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43 Cards in this Set
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Peter Rubens
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The Raising of The Cross
Garden of Love |
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Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
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View of Toledo
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Caravggio
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Calling of St. Matthew
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Three Trees
Syndics of the Draper Guild Return of the Prodigal Son |
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Jan Vermeer
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Woman with a Lute
Kitchenmaid |
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
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Portrait of King and Queen with him in the reflection of the mirror
Las Meninas |
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Galileo
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Astronomer, development of the scientific method as well as work with gravity and inertia.
Telescope to show that universe is not in a static state |
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Brahe
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Astronomer, rejected Copernicus' idea that solar system is helio-centric
Observed that universe is not permanent |
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Kepler
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Astronomer, Brahe's assistant
Accepted helio-centric view Objects move around sun in elliptical pattern Planetary bodies move at different rates, closer to sun = faster rate of revolution |
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Copernicus
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Astronomer
Proposed helio-centric view of solar system Studied revolution of celestial spheres |
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Newton
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Physicist
Studied light, optics, gravity at Cambridge Wrote Principia Developed 3 basic laws of physics |
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Bacon
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Philosopher
Proposed strictly empirical approach that starts from the bare minimum knowledge and then graduates to true certainty |
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Descartes
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Philosopher
Advocated empirical approach Cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am Starting from bare minimum and then moving to higher levels of truth Separated substances into 'matter' or 'mind' Doubt everything that could be reasonably doubted and then use reasoning and go from there |
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John Locke
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Philosopher
Wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Advocates human minds as blank slates (tabula rasa) All knowledge is gained through experience There is no a priori/universal truths |
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Montesquieu
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Wrote The Spirit of The Law
Government needs to exist as a system of checks and balances |
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Rousseau
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Philosopher
Wrote The Social Contract All individuals should surrender their rights to the society and its greater purpose Government only gets power from society, so divine right of kings is not right |
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Voltaire
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Wrote Candide
Cultivate Your Own Garden |
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Diderot
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First encyclopedia
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Adam Smith
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Economist who came up with idea of free trade, open commerce with all countries
Also developed laissez-faire attitude which proposes that government doesn't interfere with the economy Also advocated that individuals are self-interested and by serving themselves and making themselves better, they can better society |
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Erasmus
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Christian Humanism
The Praise of Folly Colloquies |
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Thomas More
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Christian Humanism
Utopia |
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Montaigne
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Famous skeptic
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Petrarca
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Founder of Renaissance literature, humanist
Rime Sparse |
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Michelangelo
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The Last Judgment - Sistine Chapel
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Madonna on the Rocks
Mona Lisa Last Supper |
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Raphael
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Holy Family Beneath the Oak
Transfiguration of Christ |
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Caravaggio
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3 self portraits
Martyrdoms with violence Suffering, realism, struggle of people Martyrdom of Saint Matthew |
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Renaissance architect
Dome of cathedral of Santa Maria el Fiore |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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She Walks in Beauty
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Tell Tale Heart
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Walt Whitman
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Song of Myself
New type of free verse, no structure |
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Mary Shelly
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Frankenstein
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Thoreau
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Walden Pond
Transcendentalism |
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Eroica
Symphony #9 / Ode To Joy |
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Jacques-Louis David
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Death of Marat
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Francisco Goya
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The Sleep of Reason
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Eugene Delacroix
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Liberty at the Baracades
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Casper David Friedrich
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Traveler Looking Over Sea of Fog
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Hudson River School
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First American romantic art movement
Emphasis on landscapes |
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Thomas Cole
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The Oxbow
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Asher Durand
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Kindrid Spirits
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William Wordsworth
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English romantic poet, many works
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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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