Golden Age

Question 1

Features of Ferdinand Rojas Work

Answer 1

individualism, lack of altruism, greed and robbery

Question 2

Garcilaso de la Vega

Answer 2

renaissance humanist, used poetry as escape from everyday life, wrote sonnets

Question 3

Luis Ponce de Leon

Answer 3

lyric poet and augustinian Friar, theologian, wrote ‘Life Removed’

Question 4

John of the Cross

Answer 4

major figure in counter-reformation, reformer of the Carmelites, his writings (poetry) considered the pinnacle of spanish mysticism, canonized in 1726

Question 5

Bartolome Murillo

Answer 5

religious and realist painter of the world around

Question 6

Picaresque Novel characteristics

Answer 6

1. usually written in first person
2. Main character low social status
3. No plot
4. Little character development
5. told with realism
6. Satire is prevelant
7. the hero stops just short of criminality

Question 7

Felix Lope de vega

Answer 7

wrote over 600 plays, most famous for Fuenteovejuna

Question 8

Francisco de Quevedo

Answer 8

Poet, satirist, literary critic, conceptism, Fantasy +realism

Question 9

Luis Gongora

Answer 9

famous poet, important for Culutranism (Gongorism)

Question 10

Life is a dream

Answer 10

by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, story of prince locked in a tower b/c Persus like prophecy, given chance and is super cruel

Question 11

Don Quixote

Answer 11

shift of spain from chilvarous past to cynical renaissance world, archetype of the romantic spaniard etc

Question 12

Horror Vacui

Answer 12

in visual art, fear of empty space, filling an entire space with detail

Question 13

Viceroy

Answer 13

royal officials, representatives of monarchy

Question 14

Audiencias

Answer 14

authority to judge

Question 15

Captaincies General

Answer 15

Military district, soon to become independent countries

Question 16

Corregidores

Answer 16

replaced enmiendas, autonomous power, locally and administrative and judicial

Question 17

The Chapel of Our Lady

Answer 17

located in Puebla, exemplifies the baroque, called the house of gold and the 8th wonder of the world

Question 18

Angel Arcabucero

Answer 18

An angel armed with an arquebus, arose in viceroyalty of Peru in 17th century–> example of syncretism