Humanities Midterm Review

The Sturm und Drang movement

Which was an accomplishment of the Council of Trent?

Which of the following musicians composed the Surprise Symphony?

Which of the following is NOT considered part of a traditional sonata?

Galileo's celestial observations proved that

Name this ornate canopy placed inside St. Peter's Basilica to cover St. Peter's burial site

What differentiated northern humanists from Italian ones?

The florid baroque

Which of the following is NOT true of late-sixteenth-century Catholic Church music?

A splendid example of a rococo interior is the

The Netherlands in the seventeenth century

The perfect instrument for rococo music was the

Who designed the Villa Capra, or Villa Rotonda?

A theme of the Isenheim Altarpiece was the

What is the subject of a Pietà scene?

All of the following were contributions by Mozart EXCEPT

Raphael demonstrates a mastery of well-ordered space in his painting,

The painter who launched the sublime theme in Germany was

Rembrandt's painting style was typified by all of the following EXCEPT

Which composer is most famous for perfecting the art song, or lied?

What was Erasmus's fate?

In the arts, the period between 1494 and 1564 was preeminently an age of

What is the basic plan of the Villa Rotonda?

The outstanding example of enlightened despotism in the Age of Reason was

Baroque writers made major contributions in all of the following genres EXCEPT

The major ways in which nature was represented in romantic painting were the

Marcello Malpighi's contribution to the study of the human body and circulation was the

The most representative mannerist artist in Spain who captured the Catholic Reformation was

English literary romanticism was launched by the writings of

One of Napoleon's major domestic reforms was a

Which new literary genre flourished in Spain in the sixteenth century?

Which state briefly became a republic (called the Commonwealth) in the mid-seventeenth century?

Of which painting style was Jacques-Louis David the primary exponent?

The French painter Ingres is best remembered as

The originator of the rococo style in painting was

A baroque theme in Velázquez's painting Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honor, is

The High Renaissance painting style was characterized by which of the following?

What type of song was most expressive of late-sixteenth-century music?

The mannerist viewpoint was anti-classical in its

Which is NOT correct about seventeenth-century French drama?

Who was the editor of the Encyclopédie?

Which writer's intensely personal autobiography foreshadowed romanticism?

The most spectacular representative of absolutism in the baroque age was

The term baroque probably derives from the Portuguese word barocco meaning

Which painter's treatment of color anticipated that of the impressionists?

Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck is mannerist in its

The Education of Marie de' Medici can be characterized as a

What musical innovation occurred in the High Renaissance?

Rubens's paintings are known for their

Which scientist disproved Galen's theory about the circulation of the blood?

How did religious leaders react to Copernicus's theory of the universe?

The originators of laissez-faire economics were

Pozzo's Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits illustrates the baroque love of

Who of the following created an oratorio based on biblical texts and sung in English?

In The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Bernini was able to

Which important development in international relations occurred during the High Renaissance?

Who laid out his philosophy of skepticism in A Treatise of Human Nature?

The painting Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix

Who selected models from the street, used no landscapes, and used chiaroscuro in many works?

A central tenet of Deism is that

Descartes, in his search for the truth,

Pascal's attitude toward the existence of God was that

Michelangelo's outstanding architectural monument is the

Bruegel's The Painter and the Connoisseur pioneered what new subject in art?

Besides paintings, Dürer also is known for his

What new literary form was developed in the Age of Reason?

A central characteristic of medieval science was that it

Géricault's painting of The Raft of the Medusa portrayed the theme of the

Which of the following was a theme or subject found in romantic paintings?

Gentileschi's painting style was

Kepler's major contribution to the Scientific Revolution was

The preeminent expression of florid baroque architecture is

The second phase of the French Revolution can be described as

Which is NOT true of Francis Bacon's scientific career?

Malthus's argument about population held that

The most profound influence on America's classical heritage in architecture was exercised by

A consequence of Kepler's scientific research was

Which of the following artists created the Tempietto to mark the site of St. Peter's martyrdom?

Copernicus's explanation of the universe can be described as a

The Enlightenment was essentially a product of cultural life in

Romanticism viewed nature as

Which Flemish artist studied Rubens and eventually became court painter to England's Charles I?

The subject of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier is

In his paintings, Constable

The restrained baroque was

Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights depicts

Europe by 1830 can be described as a continent that

The one event that upset Luther and ultimately launched the Protestant Reformation was the

Calvin's concept of predestination meant that

The baroque artistic ideal can be characterized as