Humanities chapter 12

Jane Austen

wittily attacks sentimental love

How did painters of "the sublime" view nature?

An awesome power that is overwhelming.

In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the "people" include all of the following EXCEPT which group?

Aristocracy

The name Taglioni is associated with what art?

Ballet

What style of opera singing emphasizes the melodic line of the music and the vocalist's ability to execute florid embellishments?

Bel canto

All EXCEPT which of the following Romantics were British?

Caspar David Friedrich

liberty leading the people

Delacroix common people face tyranny rebellion against king charles x

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the Romantic personality?

Embraces the Enlightenment emphasis on reason

America

Emerson says nature is a way to see into the life of things Cole captures a dramatic mood

What do John Constable's paintings usually focus on?

Everyday life.

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

Francisco Goya

raft of the medusa

Gericault denunciation of contemporary injustice theme of men acting against nature

Mary Shelley

Gothic writer who creates a figure of heroic evil

third of may 1808

Goya ordinary citizen confronts imminent death denunciation of injustice by french troops to spain

Why was Prometheus a favorite fictional hero of the Romantics?

He is a tragic hero, driven by a search for divine wisdom and creative inspiration.

What is NOT a stereotype of a woman, as presented by nineteenth-century writers?

Independent-minded

Which of the following is true of Darwin's The Origin of Species?

It shattered the harmonious worldviews of both Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophes.

What is a feature of Transcendentalism?

It valued intuition and self-reliance.

Which writer was NOT an English poet of the late 18th-early 19th century?

JMW Turner

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

JMW Turner

William Wordsworth

Lines composed a few miles above tintern abbey nature could restore a lost sense of wonder

What landmark work, produced by Coleridge and Wordsworth, marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England?

Lyrical Ballads

Nineteenth-century American architectural structures such as the Smithsonian Museums in Washington and portions of the Harvard and Yale campuses reflect the period's interest in what style?

Medievalism

John Keats

Ode on a grecian urn keenly aware of life's brevity art as a higher form of nature

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to the west wind nature is the source of ultimate truth outspoken in his opposition to marriage

Rumored among contemporaries that he had made a pact with the Devil for his musical abilities, ________ refused to publish his own work, which he alone would perform.

Paganini

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein parallels the tragedy of which mythological hero?

Prometheus

Which writer was part of the Transcendentalist movement?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Cole

The Oxbow portrayed america with photographic precision in landscapes

William Blake

The Tiger a uniquely mystical view of nature, god, and humankind

John Constable

The hay wain painted mostly ordinary subjects

What development was true of nineteenth-century music?

The orchestra grew to grand proportions.

JMW Turner

The slave ship focused on the theatrical turbulence of nature

Darwin's writings affirmed all EXCEPT which of the following?

There are a fixed number of species.

Which work was the most famous antislavery novel in America?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Jean Baptiste Carot

Ville d'Avray landscapes notable in their harmony and order

"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

Asia

Woodblock prints that feature bold, flat colors

Europe

Woodsworth and coleridge Turner shows the turbulent moods of nature Constable paints the gentle spirit of the english countryside

Beethoven

bridge between romantic and classical introduced innovative compositional elements

Berlioz

composed symphonie fantastique composed symphony in five movements

Schubert

credited with originating the lied united poetry and music works based on Goethe

George Sand

heroines who have love affairs and believe in free love

place the following events in order

napoleon siezes france napoleon invades russia shelley publishes frankenstein goethe completes faust douglass escapes bondage stowe publishes uncle toms cabin

Chopin

over 200 pieces affected spontaneous feeling sought to highlight technical skills of the player

Albert Bierstadt

panoramic landscapes public evidence of american expansionism

In Wagnerian opera, what is a leitmotif?

A musical phrase used to identify a particular person, object or idea

Who is the protagonist in Goethe's Faust?

A scientist with an unlimited thirst for knowledge