Test 2-Humanities
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- absolutism
- the acceptance of or belief in absolute principals in political, philisophical, ethical, or theological matters.
- genre painting
- artists' representations of ordinary life and people.
- Le Bourgeois Gentilehomme
- Play written by Moliere. Plot: a wealthy tradesman hires a variety of tutors to school him in the trappings of upper-class respectability.
- Louis XIV
- King of France aka "The Sun King". began rule at age of 7. governed France as the direct representative of God and held his word as absolute.
- Moliere
- Comical playwright in 17th century who wrote plays dealing with the hypocracies and foibles of lower, middle and upper classes.
- vanitas
- art which suggests the corruptibility of worldly goods, the futility of riches, and the inevitablility of death.