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| Who are the great Reformers? |
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| Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII |
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| Who are the great Baroque artists? |
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Catholic, Aristocratic: Bernini, Caravaggio, Rubens
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| Who are the great Renaissance artists? |
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| Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo |
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| Who are some of the Impressionist painters? |
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| Where did Impressionism get its name? |
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| From a painting by Claude Monet entitled "Impression, Sunrise." |
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| What is the sobriquet for the 16th century? |
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| What is the sobriquet for the 17th century? |
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| What is the sobriquet for the 18th century? |
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| What is the sobriquet for the 19th century? |
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| What was the first book ever printed? |
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| Who printed the first book? |
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| Index Librorum Prohibitorum (list of prohibited books) |
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| What are the two things in the story of Tristan and Iseut that keep reappearing in love stories throughout Western civilization? |
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| Adultery and liebestod (love death) |
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| What is the importance of 1453? |
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| Marked the fall of the Byzantine empire and the invention of Gutenberg's printing press. Basically the beginning of the Renaissance. |
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| Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World. |
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| Descartes wrote his "Discourse on the Method" |
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| Sir Isaac Newton wrote the "Principia" |
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| The signing of the Declaration of Independence, thereby liberating the American colonies from Britain. The American Revolution |
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| Who wrote "Discours de la méthode de bien conduire sa raison en matières de science et de…" |
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| Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus |
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| Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus |
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| The Calling of St Matthew |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| Girl with a Pearl Earring |
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| What does Christopher Columbus' name mean? |
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| The middle class. Above the peasants, but not quite the aristocracy. |
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| chi-ro. Constantine supposedly saw this as a sign that Christianity was true. "In hoc signo vinces." In this sign I shall be victorious. |
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| What council began the Counter-Reformation? |
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| What artistic style was started by the Church in the Counter-Reformation? |
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| What is the aim of the Counter-Reformation? |
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| define doctrines, reform abuses, attract the faithful back to the Church by beauty, "kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." |
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| What is the aim of the Reformation? |
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| To protest against corruption in the Church (especially indulgences), "ad fontes"- back to the source |
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| What movie/play is about Sir Thomas More? |
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| What book did Sir Thomas More write about the perfect society? |
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| A symbol is an object which represents something that isn't tangible |
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| What are three ways to look for symbolism? |
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| Catholic inquiry about a person's standing with the Church, often involved torture. |
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| Le coeur a ses raisons que la Raison ne connait point. |
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| The hear has its reasons that Reason does not know. -Blaise Pascal |
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| God out of the machine. Any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot. |
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| Who talked about the "thinking reed"? |
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| The intentionally artistic, interpretive rendering of the human body as the subject of a work of art. |
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| Painting technique combining very dark background with a light foreground. |
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| Who wrote, “No man is an island,” and “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”? |
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| What class of society developed in the 18th century? |
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| The proletariat, working class |
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| Boredom to death due to too much free time |
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| What's the more common name for the "Authorized Version"? |
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| Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"? |
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| Who was the first painter to become rich and famous in his lifetime? |
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| When was the KJV first published? |
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