CC Timeline Spring Semester
Category: Other
Updated: 25 Apr 2022
Contributors
Created byAva Dorsey
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The Milkmaid- a painting by Vermeer depicting a young milkmaidReturn of the Prodigal Son- A painting by Rembrandt depicting a reunion of the Prodigal son with his familyThe Staircase Group- A painting by Peale depicting two men walking up the stairsThe Oxbow- A painting by Cole of an American LandscapeThe Gulf Stream-a painting by Homer depicting an ocean scene.Impression, Sunrise- a painting by Monet depicting a sunrise on the water.Makoto Fujimura -an American artist who is considered to be one of the leading figures of "slow art" movementZero Summer- A painting by FujimuraPeriods
Johannes Vermeer- a dutch painter who painted in the Beroque periodRembrandt Van Rijn- A Dutch Golden Age painterCharles Peale- an American painter who made one the the first American museumsThomas Cole- An English painter known for his landscape drawingsWinslow Homer-an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.Claude Monet- a French painter and founder of impressionist paintingGertrude Stein - an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collectorBeroque PeriodHigh RenaissanceLate RenaissanceAdolf Hitler- Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of GermanyPolybius- Greek historian of the Hellenistic periodBenito Mussolini- an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist PartyNiccolò Machiavelli- an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the RenaissanceThomas Robert Malthus FRS -an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demographyDavid Ricardo - a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economistsSir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB -a British civil servant and colonial administratorElizabeth Fry - an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and QuakerJohn Newton- an English Anglican cleric, a captain of slave ships who later became an investor in the slave trade but subsequently became an abolitionistThomas Clarkson -an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British EmpireWilliam Wilberforce - a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave tradeCharles Dickens - an English writer and social criticGeorge Whitefield- an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movementVoltaire-a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of ChristianityNapoleon Bonaparte - a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary WarsJacques-Louis David - a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the eraHans Arp- a German-French sculptor, painter, and poetMarcel Duchamp- a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual artJohn Cage Jr. -an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-gardeClaude Debussy- a French composer seen as the first Impressionist composerSir Archibald Russell- a British aerospace engineer who worked most of his career at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, before becoming managing director of the Filton Division when Bristol merged into British Aircraft CorporationAuguste Comte - a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivismJohn Lock- an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"Allen Ginsberg - an American poet and writerTheodor Adorno - a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of societyAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn- a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag systemFrederick Moore Vinson - an American lawyer and Democratic politicianRoscoe Pound was an American legal scholar and educatorAmbrose of Milan, venerated as Saint Ambrose, - the Bishop of Milan, a theologian and statesman. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting the Latin Church against Arianism and paganismAugustine of Hippo- a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North AfricaJustinian I-the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565Tertullian -a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa
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