Study Guide – Who’s Who
Sayre – Book 4
1. Austen, Jane
2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
3. Bacon, Francis
4. Balbas, Jeronimo
5. Behn, Aphra
6. Bernini
7. Caravaggio
8. Charles I
9. Cook, Captain James
10. Coply, William
11. Corelli, Arcangelo
12. Corneille
13. David, Jacques Louis
14. Descartes, Rene
15. Diderot, Dennis
16. Drouais, Jean Germaine
17. Fregonard, Jean Honore
18. Galilei, Galileo
19. Gentileschi, Artemisia
20. Hals, Franz
21. Handal
22. Hobbes, Thomas
23. Hogarth, William
24. Ingres, Dominique
25. Jahan, Shah
26. James II
27. Kant, Emmanuel
28. Kepler, Johannes
29. Leyster, Judith
30. Locke, John
31. Louis XIV
32. Madame de Pompadour
33. Milton, John
34. Moliere
--Wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
--Master of Northern Baroque music. Known for his
Brandenburg Concertos and his fugues
--Leading advocate of the Empirical Method and
Inductive Reasoning. Wrote about 4 false idols.
--Ultra-Baroque artist did the "Altar of Kings" in Mexico
--Wrote novel "Oroonoko" the story of a noble African
prince and the woman he loved.
--Sculptured: "Estascy of St. Teresa", "David", "Three Rivers
Fountain" and "The Baldachino" St. Peters Basilica
--Baroque painter who did "Bacchus", " The Calling of
Saint Matthew", and "The Conversion of St Paul"
--King of Spain and also ruled as Charles V of the
Holy Roman Empire.
--Sailed the Endeavor throughout the South Pacific.
--Painted "Watson and the Shark"
--17th Century virtuous violinist, composed sonatas
--Wrote "The Kermis", "El Cid" and others
--Founder of Neo-classism: "The Death of Marat", "Napoleon
Crossing the Saint Bernard", "Oath of the Horatii", "The Lictors
Returnin to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons".
--Stated "I Think Therefore I am", Led to "Deductive
Reasoning". Founder of Deism and analytical
geometry. Wrote "Discourse on Method."
--Responsible for the first Encyclopedia
--Painted "Marius at Minturnae"
--Rococo painter who painted "The Swing"
--Perfected the telescope and proved heliocentric idea
--Did "Judith and Her Maidservent with Head of Holofernes"
--Painted "Portrait of Rene Descarte"
--Musician who wrote "Messiah"
--Wrote "The Leviathan" - humans are motivated by fear and
desire for power and need to submit to a higher authority.
--Did "Gin Lane" and painted the "Morning Party"
--Painted "Napoleon I on the Imperial Throne".
--Ruler of India who had the Taj Majal built as his wife.
--English king lost throne during the Glorious Revolution.
--Essay "What is the Enlightenment"
--Advocated heliocentric view of the world.
--Painted "The Proposition"
--In "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" wrote about
need to form a "Social Contract". No Divine Right for rulers.
--French king in Versaille, noted as "Sun King".
--Mistress to Louix XIV who protected philosophes.
--English poet who wrote "Paradise Lost".
--Wrote "Tartuffe" a story ridiculing the French court.
35. Montesquieu, Baron de
36. Monteverdi, Claudio
37. Mozart, Amadeus
38. Napoleon Bonaparte
39. Newton, Isaac
40. Pope, Alexander
41. Poussin, Nicolas
42. Pozzo, Andrea del
43. Rousseau, Jean Jacques
44. Rubens, Peter Paul
45. Sirani, Elizabeth
46. Smith, Adam
47. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
48. Swift, Jonathan
49. Van Dyck, Anthony
50. Van Rijin, Rembrandt
51. Velazquez, Diego
52. Vermeer, Jan
53. Vigee-LeBrun, E. L.
54. Vivaldi, Antonio
55. Voltaire
56. Watteau, Jean-Antoine
57. Wedgewood, Josiah
58. West, Benjamin
59. Wollstonecraft, Mary
60. Wren, Christopher
--Author of "The Spirit of the Laws" which advocated
separation of powers in government.
--17th Century musician, wrote opera "Orfeo".
--Musical genius wrote "Symphony #40" and others.
--Led coup d'etat in1799 and gained control of France
--Discovered law of physics and wrote "Mathamatical
Principals of Natural Philosophy".
--Wrote "An Essay on Man
--Painted "The Shepherds of Arcadia"
--Baroque painter who did the ceiling "Triumph of St.
Ignatius Loyola".
--Wrote "Discourse on the Orgin of Inequality Among Men"
stating people are corrupted by societies.
--Painted "Arrival Reception of Marie de Medici" and
"Descent from the Cross"
--Painted "Virgin and Child"
--Author of "The Wealth of Nations", who advocated
laissez faire economics.
--Mexican female writer known for "Letter to Sor Filetea" and
villancicos
--Wrote :Gulliver's Travels"
--Did "Charles I Hunting" and "Alexander Henderson".
--Painted "The Anatomy Lesson", "Descent of the
Cross" and "Self-Portrait".
--Spanish court painter who painted "Las Meninas".
--Painted "The Geographer", "Woman with a Pearl" and genre
scenes.
--Painted "Queen Marie Antoniette and Her Children",
as well as "Marie Antoniette en Chimese".
--Musician closely associated with the concerto. Most
popular work "Four Seasons”.
--Wrote satrical fiction novel "Candide".
--Started Rococo painting most closely associated
with Fetes Galantes. Did "Departure from Cythera"
and "The Signboard of Gersaint".
--Invented process of casting liquid clay into moles to
produce popular blue/white dinnerware
--Painted "Penn's Treaty with the Indians in Pennsylvania"
--Wrote "A Vindication on the Rights of Women"
--Built St. Paul's Cathedral after the great fire in
London