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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.
Claude Debussy
Moai
presto
Raphael
2. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Merchant of Venice
Thomas Edison
Joan Miro
Humanism
3. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Andrea Palladio
Alexander Dumas
4. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Apollo
Mathew Brady
Edmund Spenser
5. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Libretto
Versailles
Roman Basilica
Christopher Wren
6. Russian composer
Theme
Peter Paul Rubens
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Penny Marshall
7. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Simone Martini
Mary Shelley
King Lear
Romanticism Movement
8. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Henri Matisse
Dactylic
Brunelleschi
Martin Heidegger
9. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
William Faulkner
Symbolism
Pythagoras
Abstraction
10. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Pavane and the Polonaise
Modern Period
Noh Theatre
11. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Al Jolson
Mary Shelley
Renaissance Art
E.E. Cummings
12. Fast
Medieval Architecture
Serge Diaghilev
presto
Plato
13. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Phoebus/Apollo
Persian Rugs
Francois Rabelais
Claude Debussy
14. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Heptameter
Federico Fellini
Charles Dickens
Gouche
15. 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
T.S. Eliot
William Shakespeare
Peter Paul Rubens
16. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Remington
Socrates
Greek Corinthian
Noh Theatre
17. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
presto
Mosaic
Henrik Ibsen
18. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Claude Monet
Atomism
French Romantic painter
Fauvism
19. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
neo-classic period
High Renaissance
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Joan Miro
20. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Classical Period
tempura
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Symbolism
21. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Aphrodite/Venus
dada school
Ray Bradbury
cellini
22. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Henry Dixon Cowell
Symbolism
Aubrey Beardsley
23. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
bust
Rococo
Samuel Beckett
Apollo
24. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
flat
Peter Paul Rubens
High Renaissance Painters
25. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Baroque Period
Peter Paul Rubens
Historians
26. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
The Iliad
Josiah Wedgewood
Johannes Brahms
Chopin
27. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
renaissance
John Locke
andante
28. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Giotto
James Joyce
29. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Buddhists
Abstraction
Lao Tzu
30. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Aubrey Beardsley
Henry Dixon Cowell
Remington
Hans-Georg Gadamer
31. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Hector Berlioz
Jules Verne
Cynics
Johannes Brahms
32. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
presto
Atomism
Jules Verne
William Shakespeare
33. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Frank Gehry 1929
Hamlet
Frank Lloyd Wright
Zeno
34. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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35. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Pearl Buck
Mies van der Rohe
Vermeer
Art Deco Movement
36. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aristotle
renaissance
Trimeter
Aaron Copeland
37. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Mathew Brady
Jonathan Swift
38. 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.
Persian Rugs
Bayeux tapestry
Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
39. Repititions of geometric lines
Alfred Hitchcock
Simone Martini
American Indian Rugs
James Boswell
40. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Thomas Edison
John Locke
Simile
Usonian
41. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Serge Diaghilev
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Pyrrhic Pattern
Francois Rabelais
42. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Alfred Hitchcock
Free Verse
William Wordsworth
Renoir
43. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Le Corbusier
Serge Diaghilev
Federico Fellini
Pilgrim's Progress
44. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Romanesque Style
Serge Diaghilev
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Kronos/Saturn
45. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Jean Fragonard
Surrealism
Thomas Gainsborough
Victor Hugo
46. 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
Merry Wives of Windsor
Cervantes
dada school
Renoir
47. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Lillian Gish
Monometer
french female pose
Arthur Miller
48. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Imagery
neo-classic period
Byzantine Style
Epicureans
49. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Federico Fellini
Lillian Gish
Jean Fragonard
Aubrey Beardsley
50. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Minimalist Music
Aside
Hera/Juno
Renoir