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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Hagia Sophia
Humanism
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Henry Dixon Cowell
2. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Joan Miro
Apollo
Niccolo Machiavelli
E.E. Cummings
3. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Macbeth
American Indian Rugs
Charles Dickens
Brussels tapestries
4. Goddess of Marriage
constantin brancusi
Hera/Juno
Claude Monet
minuetto
5. Goddess of Animals
Eisenstein
Kouroi
Maia/Fauna
Henrik Ibsen
6. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
french female pose
Jules Verne
Zeus/Jupiter
7. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lorraine Hansberry
Stravinsky
Lillian Gish
8. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Herman Melville
Francois Rabelais
Abstraction
9. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
gothic age architecture
Medieval Architecture
Andrea Palladio
Beethoven & Wagner
10. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
Jules Verne
Hagia Sophia
Eugene O'Neil
Poseidon/Neptune
11. 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Trochaic pattern
Classical Period
Lao Tzu
12. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Lorraine Hansberry
Church of San Vitale
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
gothic age architecture
13. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
El Greco
Mark Twain
Mary McCarthy
Rhymed Verse
14. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Herman Melville
dada school
Post and Lintel
15. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Alice Walker
Manhattan Project
James Boswell
16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Mary Shelley
Alfred Hitchcock
Stephen Crane
17. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Merchant of Venice
New Orleans
Bronte Sisters
Whole Tone Scale
18. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Aphrodite/Venus
Medieval Architecture
Confucianism
Eisenstein
19. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Merchant of Venice
Cervantes
Pyrrhic Pattern
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
20. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Trimeter
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Francois Rabelais
Mark Twain
21. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Immanuel Kant
Remington
Pentatonic Scale
Cimabue
22. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Hellenistic Period
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edvard Greig
High Renaissance Painters
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
Meter
Cubism
Foot
Leo Tolstoy
24. 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
Doric
Picasso
Ghiberti
Hagia Sophia
25. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Fresco
Taoism
T.S. Eliot
Lorraine Hansberry
26. God of love and beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
sculpture
Macbeth
Martha Graham
27. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Baroque art
Josiah Wedgewood
Pablo Picasso
28. 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
Thomas Edison
Book of Durrow
Plato
Martha Graham
29. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Apollo
Renoir
Al Jolson
Chloris/Flora
30. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mannerism
Donatello
Ray Bradbury
31. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Mary Shelley
Martin Heidegger
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Gothic age architecture
32. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Heraclitus
Dactylic
Tchaikovsky
barbara hepworth
33. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Lao Tzu
pop art
Versailles
Athena/Minerva
34. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Lillian Gish
A long syllable
Obelisk
John Dryden
35. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Richard Sheridan
Othello
alexander calder
36. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
37. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Barcelona Pavilion
Athena/Minerva
Brahmans
38. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Aristotle
Zeno
Atomists
Delacroix
39. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Georg W. F. Hegel
bust
oratorio
Federico Fellini
40. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Personification
chalice
Aphrodite/Venus
Stephen Foster
41. School of nonsense and anti-art
Dada school
William Shakespeare
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Hamlet
42. Fast
Stephen Crane
allegro
Maia/Fauna
renaissance
43. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Kouroi
Hades/Pluto
madrigal
44. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Flying buttresses
Dimeter
Artemis/Diana
Stravinsky
45. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
King Lear
Honore de Balzac
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
46. God of Wine
Andrea Palladio
Dionysus/Bacchus
Epicureans
Seurat
47. Science fiction writer
Remington
Donatello
Alexander Dumas
Issac Asimov
48. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Edmund Spenser
Remington
Onomatopoeia
49. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Vermeer
Neoclassicism
Da Vinci
Apollo
50. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Persian Rugs
Moai
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Impressionistic Art came before