Cultural Heritage Exam I

Front 1

The High Renaissance may be said to have ended with the death of Michelangelo in 1564.

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False

Front 2

Painted in 1498, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is an early example of High Renaissance art.

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True

Front 3

Machiavelli's work, The Prince, held that in politics "the end justifies the means."

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True

Front 4

The subjects of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes can be said to be based upon charcters from Roman poems.

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False

Front 5

The High Renaissance produced works of the art that can be justly described as masterpieces of disciplined form and idealized beauty

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True

Front 6

What sets the Mannerist style apart from the High Renaissance style was its anti-Classical perspective.

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True

Front 7

Castiglione's Book of the Courtier can be viewed as a modern work in as much as he encourageed the education of women.

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True

Front 8

The goal of Northern humanists like Erasmus of Rotterdam was to revitalize Christianity.

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True

Front 9

Three Italian artists were closeley identified with the HIgh Renaissance: Raphael, da Vinci, and Michelangelo

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True

Front 10

Thomas More: Renaissance humanist who authored the book entilted The Praise of Folly in 1509

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False

Front 11

One event that did not help to launch the Protestant Reformation of the 16th centruy was the indugence controversy.

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False

Front 12

Luther came to rest his case on the authority of the Bible alone following his break with the Church and Papacy.

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True

Front 13

In theology, the differences between Luther and Calvin, another reformer, were relatively minor

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True

Front 14

One difference between Luther and Calvin was the latter's espousal of a theocratic state whereby the state would be subordinate to the church.

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True

Front 15

In England, the Reformation would come to center there on the person of the king himself, Henry VIII

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True

Front 16

Alberti was an outstanding Venetian painter between 1494 and 1564.

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False

Front 17

It can be said that Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses" marked the beginning of his break with the Catholic Chruch.

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True

Front 18

The Peace of Augsburg in 1555 had represented a settlement between Lutherans
and Catholics, although it left ensettled any reference to Calvinism.

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True

Front 19

The last of the religious wars on continent, the Thrity Year's War, ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

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True

Front 20

Thomas More in England was the author of the famous short work, Utopia, published in 1509.

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True

Front 21

The Council of Trent (1545-63) represented one of the key elements of the Counter-Reformation.

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True

Front 22

On the whole, the Jesuits had little to do with the success of the Counter-Reformation following the Council of Trent.

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False

Front 23

Shakespeare wrote all types of plays except satires.

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True

Front 24

Bruegel is best known for his paintings in capturing the lives of ordinary peasants

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True

Front 25

In general, it can be said that the Council of Trent made significant compromises with the leaders of the Protestant Reformation.

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False

Front 26

Between the end of the fifteenth century and the middle of the next centruy of the center of commerce was to shift from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic seaboard.

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True

Front 27

The Jesuits -- the society of Jesus -- was founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540.

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True

Front 28

The term "Baroque" probably derives from the Portuguese word "barocco" meaning an irregular pearl.

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True

Front 29

The Florid Baroque style can be said to be a product of the Counter-Reformation.

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True

Front 30

Alongside the establishment of sovereign states, the Baroque Age was also marked by the rise of absolutism in government.

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True

Front 31

The palace of Versailles is a fine example of the Florid Baroque style.

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False

Front 32

It can be said that mercantilism represented the economic policy of Louis XIV of France.

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True

Front 33

The Thirty Years' War was largely fought in Italy.

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False

Front 34

The War of Spanish Succession, 1702-13, reaffirmed the balance of power principle, as it ended more favorably for England than for France.

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True

Front 35

The Baroque era was to witness the rise of five great states: England, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia

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True

Front 36

John Milton is the author of the epic Baroque poem Paradise Lost.

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True

Front 37

Machiavelli's ideas on statecraft found expression in his belief in the superiority of the ancient world as a guide to revealing precepts and slesson for political action.

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True

Front 38

Bramante is regared as the founder of High Renaissance architecture.

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True

Front 39

A supreme example of the Florid Baroque style in architecture is St. Peter's Church in Rome

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True

Front 40

Louis XIV of France claimed to rule by "divine right"

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True

Front 41

Comic plays in 17th centruy France wre the specialty of Racine.

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False

Front 42

The first great composer of opera was Claudio Monteverdi.

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True

Front 43

An important representative of the Classical Baroque style in art was Poussin

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True

Front 44

The Restrained Baroque style in art can be said to be represented by the work of Rembrandt.

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True

Front 45

Outside Italy, centers of the Florid Baroque style in the seventeeth century were to be found in Spain and southern Germany.

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True

Front 46

After Carlo Maderno, Bernini dominated the Florid Baroque style in Rome.

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True

Front 47

Besides Paintings, Durer is also known for his engravings.

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True

Front 48

Machiavelliansim: the view that politics should be divorced from morals.

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True

Front 49

Madrigal: the same as Gregorian chant.

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False

Front 50

Mannerism: A cultural movement after 1520 that represented a departure from Renaissance art and its norms of balance and symmetry.

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True