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