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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Pearl Buck
Jonathan Swift
Abstraction
multi-media
2. 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
Plato
Hermes/Mercury
Manichaeism
3. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Obelisk
Brunelleschi
New Orleans
Henri Matisse
4. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Blank Verse
french female pose
Aristotle
Al Jolson
5. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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6. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Kshatriyas
Free Verse
King Lear
Book of Kells
7. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Personification
James Joyce
Soliloquy
scrim
8. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Hellenistic Period
tempura
Rembrandt
Trompe l'oeil
9. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
T.S. Eliot
Federico Fellini
Jonathan Swift
Plato
10. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Lorraine Hansberry
scrim
Ionic
Degas
11. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
hagia sophia
Mary Shelley
Hestia/Vesta
Atomists
12. Painted 'The Bathers'
Poseidon/Neptune
Fresco
Jean Fragonard
Humanism
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.
Bayeux tapestry
Jonathan Swift
Edmund Spenser
Dionysus/Bacchus
14. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Noh Theatre
Persian Rugs
Ares/Mars
15. British abstract sculptor
Geoffrey Chaucer
Peter Paul Rubens
barbara hepworth
Scott Joplin
16. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Humanism
barbara hepworth
Joseph Conrad
Eisenstein
17. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Pythagoras
Leonardo da Vinci
Christopher Wren
dada school
18. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
tragic figure
mannerism
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Niccolo Machiavelli
19. 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
Seurat
The Panthenon
Josiah Wedgewood
Trompe l'oeil
20. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Al Jolson
Serge Diaghilev
Josiah Wedgewood
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
21. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Victor Hugo
John Dryden
michelangelo
Mozart and Richard Strauss
22. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Simone Martini
Josiah Wedgewood
Noh Theatre
Hagia Sophia
23. 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
Eugene Delacroix
cellini
Samuel Beckett
Cubism
24. God of Love
John Dryden
Chalice
Daniel Defoe
Eros/Cupid
25. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Pentatonic Scale
allegro
Charles Dickens
Remington
26. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Shudras
Arnold Schoenberg
Roman Basilica
Church of San Vitale
27. 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
Ionic
Ghiberti
Lao Tzu
Renoir
28. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Cimabue
Peter Paul Rubens
Jane Austen
Trochaic pattern
29. French 20th century architect
fresco
Le Corbusier
Pearl Buck
cellini
30. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
High Renaissance
Remington
Cervantes
Alliteration
31. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Alfred Hitchcock
Epic
Pythagoras
Handel
32. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Alexander Dumas
Pablo Picasso
Moral Philosophers
Henry Dixon Cowell
33. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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34. A dance
Arthur Miller
minuetto
Kronos/Saturn
Vermeer
35. The Persistence of Memory
multi-media
Salvador Dali
Frank Lloyd Wright
Jean Fragonard
36. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Arthur Miller
Gothic age architecture
Niccolo Machiavelli
37. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Guggenheim Museum
Alexander Dumas
Samuel Beckett
Mathew Brady
38. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Apostrophe
Leo Tolstoy
Beethoven & Wagner
Christopher Wren
39. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Mannerism
American Indian Rugs
Marc Chagall
The Iliad
40. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Immanuel Kant
Tyche/Fortuna
Baroque art
41. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Simone De Beauvoir
Lillian Gish
Jules Verne
American Indian Rugs
42. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Eugene O'Neil
Beethoven & Wagner
bel canto
Herman Melville
43. Three-foot line
Beethoven & Wagner
cellini
Trimeter
obelisk
44. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Cynics
Thomas Edison
alexander calder
barbara hepworth
45. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
cellini
American Indian Rugs
Flying buttress
Simone De Beauvoir
46. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
John Locke
Cubism
Pieta
El Greco
47. Wrote operas
multi-media
Verdi and Puccini
Flying buttresses
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
48. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Greek Ionic
Edgar Allen Poe
Poseidon/Neptune
49. A dance
minuetto
henry moore
Jules Verne
Popular Transcendentalists
50. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Da Vinci
Brussels tapestries
Dante Aligheri
Manhattan Project