Humanities Test 2

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which of the following wrote a poem whose speaker promises a women that, if he had enough time, he would spend a hundred years praising her eyes, two hundred to adore each breast and thirty thousand to the rest?

Andrew Marvell

Which of the following is NOT one of Candide's Experiences?

At the end of his journey, candide wants more than anything in the world to marry Cunegonde, who is still as beautiful as she was when he left her in the castle.

In the passage from Milton's PARADISE LOST Satan is speaking to

Beelzebub

Which Baroque artist was know to be a favored sculptor by the church? his works include DAVID and THE ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA

Bernini

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Baroque art?

Black and white only

Which of the following writers declared, "the heart has its reasons, which reasons does not know," and "the knowledge of God is very far from the love of him"

Blaise Pascal

which french rococo artist was known for using Venus as his subject in paintings, such as in the work Venus consoling love? He was also known for using madam de Pompadour( one of Louis xv's Mistresses) as a subject.

Boucher

Which artist created sculptures to serve as forms of propaganda? This included a sculpture of Nepolean's sister and Venus as well as sculptures depicting Greek Mythology.

Canova

"conversion of st. paul" "david and goliath" "incredibility of st. thomas" -first artist to shock his audience -curescuro -CHURCH

Carravoggio

"Hard times"

CharlesDickens

which neoclassical artist was a student of David? Her works include MADEMOISELLE CHARLOTTE and MELANCHOLY

Charpentier

In Aphra Behn's OROONOKO, which of the following is the slave name given to Imoinda (the black princess who loved oroonoko)

Clemene

Which of the following is a rococo composer? He was known for his refined, witty music, which he often performed on a harpsichord.

Couperin

"Death of Socrates"/ "Oath of the Horati" -Neoclassical -French

David

Cause/effect -Caused an uproar in the church -libson earthquake everything but the brothels were destroyed. -SCIENTIST

David Hume

Theory of Evolution: held for a long time before finally publishing

Dawin

Philosopher : "cogito, ergo sum" /"I think therefore I am"

Decartes

The church was not happy about this because they didnt want to much knowledge

Diorot Encyclopedia

"George sand" known for writing things about women's feelings about things

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"self portrait" -Marie Antoinette was a big consumer of hers. -well known portrait artist -neoclassical

Elizabeth Le Brun

"To be awakened" -no more prejudices or superstitions

Enlightenment

American realism, abolitionist, education: mistress started to teach him.

Fredrick Douglas

"The swing"/ "The pursuit" -French -ARTIST

Fregonard

French Rococo art is often depicted what kind of scenes?

Frivolous pursuits of worldly pleasure

"Blue boy"/ "mrs. Richard Brinsley sheridne" -English

Gainsbourogh

In October 1992 the church of Rome declared that which of the following had been treated unfairly (He was forced to recant his scientific findings and put under house arrest)

Galileo

Which of the following encouraged ethics in science and believed knowledge and invention should be public property available for the good of all?

Galileo

"Judith slaying Holofernes"/ "judith and her maid survent with the head of holofernes" -is a women -typically violent and focused on women figures -CHURCH

Gentileschi

Who was a dutch artist who excelled in portrait paintings? his works include THE LAUGHING CAVALIER and GYPSY GIRL.

Hals

Which Baroque composer was known for his oratorios (sacred operas)? This included the Messiah, which features the Hallelujah Chorus.

Handel

"symphony #97"

Hayden

Social Dawinsim

Hebert spencer

who is an evolutionary philosopher And wanted a utopia

Hegal

Which of the following is Not true about Poussin?

His Patron was a dutch merchant

who was an English rococo artist whose scenes were a satire of the French Rococo style? his series MARRIAGE A LA MODE reveals problems when people marry for money.

Hogarth

Who described "nonage" a term referring to people who choose not to think for themselves? (he famously declare "dare to know")

Immanuel Kant

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of French Rococo art?

Intense, Dramatic scenes

first to propose welfare system

Jermey Bentham

Which of the following believes educating children was important to achieve the best citizens? ( his ideas were based on the history TABULA ROSA)

John Locke

Suffraggette, not popular among men at the time

John Stuart Mill

"modest proposal" -eat babies to solve problems -WRITER

Johnathan Swift

"westwood children" "John jacob edwards and sons" -American

Johnson

"seld portrait" / " boy with the flute" -always has musical instruments or something musically involved in her paintings -DUTCH MERCHANT

Judith Leyster

"Plenty the younger" / "the temptest" -founding member of the British royal academy of arts -took from literature

Kauffman

Francis Bacon's Idols of the Marketplace suggested that people will never fully understand each other because of?

Language differences

who wrote the communist manifesto -working class people unite was originally a good idea but dictators made it bad.

Marx

wrote Frankenstein

Mary Shelly

Paradise Lost -WRITER

Milton

who was a classical composer who is considered one of the greatest music geniuses? Even though he died young, he left many works including the opera of Don Giovanni and the piece " Night Music"

Mozart

a strong leader, waterloo was his downfall

Napolieon Bonaparte

Which of the following studied laws of motion and gravity, optics, and calculus?

Newton

Which of the following insists that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds?

Pangloss

Expelled from Oxford for writing an essay about atheism and passed it around. -"asmindias"

Percy Shelly

"the descent from the cross" /"night watch" -known for very specific use of light -DUTCH MERCHANT

Remembrant

more into opera: more refined and classy version of baroque style.

Remeu

Reign of terror -declared to make a stronger democracy killing everyone. -response to this is "declaration to the rights of man"

Robespierre

educated ideas "educated by; parents school experience" and if the child turns out bad its these reasons fault.

Rousseau

"assumption of virgin" /"venus in the mirror" / "judgement of Paris" -raising her into heaven -ENGLISH ARISTOCRATS

Rubens

"Aint i a women" black women, 1851 delivered speech in Ohio before the civil war. clever sassy witty.

Sojourner Truth

"Mrs. Richard Yates"/ "George Washington" -American Neoclassical

Stuart

Who said "a child father to man and if you want to find God you have to go back to a child" -"World is to much with is"

Wordsworth

"9th symphony" / "5th Symphony" (perfect symphony) -Deaf

beethoven

When was the industrial revolution?

1750-1850

when was the American Revolution -only successful revolution

1776

French revolution

1789

greeks vs turks revolution

1821

1848 Revolution

1830

Hard dictatorship

Absolutism

Who promoted the ideas of LAISSEZ_FAIRE economics?

Adam Smith

Oroonke -WRITER

Afra Behn

which of the following is not true about Baroque Music?

All music was performed acapella (without instrument)

The master of the plantation who shows oroonoko around is named

Trefry

"maids of honor" -CHURCH

Valesquez

"LordJohns & Benard stuart" "self portrait" -was a court painter in england -ENGLISH ARISTOCRATS

Van Dyck

Which of the following is a dutch artist known for his skill in using natural lighting? He took ordinary subjects and made them extraordinary, as seen in THE LACE MAKER and THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAT.

Vermeer

self declared secular human(saw God in nature not the church) wrote "candide" -WRITER

Voltaire

"four seasons" -Baroque music

Vovaldy

"embarkment for cytheria"/ "a love festival" -venus was a large subject of his -ROCOCO ART -French

Watteau

Which of the following is NOT true about Milton's PARADISE LOST?

When Satan landed in hell, he immediately jumped up and shook his fist at God, Threatening to beat him up next time they fought.

Not happy with church but EXTREMELY religious

William Blake


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