OL IGOV 102 Chapter 12

Which Romantic artist created a series of prints focusing on the brutality and horror of war?

Francisco Goya

Which of the following former slaves learned to write and personally authored a memoir with his or her own hand?

Frederick Douglass

Mary Shelley

Gothic writer who creates a character that become a "figure of heroic evil"

Which landmark work, by William Wordsworth, marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England?

Lyrical Ballads

In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including which group?

Members of the middle and working classes

J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of what subject?

Natural landscapes

London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of what style?

Neomedievalism

What works and statements best describe Albert Bierstadt?

Panoramic landscapes focusing on the American western frontier Public evidence of American expansionism and ascending nationalism

What is a hallmark of Eugène Delacroix's style?

Pictorial license

Whose "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?

Keats

In Romanticism, what was the "sublime?"

Awe-inspiring nature

What work did William Wordsworth write, and how did he address nature in it?

"Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" Nature could restore a lost sense of wonder to a human being

What work did John Keats write, and how did he address nature in it?

"Ode to a Grecian Urn" Art as a higher form of nature that triumphantly outlives the fleeting mortal Keenly aware of life's brevity and the imminence of death

What work did Percy Bysshe Shelley write, and how did he address nature in it?

"Ode to the West Wind" Poet's function is as a "legislator" and conduit between nature and society Nature is the source of ultimate truth and inspiration

Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in what landmark series of etchings and aquatints?

"The Disasters of War"

What work did William Blake write, and how did he address nature in it?

"The Tiger" A uniquely mystical view of nature, God, and humankind

Jane Austen

"Wittily attacks sentimental love and Romantic rapture"

The Romantic movement brought about heroes that were creative, individual, and knowledgeable. They were personalities, whether fictional or historical, who embodied the best of humanity. Determine the chronological order in which each event or work listed occurred.

1 Napoleon seizes control of French government 2 Napoleon invades Russia 3 Shelley publishes Frankenstein 4 Goethe completes Faust 5 Douglass escapes bondage 6 Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who is the protagonist in Goethe's Faust?

A scientist with an unlimited thirst for knowledge

Why was the nineteenth century an important time in African history?

African music and literature came to be recorded.

The fact that the nineteenth century was "the age of the virtuoso" is most evident in the work of which composer?

Chopin

Which statement(s) best describe Berlioz?

Composed Symphonie fantastique

What subject was depicted in the most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya?

Current events

In what way did Darwin contribute to the study of biology?

Developing the theory of natural selection

Which of the following persons was a male counterpart to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth?

Douglass

Which of the following best describes the Romantic architecture at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton?

Eastern exotic

Which figures and Romantic ideas are from North America?

Emerson says nature is a way to "see into the life of things" Cole captures a dramatic mood after a thunderstorm in The Oxbow Thoreau experiments living in the natural world away from urban society

Romantic ballets such as La sylphide derived their plot lines from what source?

Fairy tales and folk legends

Which of the following statements about George Catlin is FALSE?

He used his paintings to garner support for the government's policy of relocating Native Americans to reservations.

George Sand

Heroines who have love affairs and believe in free love

What was a quality with which the principles of Romanticism were in agreement?

Individualism

Which statement(s) best describe Beethoven?

Introduced innovative compositional elements while remaining faithful to classical structures A "bridge" between the Classical and Romantic eras

What is one of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry?

It is written in free verse.

What is a feature of Transcendentalism?

It valued intuition and self-reliance.

Wordsworth's perception of nature as sublime was most closely echoed in the paintings of which artist?

J. M. W. Turner

Which of the following people is considered to be one of the first Realists in the English novel-writing tradition?

Jane Austen

Which figures and Romantic ideas are from Asia?

Shen Fu records a life of married love and affection for nature Artists of this region have landscape paintings focused on unity of air, earth, and water

What works and statements best describe John Constable?

The Haywain Painted mostly "ordinary" subjects on the gentle countryside to record nature

What works and statements best describe Thomas Cole?

The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts...) Portrayed America with photographic precision in topographic landscapes

What works and statements best describe Joseph Mallord Turner?

The Slave Ship (Slaves Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying...) Focused on the theatrical turbulence of nature, metaphors for human vulnerability to nature

What development happened in music during the Romantic period?

The orchestra grew to grand proportions.

Which statement(s) best describe Schubert?

United poetry and music in a distinctly Romantic way Credited with originating the Romantic lied Composed works based on contemporary poetry by Heine and Goethe

Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of what Western ideal?

Urge to transcend limitations

What was a stance of the American writer Henry Thoreau?

Value for nature as a source of information

What works and statements best describe Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot?

Ville d'Avray Landscapes notable in their harmony and order, as well as their wild popularity in France

"Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" by Katsushika Hokusai is an exemplary work that illustrates Japanese landscape art. In what popular medium is this work?

Woodblock print

Which figures and Romantic ideas are from Europe?

Wordsworth & Coleridge produce Lyrical Ballads with aims of Romantic poetry Constable paints the "gentle spirit of the English countryside" Turner shows the turbulent moods of nature

Which statement(s) best describe Chopin?

Wrote over 200 pieces that showcased the expressive potential of the modern piano Sought to highlight extraordinary technical skills of those who played them His pieces affected a spontaneous sound of fleeting feeling

The independent art song originated by Franz Schubert that united music and poetry was called the ______.

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