Asian Topics
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Art/Dance
Baroque Music
Baroque History/Art
100
The art of beautiful writing, used to decorate surfaces with text.
What is calligraphy?
100
The greatest playwright of the Renaissance and possibly all time.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
A dance that comes from the latin word for peacock that is a basse dance consisting of slow walking steps.
What is pavane?
100
The themes in Baroque music centered around what?
The church and religious themes.
100
Who was the king at this time?
King Louis XIV
200
Decorations on the interior and exterior that are ornate symmetrical patterns of plants and geometric shapes.
What is an arabesque?
200
Commedia dell'arte includes which types of characters?
What are stock characters?
200
Basse dances were performed by the upper class. Which types of dances were performed by the lower class?
What is haute?
200
A musical idea in which on theme is introduced with one voice or instrument and then repeated by other voices and instruments.
What is a fugue?
200
Caravaggio painted with extreme contrasts between what?
Dark colors and ligth colors.
300
The first purely Buddhist architectural structure to be designed.
What is the stupa?
300
The inamorati were stock characters that represented who?
Two young lovers.
300
Who painted the last supper?
Leonardo da Vinci.
300
An extended musical piece for choirs or soloists with instrumental accompaniment but no scenery or costumes.
What is an oratorio?
300
Rembrandt's painting featured what around the characters?
A soft warm glow.
400
A chinese stupa which has come to represent the syle of Chinese temples.
What is a pagoda?
400
The way an audience recognized the stock characters.
Through their masks and costumes.
400
What is Handel's famous oratorio called?
What is the Messiah?
400
Caravaggio painted religious figures as what?
Everyday people.
500
Traditional Japanese theater which includes only men and begins with the sound of wooden clappers.
What is Kabuki Theater?
500
Shakespearian plays included the 3 unities of what?
What is time, place, and action.
500
A theme throughout the Renaissance about the power of self and discovering the world. It combined Christian faith and human reason.
What is humanism?
500
Another famous composer of the time who worked for the church was...
Johan Sebastian Bach
500
Rays of light in paintings resembled what?
God/heaven
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