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The Greek term for "art" and "craft" was
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Techne
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On an ancient Greek temple, the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top. Which of the following terms refers to this characteristic
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Entasis
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The term aesthetics was invented by
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German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten
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Which of the following literary pieces was first to detail the Greek pantheon?
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Theogony
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Which ancient Greek city-state was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo
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Delphi
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Which of the following is the Greek term for city-state?
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Polis
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Who instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE
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Kleisthenes
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Which of the following is the Greek term for "the good or flourishing life"?
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eudaimonia
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Which of the following Greek terms can be translated as "virtue," and can be interpreted as "reaching one's highest potential"?
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areté
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Which of the following terms translates as the sin of pride?
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acropolis
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Which of the following terms refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center?
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Agora
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Which of the following is described as the "King of the gods"?
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Zeus
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Which of the following is described as "the God of wine and inspiration"?
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Dionysus
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In ancient Greek architecture, which of the following orders featured scrolled capitals
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Ionic
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On the Athenian Acropolis, which of the following was considered the centerpiece
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The Partheon
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Which of the following is considered the chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals?
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To tell all stories of the Bible
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In a Gothic church, which of the following was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support and brace it against strong winds?
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Flying buttress
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In which of the following cities was the first university founded, quickly establishing itself as a center for the study of law
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Bologna
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The medieval paradigm was based on the mythology provided by
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The bible
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Philosophy was practised in the Middle Ages primarily in the form of
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Theology
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The central significance of religion in the medieval paradigm, with God as the absolute value, makes this paradigm
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Theocentric
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The term transcendent means
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situated in the beyond
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The term immanent means
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the opposite of transcendent
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Along with Jewish monotheism, medieval Christian theology was rooted in
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monistic Greco-Roman philosophy
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St. Augustine's Confessions was a book telling the story of
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personal conversion to Christianity
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Dionysius the Areopagite, known in medieval France as Saint Denis, was
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the anonymous author of early Christian theological treatises
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The chief purpose of the life of a medieval Christian person was
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to assure happiness in the afterlife
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The understanding of time that is typical of the medieval paradigm can be defined as
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regressive
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The Gothic style in medieval architecture owed its origins especially to
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Abbot Suger of Saint-Deni
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The theological understanding of the stained-glass window in the Gothic cathedral was influenced by the writings of
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Dionysius the Areopagite
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The Chartres Cathedral was dedicated to
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Our Lady (Notre- Dame)
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In the plan of a Gothic cathedral the part that crosses the nave at a right angle is called
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Transept
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The rib vault in the Gothic style is obtained by
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Crossing 2 barrel vaults
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The flying buttress of the Gothic cathedral was invented for the purpose of
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building thin and tall walls with large windows
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"Radiant style" refers to
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the effects of stained-glass lighting and interior decoration in churches
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In which of the following industries were the Medici family members heavily involved, resulting in their becoming the most powerful family in Florentine affairs from 1418 until 1494?
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the banking industry
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Which of the following produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral?
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Who among the members of the Platonic Academy in Florence developed the idea of universal religion?
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Which of the characters in Botticelli's Primavera would the humanists in Lorenzo's court have recognized as an allegorical figure representing the highest ideal of human relations
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Venus
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Where is Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supperlocated?
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in a monastery
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In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, the author argued that the human person is which of the following
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a being endowed with an unlimited potential for self-determination
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Who is credited for having coined the term "Platonic love"?
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Marsilio Ficino
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How many times does the Apostle Peter appear in Masaccio's The Tribute Money?
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three
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Who is the author of Oration on the Dignity of Man, considered one of the great manifestos of humanism?
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Pico della Mirandola
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Which of the following pairs are the central figures in Raphael's School of Athens?
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Aristotle and Plato
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In Alberti's single-point linear perspective, the lines that connect points along the base line with the vanishing point are called
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orthogonals
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The soft transitions from one color to another in Renaissance paintings, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, are described by the Italian term
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sfumato
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The play of light and shadow developed and refined by Renaissance painters is referred to by which of the following terms
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chiaroscuro
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As a transitional epoch between the Middle Ages and modern times, the Renaissance is marked by which of the following
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dynamic balance between the older theocentric and emerging anthropocentric thinking
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The term humanitas was borrowed by the early humanist scholars Salutati and Bruni from which of the following ancient authors:
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Cicero
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Which of the following was NOT included by Renaissance humanists among the humanities, i.e., disciplines that are especially conducive to the appropriate development of the human mind
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metaphysics
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In his treatise The Vision of God, Nicolas of Cusa used a portrait painted in the new style as an example of which of the following ideas
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all-seeing God
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Nicolas of Cusa's phrase coincidentia oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites, was his way of designating God as which of the following
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the ultimate mystical reconciliation of all contradictions in creation
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Which of the following is the author of the essay On Literary and Scientific Studies, who argued for the secular education of women, designed to foster "gracefulness, harmony, and beauty" of speech and writing by learning from classical exemplars
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Leonardo Bruni Aretino
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The Platonic Academy in Florence was founded and led by which of the following humanist scholars
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Marsilio Ficino
