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Western Humanities II 1400-1900 AD - College Junior Level
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Great Italian Humanist, Had an encounter with a true love named Laura. Who
became the insparation for most of his poems. Wrote Canzoniere, Secretum.
585
Francisco Petrarch
Giovanni Occaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Michel de Montaigne
2
1
7
Essayist and Philosopher, notable for his tolerance in a bigoted age.
Studied Law, became a counselor with the parliment. Also served two terms
as a mayor of Bordaux. Wrote Essays (assai) and Cannibals.
585
Michel de Montaigne
Baldassare Castiglione
William Shakespeare
Francesco Petrarch
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1
7
Widely talented, trained as a goldsmith, studied archeology. Invented
linear perspective. Designed the Pazzi Chapel, Florence Cathedral and
Ospedale deli Innocenti.
585
Filippo Brunelleschi
Donato di Niccolo Bardi
Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio)
Andrea Mantegna
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Diplomat, soldier, and humanist scholar. Embodied the idear of the well
rounded courtier in The Book of the Courtier.
585
Baldassare Castiglione
Michel de Montaigne
Niccolo Machiavelli
Johannes Ockeghem
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3
Wrote The Prince, based on political theories of classical history and his
own observation of the "political animal".
585
Baldassare Castiglione
Michel de Montaigne
Niccolo Machiavelli
Giovanni Boccaccio
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3
Sculpt the statue called St.Mark, showing realism and commanding authority.
Free of its restrictive environment, builds on the legacy of Polykleitos.
585
Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello)
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarroti
None of these
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Painted the Adoration of the Magi.
585
Leonardo da Vinci
Piero Della Francesca
Andrea Mantegna
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Famous for the Gates of Paradise, which contains the Story of Jacob and Esau
in one of its panels.
585
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Michel de Montaigne
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo da Vinci
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Painted the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, also famous for his 13 foot statue of
David.
585
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gentile Da Fabriano
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1
Painted The Adoration of the Magi (tempra on wood panel).
585
Gentile Da Fabriano
Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello)
Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio)
None of these
2
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3
Painted The Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St John, as well as The
Tribute Money.
585
Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio)
Donato di Niccolo Bardi (Donatello)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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3
Indifference to or Rejection or exclusion of religion and religious
considerations.
585
Secularism
Humanism
Neoplatonism
None of these
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The belief that man is born good and wise and that life is meant to be
enjoyed - belief in human perfectability.
585
Secularism
Humanism
Neoplatonism
None of these
2
2
1
A group of workers, or Union.
585
Guilds
Fresco
House
Intercession
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The Pope who commissioned Michaelangelo to paint the sistine chapel.
585
Pope Mark
Pope Julius II
Pope Medici
Pope Ceasar III
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The monestary built by Gargantua & Ponocrates for the pure of heart.
585
Theleme
Palladio
Sistine Chapel
Castiglione
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1
A distinctive melody that serves as the basis for a musical composition.
585
Monophony
Theme
Polyphony
Motet
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Describes music consisting of a single melodic line (without harmony)
585
Theme
Monophony
Polyphony
A cappella
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Describes music in which two or more melodies are played simultaneously
(same as counterpoint) characteristic of baroque music.
585
Theme
Polyphony
Motet
Cantata
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A short choral composition, using religious text, for four voices in
polyphony.
585
Theme
Motet
A Cappella
None of these
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2
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Choral music without instrumental accompaniment
585
Theme
A Cappella
Monophony
None of these
2
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Opposition of church law, a crime punishable by death or the rack.
585
Heresy
Theocracy
Inquisition
None of these
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A principle where the church is the ruling body of a nation, country, or
entity. The consituants follow 'Church law'.
585
Theocracy
Inquisition
Secularism
None of These
2
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3
A system (usually for painting) where people and objects tend to dissolve
into the background. Less defined, blurred around the edges.
585
Linear Perspective
Aerial Perspective
Foreshortening
None of these
2
2
1
Giving spatial depth to picture.
585
Linear Perspective
Aerial Perspective
Foreshortening
Planar expansion
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The teacher of Gargantua. Also was his partner in creating Theleme
585
Ponocrates
Panagora
Gattamelata
Botticelli
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Architect of the COLONNADE OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA (Series of outdoor columns
with statues on top).
585
Tintoretto
El Greco
Bernini
Caravaggio
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Architect of BALDACCHINO, ST. PETER'S BASILICA (dark curving columns inside
in a square).
585
El Greco
Rembrandt van Rijn
Bernini
Albrecht Durer
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Painted THE RAPE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF LEUCIPPUS (2 men on horses picking up 2
naked women)
585
Rembrandt van Rijn
Peter Paul Rubens
Nicholas Poussin
Tintoretto
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Painted INTERIOR OF A COURTYARD (man smoking long pipe with a woman and girl
next/near by).
585
Pieter De Hooch
Caravaggio
Mansart and LeBrun
Christopher Wren
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Painted LANDSCAPE WITH THE BURIAL OF PHOCION (distance view with 2 men
carrying a white robed body on a stretcher).
585
Nicholas Poussin
Peter Paul Rubens
Mansart and LeBrun
Rembrandt van Rijn
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Architects of the Palace of VERSAILLES (Gorgeous palace has hall of mirrors)
585
Mansart and LeBrun
Bernini and Christopher Wren
Mansart and Bernini
Christopher and LeBrun
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Architect of ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (cross shaped from top, has two stories of
columns from the front with a clock on the right bell tower).
585
Christopher Wren
Mansart and LeBrun
Bernini
Albrecht Durer
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A papal certificate that reduces the temporal punishment for sin, on earth
and in purgatory, after the sin has been forgiven.
585
Penance
Intercession
Salvation by faith
Indulgence
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The use of varying degrees of shading to suggest the play of reflected light
on a curved or uneven surface.
585
Soliloquy
Chiaroscuro
Intercession
None of these
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A speech made by dramatic character in isolation and intended to convey his
or her inner reflections.
585
Penance
Index
Soliloquy
None of these
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A polyphonic multimovement composition for solo voices, chorus and orchestra,
usually for performance in a church.
585
Basso continuo
Cantata
Fugue
Madrigal
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A single bass line of chords, usually played by the harpsichord or cello,
that exists to support and unify the melodies being woven above it (also
called "figured bass").
585
Madrigal
Basso continuo
Concerto grosso
Opera
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a song, using a text in the vernacular language, for several voices in
polyphony.
585
Cantata
Fugue
Madrigal
Opera
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a polyphonic composition, generally for two to four voices (vocal or instr.)
in which the same themes are passed from voice to voice or instrument to
instrument to instrument - very popular with baroque composers.
585
Concerto grosso
Fugue
Concerto
Oratorio
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A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra, usually with
three contrasting movements.
585
Concerto grosso
Concerto
Opera
Mandrigal
2
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An orchestral composition in which the instruments are divided into two
contrasting bodies: a large (ripieno, or grosso) and a small (concertino)
ensemble.
585
Concerto grosso
Oratorio
Basso continuo
None of these
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Painted THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE EPOCALYPSE (black and white woodcut of four
horsemen, an angel and some people being stampeded).
585
Michelangelo
Tintoretto
Albrecht Durer
Peter Paul Rubens
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Painted THE FOUR APOSTLES (actually 2 panels with 2 apostles in each)
585
Michelangelo
Nicholas Poussin
Caravaggio
Albrecht Durer
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Painted THE LAST JUDGEMENT (dozens of men floating as if in an aerial world).
585
Michelangelo
Albrecht Durer
Bernini
Nicholas Poussin
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Painted THE BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ (dome shaped picture, has christ and angels
at the top and the pope, priests, counts around an armoured body who is being
moved by the pope and a cardinal).
585
El Greco
Peter Paul Rubens
Nicholas Poussin
Caravaggio
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Painted THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL (has a ma