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Third of May, 1808

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Goya

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Raft of the Medusa

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Gericault

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The Twenty-Eighth of July, Liberty Leading the People

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Delacroix

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A Burial at Ornans

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Courbet

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La Grande Odalisque

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Ingres

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Plowing in the Nivernais

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Bonheur

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Luncheon on the Grass

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Manet

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Olympia

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Manet

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Berlioz nationality?

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French

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Schubert nationality?

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Austrian

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Chopin nationality?

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Polish

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Wagner nationality?

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German

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Which composer had a drug addiction and died of an opium overdose?

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Hector Berlioz

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Who wrote the story of Lohengrin?

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Richard Wagner

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Who invented etudes?

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Frederic Chopin

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Who was the last classical master and first romantic composer?

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Franz Schubert

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What is the story behind the piece “revolutionary” composed by Chopin?

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Poland’s failed revolution against Russia

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What does the piece “Der Erlkonig” written by Schubert literally mean?

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“The Elf King”

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What piece had the idea of ghouls, demons, and hell?

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Dream of the Witches’ Sabboth - Symphonie Fantastique

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Who composed the “Bridal Chorus”

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Richard Wagner

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What is the story of Lohengrin?

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A princess falsely accused of killing her sister, Lohengrin comes to the rescue and proves her innocence, but he tells her that she cannot ask for his nationality. They get married and then she asks him. He tells the whole village and then leaves.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalism

23
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Who had a material life and had philosophies of science?

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Henry David Thoreau

24
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Who wrote “Leaves of Grass”?

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Walt Whitman

25
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Who studied bacteria and eventually led improvements to cleaning and sterilizing in medical fields?

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Louis Pasteur

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LJM Daguerre

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Wanted to create realistic illusions for an audience and to be entertained

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Who wrote Moby-Dick and was the best writer in the Romantic Period?

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Herman Melville

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Charles Baudelaire

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Guided the symbolist movement

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Which FEMALE POET was one of America’s greatest and most-known of all time?

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Emily Dickinson

30
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Who had an impact on literary movements in romanticism and expressionism?

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Johann von Goethe

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Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”? (female)

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Emily Bronte

32
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Painted pictures of god, wrote “the tiger and the lamb”

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William Blake

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Eadweard Muybridge

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English photographer of motion

35
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Leo Tolstoy

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Russian writer and the greatest writer of all time

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