Austen, Jane
Wrote early realistic novel about a young man.
Adan Smith
Promoted revival of Classical learning, Catholic humanist.
Bernini
Architect of Mannerist period
Balzac
Precise Romantic painter known for portaits of Marat, Napoleon
Bismark
Described a monastery where the only rule is "Do what you will
"
Boucher
Satan is sometimes considered the hero of this work
Bourgeoisie
Romantic poet, died fighting for Greece
Byron
Ended slavery, helped unify United States of America
Bacon
Described his self-education as a slave in a famous book
Castiglione
Chief editor of the Encylopédie
Congress of
Using precise language described the daily life (and pursuit of marriage)
of English rural gentry.
Council of
Northern European Artist noted for his quiet and precise depictions
of daily life that give them a quality of the eternal
Civil War
Leading Dutch painter of Baroque Period, painted the "Night Watch"
Cervantes
Realistic painter, known for painting of lower-class people on train
Cezanne
Described a socialist, non-Christian Utopia
Constable
In love, incestuously, with the son of Theseus
Copernicus
His autobiography revealed and justified his amoral conduct.
Courbet
19th century American poet known for his striking break from tradition
Crystal
Declared that a leader should do what ever it takes to get job done,
and only pretend to be moral
Declaration
Realistic (and sometimes sentimental) English writer, whose novels
often had a social message, such as Hard Times did
Dualism
Hamlet can be classifid as one of these
Daumier
Leading Philosophe, wrote Candide, Micromegas
Durer,
Made philosophy as rigorous as geometry by only accepting those propositions
that were either provable or utterly self-evident
David
Considered this the best of all possible worlds
Delacroix
First major steel and glass construction, ancestor of modern buildings
Descartes
Romantic painter, known for his hunt scenes and paintings of North
Africa
Dickens
Tries to learn more about itself through the process of History.
Diderot
Believed that the people only loaned rights to rulers
Douglass, F.
Described experimental method
Erasmus
This doctument was deeply influenced by Locke
Fielding,
Describes a hypocritical man who hates nearly everybody
Fredericks, G.
Constructed his paintings out of little dots of color.
Goethe
Devised the Iron Law of Wages
Hobbes
Described an older man made mad by knightly romances
Kepler
Saw cannibals possessing morality equal to Europeans
Laissez faire
Name for Louis XIV. France's greatest absolute monarch
Locke,
Painted somewhat romantic views of English countryside
Luther
Rococo painter
Machiavelli
Predicted that population would soon exceed food supply
Montaigne
Revealed that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery
Malthus
Middle class of merchants, businessmen, etc
More, Thomas
Reaffirmed Catholic Doctrine
Owen, Robert
Wrote book defending heliocentric system
Oration on the
Dignity of Man Realistic painter, favored radical causes, saw himself mediating between
intellectuals and common people
Pangloss
Leaders of French Enlightenment
Prospero
Name for the new Renaissance learning
Proletariat
Leading High Renaissance Painter, known for Sistine Madonna
Paradise Lost. Declared that salvation was based solely on faith
Phaedra
Thought that people must give up all their rights to the ruler
Palladio
Wrote the Wealth of Nations
Philosophes
A major figure in push for German unification
Rubens
Leading Northern European artist during Reformation, known for his
woodcuts
Raphael
Leading Baroque sculptor, worked on St. Peter's in Rome.
Rembrandt
Another name for the industrial working class
Ricardo
German Romantic author and polymath; wrote Faust
Rabelais
Impressionist painter, known for the geometric forms he saw making
reality
Rousseau
Romantic poet, saw true God and spiritual forces in nature
Revenge
Belief that the mind the and body occupy two completely different worlds
and have to be understood by completely different means.
Sun King
Doctrine of removing government intervention in economy
Slogan of
Tried to repress the liberal gains of French revolution and Napoleonic
period, restore balance of power
Seurat
Romantic painter, known for his sublime paintings of an overpowering
Nature.
Studia
Humanitas Magician, former ruler of Naples, tries to create better future
for his daughter through magic
The Misanthrope Early Realistic French Novelist, known for the Human Comedy
Valla, Lorenzo
Described courtier capable in matters of both warfare and art
Voltaire
Utopian Socialist
Vermeer
Discovered laws of planetary motion
Wordsworth
Greatest good for greatest number’
World Spirit
Leading Florid Baroque Painter
Whitman, Walt
In it Man is pictured as a microcosm of the Universe.
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