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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Beautiful Italian singing






2. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






3. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






4. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






5. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte






6. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






7. Five-foot line






8. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.






9. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.






10. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






11. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and






12. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme






13. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






14. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






15. Composer - conductor and pianist






16. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






17. Spanish surrealist painter






18. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns






19. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






20. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h






21. British abstract sculptor






22. 20th Century American composer






23. Opaque watercolor






24. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






25. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads






26. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






27. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






28. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which






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






30. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






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






32. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte






33. Russian composer






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






35. 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.






36. God of the underworld - and wealth






37. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






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






39. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






40. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






41. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






42. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.






43. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






44. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century






45. Painted 'The Bathers'






46. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.






47. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






48. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






49. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






50. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.