Fine Art
This artist is famous for Starry Night and cutting off a body part.
Bonus - what body part was it?
Vincent Van Gogh
Bonus - the ear
German composer and pianist. He remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
Ludwig van Beethoven
An American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American history. He incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse.
Bonus - best known works
Walt Whitman
Bonus - Leaves of Grass - O Captain! My Captain!
An architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
Gothic Revival
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism
This was a renowned Chinese calligrapher and was called the "the leading scholar-artist of his day."
Zhao Zhiqian
German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Most famous for the lullaby or cradle.
Johannes Brahms
American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Bonus - best know work
Edgar Allen Poe
Bonus - Tell-Tale Heart
A prominent and prolific American architect based in New Haven, Connecticut. He practiced for more than fifty years and designed many public buildings and homes primarily in the New Haven area. His most significant years of production seem to be the 1840s and 1850s.
Yale College Library (Dwight Hall) Grove Street Cemetery Gates James Dwight Dana House John Pitkin Norton House Victoria Mansion New Haven City Hall
Henry Austin
A 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for deepest truths.
Transcendentalism
This artist was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France.
Bonus: What style did she paint in?
Mary Cassatt
Bonus: Impressionism
Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival".
Bedrich Smetana
Known as one of the most liberal democratic thinkers of his time who believed that through the democratic process, slavery should be abolished. "Man of Letters in America"
Bonus - what name did he go by?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bonus - went by his middle name Waldo
Catholic cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York as well as a parish church.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral New York City
Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
Herbert Spencer
One of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore
Arthur Sullivan
French novelist, poet, and playwright.He wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) Each generation has added onto it.
Bonus : Where is it located?
Sagrada Familia
Bonus: Barcelona, Spain
American Protestant Christians' beliefs changed during the early 19th century in a period known as the _______________ It set the stage for equally enthusiastic social reform movements, especially abolitionism and temperance.
Second Great Awakening
American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
Daniel Chester French
Victorian-era theatrical partnership - They are perhaps best known for their comic operas which include The Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, H.M.S Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Gilbert And Sullivan
English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death; "How do I love Thee?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."
The Montauk, the Rookery and the Monadnock that helped inaugurate the era of the skyscraper in Chicago.
Daniel Burnham
This church traces its origins to a religion founded by Joseph Smith in the United States in 1830.
Jesus Christ Church of Latter Day Saints