Humanities Chapter 12

The greatest composer of the early 19th century, and perhaps the greatest musician of all time, he did more to expand the expressiveness of orchestras, symphonies, and the piano than any other composer before or since. Beethoven Voltaire Freidrich Constable

Beethoven

Please match each of these Romantic landscape paintings with its correct painter.

Bierstadt

Who asserted, in his landmark work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, that Nature was the ultimate source of life and organic design. Hegel William Wordsworth Charles Darwin Napoleon Bonaparte

Charles Darwin

Please match each of these Romantic landscape paintings with its correct painter.

Cole

Please match each of these Romantic landscape paintings with its correct painter.

Constable

Instead of the order and rationalism of the Enlightenment, the Romantics favored... Emotion Work God Technology

Emotion

Romanticism in art was similar to Neoclassicism in its desire to embrace the formal rules and objective approach of ancient Greece and Rome. True False

False

Which novel, written by Mary Shelley, is said to be the first work to examine the human impact of scientific experimentation? Dracula Frakenstein Mountain Sense and Sensibility

Frankenstein

What is the name of the group of American Romantic landscape painters that captured the unspoiled wilderness of the new country in the middle of the 19th century? The Natural School United Painters of America Hudson River School Americanna School of Painting

Hudson River School

The central figure in the painting, with his pure white shirt and arms outstretched, can be compared to what other innocent figure that was executed? Napoleon Galileo Joan of Arc Jesus

Jesus

Which rich, attractive, and well-traveled Romantic poet's life was so inspiring he became the prototype and namesake for the artistic Romantic Hero? Walt Whitman William Wordsworth William Shakespeare Lord Byron

Lord Byron

Which of the following was a major theme of Romantic thought and poetry? God Nature Modernity Food

Nature

In which country do the events in Goya's painting take place? United States France England Spain

Spain

With paintings such as "The Oxbow" and "The Course of Empire," which painter is considered to be the founder and creator of the Hudson River School style of landscape painting? John Constable Francisco Goya Thomas Cole Caspar David Freidrich

Thomas Cole

What is the unique form of American Romanticism called? Evangelicalism Transcendentalism Americism Romanerica

Transcendentalism

The American Romantic landscape painters were influenced by the American Transcendentalist writers and philosophers during the 19th century. True False

True

The Romantic Movement rejected the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and rational thought and instead championed emotion and imagination. True False

True

Who wrote the landmark Romantic poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and is considered the greatest of all the Romantic Nature poets? Charles Darwin Napoleon Bonaparte William Wordsworth Voltaire

William Wordsworth

Goya's series of prints "The Disasters of War," created in response to the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, were done using what style of engraving similar to etching but that added finely granulated tonal areas? oil paint water prints woodcut aquatint

aquatint

The German philosopher Hegel theorized that spirit and matter were involved in a continual process of evolution (or development) that followed the pattern of a thesis and antithesis ending up in synthesis. What is the term for this process of generating new ideas or conditions through the synthesis of opposites? alliteration purple dialectic opposites attract

dialectic

One way Beethoven's music was representative of the Romantic spirit was his use of dissonance in his compositions. What does this term refer to? inharmonious, harsh, or shocking sounds colorful music variety very soft, loving sounds emotional and overwhelming sounds

inharmonious, harsh, or shocking sounds

What genre of painting, popular amongst both European and American artists, captured the Romantic link between Nature and human emotion/inspiration? landscape religious portrait still life

landscape

What is the term that describes the overwhelming, awe-inspiring feeling of Nature's largest and most powerful scenes? sublime gothic naturalistic boring

sublime

A highly sophisticated piece of music (usually for piano or violin) meant to be performed by only highly accomplished musician is known as a (an) ___________ piece. symphony fancy opera virtuoso

virtuoso

What is the title of this Delacroix painting that not only elevated the plight of the French revolutionaries to an allegorical and heroic level, but also served as the model for our own "Statue of Liberty"? "Lady Liberty Fighting for Her Life" "Liberty with Guns" "Liberty Leading the People" "Revolution and Liberty"

"Liberty Leading the People"

The Romantic Movement, or Romanticism, flourished primarily during which century? 19th Century (1800s) 17th cenutry (1600s) 18th century (1700s) 16th century (1500s)

19th Century (1800s)

Similar to Romantic painters, Romantic composers heightened the tone color of their compositions to increase its intensity and emotional power. In terms of music, what does tone color refer to? The distinctive quality of musical sounds made by a voice or instrument How sad or loving a sound is How loud or soft an instrument is

The distinctive quality of musical sounds made by a voice or instrument