Review for FINAL EXAM !!!
Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are considered
transcendentalists.
The Civil War was the first war to be documented in the new medium of photography.
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden in 1854 in part because he believed that living
close to nature was humankind’s strength.
The Peninsular War was the subject of Francisco Goya’s series of 82 prints produced
between 1810 and 1823.
Eadweard Muybridge’s sequence studies led to the invention of the zoopraxiscope (or
early motion picture camera).
Sculpture fell out of favor during the Romantic era.
A daguerreotype (1839) is an early type of photograph.
Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in Western
Europe and the Americas.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809 –1882) was an English naturalist who realized and
presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from
common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection.
William Blake- was an English poet, painter, & printmaker. Largely unrecognized
during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both
poetry & the visual arts of the Romantic Age. Often considered insane.
Both Goya’s The Third of May and Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa could be
said to express the theme of __.
Claude Debussy was to 19th Century French music what Pierre-August Renoir was to 19th
C. French painting.
Edouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass was a precursor to the __________ movement.
Edgar Degas- Founder of Impressionism (dancers)
Mary Cassatt- Impressionist artist (mothers with child)
Vincent van Gogh- Post-mpressionist
Berthe Morisot- Rejectd woman impressionist
