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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
alexander calder
Frank Lloyd Wright
Giotto
Obelisk
2. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Aubrey Beardsley
Brahmans
Andre Previn
Donatello
3. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Abstraction
Frank Lloyd Wright
hagia sophia
4. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
Giotto
Mary Shelley
High Renaissance Painters
Lao Tzu
5. 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
Tetrameter
Bolero
Handel
6. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
Post and Lintel
George Sand
Persian Rugs
Neoplatonism
7. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
IM Pei
pop art
Cervantes
James Joyce
8. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Parmenides
Tchaikovsky
George Sand
Andrea Palladio
9. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Claude Debussy
Thales
E.E. Cummings
Ghiberti
10. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Martha Graham
High Renaissance
neo-classic period
Aristotle
11. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Martha Graham
Josiah Wedgewood
Lillian Gish
Surrealism
12. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
George Sand
Honore de Balzac
Hades/Pluto
13. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
pop art
Scrim
Aubrey Beardsley
Lorraine Hansberry
14. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Brunelleschi
Usonian
Dactylic
Charles Dickens
15. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Apostrophe
Versailles
Jonathan Swift
Jean Jacques Rousseau
16. A famous cathedral In France
Shudras
Chartres Cathedral
William Wordsworth
Lindisfarne Gospel
17. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Andre Previn
Herman Melville
Hector Berlioz
Masaccio
18. Fast
George Sand
presto
ballet
tempura
19. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
scrim
Botticelli
obelisk
Ionic
20. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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21. The Starry Night
Mathew Brady
multi-media
Victor Hugo
Vincent van Gogh
22. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Georg W. F. Hegel
El Greco
Fresco
The Iliad
23. Played the xylophone and marimba
Scrim
Langston Hughes
Lionel Hampton
Rene Descartes
24. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Stoicism
William Shakespeare
Da Vinci
25. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
fresco
Langston Hughes
Hades/Pluto
Alfred Hitchcock
26. French impressionist painter
Monet
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Romanticism Movement
Rembrandt
27. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Herman Melville
Manhattan Project
Cynics
28. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
ballet
pop art
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Atomism
29. Wrote Rivals
Hades/Pluto
Merry Wives of Windsor
Da Vinci
Richard Sheridan
30. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Ray Bradbury
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
A short syllable
31. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Cynics
Da Vinci
Rembrandt
Lionel Hampton
32. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Joplin
bel canto
33. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Bernini
Stephen Foster
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lorraine Hansberry
34. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Historians
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Andrew Wyeth
Francois Rabelais
35. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Verdi and Puccini
Eisenstein
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Simone De Beauvoir
36. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Stravinsky
Jane Austen
Christopher Wren
Classical Period
37. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
James Joyce
neo-classic period
Mosaic
38. Opaque watercolor
Eisenstein
Cervantes
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
gouche
39. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Donatello
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Christopher Wren
William Faulkner
40. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
sculpture
Neolithic
Jules Verne
41. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Merchant of Venice
Georg W. F. Hegel
Georgia O'Keefe
Edvard Greig
42. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Jane Austen
A long syllable
Herman Melville
Honore de Balzac
43. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Martha Graham
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Whole Tone Scale
Frank Lloyd Wright
44. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Andrew Wyeth
Handel
flat
45. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Minimalist Music
Moral Philosophers
King Lear
Poseidon/Neptune
46. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Book of Kells
Claude Monet
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
George Sand
47. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Verdi and Puccini
Phoebus/Apollo
Artemis/Diana
Renoir
48. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Stravinsky
Frank Lloyd Wright
hagia sophia
49. 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
Epic
Tragic figure
Jean Fragonard
Alfred Hitchcock
50. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Medieval Architecture
King Lear
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
henry moore