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What was the reform movement launched by the Roman Catholic
Church in the wake of the Protestant Reformation? - ANSWER
✔✔Catholic Reformation
John Steinbeck's classic Depression-era novel of migrant farmers en
route to California is called? - ANSWER ✔✔Grapes of Wrath
,Which order became the most influential missionary society of early
modern times under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola? - ANSWER
✔✔Jesuits
Between 1540 and 1563, what council undertook papal and monastic
reforms that eliminated corruption and restored catholicism to many
parts of Europe? - ANSWER ✔✔Council of Trent
By 1624, which Asian country expelled almost all WEstern foreigners,
after a wave of brutal persecutions of both European Christians and
Japanese converts to Catholicism? - ANSWER ✔✔Japan
In 16th century Latin America, what country's political authority went
largely unchallenged, Catholicism went hand in hand with colonization? -
ANSWER ✔✔Spanish, Mexico
What style focuses on ornamental delicacy, intimacy, and playful
elegance, which also dominated the salons of Paris and the courts and
churches of Austria and Germany? - ANSWER ✔✔The Rococo style
Name the First Painter to King Louis XV, head of the Royal Academy in
Paris, and a favorite of the Marquise de Pompadour. - ANSWER
✔✔Boucher
,What kind of paintings was encouraged by the philosophes' demand for
an art of moral virtue and produced by Greuze and Chardin that were
among the most popular images of the 18th century. Describe it. -
ANSWER ✔✔Genre paintings -- gave dignity to the life and work of
ordinary individuals
The era marking the divide between the medieval faith-based view of the
world and the modern, secular view is called? - ANSWER ✔✔The
Age of Reason
Which writer focused on the "laws" of production and trade, and was
central to the development of modern-day concepts of free-enterprise
economies? - ANSWER ✔✔Scottish philosopher Adam Smith
Archeological investigations encouraged new interest in what artifacts
and produced a more accurate picture of Classical culture than had
been available previously? - ANSWER ✔✔Greco-Roman artifacts
What style expressed in the architectural achievements of Thomas
Jefferson in America replaced the Rococo style just as the French
Revolution swept away the Old Regime? - ANSWER
✔✔Neoclassicism
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, The scottish architect of the new style who focused on Greco-Roman
residential manors in England, such as Kedleston Hall, was ____? -
ANSWER ✔✔Robert Adams
An ongoing counterpoint to Globalism is the recurring emphasis in the
arts regarding? - ANSWER ✔✔Ethnicity
Who was the English potter-maker famous for Classical motifs? -
ANSWER ✔✔Wedgewood
Who defended the empirical tradition with the theory that all experience
is imprinted on the human mind, a tabula rasa ("blank slate") at birth?
Explain what a "blank slate" at birth means. - ANSWER ✔✔John
Locke, not yet corrupted by society
Neoclassicists drew on the arts of imperial Rome to glorify the French
capital of Paris and which individual? - ANSWER ✔✔The emperor
Napoleon
Picasso's bold, new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts
of Africa, Iberia, and Oceana; and the paintings of which painter? -
ANSWER ✔✔Cezanne
Describe some of the characteristic of classical music, especially
features similar to those admired by Neoclassical writers, painters,