The British Empire
The name of the settlement under the British Empire that was the first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown
What is another name for the period of The Enlightenment?
What is The Age of Reason?
The name of the influential painting by David which depicted a classical scene of three brothers pledging to fight to the death for Rome against their enemy.
What is The Oath of the Horatii?
The period of time that emphasized the logical and reason that the Romantics were reacting against.
What is the Enlightenment?
Word that means the point where all lines converge in the linear perspective of a painting
What is vanishing point?
Who led the army of the Parliamentarians against the king in the English Civil War?
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
What word means ghoulish or horrifying as it has to do with death or monsters and stuff?
What is 'macabre'?
The British Empire began in the 16th century.
When did it end?
When is after World War II or 1945?
Who wrote in his book The Leviathan that people needed a social contract or they would revert to their state of nature and would turn on each other like brute savages and everything would devolve into something resembling the movie The Purge?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The name of the patron David painted several times, who he depicted rearing on a horse in the Alps as well as standing in his study.
Who is Napoleon the First?
This English painter painted very large, often violent landscape paintings that looked very abstract, such as Snow Storm Avalanche and Thunderstorm of 1836-37
Who is Turner?
This term refers to the notion that a ruler was set up by God and was God's representative on earth. This sentiment was challenged during the Enlightenment.
What is 'The Divine Right of Kings'
Who lost his head in 1649 at the end of the English Civil War?
Who is Charles the First?
What is 'syntax' in a sentence?
What is 'how the words are carefully arranged to create well-formed sentences?'
The Slave Trade was discontinued in this year within the British Empire.
When is 1833?
What is the name of the model of society developed in the Enlightenment that says individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler or magistrate (or to the decision of a majority), in exchange for protection of their remaining rights?
What is the Social Contract?
The name of the art movement Neoclassicism was reacting to for its superficial, overly decorative style and content.
What is Rococo?
Fuseli painted this disturbing, macabre scene in 1790 of a little monster perched on top of a woman and a blind horse with dead-white eyes staring out from behind a curtain.
What is 'The Nightmare'?
This term refers to ancient Greece and Rome and is sometimes synonymous with Classical.
What is Antiquity?
People from this country invaded England because of their objection to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, and this caused Charles I to recall Parliament to try and get them to raise taxes for war.
Where is Scotland?
What word is used to describe the grandeur or beauty (typically of nature) that inspires awe?
What is the 'sublime'?
At the height of the Empire, Britain controlled this percentage of the Earth's landmass.
What is 25%?
Who wrote The Two Treatise of Government which was very influential in terms of promoting a balance of powers within a government--particularly in England and America?
Who is John Locke?
True or False: Jacques Louis David was a painter of the State and was very much against the Revolution of 1789 which led to the beheading of the aristocracy.
What is FALSE.
This painter painted a grand landscape entitled 'Savage State' which seemed to echo the sentiment of the 'noble savage' inasmuch as it shows Native American culture living in harmony with the beauty of nature.
Who is Thomas Cole?
What word describes something that has no religions or spiritual connection whatsoever?
What is 'secular'
These two rulers took the throne after what is known as the Glorious Revolution, where they agreed to rule according to a Bill of Rights.
Who are William and Mary?
What is a social contract?
What is a tacit agreement of people (or citizens) to give up some of their rights to be protected by the society or authority as a whole.
Date of the Battle of Trafalgar when the British Empire defeated Napoleon's navy and dominated the world's oceans.
When is 1805
French Enlightenment philosopher who thought that humans had an innate goodness and if we were to go back to the 'state of nature' we would encounter the 'noble savage' not the wild, beastly, violence or animals.
Who is Rousseau?
The name of the painting by David commemorating the death of a particular revolutionary who was stabbed in his bath. This work became an inspiration during the revolution and the individual was considered a martyr for the cause.
What is The Death of Marat?
Gericault painted this scene of a shipwreck based on a true, contemporary tragedy. In researching the painting (which was almost life-size) he interviewed survivors and even had a carpenter build a model of the raft the shipwreck passengers were clinging to.
What is 'The Raft of the Medusa'?
What word describes something that is intended to teach a lesson?
What is 'didactic'
The religions in England and Scotland who were in conflict during the Civil War.
Who are the Puritans, Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians
What do you call the overall design or a painting or the arrangement of the different elements--figures or objects?
What is 'Composition'?