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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Reliquary
Humanism
multi-media
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
2. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Cervantes
Scott Joplin
Aubrey Beardsley
Charles Dickens
3. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Thomas Edison
Georgia O'Keeffe
Vincent van Gogh
Michelangelo
4. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aaron Copeland
William Shakespeare
New Orleans
5. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Pythagoras
Hector Berlioz
Frank Lloyd Wright
Confucianism
6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Trompe l'oeil
cellini
Michelangelo
Flat
7. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Aubrey Beardsley
Aristotle
Baroque Period
Jane Austen
8. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Arnold Schoenberg
pieta
Herman Melville
Hera/Juno
9. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
oratorio
Maia/Fauna
Pythagoras
Dada school
10. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
dada school
Reliquary
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Christopher Wren
11. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Delacroix
T.S. Eliot
Bayeux tapestry
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
12. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Charles Dickens
Lorraine Hansberry
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
13. 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
Ghiberti
T.S. Eliot
Victor Hugo
E.E. Cummings
14. God of the Underworld and Death
cellini
Hades/Pluto
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Scrim
15. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Edgar Allen Poe
minuetto
Socrates
16. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Degas
Hermes/Mercury
Atomism
Samuel Beckett
17. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Ernest Hemingway
Aristotle
Botticelli
scrim
18. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Christopher Wren
Jonathan Swift
Meter
Hermes/Mercury
19. Pre-Socrates
sitar
pieta
Tempura
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
20. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Libretto
Delacroix
T.S. Eliot
21. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Manichaeism
Mies van der Rohe
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
John Roebling
22. God of the Sea
Aside
Poseidon/Neptune
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Monet
23. 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.
Samuel Beckett
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
aside
soliloquy
24. Wrote operas
Heraclitus
Simone Martini
Verdi and Puccini
Artemis/Diana
25. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Classical Period
Mary McCarthy
Verdi and Puccini
mosaics
26. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
The Panthenon
George Sand
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
27. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Mary McCarthy
Merry Wives of Windsor
Raphael
Edmund Spenser
28. Goddess of Wisdom
Roman Basilica
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Jean Jacques Rousseau
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
29. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Scott Joplin
Transcendentalism
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
30. 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.
mannerism
Epic
Hestia/Vesta
bust
31. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Thomas Edison
Aphrodite/Venus
Vermeer
32. 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
Pavane and the Polonaise
Georg W. F. Hegel
gouche
Tetrameter
33. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Mathew Brady
Andrew Wyeth
soliloquy
34. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Scrim
Alexander Dumas
constantin brancusi
35. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
sitar
Raphael
Poseidon/Neptune
36. Rebirth
Mark Twain
High Renaissance Painters
Langston Hughes
Renaissance
37. 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.
Aphrodite/Venus
William Faulkner
Poseidon/Neptune
Blank Verse
38. Composer - conductor and pianist
Jules Verne
Seurat
Andre Previn
Renaissance Art
39. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
mannerism
reliquary
Handel
40. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
French Romantic painter
pop art
Hector Berlioz
michelangelo
41. Five-foot line
Pentameter
Victor Hugo
flat
Joseph Conrad
42. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Book of Kells
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
43. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Frank Gehry 1929
presto
Andrea Palladio
44. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Alexander Dumas
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Hades/Pluto
pop art
45. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Thales
Romanticism Movement
High Renaissance Painters
Mark Twain
46. Spanish surrealist painter
Ghiberti
Noh Theatre
Joan Miro
King Lear
47. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Tchaikovsky
Honore de Balzac
Plato
Brussels tapestries
48. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Byzantine Style
Tetrameter
Hellenistic Period
Jane Austen
49. French 20th century architect
Rococo
Corinthian
Le Corbusier
Mies van der Rohe
50. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Pythagoras
Salvador Dali
Renaissance Art
scrim
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