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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.

2. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music

3. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction

4. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet

5. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.

6. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky

7. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.

8. Beautiful Italian singing

9. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures

10. Famous for black and white erotic paintings

11. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma

12. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.

13. God of the Sea

14. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors

15. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.

16. Spanish surrealist painter

17. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back

18. School of nonsense and anti-art

19. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language

20. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting

21. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)

22. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).

23. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture

24. Famous for black and white erotic paintings

25. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.