Humanities & Fine Arts

Dreamlike floating figures; Vitebsk; stained glass; I and the Village.

French Impressionist; light and atmosphere; water lilies; haystacks; Rouen Cathedral.

Italian Baroque painter; dramatic chiaroscuro/tenebrism; intense realism and religious scenes.

Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker; portraits, self-portraits, dramatic light.

Romanian-born modern sculptor; simplified abstract forms; birds, columns, polished surfaces.

Large Rockefeller Center mural by Diego Rivera; controversy over image of Lenin; destroyed and later reworked as Man, Controller of the Universe.

Painting traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Icarus is a tiny detail while ordinary life continues.

Bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin; originally connected to The Gates of Hell.

1942 Edward Hopper painting of people in a brightly lit late-night diner.

Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard featuring a woman on a swing in a lush garden.

German Romantic composer; opera/music drama; leitmotifs; Ring cycle; Tristan und Isolde.

Italian opera composer; Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida; powerful choruses and drama.

Italian Baroque composer and violinist; The Four Seasons; many concertos.

German Romantic composer; symphonies, concertos, chamber music; German Requiem.

German-born British Baroque composer; Messiah; Water Music; operas and oratorios.

Late-1950s/1960s French film movement; location shooting, jump cuts, experimentation; Godard and Truffaut.

World War I-era anti-art movement; absurdity, chance, readymades; Duchamp.

19th-century movement emphasizing changing light, visible brushwork, modern life, outdoor painting.

Post-High Renaissance style; elongated figures, artificial poses, complex space, elegance.

18th/early-19th-century revival of Greek and Roman ideals; clarity, order, civic virtue.

Ancient Greek philosopher; student of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle; Theory of Forms; Republic.

German idealist; Phenomenology of Spirit; dialectical development; history and freedom.

German thinker; class struggle; historical materialism; Communist Manifesto with Engels; Capital.

French existentialist; freedom, responsibility, bad faith; Being and Nothingness; No Exit.

British film theorist; Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema; feminist film theory; male gaze.

Consequentialist ethics: actions judged by overall well-being/happiness; Bentham and J. S. Mill.

Jewish mystical tradition; esoteric interpretation; concepts include sefirot and Ein Sof.

Broad family of movements and theories focused on gender equality and analysis of gendered power.

Kantian moral principle: act only on maxims you could will as universal law; treat persons as ends.

Philosophical question explored through cosmological, ontological, teleological arguments and objections.

Collection of sacred texts central to Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Christian New Testament.

Sacred scripture of Islam, believed by Muslims to be revelations to Muhammad; organized into surahs.

Ancient Indian epic traditionally attributed to Valmiki; Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, Ravana.

Ancient Mesopotamian epic; Gilgamesh of Uruk, Enkidu, flood story, mortality.

Sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism; Avestan language; includes Gathas associated with Zarathustra.