Final- Matching Flashcards
1
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
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- rugged, spirited David
- The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- baldacchino
- St. Peter’s piazza
2
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Michelangelo Caravaggio
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-The Crucifixion of Saint Peter
3
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John Milton
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-Paradise Lost, twelve books of poetry
fall of Adam and Eve
4
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Diego Velazquez
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-Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
5
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Protestant roots: Martin Luther’s teachings and Lutheran hymns
- Loved the organ
- composed music for Sunday services and holy days
- cantatas
- No. 80
- Passion According to Saint Matthew
- Well-Tempered Clavier
- Bradenburg Concertos
- The Art of Fugue
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God
6
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Johannes Vermeer
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-View of Delft
-The Milkmaid
thirty-odd paintings survived his career
7
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Giovanni Gabrieli
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- In ecclesiis (published 1615)
- Tonality
8
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Claudio Monteverdi
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- Orfeo
- pizzicato
9
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George Frideric Handel
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- oratorio
- homophonic
- Messiah
10
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Passion According to Saint Matthew
- Well-Tempered Clavier
- Bradenburg Concertos
- The Art of Fugue
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God
11
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Antonio Vivaldi
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- ritornello
- program music
- The Four Seasons
12
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Andreas Vesalius
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Flemish physician
-De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body)
- the first accurate descriptions of human anatomy
1543- published the first medical illustrations of the human anatomy
13
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Galileo Galilei
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- His inquiries into motion and gravity resulted in his formulation of the law of falling bodies, which proclaims that the earth’s gravity attracts all objects at the same rate of acceleration
- Perfected a telescope that through it one could identify the craters of the moon, the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter
- Turned the heliocentric theory into fact.
14
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Francis Bacon
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- Advancement of the empirical method: a process of inquiry that depends on direct observation of nature and experimentation. Natural phenomena provide evidence from which one may draw general conclusions , following a process called inductive reasoning
- Promoted a system of experimentation, tabulation, and record keeping.
- Novum Organum (New Method) was an impassioned plea for objectivity and clear thinking, strongest defense of the empirical method.
- Warned against four idols:
- Idols of the Tribe-deceptive ideas that have their foundations in human nature
- Idols of the Cave- privately held fallacies that derive from individual education and background
- Idols of the Marketplace- arise from the “ill of unfit choice of words”
- Idols of the Theater- false dogmas perpetuated by social and political philosophies and institutions.
- knowledge gained through the senses
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Rene Descartes
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- 1621, introduces analytic geometry
- favored abstract reasoning and mathematical proof
- our senses may very well deceive us
- Deductive reasoning: begins with clearly established general premises and moves toward the establishment of particular truths
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences
- Never accept anything as true that you do not clearly know to be true
- dissect a problem into as many parts as possible
- reason from the simple to the complex
- draw complete and exhaustive conclusions
- dualistic model
