Drama
Born in the Renaissance period and died in the Baroque period. His early works, beginning around 1590, were mainly his history plays and comedies, and as he transitioned into the Baroque period, around 1600, his plays took a more complicated turn as he developed tragedies.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Known as music for a small ensemble of instrumentalists.
What is Chamber Music?
This king would often make himself the lead role in his ballet’s and plays in order to promote himself as an absolute monarch.
Who is King Louis XIV?
He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition.
Who is Peter Paul Ruebens?
Is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths.
What is the Copernican Heliocentric Theory?
When a person or thing appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty.
What is Dues Ex Machina?
A large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.
What is Oratorios?
A type of dance that has a very larger number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles.
What are English Country Dances?
This famous artist lived a scandalous life while living in Rome.
Who is Caravaggio?
Considered one of the most destructive wars in European history.
What is the Thirty Years War?
Plays should happen in one place, in a short time period, and involve only one main conflict.
What is the Three Unities?
This composer was unable to get along with his employer and so was fired and spent most of his short life without much money.
Who is Mozart?
This individual was King Louis XIV's dance instructor for 20 years.
Who is Pierre Beauchamps?
In this painting the famous David wants you to feel outrage and shock over the assassination of one of the leaders of the French Revolution.
What is the Death of Marat?
Took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
A term referring to reality with no supernatural action.
What is Verisimilitude?
His music has characteristics of both the classical and romantic time periods.
This king brought numerous ballets, balls and masquerades (Masques) to the courts, played leading roles in some of his ballets, wrote music for others and performed his dances in front of the townspeople at City Hall.
Who is King Louis XIII?
This famous artist designed secular buildings, churches, chapels, and public squares, as well as massive works combining both architecture and sculpture.
Who is Bernini?
Was the understanding that the ruler had power over the people and church as a result of divine right thinking.
What is Absolutism?
This playwright was a prolific dramatist of comedies (comedias) and dramas, known for bending the neoclassical rules of drama.
Who is Lope de Vega?
How many movements are in a Symphony?
What is Four Movements?
The country where Ballet originated.
What is Italy?
This individual drew a lot of emphasis from Greek and Roman architecture when designing his own buildings.
Who is Jefferson?
This individuals writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy.
Who is Winckelmann?