Chapter 12 Humanities – Flashcards
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What are some hallmarks of Delacroix's style?
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pictorial license
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The independent art song originated by Franz Schubert that united music and poetry was called the?
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Lied
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Darwin contributed to the study of biology chiefly by?
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Developing the theory of natural selection.
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Whose "Ode" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?
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Keats
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Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of the Western ideal of?
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Urge to transcend limitations
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Which of the following best describes the Romantic architecture at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton
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Eastern exotic
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London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of?
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Neomedievalism
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In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including?
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members of the middle and working classes
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Who was a male counterpart to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth?
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Douglass
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What are some of the concepts Romantics rebelled against?
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Individualism
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The fact that the nineteenth century was "the age of the virtuoso" is most evident in the work of?
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Chopin
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One of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry is that it?
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is written in free verse
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In his landmark symphonies, Beethoven made use of?
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1. strong contrasts of loud and soft sound 2. the scherzo
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Romantic ballets such as La Sylphide derived their plot lines from?
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fairy tales and folk legends
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Who is considered to be one of the first Realists in the English novel-writing tradition?
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Jane Austen
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The landmark work that marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England was William Wordsworth's?
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"Lyrical Ballads"
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The American writer Henry Thoreau valued?
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nature as a source of instruction
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Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in a landmark series of etchings and aquatints known as?
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The Disasters of War
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J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of?
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natural landscapes
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What are some characteristics of nineteenth-century music?
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the orchestra grew to grand proportions
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The most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya depicted?
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current events
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