Martha Graham
34. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Bolero
Da Vinci
New Orleans
35. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
Corinthian
36. Spanish surrealist painter
Simone De Beauvoir
multi-media
Salvador Dali
Monet
37. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Victor Hugo
Onomatopoeia
aside
38. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Satire
Josiah Wedgewood
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
39. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Hamlet
IM Pei
New Orleans
Jonathan Swift
40. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Vaishyas
Seurat
William Faulkner
Jackson Pollock
41. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Blank Verse
Stoicism
Thales
Victor Hugo
42. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Whole Tone Scale
Donatello
Monet
43. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Aphrodite/Venus
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Simone Martini
Merchant of Venice
44. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Andre Previn
Flying buttress
Serialism
45. Repititions of geometric lines
gouche
Chopin
Manichaeism
American Indian Rugs
46. 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.
Rococo
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Merchant of Venice
The Pigeon House
47. God of Wine
Zeno
Atomism
aside
Dionysus/Bacchus
48. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Reliquary
scrim
Neo-classic period
Picasso
49. 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
Jean Fragonard
Edmund Spenser
Tchaikovsky
Roman Basilica
50. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
El Greco
Surrealism
Langston Hughes
Atomism