Humanities Chapter 17 Quiz: Romanticism/ Realism

Gericault, Raft of the Medusa

Goya, The Third of May 1808

Delacroix, The Twenty-Eighth of July: Liberty Leading the People

Courbet, Burial at Ornans

Ingres, La Grande Odalisque

Manet, Luncheon on the Grass

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.

Henry David Thoreau

American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support the Mexican War.

Walt Whitman

American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.

Louis Pasteur

A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.

L.J.M. Daguerre

French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.

The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative. The process required great care. The silver-plated copper plate had first to be cleaned and polished until the surface looked like a mirror.

Herman Melville

American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby-Dick (1851), considered among the greatest American novels

Charles Baudelaire

a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote The Flowers of Evil.

Emily Dickinson

Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love, death, and immortality.

Notable works: Because I could not stop for death, I am nobody! who are you?, I heard a fly buzz-- when I died

Johann von Goethe

considered one of the greatest writers of the world; the most popular work is Faust

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature, is the only published novel by this author.

William Blake

The Chimney Sweeper

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Eadweard Muybridge

United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (known as the horse in motion)

Leo Tolstoy

wrote Anna Karenina, War and Peace; Russian writer, realistic fiction