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Humanities Final
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Art History
9th Grade
06/11/2007

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The over arching theme of Humanities is…
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How Westerners gained controls by learning to see the world realistically.
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Western art began as…
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Magical religious
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Oldest European piece of art…
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Venus of Willendorf
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Abbreviation for about…
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C. (circa)
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BCE and ACE stand for…
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Before/After Common Era
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Venus of Willondork was made c…
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24,000-24000 BCE
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Early Christian Art was started c…
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0-700 ACE
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The Cave paintings of Lascaux were painted at c…
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15,000 BCE
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Early art was used to…
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Control the world
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Venus of Willendorf was used to promote…
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Fertility
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The paintings in the Cave of Lascaux were painted to…
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Control the hunt
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Early Christian art lacked…
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Realism
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Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts were made c…
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1100-1500 ACE
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Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts became…
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Increasing in Realism.
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Three things that lead to Greater Realism were…
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Proportion
Fore, middle, and backgrounds
Aerial Perspective
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Aerial perspective is when…
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The background fades into Aerial blue.
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Oedipus is the King of…
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Thebes
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The adoptive parents of Oedipus…
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Polybus and Merope
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Biological parents of Oedipus…
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Jocasta and Laius
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Oedipus’ Wife…
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Jocasta
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When the audience knows something the character’s don’t…
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Dramatic Irony
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Oedipus’ brother in law…
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Creon
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The date of Greece’s Golden Age…
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500 BCE
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The wise, blind man…
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Tiresias
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What drives the play…
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Rising Action
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Author of Oedipus…
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Sophocles
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Moment of greatest conflict for the protagonist…
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Climax
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Source of information that causes Oedipus to leave Corinth…
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Oracle
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The last part of plot
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Resolution
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The theme of Midsummer Night Dream is seeing...
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Love clearly
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The subjects in the renaissance...
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Classical Christian
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Da Vinci uses this method of perspective in many painting...
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aerialperspective
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Botticelli's painting celebrating love...
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Birth of Venus
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The lines leading to the vanishing point...
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Orthoganal
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Line on which the vanishing point is found...
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Horizon line
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Renaissance method for picturing three dimensions in a painting...
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One Point Perspective
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Renaissance means...
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Rebirth
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Botticell's Spring painting...
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Primavera
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Hippolyta was an...
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Amazon
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Dramatic lighting technique...
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Chiaroscuro
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Roman's built roads for...
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Armies
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Painter of Slaying of Holofernes
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Artemisia entileschi
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