HUM 300 Study Guide
This story from the Hebrew Bible was the assigned topic for the competition to create a new set of doors for the north entrance to the Baptistery at Florence's Duomo.
Abrahams sacrifice to Isaac
church tried to bring people back how?
Art
One of the most influential Baroque artists was ________, the designer of the piazza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
Bernini
Which figure famously recanted his scientific theories in 1633 after having been put on trial for heresy?
Galileo
This individual created the Garden of Earthly Delights.
H. Bosch
who was martin luther
He was against the church didn't believe in taxaion, indulgences,relics, and celibacy
what are indulgences?
the roman catholic sold indulgences to get a fast ticket to go to Heaven faster.
What genre is Shakespeare's Hamlet?
tragedy
slave ship
treating humans like cargo
Sir Thomas Moore idea society was called
utopia
significance of florence?
was great influence of the art world. Florence is cradle of Renaissance.
Italian baroque churches had ____
wide naves, vast domes and magnificent altarpieces (NOT minimal ornamentation)
Milton's "Paradise Lost"
epic landmark that describes the fall of Adam and Eve
This was the most "preeminent italian city-state" in the fifteenth century?
florence.
who was montane?
is the father of essay. he writes about drunkiness and canabilism.
whats a baptistry?
its a building separate from Cathedral. They have them separate before entering because you had too get baptized first.
A painting dedicated to the representation of common household objects and food.
still life
who was Machiavelli?
wrote to the Prince, and told him how he should basically be as a leader. was connected with political science and believed you have to be hated to have respect.
In seventeenth-century England, the influential Calvinists who called for churchly reform were known as _______
Puritans
who were the Medici's?
Rich family who made their money off of banking fortune.
The works of Boucher and Watteau reflect the ________________________ style.
Rococco
This individual wrote the Declaration of Independence, and was inspired by Locke's ideas about natural rights and revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
This man produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral.
brunellshi
the first large scale nude sculpture since antiquity was?
david by the sculptor donatello.
__ is a belief in a mechanistic universe fashioned by a Creator God who does not directly intervene in its affairs.
deism
Where did Luther posted his landmark Ninety-Five Theses?
door of the cathedral of whittenburg
Diderot's _______________________ was the largest compendium of knowledge produced in the West.
encyclopedia
Luther asserted that the key to salvation was ______________.
faith
during the high renaissance, the center of artistic productivity shifted from?
florence to rome.
A painting that depicts events from everyday life.
genre scenes
composer associated with the birth of the English oratorio
handel
why is Renaissance important?
means rebirth. Rebirth of classical of greeks and romans.
What are the characteristics of Neoclassical art?
middle class, reason over pleasure
thomas hobbes
people are evil and we should be governed
Grunewalds isenheim altar was commissioned for benefit of
plague victims
The ____________ helped to accelerate the spread of Protestantism, produce cheaper reading materials, and enhance popular education.
printing press
What are the characteristics of Rococo art?
rich class, pleasure seeking, not regeloius
The process of blurring outlines in painting by subtle tonal variations so that objects in the foreground blend into the background; literally, "smokiness."
sfumato
El Greco and Velazquez both served in the courts of____
spain
This man argued legitimate government required the consent of the governed.
John Locke
great play write of the Elizabeth era, wrote 37 plays
Shakespeare