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Fiorentino, Rosso. 1495-1540. Italian/French Fontainebleau painter.
First Coalition. 1792. European countries opposed to French Revolution.
Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.
Fleurus, Battle. 1794. Key French victory over First Coalition.
Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
Fontana, Domenico. 1543-1607. Italian/Swiss architect. Vatican Library 1587. St. Peter’s Cupola 1588.
Ford, Henry. 1863-1947. US industrialist. Application of assembly line created affordable car. Model T 1908. Rivas.
Fourier, Charles. 1772-1837. French socialist philosopher. His utopia was attempted in US, Brook Farm, a voluntary cooperative.
Fox, Charles. 1749-1806. English Whig Statesman who supported Liberal causes. Coined term ’radical’ 1797.
Francesca, Piero della. 1406-92. Italian fresco painter. Story of the True Cross 1465.
Frank, Anne. 1929-45. German Jew in Amsterdam. 2 yrs in hiding from Nazis. Diary 1947.
Frederick II. The Great. 1712-86. Powerful Prussian king. Siezed Silesia from Austria. Patron of Arts. Liberal internal reforms.
Frederick IX. 1899-1972. Danish king 1947-. Imprisoned by Nazis, 43-45.
Free Enterprise. Capitalist economic doctrine of a market free from government control.
Free Will. Philosophies which allow that man can more or less determine his own destiny. Fatalism.
French Revolutionary Wars. 1792-1802. France vs European powers who opposed Revolution. Napoleonic Wars. Coalition. Pillnitz.
French West Africa. 1895-1958. Dahomey, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkino Faso.
Frescobaldi, Girolamo. 1583-1643. Italian organist, instrumental composer. Bold chromaticism.
Friedman, Milton. 1912-. Monetarist economist. Demand is mainly a function of money supply. Keynes. Laissez-faire. Capitalism and Freedom 1962.
Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542.
Functionalism. 1924-45. Architectural movement of Le Corbusier. Austere objects perfected to carry out their function.
Fundamentalism. 1920-. US conservative Protestant movement. Strict scriptural interpretation.
Futurism. 1909-1915. Italian artistic movement founded by Marinetti. Glorified machine age, war and violence. Exemplified by simultaneity of images like strobe effect. Boccioni, Balla.