humanities final
What is the name of the novel, written in the Spanish vernacular, that follows the adventures of a disillusioned knight as he sets to defend the world against wild giants that turn out to be windmills?
"Don Quixote"
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"?
"Liberty Leading the People"
What is the title of this painting by Turner that, through his daring use of color and abstract forms, represents the powerful and turbulent side of Nature and life associated with the Romantic sublime?
"The Slave Ship"
__ Baroque was the style of the royal courts and nobility.
Aristocratic
The poetic technique of repeating similar vowel sounds in successive words or syllables is known as......
Assonance
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
Who can be seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and the abstract Modernists in paintings such as Mont Sainte-Victoire?
Cezanne
The greatest print-maker of the Northern Renaissance the artist seen here was also a master of the genre of portraiture
Durer
Please match each of these masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance with the appropriate artist. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Dying people in a line
Please select the style of each of these Enlightenment paintings. (Bunch of people in a room)
Genre
Who painted this image of Judith Slaying Holofernes?
Gentileschi
Who is generally considered the father of the Protestant Reformation for his posting of Ninety-Five Theses, his challenging of the Pope's infallibility, and the translating of the Old and New Testament into vernacular German?
Martin Luther
The artist of this painting, The Bath, was notable in the Impressionist movement in Paris because she was an American.
Mary Cassatt
Engraving is a printmaking process that involves incising lines into what kind of plate?
Metal
The movement in art, literature, and music that consciously broke with tradition at the beginning of the 20th century is collectively referred to by what name?
Modernism
Who painted the seminal work of Impressionism Impression: Sunrise?
Monet
Who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - one of the most defining works of Modern art?
Pablo Picasso
Who was America's greatest Modernist poet and author of the famous poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Robert Frost
Boffrand's famous Salon de la Princess is an excellent example of which Enlightenment artistic style?
Rococo
Please select the style of each of these Enlightenment paintings. (The swing)
Rococo
What was the name of the artistic style, favored by the French nobility, that was defined by its delicate, playful, and elegant decorations and paintings?
Rococo
Arguably the most definitive Modern poet by dealing with themes such as death, despair, and disillusion, who wrote both landmark poems The Waste Land and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
T.S Eliot
What invention aided in the spread of Protestant ideas and vernacular translations of the Bible during the Protestant Reformation?
The printing press
Leonardo infused his Last Supper with order and balance, while also symbolically reinforcing the religious importance of the Trinity, by dividing the fresco into multiple groups of three.
True
Marx argues in The Communist Manifesto that capitalism inevitably concentrates the vast majority of wealth in the hands of a very small few while creating a hard-working, but impoverished class of workers.
True
The Romantic Movement rejected the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and rational thought and instead championed emotion and imagination.
True
The State of Liberty is a Romantic sculpture.
True
Which Romantic poet, painter, and engraver wrote "The Lamb" (from Songs of Innocence) and "The Tiger" (from Songs of Experience) and embraced a more mystical view of Nature, God, and humanity
William Blake
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?
William Wordsworth
Which of the following is an example of the almost constant persecution brought about by the religious battles of the Protestant Reformation during the 16thand 17th centuries?
Witch-hunts
The German philosopher Nietzsche criticized almost every aspect of late 19th century life, not by writing extremely long philosophical treatises or inventing an entirely new philosophic system, but instead, by using short phrases expressing general truths or principles, known as _____________.
aphorisms
The great American Romantic poet Walt Whitman wrote poetry with irregular rhythmic patterns that didn't have to rhyme. What is the term for this kind of poetry?
free verse
what is the title of this renaissance masterpiece by raphael?
school of athens
Which time period listed below best represents the era of Baroque art?
1650-1750
The Enlightenment refers to the period of social, political, and intellectual innovations during what time period?
1650-1800
Impressionism as painting style was a relatively short-lived movement existing primarily in which decades?
1870s-1880s
The Romantic Movement, or Romanticism, flourished primarily during which century?
19th century
Comedie-ballets were popular at royal and aristocratic courts during the 17th century. Which of the following is the best description of this form of art?
A dramatic performance that includes scenes of both singing and dancing
Which of the following descriptions best describes a genre painting?
A painting of a common scene from everyday life.
Please match each of these masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance with the appropriate artist.
Bosch
Who was the leading Italian painter of the 17th century Baroque known for his powerful naturalism that made Biblical scenes look as if they were taking place in present-day?
Caravaggio
In addition to Germany and Russia, which country also created a totalitarian regime in the middle of the 20th century under the leader known as "Chairman Mao"?
China
What is the name of the architect who not only helped rebuild London after the great fire of 1666, but also designed arguably London's greatest church Saint Paul's Cathedral ?
Christopher Wren
A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet ends with 2 lines that have similar end-rhymes known as a (an)...
Couplet
Match each masterpiece of Realist painting with its painter. Big group of people, dog in bottom right corner.
Courbet
This is an example of what Modernist style of painting?
Cubism
This painting by Duchamp is representative of which absurdist Modernist movement that sought to annihilate traditional notions of art and aesthetic conventions?
Dada
Match each masterpiece of Realist painting with its painter. 2 people, one old guy sitting on a bus. Dark lighting
Damier
Who is represented in this Italian Baroque sculpture?
David
What is the term for this process of generating new ideas or conditions through the synthesis of opposites?
Dialectic
All of the following were artists of the High Renaissance EXCEPT...
Donatello
Who is the painter of this artwork?
El Greco
Utilized by artists such as Rembrandt, this printing process was able to produce inexpensive religious prints by carving images into metal plates and pressing sheets of paper against it.
Etching
Romanticism in art was similar to Neoclassicism in its desire to embrace the formal rules and objective approach of ancient Greece and Rome.
False
The Hall of Mirrors is located in the Vatican City.
False
Who challenged traditional understandings of the human mind and behavior when he founded psychoanalysis and psychology?
Freud
This painting was done by which great female Mexican Surrealist painter?
Frida Kahlo
What great Italian scientist helped prove the heliocentric theory through his studies of gravity and use of the telescope, but who also got arrested by the Catholic Church for publishing those ideas.
Galileo
Which Post-Impressionist painter tried to capture unspoiled nature and pure humanity by painting the people and landscape of Tahiti?
Gauguin
Which French painter represented his fellow countrymen and women as heroic as they confront both Nature and deadly danger in the monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa?
Gericault
What happened to the English humanist Thomas More?
He got beheaded
Who wrote the landmark late-19th century Realist drama A Doll's House?
Henrik Isben
Match each masterpiece of Realist painting with its painter. Boat in the water and theres sharks
Homer
Who created the most important monastic order, known as the Jesuits, during the Catholic Reformation?
Ignatius of Loyola
Rembrandt utilized this technique, in which an artists builds up layers of paint that produces a thick texture on the surface of the canvas, to add expressive emphasis to his paintings.
Impasto
Perhaps the most famous monument of aristocratic wealth and power outside of Western culture in the 17th century was the Taj Mahal - located in which country?
India
All of the following are true of the Mona Lisa EXCEPT...
It represents the blend of secular and religious subjects in the Renaissance.
__ Baroque linked to the Roman Catholic Church
Italian
Who painted Oath of the Horatii?
Jacques-Louis David
Which non-Western art form had a huge influence on the direction of modern art toward the end of the 19th century?
Japanese prints
Who painted this Grande Odalisque?
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Which English philosopher wrote Of Civil Government- the political treatise that established the idea of natural rights (rights a government could not infringe upon) as well as the idea that the power should remain with the people, not the government.
John Locke
Which British philosopher, in his work The Subjection of Women, compared the oppressive condition of women in the 19th century to that of an unwilling slave.
John Stuart Mill
Which author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal is considered the greatest British satirist of the 18th century?
Jonathan Swift
What is the name given to the Japanese stage performances that emerged in the 16th century consisting of song, dance, and art?
Kabuki
Who is this? (Flamboyant lookin guy wearing blue)
King Louis XIV
Please match each of these Romantic landscape paintings with its correct painter.
Loopy river - Cole Wagon in water - Constable Horses - Bierstadt
Match each masterpiece of Realist painting with its painter. Pale naked lady sitting with a guy in the woods
Manet
With its distorted representation of the human body and visual space, this is an excellent example of what style of painting?
Mannerism
Proclaiming himself Emperor in 1804, which politician and military general can be considered the 19th century's first Romantic Hero?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Please select the style of each of these Enlightenment paintings. (Guy with swords thrown at him)
Neoclassical
Which artistic style was the ideal mode of expression for the Enlightenment values of reason, clarity, and order?
Neoclassicism
This painting by Piet Mondrain is an excellent example of what style of Modernist art that sought to eliminate representational images and figures from art and instead focused on line and color?
Nonobjective Art
__ Baroque was linked to Protestantism and the rising middle class
Northern
A __________ is a broad public space in front of a building (usually a church or public building) such as the one created in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
Piazza
The painter of the artwork below was not only one of the greatest Aristocratic Baroque painters, but helped shaped the academic rules of art during the 17th century.
Poussin
With sculptures such as The Thinker, who was unquestionably the greatest sculptor of the late 19th century?
Rodin
Who painted The Persistence of Memory - one of the greatest masterpieces of the Surrealist movement.
Salvador Dali
Advances in what area of society helped usher in the era of Modernism?
Science/Technology
Modernist writers such as Proust, Kafka, and Joyce reveal the huge impact of which thinker's work that dealt with areas of the unconscious and free association?
Sigmund Freud
Artists of the late-19th century were fascinated by non-Western cultures such as Oceania. What island areas does Oceania refer to?
South and Central Pacific Ocean
The Enlightenment is also referred to by which of the following phrases because of its insistence on using science and human reason to understand and change the world.
The Age of Reason
The program of internal reform and reorganization undertaken by the Catholic Church in the wake of the Protestant Reformation was known as what?
The Catholic Reformation
What is the title of this painting?
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The explosion of creativity in the arts and the rebirth of African-American heritage that took place between 1920-1940 in the United States is known by what name?
The Harlem Renaissance
What was the name of the movement that took place from approximately 1600 - 1750 that laid the foundation for the Enlightenment through revolutionary discoveries in science and mathematics?
The Scientific Revolution
What is the title of this famous Expressionist painting that captures the anguish and isolation of the modern condition?
The Scream
Picasso's famous painting Guernica was created in response to what?
The brutalities of war
What is the unique form of American Romanticism called?
Transcendentalism
As a sign of the increasingly devout nature of northern Europe, it became increasingly popular during late 15th and 16th centuries for men and woman to live like monks and nuns.
True
Chorales were popular because their monophonic and simplistic features allowed them to be sung by even untrained worshipers.
True
The painter of both paintings below, this Dutch artist was a master of painting light - both outside as it bathed the Dutch landscape or inside as it revealed domestic scenes from daily life.
Vermeer
The greatest of all the French philosophes, __________ attended intellectual salons, wrote books and pamphlets, and published letters furthering the ideals of the Enlightenment such as freedom, equality, and religious toleration. His satirical work Candide, however, ridicules the blind optimism of the Enlightenment.
Voltaire
Who is considered by many to be the greatest Rococo painter - in no small part because of his masterpiece Departure from the Island of Cythera?
Watteau
relied on the subtle blurring of details and color for far-away objects, was known as
aerial perspective
What is term for a poetry that doesn't rhyme but approximates the natural rhythms of speech?
blank verse
In the industrialized countries of the 19th century, those who provided money to finance businesses were referred to as?
capitalists
William Hogarth exaggerated peculiarities and defects, a technique known as ______________, in his paintings and prints in order to further emphasis of his visual satires.
caricature
What material, found most famously in the Eiffel Tower, was developed in the 19th century and revolutionized the architecture of the modern world by allowing buildings to go higher than ever before?
cast iron
The following, a quintessential example of Art Nouveau, is an example of what favored technique of art glass?
cloisonne
Many Cubist canvases included non-painted items such as scraps of newspaper and wine labels pasted onto the surface. What is the term for this new artistic technique?
collage
who is represented in this important renaissance sculpture
david
Who created this sculpture - the first life-size, freestanding male nude since antiquity?
donatello
What the name given to a short piece of prose writing that attempts to examine a single subject or idea in detail?
essay
In the printmaking process of woodcut, the final images are printed on the surface of a flat piece of wood.
false
What genre of painting, popular amongst both European and American artists, captured the Romantic link between Nature and human emotion/inspiration?
landscape
One form of perspective, which helped translate the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface, was known as
linear perspective
Daumier utilized the print making process of _________ in order to make and produce his prints as cheaply as possible. The process involved drawing an image on a stone plate and then pressing sheets of paper against the stone to transfer the image.
lithography
who was the first painter to master the techniques of perspective in paintings such as the tribute money
masaccio
What art form created in the 19th century, the name of which literally means "writing with light," allowed an actual, authentic moment in time to be captured - something that painting and drawing could never do.
photography
A new style of art emerged in the Modernist movement that took various photographic images and assembled them together by gluing them to a flat surface similar to a collage. What is the term for this kind of art?
photomontage
Please match each of these masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance with the appropriate artist. GRUNEWALD
red background, jesus on cross
The later stages of Italian Renaissance art were dominated by which great city?
rome
Works such as Wells' The War of the Worlds, Huxley's Brave New World, and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey are all examples of the 20th century genre known as....
science fiction
Please match each of these masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance with the appropriate artist. DURER
sketchy line
Olaudah Equiano's Travels was a brutally poignant autobiographical account of his kidnapping, sale, and life as a slave in the American south and one of the best examples of what form of literature that first emerged during the 18th century?
slave narratives
What is term for the voluntary agreement made between citizens to form a government or state?
social contract
Under the rule of leaders such as Lenin and Stalin, Russia (or the USSR at the time) created the 20th century's first _____________ regime by strictly controlling all political, economic, and cultural life to subordinate the life of the people to the will of the state.
totalitarian
What is the term for this kind of multi-panel painting?
triptych
The Italian Baroque was an artistic style that represented religious subjects in a dramatic or interactive way.
true
Verrocchio, one of the greatest portrait artists of the Renaissance, worked in both painting and sculpture.
true
What was the name of the movement in opera that paralleled the Realist emphasis on objectivity and truth?
verismo
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.
virtuoso