Culture Jeopardy Questions
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Don Quixote
- novel written by Don Miguel de Cervantes. Published in 2 parts, in 1605 and 1615. Main character fought windmills.
- Fauvism
- pre-WWI modernist movement. Henri matisse was one of these. Comes from the French word for "Wild Beast." intense colors.
- Daguerreotype
- early type of photograph that was invented by Louis Daguerre in 1839.
- "The Prince"
- work by Machiavelli which gave rulers instructions that it was better to be feared than loved and that if the ends justified the means, then they should go for it.
- Salons
- the way Enlightenment ideas were spread. Hosted by upper-bourgeois women. Philosophes would come and discuss their ideas at these little house parties. There were musicians who played at these too.
- William Shakespeare
- major poet and playwright, possibly the greatest of all time. Wrote numerous tragedies, comedies, and dramas. English. During the 1600s. never finished schooling. There are controversies over if he really wrote everything accredited to him.
- Neoclassicism
- art movement. mid-1700s through 1800s. focus on rationality and intellect rather than passion, throwback to Renaissance and Classical art, very linear.
- Baroque Art
- art movement. 1600s-early 1700s.detail, intensity, contrast in light and shade for depth, fullness of energy and motion. Lots of patronage, mostly by elite, but middle class begin to invest as well. existed in two forms: Catholic and Secular.
- Council of Trent
- 1545 council to address corruption in the Catholic Church. Response to the Protestant Reformation. Created the Index and specified things about Catholicism.
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Basically the most influential/memorable Christian Humanist. Wrote "Handbook of the Christian Soldier."
- Waiting for Godot
- play by Samuel Beckett. Influenced by Existentialism & also Freud. 1952. about 2 people waiting for some person who never shows up.
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
- Very famous Italian Baroque architect. Death of the Virgin.
- Humanism
- first and foremost major tenet of the Italian Renaissance. Consisted of three main points: 1. influenced by ancient Greeks and Romans 2. put man at the center of study 3. focus on textual criticism.
- Bauhaus
- house of architecture. architecture utilizing both function & form. Opened in 1919; closed by Hitler in 1933. founded by Walter Gropius.
- Jeunesse Dorree
- interesting cultural phenomenon during the Thermidorean Reaction in France in the late 1700s. Young people of society went around wearing clothes and behaving in the style of the ancient régime, since they were allowed to without fear of execution.
- L'Encyclopedie
- most likely compiled by Diderot. 1700s. The only sections that weren't biased were the science sections. Otherwised, espoused Enlightenment ideals. Contributions included were from many important philosophes.
- Versailles
- palace constructed under Lousi XIV from 1669-1689. Located nowadays in a suburb of paris. Includes a Hall of Mirrors. Baroque style.
- Richard Wagner
- composer who was loved by Hitler but dead by the time Hitler was alive. German. Famous for his operas.
- Impressionism
- 1850-early 1900s.Rebelled against tradition. Creative applications of texture, light, shading, and color. first form of Modernism.
- Émile
- written work by Rousseau. Story about a boy who grows up in nature, and the moral is that the laws of nature will raise children correctly. This, along with tabula rasa, influenced people to believe that their children were like sponges and thus they pampered them more.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- author of Sherlock Holmes novels. British. Important figure in 19th century realism.
- Rococo
- art movement. mainly in France, also Italian and German states. pastel shades, dainty curves and figures, lightheartedness. a contrast to the formal, strict air of 1600s court life. subjects not as religious, less focus on church. not very realistic.
- Romanticism
- cultural movement/style. begins in 1798 and continues through early nineteenth c. idealized nature and darkness; criticized society.
- Lorenzo Valla
- father of textual criticism. Found fraudulent works within the church and was hired by the pope to fix documents there.
- Pablo Picasso
- very well known artist, famous for being the most influential Cubist. Also had a blue period, followed by a rose period. Spanish. Died in the 70s.