This label identifies Biblical stories set to music.

This artist is often described as the first woman in the history of the Western world to make a significant contribution to the art of her time.

This English author wrote Leviathan and was the advocate of 'materialism.'

This author is the first to write in the metaphysical style and exerted a strong influence on many younger poets.

This French philosopher is associated with the phrase 'Cogito, ergo sum' and is often called the 'Father of Modern Philosophy.'

This painter was considered the greatest Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

This musician composed the opera L'Orfeo.

Who are the main characters in Book I of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

According to Hobbes, in his philosophical work Leviathan, the three principles that cause men to quarrel are competition, diffidence, and

This artist painted The Calling of Saint Matthew.

This Italian scientist designed and built his own telescope to study the phases of Venus.

This artist's stunning portrait of Louis XIV epitomizes Baroque grandeur.

The colonnaded piazza added to St. Peter's is the achievement of this architect.

Spain's king and queen appear here, in Velázquez's finest and most complex painting, as an indication that they had visited him in his studio.

This author's Gulliver's Travels includes a visit to the land of the Houyhnhnms.

Unlike baroque music, with its unity based on the use of a single continually expanding theme, sonata form is dominated by the idea of what element?

Which of the following terms identifies an elegant outdoor festival attended by courtly figures dressed in the height of fashion?

Invoking an overall impression of lightness and gaiety, this is the predominant art style of the mid-1700s, typified by Watteau's Return from Cythera.

Recognized as the 'Father of Archaeology,' this man encouraged contemporaries to admire ancient masterpieces and to imitate them.

Alexander Pope refers to __________ as that which is universal and unchanging in human experience.

This is the author of A Modest Proposal, which was inspired by the poverty and suffering of a large sector of Ireland's population.

This artist created a series of paintings called Marriage à la Mode.

This opera is Mozart's grand achievement based on a play of the same name by the French dramatist Beaumarchais.

This monarch's lack of interest in the affairs of his subjects or in the details of government and his awareness of the consequences likely to follow are summarized in this comment: 'After me the flood.'

In opera, a scene that requires a large number of characters at one time is called what?

This composer of The Marriage of Figaro is often considered the greatest composer of the late 1700s.

This author's Oliver Twist attacked the treatment of the poor in workhouses.

Which of these musicians performed exciting piano concerts throughout Europe and created piano works that exploited the possibilities of the nocturne?

The painter John Constable shared a deep and warm love of nature, much like that expressed in the writings of which Romantic English poet?

The philosopher Hegel stressed art's ability to reconcile and make sense of opposites, and to provide a ____________ of the two opposing components of human existence, called thesis and antithesis.

This chemist's experiments led to processes that improved the safety of food.

The English novelist Emily Brontë's fame rests on this, the only novel she ever wrote.

French painter Gericault painted this work, inspired by a real-life disaster and a major national scandal.

This musician composed the 'Pathetique' Piano Sonata and is considered a pioneer of musical romanticism.

This author's contempt for bourgeois society is evident in Madame Bovary.

This art movement, characterized by emotion and an interest in nature, predominated the cultural world of nineteenth-century Europe.

Like Beethoven, the Spanish-born painter of this work, lost his hearing later in life.

This author's novel, War and Peace, is set against Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.

This author's A Tale of Two Cities is set in the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Identify the Dutch master who painted this scene from the biblical narrative.

France's monarch, Louis XIV, used ________________________ (as pictured below) to act out the role of supreme ruler and to retain his mastery over the aristocracy.

This Italian scientist designed and built his own telescope to study the phases of Venus.

This author's philosophical masterpiece describes the life of humans in their natural state as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

This innovation in musical entertainment (represented by Monteverdi's works) first appeared in the 1600s

This French philosopher is associated with the phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" and is often called the "Father of Modern Philosophy."

The extreme contrast in light and dark, as evidenced in this painting by Caravaggio, is an example of what baroque technique?

Spain's king and queen appear here, in Velazquez's finest and most complex painting, as an indication that they had visited him in his studio.

This musician composed the opera L'Orfeo.

This metaphysical poet was appointed to one of the most prestigious religious positions in London: Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

This composer and Lutheran church musician wrote over 200 cantatas, many chorale preludes, and the Saint Matthew Passion.

Which of these works did Molière write?

In these words from his epic poem, Paradise Lost, John Milton is describing whom?

"Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads..."

Who are the main characters in Book I of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

This author intends to "justify the ways of God to men" in one of the greatest epic poems of the seventeenth century.

Invoking an overall impression of lightness and gaiety, this is the predominant art style of the mid-1700s, typified by Watteau's Return from Cythera.

This composer of The Marriage of Figaro is often considered the greatest composer of the late 1700s.

This author is closely associated with the 17-volume Encyclopédie of the French Enlightenment.

This French philosopher and author of the Social Contract believed that the natural goodness of humans had been corrupted by the growth of civilization.

Painted only five years before the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David's ___________________ established the official style of revolutionary art.

IN general, the classical symphony has ________ movements

This author's Gulliver's Travels includes a visit to the land of the Houyhnhnms.

This author translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

This monarch's lack of interest in the affairs of his subjects or in the details of government and his awareness of the consequences likely to follow are summarized in this comment: "After me the flood."

By what name is each self-contained section of a symphony known?

This artist created a large number of portraits in pastel.

In the Essay on Man, this author expresses his philosophical position that humans occupy a preeminent place in the divine scheme of life.

This author gained economic independence by producing highly successful translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plus an edition of Shakespeare's works.

This Italian-born artist created large painted works as decorations for the ceilings of churches and palaces.

This philosopher and author spent time at the courts of Louis XV and Frederick the Great, but also served a prison sentence.

This art movement, characterized by emotion and an interest in nature, predominated the cultural world of nineteenth century Europe.

The musician who is considered the greatest composer of Italian opera during the 19^th century.

Like Beethoven, the Spanish-born painter of this work, lost his hearing later in life.

French painter Gericault painted this work, inspired by a real-life disaster and a major national scandal.

This author's contempt for bourgeois society is evident in Madame Bovary.

This English painter's The Slave Ship uses light, color, and movement to form a union of the elements in which earth, sky, fire, and water dissolve into one another.

This author's Les Misérables describes the plight of the victims of society's injustices.

This chemist's experiments led to processes that improved the safety of food.

This is the author of Communist Manifesto, which explains his belief in the inherent evil of capitalism and in the historical inevitability of a proletarian revolution.

This naturalist and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection concluded that animals and plants evolve by a process of natural selection.

This author's Oliver Twist attacked the treatment of the poor in workhouses.

This composer's most monumental achievement is The Ring of the Nibelung, which represents the end of the world.

This author's Faust deals with Dr. Faustus's pact with the devil.

Which of these musicians performed exciting piano concerts throughout Europe and created piano works that exploited the possibilities of the nocturne?

Which of these Russian composers created the opera Boris Godunov?

Historians place the beginnings of modern philosophy in the seventeenth century with which two lines of thought?

The _____________, or empirical approach, represents the “systematic way of collecting and organizing facts about the world.”

Unlike Bacon, Rene Descartes had as his goal, to “construct a comprehensive edifice of thought on the foundation of ______________ .

The criteria for Descartes’ method of rational inquiry was based on what fundamental principle of thinking human beings?

For Descartes the existence of __________ guaranteed the certainty of mathematical and rational knowledge.

Descartes conceived of a dualistic view of humans that divided them into ______________ .

The political philosopher Thomas Hobbes proposed the idea of _____________, that human beings existed of the same essence as all of nature.

Hobbes’s  political treatise, Leviathan, lays out “a method of justifying political arrangements between rational, free, and equal individuals” known as ____________ .

Hobbes believes that all men are created equal in their physical and mental capacities.

According to Hobbes, what three principles cause men to quarrel?

In the eighth paragraph, Hobbes states that when there is no governing power, men will live in a state of __________ .

In the tenth paragraph Hobbes states that man cannot know that his actions are wrong in society without what being established?

Hobbes’s main argument is that society is much better served under the American model of individual freedom than under an absolute monarchy rule.

What is the foundational belief for the first modern system of arts that was established
by the philosophical intellectuals of the 18th Century? 

What did these 18th Century intellectuals mean by the idea of "aesthetic disinterestedness?"

A foundational belief about art in the 18th Century included the idea that artistic beauty was equal to moral goodness because it was related to God and his divine order. 

The foremost philosopher of art in the 18th Century, Immanuel Kant, proposed the idea that it is  ______________ that brings together our sensibility and reason when we judge the beautiful in art.

Regarding the nature of judging art works, Kant believed that all judgements of beauty are subjective and could not therefore be shared by everyone in terms of general rules.