Humn ch. 15, 19, 20, 12

Its name derived from the word for "wild beast," _________ was a style characterized by the juxtaposition of bright colors that are often unrelated to the objects they represent and by distorted linear perspective.

Fauvism

The last of the great French Rococo painters, __________ saw his art become unpopular during the French Revolution and died in obscurity.

Fragonard

Who is the composer who used the isolation of his position in the Esterházy palace to experiment with musical forms, including operas, string quartets, piano sonatas, and symphonies?

Franz Joseph Haydn

Which scientist designed his own telescope and made significant contributions to modern physics?

Galileo

Which German-born composer achieved his greatest success in London, became an English citizen, and wrote Italian operas?

Handel

What is the title of Victor Hugo's expansive novel describing the plight of the victims of social injustices?

Les Misérables

Which monarch used the colossal Palace of Versailles to act out the role of "Sun King" and to glorify himself and his monarchy?

Louis XIV

Who created The Scream, an early Expressionist work in which the lonely figure's cry seems to reverberate visibly through space?

Munch

__________, which depicts women from Barcelona's red-light district, provided the springboard for Analytic Cubism.

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Who was one of the most beloved composers of opera during the era from 1870 to 1914?

Puccini

An Alpine Symphony, which musically depicts a mountain-climbing expedition, detailing adventures on the way, and culminating in the arrival at the summit, was composed by ________.

Richard Strauss

______________, the French philosopher and author of The Social Contract, believed that the natural goodness of humans had been corrupted by the growth of civilization.

Rousseau

What term refers to a musical device that is a hybrid of speaking and singing, and is associated with Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire?

Sprechstimme

Who is the author of A Modest Proposal, which was inspired by the poverty and suffering of a large sector of Ireland's population?

Swift

The French National Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man clearly shows the influence of which document?

The American Declaration of Independence

Johann Sebastian Bach composed ____________, a group of pieces following an Italian musical form, for the entertainment of a German prince.

The Brandenburg Concertos

What is the title of the sculpture by Rodin that commemorates the sacrifice of six French citizens to protect their town from the conquering English?

The Burghers of Calais

Marx and Engels's _____________ explains their belief that capitalism is inherently unjust and that the course of human history would inevitably be changed by a working-class revolution?

The Communist Manifesto

What is the actual title of the painting by Rembrandt that has become one of the most famous works in Western art, partly because of its masterful use of foreshortening and chiaroscuro?

The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch

___________, a novel by Hawthorne, tells the story of a young woman's expulsion from society because of her adulterous affair with a clergyman.

The Scarlet Letter

Rubens emulated __________, the Italian painting technique that strongly contrasts light and dark for dramatic purposes.

chiaroscuro

What early form of photography used sheets of silver-plated copper to create photographic images, and became a popular way of making family portraits?

daguerreotype

Thomas Hobbes' major work, Leviathan, ________.

describes humans as essentially violent and self-serving

Which term refers to the music genre in which Biblical stories are set to music?

oratorio

What is the so-called "infamous thing" that Voltaire refers to in his signature phrase, "Écrasez l'infâme"?

superstition

John Winthrop was ________.

the first governor of Massachusetts Bay and a Puritan leader in the colonies.

Which of the following is a central goal of Voltaire's satirical work, Candide?

to demonstrate the error in unreasonable optimism

Niccolò Paganini was a great virtuoso on what instrument?

violin

Who wrote An Essay on Man, which expresses a philosophical position that humans occupy a preeminent place in the divine scheme of life?

Alexander Pope

Which term is used to describe the emotional and ornate art and architecture of the 1600s?

Baroque

Who composed the "Pathetique" Piano Sonata and is considered a pioneer of musical romanticism?

Beethoven

The colonnaded piazza added to St. Peter's was designed by ________.

Bernini

Which artist drew heavily on elements of Japanese art in depicting daily life, and focused particularly on scenes of women and children?

Cassatt

Which European used irony and satire in short stories and plays to show the passivity and emptiness of characters who often live in a provincial world?

Chekhov

Who painted The Raft of the Medusa, a work intended as a symbolic criticism of the French government's ineffectual policies?

Géricault

The Oath of the Horatii, with an idealization of ancient Rome typical of French Revolution-era art, was created by which Neo-Classical artist?

Jacques-Louis David

Which artist is most associated with Neo-Classical painting during the period of the French Revolution?

Jacques-Louis David

Who wrote Paradise Lost, an account of Adam and Eve intended to "justify the ways of God to men"?

Milton

Who painted Impression, Sunrise, from which the entire Impressionist movement received its name?

Monet

What is the title of the Charles Dickens novel that criticizes the way England's workhouses treat the poor, and that contains many memorable and memorably named characters?

Oliver Twist

Invoking an overall impression of lightness and gaiety, ________ was a prominent art style during the first half of the 18th century, typified by Watteau's Return to Cythera.

Rococo

Which of the following refers to Gauguin's theory of art that argued for broad areas of unnatural color and "primitive" or symbolic subject matter?

Synthetism

Which of the following statements about the musical form known as opera is NOT true?

The musicians who developed opera considered the sung text to be secondary to the music.

Which artist dominated English portraiture in his day, with paintings that blended landscapes with aristocratic portraits in the Grand Manner?

Thomas Gainsborough

Which U.S. Founding Father wished government buildings to be constructed in the Neo-Classical style and had his own home, Monticello, built in this style?

Thomas Jefferson

In Walden, _________ explains why he left "civilization" for the solitude on the shores of Walden Pond, and uses his experiences there to draw general conclusions about the nature of existence.

Thoreau

Who is the author of the novel War and Peace, which is set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812?

Tolstoy

This English painter's The Slave Ship uses light, color, and movement to create a seamless blending of earth, sky, fire, and water.

Turner

What writer helped found the Romantic movement in English poetry when he published Lyrical Ballads with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

William Wordsworth

Haydn said that ________, the composer of The Marriage of Figaro, was the greatest composer he had ever known.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

_________ painted The Calling of Saint Matthew, which is typical of his interest in portraying human subjects as individuals with the concerns of ordinary people.

Caravaggio

Which artist demonstrated an unparalleled virtuosity with pastel—colored chalk—in a large number of portraits, including one of King Louis XV as a boy?

Carriera

What is the name of the apartment building designed by Gaudí that is characterized by organic shapes and hardly any straight lines?

Casa Milà

Which novel explores the oppressed role of women in family life and was banned upon its publication in 1899?

Chopin's The Awakening

Who composed La Mer, which tries to evoke in music the general atmosphere of the sea rather than literal sounds of the ocean?

Debussy

The French philosopher ________ is associated with the phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" and is often called the Father of Modern Philosophy.

Descartes

Which writer conceived of the project of creating a vast encyclopedia of contemporary science, technology, and thought?

Diderot

What is the title of the picaresque work, considered the greatest Spanish-language novel, about an elderly and possibly delusional gentleman?

Don Quixote

Usually considered the earliest of the British Metaphysical poets, ________ is particularly admired for his sonnets.

Donne

Which writer's interest in depicting psychological truth led him into a profound study of his characters' subconscious motives, as in Crime and Punishment?

Dostoyevsky

What important Romantic literary work, published in two parts, deals not only with a man's pact with the devil, but also with the destiny of Western culture?

Goethe's Faust

Which painter used his work, The Third of May, 1808, as an expression of protest against the cruelty of the French occupation of Spain?

Goya

Which English artist is best known for his satirical paintings of the English middle class?

Hogarth

Which French painter combined Neo-Classical form with exotic themes in La Grande Odalisque?

Ingres

In keeping with the negative view of human nature held by its author, ________, Gulliver's Travels was primarily intended as a satire of human behavior.

Jonathan Swift

In which painting, one of her most studied, does Artemisia Gentileschi depict the same biblical story as her contemporary Caravaggio?

Judith Decapitating Holofernes

Who created the painting known as Improvisation 28, which reflects the artist's interest in non-representational art driven by color, line, and shape?

Kandinsky

Which Futurist artist's sculptures aimed to depict the energy of figures in motion?

Kirchner

What is the term for the approach promoted by Scottish economist Adam Smith, in which governments would not intervene in the economy, but rather "let it be"?

Laissez-faire

Subtitled "Pictures from Pagan Russia," which ballet score describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim?

The Rite of Spring

Which term refers to the American literary movement, centered in New England, that sought the divine in nature and promoted individualism and self-reliance?

Transcendentalism

Who painted Las meninas, which is characterized by naturalistic attitudes and prominently features the artist himself?

Velázquez

Who composed the opera Nabucco, which supplied the theme song for the Italian nationalist movement?

Verdi

The work of ________ exemplifies the Dutch interest in depicting scenes of everyday life

Vermeer

Which painting technique is Paul Cézanne's clearest move toward Modernism?

a drastic collapsing of space that blurred foreground and background

A minuet is ________.

a slow, stately dance that provides the form for the third movement of a Classical symphony

Which term, meaning "beautiful age" in French, describes a period of French history marked by peace and flourishing of the arts?

belle époque

What is the literal English translation of the Italian word scherzo?

joke

In which of the following musical forms did Chopin NOT compose any music?

opera

Which of the following terms are central to Hegel's philosophy?

thesis and antithesis