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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Verdi and Puccini
Degas
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
pieta
2. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
James Joyce
Thomas Edison
George Sand
Neolithic
3. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Mosaic
Flat
Jules Verne
Book of Kells
4. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Seurat
Hamlet
Byzantine Style
Pavane and the Polonaise
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
T.S. Eliot
Popular Transcendentalists
Bronte Sisters
Christopher Wren
6. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Merry Wives of Windsor
Alexander Dumas
sitar
Arnold Schoenberg
7. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Jane Austen
Thales
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Federico Fellini
8. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Mary Wollstonecraft
madrigal
Andrea Palladio
Chopin
9. 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
hagia sophia
Seurat
Al Jolson
Persian Rugs
10. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Hector Berlioz
Reliquary
scrim
Post and Lintel
11. Goddess of Animals
Eros/Cupid
Lionel Hampton
Maia/Fauna
Vermeer
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
Soliloquy
Demeter/Ceres
Eisenstein
Allegory
13. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Josiah Wedgewood
tragic figure
Chopin
Renaissance
14. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Noh Theatre
flying buttress
Metaphor
Meter
15. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
multi-media
flying buttress
Medieval Architecture
Salvador Dali
16. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Abstraction
Renoir
John Dryden
Thomas Edison
17. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Epicureans
Mary McCarthy
D.W. Griffith
Kronos/Saturn
18. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Mary Shelley
Book of Kells
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
ballet
19. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Atomism
louise nevelson
pieta
20. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Chloris/Flora
Jonathan Swift
Fauvism
Hermes/Mercury
21. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Pentameter
Manichaeism
Daniel Defoe
22. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
American Indian Rugs
Taoism
Atomism
Hector Berlioz
23. Four-foot line
Donatello
Hera/Juno
Tetrameter
oratorio
24. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
Charles Dickens
flying buttress
Issac Asimov
25. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Simile
Noh Theatre
Aside
Tchaikovsky
26. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Book of Durrow
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Stravinsky
mannerism
27. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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28. Opaque watercolor
Gouche
Theme
Onomatopoeia
El Greco
29. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
The Pigeon House
Francois Rabelais
Othello
Trompe l'oeil
30. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Federico Fellini
Merchant of Venice
Aristotle
Joseph Conrad
31. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Ernest Hemingway
Aaron Copeland
Jackson Pollock
Herman Melville
32. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
korai
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
renaissance
33. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
french female pose
Picasso
Merchant of Venice
Mary Wollstonecraft
34. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Tragic Playwrights
Giotto
Zeus/Jupiter
obelisk
35. 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
Issac Asimov
James Boswell
Zeno
Buddhists
36. 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
Neoplatonism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Beckett
Metaphor
37. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mathew Brady
Brahmans
Donatello
38. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Penny Marshall
William Wordsworth
Francesco Petrarch
39. Mannerism painter
Hector Berlioz
Eugene O'Neil
Jean Fragonard
El Greco
40. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Bronte Sisters
Johannes Brahms
Jonathan Swift
George Sand
41. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Obelisk
Stephen Foster
Al Jolson
Merry Wives of Windsor
42. Court dances
James Joyce
Pavane and the Polonaise
presto
louise nevelson
43. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
ballet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Pilgrim's Progress
44. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Metaphor
fresco
Allegory
Gilbert and Sullivan
45. Beautiful Italian singing
French female pose
bel canto
Humanism
New Orleans
46. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Symbolism
George Sand
Cervantes
47. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Cimabue
Free Verse
A long syllable
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
48. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
presto
Bolero
Herman Melville
Brahmans
49. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Art Deco Movement
Gilbert Stuart
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
50. French 20th century architect
Epicureans
Stephen Foster
Le Corbusier
Pallas Athena/Minerva