"This painter's indulgence of visual fantasy, and appreciation of different

historic architectural styles can be seen in his 1840 Architect's Dream",Thomas

Cole
"After a series of paintings on The Last of the Mohicans, he made a three year trip
to Europe in 1829, but he is better known for a trip four years earlier in which he
journeyed up the Hudson River to the Catskill Mountains",Thomas Cole
"FTP, name this painter of The Oxbow and The Voyage of Life series.",Thomas Cole
"He married Marie-Anne Gerard, but five years later fell in love with her 14-year-
old sister Marguerite, in collaboration with which he would paint genre scenes such
as 'The Beloved Child' during the years preceding the French Revolution",Jean-
Honore Fragonard
"Other works of his include 'Return of the Herd,' 'Head of an Old Man,' and one
particularly famous semierotic outdoor party scene",Jean-Honore Fragonard
"For 10 points, name this French Rococo artist who around 1766 painted 'The
Swing.'",Jean-Honore Fragonard
"'I was once what you are, and what I am you will become,' is the translation of an
inscription in Italian painted above a skeleton, said to represent Adam",The Holy
Trinity
"The donors of the work, husband and wife, are portrayed kneeling just in front of
the pilasters that frame the chapel",The Holy Trinity
The dove of the Holy Spirit rests on Christ's halo,The Holy Trinity
"The Virgin Mary and Saint John are represented on either side of the crucified
Christ, whose arms are supported by God the Father",The Holy Trinity
"FTP, identify this c",The Holy Trinity
1428 fresco in Santa Maria Novella in which Brunelleschi's single-point-perspective
method is used brilliantly by Masaccio.,The Holy Trinity
Velvets gave way to brocades and silks,rococo
"Darker colors gave way to blues, pinks, and whites",rococo
"War and religion gave way to a dream world where landscapes always depicted
summer; where people flirted or made love; and where flowers, seaweed, and shells
were all over the place",rococo
"Indeed, the name for the movement comes from the French for 'shell.' For 10
points, name this 18th century art period, a late phase of, yet somewhat different
from, the Baroque.",rococo
This tiny 1767 work is officially entitled 'The Happy Hazards of' the title
object,The Swing
"It was commissioned by the Baron de-Saint Julien, who asked to be painted in a
position to see his mistress' legs, 'and even more of her if you wish to enliven
your picture.' The mistress is at center, kicking off her left shoe and being
pushed by a smil",The Swing
"FTP name this rococo garden scene, a masterpiece of Jean-Honore Fragonard.",The
Swing
"The name, or rather nickname, is the same",El Greco
"One was a 16th century musician and composer, a product of the Cretan Renaissance
who was music master to the Duke of Bavaria and the cantor of Venice",El Greco
The other was a painter who set eerie casts on the landscapes that he painted as a
wanderer before settling in Toledo,El Greco
"FTP, Give the shared nickname of Frangiskos Leondaritis and Dominikos
Theotokopoulos which refers to their shared Cretan heritage.",El Greco
"He claimed he drew only at night, with a special golden pen and by the light of
two ormolu candlesticks",Aubrey Beardsley
"Before his death in 1892 at age 26, his characteristic grotesque androgynes
appeared in editions of Lysistrata and 'The Rape of the Lock,' both fine examples
of Art Nouveau decadence",Aubrey Beardsley
"FTP, name this artist, editor of the 'Yellow Book' and illustrator of Oscar
Wilde's Salome.",Aubrey Beardsley
"He began as an apprentice cameo cutter in New York City, but after taking night
classes at Cooper Union went to Paris, where he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux
Arts (ay-coal day bo ar)",Augustus Saint-Gaudens
"His early works include Hiawatha, Silence, and a likeness of William Maxwell
Evarts, but he gained fame with a portrayal of Admiral Farragut that was placed in
Madison Square",Augustus Saint-Gaudens
"FTP, identify this Irish-American sculptor of the Adams Memorial, Amor Caritas,
and equestrian statues of Generals Logan and Sherman, best known for his 1897 work,
the Boston memorial to Colonel Shaw.",Augustus Saint-Gaudens
"In the 1460's, Agostino di Duccio began work on a sculpture commission from the
board of works of Florence Cathedral",The David (prompt on Michaelangelo on early
buzz)
"He gave up after mutilating the stone, but this work was executed by a different
artist and set up on the steps of the Palazzo Vecchio in 1504",The David (prompt on
Michaelangelo on early buzz)
"After being broken by a chair thrown out of a window of the Palazzo, it was moved
to the Accademia museum",The David (prompt on Michaelangelo on early buzz)
"FTP, name this symbol of Florentine civic virtue, a 14-foot tall contrapposto
figure by Michelangelo.",The David (prompt on Michaelangelo on early buzz)
"A fish with scales so hard a man could start a fire by striking them with steel,
called the Devil-Jack Diamond, was a hoax with which this man duped the French
naturalist Constantine Rafinesque",John James Audubon
"Born in Haiti, he published his masterpiece in 87 volumes between 1827 and 1838,
and followed it with Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America",John James Audubon
"FTP, name this naturalist and artist of Birds of North America.",John James
Audubon
This painting shares it name with the first novel in a trilogy by Joyce Carol
Oates,Garden of Earthly Delights
"The left wing represents Earth, the middle, 'Ecclesia's Paradise', and the right,
hell",Garden of Earthly Delights
"The cover of this triptych, which hangs in the Prado, depicts the third day of
creation",Garden of Earthly Delights
"Its painter's surname was van Aeken, but he went by a name which referred to
Hertogenbosch, where he was born",Garden of Earthly Delights
"FTP, give the name of this painting by Hieronymus Bosch,",Garden of Earthly
Delights
"In 1551, this man became a member of the Antwerp Guild",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"He visited Italy soon after, but remained a proponent of the Flemish
tradition",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"He painted religious histories such as Numbering at Bethlehem, parables such as
The Blind Leading the Blind, and landscapes such as Harvesters",Pieter Bruegel the
Elder
"FTP, name this member of an illustrious family of painters, best known for his
Peasant Wedding.",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
A window along the upper left rim provides the only source of light,Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror
"The face of the lone figure in the painting is that of a 20-year old man whose
hand, magnified and severely distorted, takes up the bottom fifth of the
canvas",Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"FTP, identify this painting in the Vienna Museum of Art History, with a diameter
of 24.4 centimeters, by Parmagianino, which is also the subject of a famous poem by
John Ashbery.",Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"His early work is in a rather weak Neoclassical style, as seen in 1768's Agrippina
Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus",Benjamin West
"Though an American citizen, he spent almost all his career in England, and, in
1792, he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as President of the Royal Academy",Benjamin
West
"For 10 points, name this artist who eventually became associated with Romanticism,
whose works include Saul and the Witch of Endor, Death on a Pale Horse, and The
Death of General Wolfe.",Benjamin West
"Two versions of this painting were created in the 1650s: the first is reminiscent
of Titian, while the second, more famous version displays the rational order and
stability of Raphael",Et in Arcadia Ego (prompt on Shepherds of Arcadia)
"In the second version, one man kneels at the left while another stands over
him",Et in Arcadia Ego (prompt on Shepherds of Arcadia)
"At the right, a youth stands with his foot resting on a boulder and looks at a
statuesque woman, possibly the spirit of death, whose hand rests on his
shoulder",Et in Arcadia Ego (prompt on Shepherds of Arcadia)
All three shepherds gesture towards a monument on which is inscribed the sentence
which names the painting,Et in Arcadia Ego (prompt on Shepherds of Arcadia)
FTP what is this canvas by Nicolas Poussin?,Et in Arcadia Ego (prompt on Shepherds
of Arcadia)
"By the time it was created, this painting's story of conflict between love and
patriotism had already been told by the historian Livy, as well as Pierre
Corneille, in a play performed in Paris just a few years earlier",Oath of the
Horatii
It tells of how the Roman and Alban leaders decided to resolve their conflicts in a
series of duels waged by three representatives from each side,Oath of the Horatii
"Camilla, a sister of the Roman champions was the bride-to-be of one of the Albans
and sits on the right side",Oath of the Horatii
"On the left, the Roman brothers swear on their swords to win or die for their
city",Oath of the Horatii
"FTP, what is this David (Da veed) painting about the courage of the sons of the
Horatius family?",Oath of the Horatii
The original background of this painting probably resembled that of Gricault's
Mounted Officer,The Massacre at Chios
"Now housed in the Louvre, the foreground depicts a child clambering for his
mother, a woman lamenting a dying man, and a Turk riding a fiery steed, to which
are chained several prisoners",The Massacre at Chios
"Subtitled Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery, name this Delacroix painting
inspired by the Greek war of independence against the Turks.",The Massacre at Chios
"Many think he is Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy London hardware
storeowner",Blue Boy
Behind him is a dark sky that matches his thin black hair but contrasts with his
pale face,Blue Boy
He stands erect with his left foot forward and his left hand in his pocket,Blue Boy
In his right hand is a large black hat with a white plume in it,Blue Boy
"For ten points, identify this title figure of a late 18th century portrait by
Thomas Gainsborough.",Blue Boy
"He was born in Normandy, but spent most of his life in Rome, where Domenichino
briefly employed him",Nicolas Poussin
"Rejecting the Baroque, he chose to model his work after Titian and
Raphael",Nicolas Poussin
"Under Charles LeBrun in the 1660's, the French Academy would take his ideas on
Classicism as a primary reference",Nicolas Poussin
"FTP, name this painter of Et in Arcadia Ego and The Burial of Phocion.",Nicolas
Poussin
"They appear in many Spanish paintings including Hans Holbein' the Younger's
'Solothurn Madonna.' They may incorporate a type of Kufic script, coat of arms, or
heraldic shields and often included complex borders",Admiral Carpet
FTP identify this hand made Spanish art form popular among Spanish nobility in the
14th and 115th centuries.,Admiral Carpet
"Born in 1932, he worked briefly as a set designer",Fernando Botero
"While in Madrid, he made daily trips to the Prado",Fernando Botero
"A typical work of his is The Arnolfini, 78 which, although incorporating the same
elements as the Van Eyck work, features his signature rounded characters",Fernando
Botero
"FTP, name this Colombian artist of The Presidential Family, Broadgate Venus and
Big Hand.",Fernando Botero
"When he died of a ruptured appendix in 1925, he was only 43, but he had already
achieved great acclaim",George Bellows
"In fact, he was memorialized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art less than a year
after his death",George Bellows
"A devotee of Robert Henri, he was noted for his dramatic interpretations of common
life, especially in New York City, where he helped organize the Armory Show of
1913",George Bellows
"FTP name the painter of Forty-Two Kids, Matinicus, and such prize-fighting scenes
as Stag at Sharkey's.",George Bellows
"Hans Bellmer's series of prints entitled La Poupee are representative of this art
movement, as is Roberto Matta's oil painting A Grave Situation",surrealism
Also representative is Joseph Cornell's Hotel Eden and Yves Tanguy's ('tan-GHEE's')
Infinite Divisibility,surrealism
The ideas for the art movement were contained in a 1924 'Manifesto' written by
Andre Breton,surrealism
"FTP, name the artistic school more famously represented by Giorgio De Chirico
('Kir-ee-koh'), Joan Miro, and Rene Magritte.",surrealism
"In May of 1940 he and a group of militant followers attacked Leon Trotsky's
fortified house outside Mexico City, peppering his rooms with machine gunfire,
throwing grenades, and detonating dynamite",David Alfaro Siqueiros
Somehow Trotsky and his wife escaped without a scratch,David Alfaro Siqueiros
"This leader of the raid also edited the communist nespaper El Machete, was an
associate of Diego Rivera, and led the Mexican Communist Party after Rivera was
thrown out",David Alfaro Siqueiros
"Like Rivera, he was also an artist, with murals entitled The March of Humanity and
Portrait of the Bourgeoisie considered to be some of his best work",David Alfaro
Siqueiros
"FTP, who was this Mexican activist and artist, the last of the great Mexican
muralists?",David Alfaro Siqueiros
"Originally covered with red pigment, it has no eyes, feet, or face, but it has
extremely thin arms and several intricate rows of parallel curls for
hair",Willendorf Venus
"Presently on display in the Natural History Museum of Vienna, it was unearthed in
1908 at the Austrian Aurignacian-culture site for which it is named",Willendorf
Venus
"With the typically fecund features of oversized belly, breast, and buttocks-for 10
points-what is the name of this most famous, nearly 30,000-year-old Venus
figurine?",Willendorf Venus
It was painted as the central panel of an altarpiece for the Confraternity of the
Immaculate Conception's chapel in San Francesco Grande,Virgin of the Rocks
"Possibly influenced by Fra Lippi, on the right side, an angel points to an infant
John the Baptist praying to the Christ Child, who raises his hand in
blessing",Virgin of the Rocks
"FTP, identify this painting by Leonardo da Vinci, which features Mary at the peak
of the pyramidal composition, set in a stony grotto.",Virgin of the Rocks
"The last three were discovered after 1863 and are entitled 'Proud monster!,' 'This
is the truth,' and 'Infamous gain.' The first one, 'Sad presentiments of what must
come to pass,' depicts a man with his arms spread apart staring upward, while the
next t",The Disasters of War or Los Desastres de la Guerra
"FTP, identify this series of 83 engravings, done between 1810 and 1820 in response
to the horrors of the Peninsular War, the work of Francisco Goya.",The Disasters of
War or Los Desastres de la Guerra
"He retired to Provence in 1925, where he worked on collages of cellophane sheets
which he called 'transparencies.' He was a founding member of the Section d'Or
(door), and painted works like Catch as Catch Can in an Orphist style until his
encounter with",Francis Picabia
"FTP, identify this French artist, who founded the journal 391 in 1918, best known
for 'Mechanothropomorphic' fantasies like Universal Prostitution which exemplified
his style of mechano-dada art.",Francis Picabia
Peter Bruegel the elder's Fall of the Rebel Angels was long attributed to this
artist until curators discovered Bruegel's signature beneath its frame,Hieronymous
Bosch
The National Museum in Lisbon holds his Saint Anthony Triptych,Hieronymous Bosch
The Death of the Miser shows the grim reaper entering a room where an avaricious
man sits with small grelims crawling around his bed,Hieronymous Bosch
"His most famous work shows either the creation or the end of the world in grey on
the outside, but opens to reveal the Garden of Eden, a proliferation of humans, and
hell",Hieronymous Bosch
"FTP, name this Brabant-born artist who created the Garden of Earthly
Delights.",Hieronymous Bosch
He loved animals so much that he kept a brood of white mice in a drawer in his
first Paris studio,Pablo Picasso
"The artist had a billy goat in southern France, but it lost favor after developing
a penchant for butting his son Claude",Pablo Picasso
"Despite this, animals were not frequently depicted in his early oeuvre, but did
become more prevalent in such later works as 1944's Man with Sheep and 1950's She-
Goat",Pablo Picasso
"FTP, name this eventually Cubist painter, who depicted at least parts of animals
in his most famous painting, 1937's Guernica.",Pablo Picasso
"At the right, on a green platform, 4 men stand behind a flagpole, one with a large
green garment with red spots, and one sporting blue and orange pants bending away
from the viewer",Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1885 or Entry of Christ into
Brussels in 1885
A red banner across the top proclaims 'Vive la societ' (VEEV la SOH-see-uh-
TAY),Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1885 or Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1885
"In the center, behind a progression of citizens, many in grotesque costumes or
poses, and a garish marching band, the title figure, garbed in red and sporting a
halo, rides a donkey",Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1885 or Entry of Christ into
Brussels in 1885
"FTP, name this influential painting set in the artist's homeland, a depiction of
the Second Coming by James Ensor.",Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1885 or Entry of
Christ into Brussels in 1885
"Some of the figures in this painting are seemingly superfluous: Mercury stands at
the far left, dispelling clouds from above trees laden with golden fruit",Primavera
(accept The Allegory of Spring)
"A Cupid on the wing aims his little bow, but is probably only there by grace of
his mother Venus, above whom he hovers",Primavera (accept The Allegory of Spring)
The action takes place on the right,Primavera (accept The Allegory of Spring)
"The West Wind, Zephyrus, pursues a virginal Chloris whom he will rape",Primavera
(accept The Allegory of Spring)
"Chloris is then shown transformed, bedecked with flowers, as the title
character",Primavera (accept The Allegory of Spring)
"For 10 points, name this Botticelli allegorical work.",Primavera (accept The
Allegory of Spring)
"It was banned in Nazi Germany, and Fascist politics kept it from winning the
Mussolini Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival, but this pacifist masterpiece was
awarded a special prize there anyway","The Grand Illusion (or, La Grande Illusion)"
"Stateside, it became the first foreign language picture to earn a best picture
nomination in Hollywood","The Grand Illusion (or, La Grande Illusion)"
"Drawn from its director's experience as a World War I P.O.W., it centers upon the
relationship between French prisoner Boeildieu, played by Pierre Fresnay, and his
captor, von Rauffenstein, brilliantly portrayed by Erich von Stroheim--both of
whose aristo","The Grand Illusion (or, La Grande Illusion)"
"For 10 points, name this most profound of anti-war films, directed by Jean
Renoir.","The Grand Illusion (or, La Grande Illusion)"
This artist was born to a family that veritably bled paint--Jean-Honore Fragonard
was a grandfather,Berthe Morisot (more-ee-SO)
"Enjoying the weekly tutoring of Corot by age 20, it was a trip to the Louvre to
copy Rubens that led to fame via a change in artistic direction",Berthe Morisot
(more-ee-SO)
"Meeting Edouard Manet there in 1868, the painter became the painted in his famous
1868 The Balcony as well as in several other of his works, including The
Repose",Berthe Morisot (more-ee-SO)
"Often featuring family members such as sister Edma and husband Eugene Manet (the
master's brother) in her work, she was praised by fellow impressionists for her
subtle rendering of color in such works as Peasant Hanging Out the Washing and
Young Girl With",Berthe Morisot (more-ee-SO)
"For 10 points, who was this artist of Hide-and-Seek and The Cradle?",Berthe
Morisot (more-ee-SO)
It is said that it was so inspiring that Eugene Delacroix repainted his Massacre of
Chios upon seeing it,The Haywain
"This painting was first exhibited at London's Royal Academy in 1820, and at the
Paris Salon of 1824 it was awarded a gold medal and caused great excitement among
French painters",The Haywain
"In it, two dogs watch as two men try to coax a team of three red-yoked horses to
pull an unladen wagon through a ford in a river",The Haywain
"For 10 points, what is this painting, which had such an influence on Barbizon
School painters, by John Constable?",The Haywain
The scene is set in a shady bower full of vines and statuary,The Swing
"One of these statues, representing discretion, stands at left with his finger to
his lips",The Swing
"The central lady kicks her shoe playfully at the statue while a young man,
probably her lover, moves some bushes aside to gaze up the lady's dress",The Swing
"Another man, unaware of the first's presence, pushes the lady in the title object
in, FTP, what oil painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard?",The Swing
"The artist was undoubtedly inspired to create this painting by Lord Byron's
narrative poem on the same subject, though he replaces Byron's sacrificial suicide
with orgiastic destruction",Death of Sardanapalus
"Everything swirls around the empty foot of the bed, but details fade toward the
edge of the canvas",Death of Sardanapalus
"Most conspicuous are the tortured and dying bodies of the women, especially the
one in the foreground dispatched by a murderous slave",Death of Sardanapalus
"The central figure lies on his bed and watches gloomily as his most precious
possessions - women, horses, and treasure - are destroyed in his sight",Death of
Sardanapalus
"FTP, what is this Eugene Delacroix painting about the downfall of the mythical
last king of Assyria?",Death of Sardanapalus
"He first became known in England through Joseph Smith, who sold his collection of
this artist's work to George III, and in 1745 he moved to England, where he did a
number of paintings of London and country houses",Canaletto or Antonio Canale
"He prepared for his work by using a camera obscura to capture every detail of the
scene, producing such paintings as Stonemason's Yard and View of San
Cristoforo",Canaletto or Antonio Canale
"FTP, identify this Venetian artist, best known for his panoramic paintings of his
native city.",Canaletto or Antonio Canale
This painting is believed to be a celebration of the love of Giuliano de Medici for
Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci,The Birth of Venus
"In the upper left, Zephyr and Chloris fly through falling roses while in the right
sits part of an orange grove, corresponding with the sacred garden of the
Hesperides in Greek myth",The Birth of Venus
"A nymph just to the right of center holds a robe to the central character, who,
driven by the wind, slowly floats to shore on a large shell",The Birth of Venus
"FTP, name this large masterpiece by Sandro Botticelli.",The Birth of Venus
"His early works employed a 'tubular' style derivative of Lger (lay-ZHAY), though
the influence of Futurism on his work can be seen in paintings like The Knife
Grinder",Kasimir Malevich
"He gave up painting around 1919 in favor of making three-dimensional models, and
taught Lissitzky at Vitebsk before moving to Leningrad, where he died in
1935",Kasimir Malevich
"FTP, name this Russian painter, who wanted to 'free art from the burden of the
object,' which he did in works like White on White, the father of
Suprematism.",Kasimir Malevich
"In 1450 supporting arches had to be inserted at its crossing, due to the great
weight of its 404 foot high tower and spire, the tallest of its kind in
Britain",Salisbury Cathedral
"Set in a walled enclosure and rendered almost entirely in the Early English Gothic
Style, construction on it began in 1220 and continued uninterrupted for fifty
years",Salisbury Cathedral
"FTP, what is the name of this church of Saint Mary, perhaps the closest cathedral
to Stonehenge?",Salisbury Cathedral
"Though three figures appear in the work, it has no discernible subject, and was an
influence on the landscapes of Claude Lorraine and Rembrandt",The Tempest
"In the background lies a bridge over a small stream and a number of buildings,
while in the foreground at left stands a soldier holding a tall staff, staring at a
mostly nude mother nursing a baby to the right",The Tempest
"FTP, name the 1505 painting by Giorgione, which derives its name from the stormy
skies at the top.",The Tempest
"Corrections to paintings of this type are often made via the secco process, and
copies can be made using the techniques of strappo and stacco",fresco
"Typically, after a scratch coat, brown coat, and sand coat are created, a
preliminary sketch is pounced on the surface, and after the intonaco, or painting
coat, is laid, the artist paints on the intonaco until the surface becomes too dry
to accept new pa",fresco
Major examples can be found in the Arena chapel at Padua and the Sistine
Chapel,fresco
"FTP, name this type of painting in which the pigments become an integral part of a
wall.",fresco
"This artist's early style was influenced by Russian expressionism and cubism, as
seen in Candles in the Dark",Marc Chagall
"Known for depictions of his private life, as seen in the print series My Life, and
for the surrealism inherent in works like Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers, this
artist also served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Academy in his
hometown of Ui",Marc Chagall
"FTP, name this artist of The Woman and the Roses, White Crucifixion, and I and the
Village.",Marc Chagall
Giovanni Bologna did a statue of this title which was set in marble in 1583 in the
Loggia dei Lanzi,The Rape of the Sabines or The Rape of the Sabine Women (accept
equivalents)
"In the better known painting of the name, an elderly woman appears at the center
who would later serve as the model for a figure in Delacroix's Massacre at
Chios",The Rape of the Sabines or The Rape of the Sabine Women (accept equivalents)
"A man robed in orange looks on the action from the upper left, while the grouping
of a woman with left arm extended, grabbed around the waist by a man, is repeated 6
times from different angles in the painting",The Rape of the Sabines or The Rape of
the Sabine Women (accept equivalents)
"FTP, what is this 1636 work, which depicts a famous abduction from early Roman
history, by Nicolas Poussin?",The Rape of the Sabines or The Rape of the Sabine
Women (accept equivalents)
"His works include 1625's Lot Fleeing from Sodom, which is now housed in the
Louvre",Peter Paul Rubens
"After studying under Venius, he went to Italy in 1600, where he began working for
Vincenzo Gonzaga, a period during which he painted his Transfiguration and The
Baptism of Christ",Peter Paul Rubens
"FTP, name this painter of the Ildefenso Altarpiece, The Toilet of Venus, and the
Descent from the Cross, a Flemish Baroque artist best known for his distinctive
portrayals of fleshy female nudes.",Peter Paul Rubens
"It is the title of a 1934 drawing in which the wife of the artist appears as the
assailant, and his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, as the title victim",The Death
of Marat
"Besides the carving knife, a pair of darts symbolizing the horns of a bull impales
the reclining figure",The Death of Marat
"The more famous work of this title is a painting in which the name of the artist
appears on a box in the lower right, and before a plain background lies the title
character, holding a quill in his right hand and a blood-stained letter in his
left",The Death of Marat
"FTP, give the name shared by these works of art, one by Pablo Picasso, the other a
1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-VEED).",The Death of Marat
He was sent by the Venetian state to Constantinople in 1479 in response to Sultan
Muhammad II's request for a good portraitist,Gentile Bellini
"Some of his most beautiful works date from his year's sojourn there, including a
portrait of the sultan and a watercolor portrait of a boy scribe which reflects the
influence of the Islamic painting style",Gentile Bellini
"Most of the latter were destroyed by a fire in the Doges' Palace in 1579, but
three Miracles of the True Cross survive to establish their character",Gentile
Bellini
"Set in contemporary Venice, they are pictorially somewhat dry but valuable as
circumstantially accurate records of the city and its people in his time",Gentile
Bellini
"FTP, name this Venetian painter, the son of Jacopo and brother of
Giovanni.",Gentile Bellini
At the foot of the bed stands a black kitten with its tail pointing up in the
air,Olympia
"The subject of the painting wears a magnolia behind her left ear, a gold bracelet
on her right arm, sandals, and nothing else, while a black maid offers her a large
bouquet of flowers",Olympia
"FTP, identify this painting, a depiction of a nude prostitute which scandalized
the art world of 1863 and is a masterpiece of Edouard Manet.",Olympia
"The artist can be seen in the background of this work as the short, bearded man
with the derby standing to the left of the very tall man with the top hat, his
cousin",At the Moulin Rouge
"They are standing to the left of two women, one of whom is adjusting her hair,
while a group of three men and two women sit at a table in the foreground, a
pattern reminiscent of the zigzag pattern of The Glass of Absinthe, by Degas",At
the Moulin Rouge
"FTP, identify this painting completed in 1892 and on display at the Art Institute
of Chicago, which shows the performers and customers of a well-known Paris
nightclub, a work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.",At the Moulin Rouge
"He was praised by the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren, and by French critic Felix
Feneon, and the eminent dealer Durand-Ruel exhibited his work while he lived in a
garret studio",Georges Seurat
"In 1888, he joined The Twenty, a group of artists exhibiting in Brussels",Georges
Seurat
"His last painting was entitled Le Cirque painted with his usual 'additive method.'
FTP, name this painter of Bather at Asnieres and Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
Grande Jatte, the founder of Divisionism.",Georges Seurat
"A Pop Art version includes a depiction of the artist herself, Marisol, sitting
opposite the scene of wood sculpture",The Last Supper
"A version by Tintoretto divided the oil on canvas painting diagonally with the
table, and includes a choir of angels, while Marisol's inspiration was painted for
Santa Maria delle Grazie",The Last Supper
"Give the titles for these works depicting the moment at which Jesus announces that
one apostle will betray him, the best known of which, FTP, was painted by Leonardo
da Vinci.",The Last Supper
"Volume Two, published in 1846, 'expresses the first and fundamental law respecting
human contemplation of the natural phenomena under whose influence we exist,' and
expresses the author's admiration for Tintoretto",Modern Painters
"The third volume includes an essay on the Grand Style and a discussion of Idealism
and landscapes, before winding up with an excursus on the Crimean War",Modern
Painters
"Volumes 4 and 5 include passages on the tower of Calais, studies of landscapes,
and discussions of the four orders of landscape painters, ending with a lament for
Giorgione",Modern Painters
"For ten points, what is this five volume treatise, the first volume of which was
published when John Ruskin was just 24?",Modern Painters
At the bottom center is a squirming white cat,Interior of My Studio or The Artist's
Studio or Studio of the Painter or reasonable equivalent
Only two people are watching the main action -- a young child and a nude woman
behind the main figure's chair,Interior of My Studio or The Artist's Studio or
Studio of the Painter or reasonable equivalent
"2 groups of people mill around, commoners on the left, and Parisian gentility on
the right",Interior of My Studio or The Artist's Studio or Studio of the Painter or
reasonable equivalent
"FTP, name this 1855 work, subtitled 'A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of My
Life As an Artist,' painted by Gustave Courbet.",Interior of My Studio or The
Artist's Studio or Studio of the Painter or reasonable equivalent
The weeping woman being held by her mother in the left foreground cries since her
betrothed and her brothers are about to fight for the honor of their respective
cities,Oath of the Horatii
"As it turns out, she is right to weep as her betrothed, Quintus Curatius, dies
along with two of her three brothers, who are holding their swords up so rigidly in
the painting",Oath of the Horatii
"The striking use of color and the dramatic tension present in the stances of the
four characters in the center make, FTP, which painting of Jacques-Louis David so
memorable?",Oath of the Horatii
"It was the first of a series of paintings commissioned by Alfonso d'Este to
decorate the camerino d'alabastro, or alabaster study of his Ferrara castle",The
Feast of the Gods
"The ass on the left is supposedly braying in response to amorous advances made
against the sleeping nymph Lotis, on the right",The Feast of the Gods
"All the title figures are paying attention to the actions of Priapus, though the
nymphs and satyrs carry on their serving duties",The Feast of the Gods
"Taken from a scene in Ovid's Fasti, it shows Jupiter, Neptune, Apollo, and others
making merry in a pastoral setting",The Feast of the Gods
"FTP, identify this Giovanni Bellini painting.",The Feast of the Gods
"In 1516 this man was apprenticed to the goldsmith Andrea Marcone in Florence, and
his first charge of manslaughter dates to this year",Benvenuto Cellini
"He would create such sculpted masterpieces as The Saltcellar of Francis I, the
Seal of Cardinal d'Este of Ferrara, and the statue of Perseus, remarkable
considering he was also a full-time criminal whose offenses include fornication,
embezzlement, and at ",Benvenuto Cellini
"For 10 points name this Renaissance goldsmith and subject of a Berlioz opera, most
famous for his Autobiography.",Benvenuto Cellini
"In one version of this painting, a shaggy dog lays on the floor in the left
background, but is missing from the other version",Three Musicians
"The former features bolder colors, and depicts, from right to left, a monk,
Harlequin, and Pierrot, while in the latter painting Pierrot and Harlequin have
switched places, with Harlequin now playing the violin instead of a guitar",Three
Musicians
"FTP, name these two identically named 1921 cubist masterpieces painted by Pablo
Picasso.",Three Musicians
The man on the far left wears a red cloth and reaches up to grab a piece of yellow
fruit,Primavera
"The figure on the right, bathed on supernatural blue, clutches at a
woman",Primavera
"Three barefoot women on the left clasp hands and wear wispy see-through gowns,
while two women on the right look demure",Primavera
"An arrow-shooting Cupid can be seen in the center top of, FTP, what work by Sandro
Botticelli?",Primavera
This artist's only signed work is painted on both sides and was made for the
cathedral of his hometown,Duccio Buoninsegna
"Aside from this altarpiece, his other major work is the Rucellai Madonna, that
shows her seated on a throne holding the infant Christ with a formality and
symmetry of composition drawn from Byzantine tradition",Duccio Buoninsegna
"FTP, identify this man who represents the pinnacle of the Sienese school, best
known for the Maest altarpiece.",Duccio Buoninsegna
"As radical in politics as he was in painting, he was placed in charge of all art
museums under the revolutionary 1871 Commune of Paris and saved the city's
collections from looting mobs",Gustave Courbet
"However, he was accused of allowing the destruction of Napoleon's triumphal column
in the Place de Vendtme and subsequently fled to Vevey, Switzerland, where he
continued to paint until his death",Gustave Courbet
"Works include a depiction of a trout, and Woman with a Parrot",Gustave Courbet
"In a painting subtitled 'A True Allegory Concerning Seven Years of My Artistic
Life,' he sits painting a landscape center stage, attended by a small boy, a dog,
and a voluptuous female nude; at left a listless, bored group ignores him; at right
a lively, ",Gustave Courbet
"FTP, identify this realist French painter best known for The Artist's Studio, The
Burial at Ornans and The Stonebreakers.",Gustave Courbet
"This man's designs were often dominated by richly curvaceous women and by motifs
such as peacock feathers and large flowers, especially lilies",Alfons-Maria Mucha
"Renowned for his jewelry and furniture designs, he illustrated book versions of
Salambo",Alfons-Maria Mucha
After being discovered in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt he created a famous poster for
the production of her play Gismonda and continued to work with her for
years,Alfons-Maria Mucha
During a trip to the US he met Charles R,Alfons-Maria Mucha
"Crane who financed his most ambitious project, which he moved back to Praque to
complete",Alfons-Maria Mucha
This series of 20 large works is titled The Epic of the Slavic People,Alfons-Maria
Mucha
FTP identify this Moravian artist closely associated with the foundation and
development of Art Nouveau.,Alfons-Maria Mucha
"A serious student of the piano as a child, he would later argue for the
connections between music and his art, particularly the tonal gradations in
each",Ansel Adams
"He highlighted the plight of American minorities in works such as Born Free and
Equal, a documentary of the Japanese-American interns at the Manzanar Relocation
Center during World War II",Ansel Adams
"An ardent conservationist, he was director of the Sierra Club for 37 years, during
which time he published This Is the American Earth and These We Inherit: The
Parklands of America",Ansel Adams
"For 10 points, who was this photographer of the collections Yosemite and the
Sierra Nevada, Yosemite and the Range of Light, and Yosemite Valley?",Ansel Adams
"Originated by Iwasa Matabei, its first great master was Hishikawa Moronobu",ukiyo-
e
"Dominant in the 18th and 19th centuries, it appealed to the affluent merchant
classes, employing bright colors and strong designs",ukiyo-e
"Made possible by improvements in block printing, its flat decorative color
influenced French artists such as Degas, while miniatures called suri-mono
commemorated special occasions",ukiyo-e
"FTP, what is this genre of 'pictures of the floating world' expounded by Hokusai,
color prints depicting actors, prostitutes, landscapes, and other scenes from
everyday life?",ukiyo-e
"According to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, the figures in this artist's scenes
'writhe upon the page in a veritable rage of adversity.' A bullfighter in his
youth, his 1st major artistic commission was for the frescoes in the Zaragoza
cathedral; he was la",Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
"FTP, name this man known for his macabre 'Black Paintings', etchings in 'Los
Proverbios' and 'Los Capricios' and paintings like 'The Naked Maja' and 'The 3rd of
May, 1808.'",Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
"Encouraged to become an artist by Sir Joshua Reynolds, he had a strong influence
on his younger contemporary William Blake after his ten year foray to Italy to
study the works of Michelangelo",John Henry Fuseli or Johann Heinrich Fssli
"Born in Zurich, he was appointed keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804, and is
famous for his paintings and drawings of nude figures in strained poses showing
intense emotion",John Henry Fuseli or Johann Heinrich Fssli
"FTP, name this Swiss-English painter, whose macabre fantasies included 1781's The
Nightmare.",John Henry Fuseli or Johann Heinrich Fssli
"When Marc Chagall became director of the Vitebsk School of Art in 1918, he invited
this man to teach under him; but shortly thereafter, during a brief Chagall
absence, he took over the school and dismissed him",Kasimir Malevich
"A member of the Knave of Diamonds group and a participant in the 1912 Donkey's
Tail exhibition, he was once arrested for distributing banned literature",Kasimir
Malevich
"For 10 points, who was this artist of Yellow Parallelogram on White and
Suprematist Composition: White on White?",Kasimir Malevich
"He served as a militia captain in Indian conflicts, although it is said that he
received his first paints from Indian friends in Springfield,
Pennsylvania",Benjamin West
"He painted religious and historical subjects on huge canvases, such as Agrippina
Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, and anticipated developments in
French romantic painting with his Death on a Pale Horse",Benjamin West
"For ten points, name this court artist of George III, who painted the Death of
General Wolfe.",Benjamin West
"A bleak mountain range provides the background, and sparse vegetation is scattered
about a barren field",The Scapegoat
"A skeleton on the right and a skull on the left presage the fate of the
unfortunate central figure, which will soon be sacrificed in order to remit the
sins of the Israelites",The Scapegoat
"FTP, name this William Holman Hunt painting.",The Scapegoat
"On the presentation of this reception piece in 1717, its painter became a full
member of the French Royal Academy",The Embarkation for Cythera or A Pilgrimage to
Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere or Le Pelerinage a Cythere or Return from
Cythera or Chillin' on Cythera or equivalents
"The artist's literary source was probably a musical entertainment, The Three
Cousins, by Florent Dancourt, but the subject was considered so novel that the term
'fete galante' was coined to describe it",The Embarkation for Cythera or A
Pilgrimage to Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere or Le Pelerinage a Cythere or
Return from Cythera or Chillin' on Cythera or equivalents
"Identify this work which had long caused confusion as to whether they are supposed
to be coming or going, painted, FTP, by Antoine Watteau.",The Embarkation for
Cythera or A Pilgrimage to Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere or Le Pelerinage a
Cythere or Return from Cythera or Chillin' on Cythera or equivalents
Original members of this movement included F.G,Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
"Stephens, Thomas Woolner, and James Collinson",Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
"Advocating the expression of genuine ideas and study of Nature, their aroused
controversy with paintings like The Girlhood of Mary Vrigin and Christ in the House
of His Parents",Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
"Noted for their association with literature, they published the journal The Germ,
and were named for their desire to recapture the artistic spirit of early
Renaissance Italy",Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
"FTP, what was this 19th century British at movement whose members included William
Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti?",Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
"This artist often appended to his paintings quotes from his putative epic poem
'The Fallacies of Hope', which he never published and may never have
written",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"Prone to outrageous claims, such as when he vowed he had been lashed to the stern
of the ship Ariel in a blizzard in order to create 'Steamboat off a Harbour's
Mouth', he often gave his paintings grandiose titles, such as 'Slaves Throwing
Overboard the De",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"Although is work was criticised by Constable as 'airy visions, painted with tinted
steam', Ruskin championed such works as 'Petworth', Fighting Temeriere', and
'Burning of the Houses of Parliament",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"FTP, who was this English painter perhaps best known for 'Rain, Steam and Speed',
'The Slave Ship', and 'Snowstorm:Hannibal Crossing the Alps'?",Joseph Mallord
William Turner
"Just to the left of center on the bottom of this painting is a spotted dog
standing at the edge of the water, while on the far right is a man in the
overgrowth on the opposite shore",The Hay Wain
"A man is seen reaching into the water at the house which dominates the far left,
while in the center two men are trying to navigate the shallow water with a cart
drawn by several black animals with red bridles",The Hay Wain
"FTP, what is this famous painting by John Constable?",The Hay Wain
"Among this artist's important works painted in the United States are a painting
for the San Francisco Stock Exchange, as well as 'Detroit Industry'",Diego Rivera
"He gained an intenational reputation with The Nightmare of War and the Dream of
Peace and Man at the Crossroads, and created a scandal by including the phrase 'God
Does Not Exist' in Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Central Alameda",Diego Rivera
"Known for his monstrously ugly appearance, FTP, who was this most popular of the
Mexican muralists?",Diego Rivera
"Canvases by this artist include The Companions of Fear, The Castle of the
Pyrenees, and The Tomb of the Wrestlers, and he also made analogues of famous
paintings like David's Madame Recamier and Manet's The Balcony in which he replaced
the figures with co",Rene Magritte
"Influenced by de Chirico, he gained renown for the painting The Menaced Assassin,
while works like Golconda and The Red Model demonstrate his use of visual paradoxes
and everyday objects taken out of context, such as enormous rocks floating in air
and fis",Rene Magritte
"FTP, name this Belgian surrealist best-known for his recurring motifs of bowler
hats and apples.",Rene Magritte
"The godson of Anthony Koberger, this artist wrote the theoretical studies Treatise
on Measurement and Four Books on Human Proportions",Albrecht Durer
"Called 'the Apelles of black lines' by Erasmus, his early works include
illustrations for Brant's Ship of Fools and the Paumgarter Alter, while mature
work's like Feast of the Rose-garlands were intended to compete with the best
Italian paintings",Albrecht Durer
"His best-known works came from his middle period, including St",Albrecht Durer
"Jerome in his Study and The Knight, Death and the Devil",Albrecht Durer
"FTP, name this great German Renaissance artist and engraver, creator of the
Apocalypse series.",Albrecht Durer
The English manifesto for this art movement was entitled Circle,Constructivism
"Rejecting the idea that art must serve a social purpose, the brothers Antoine
Pevsner and Naum Gabo issued their Realist Manifesto, in which they conceived of a
purely abstract art that reflected modern machinery and technology and which used
inductrial m",Constructivism
"FTP, what was this Russian art movement founded in 1913 by Vladimir
Tatlin?",Constructivism
"The wall in the background holds a bell, an hourglass and scales, directly under
which sits a dejected looking cherub on top of a wheel",Melencolia I
"The foreground features a sleeping dog to the left, while tools of intellectual
pursuits, including a sphere and a polyhedron, lie scattered around the folds of
the title figure's dress",Melencolia I
"She is sitting and fingers a divider in her right hand, while her left holds up
her chin",Melencolia I
"FTP identify this 1514 work whose title is carried by a strange creature in the
upper left hand corner, an engraving by Albrecht Duhrer.",Melencolia I
"Shortly before his death this artist began The Cross of the World, a series of
paintings on a religious theme",Thomas Cole
One of his most famous works was based on the Count de Volney's Ruines and was
painted while he was living with Henry Greenough in Florence,Thomas Cole
"In The Voyage of Life he depicts the progression of a young man from birth to old
age, while the stages of a society is seen in 'The Course of Empire'",Thomas Cole
"For 10 points, name this painter of the Hudson River School best remembered for
The Ox-Bow.",Thomas Cole
"A former schoolmate and friend of Emile Zola, this painter of The Murder was
greatly influenced by the work of Manet, as seen in A Modern Olympia or The
Pasha",Paul Cezanne
"He soon focused on brush strokes and the balance of 2-dimensional and 3-
dimensional images, developing his technique of breaking down an natural object
into its composite shapes, including the cylinder, sphere, and cone, a technique
clearly seen in his mo",Paul Cezanne
FTP name this French forerunner of cubism and painter of Mount Saint Victoire.,Paul
Cezanne
This artist's decorations for the Chapelle des Anges of S,Eugene Delacroix
Sulpice included his 'Heliodorus Expelled from the Temple',Eugene Delacroix
"Rumored to be the son of Talleyrand, he debuted at the Paris Salon of 1822 with
Dante and Virgil in Hell, while a trip to northern Africa provided inspiration for
exotic subjects like The Women of Algiers",Eugene Delacroix
"Creator of 'The Massacre at Chios' and 'The Death of Sardanopolus', FTP, who was
this French Romantic painter of 'Liberty Leading the People'?",Eugene Delacroix
This artistic labor was inspired by a popular text of St,Isenheim Altarpiece
Bridget's life in Sweden and depicts several scenes from that work,Isenheim
Altarpiece
"In its second stage, an angel in pink plays the cello in front of an elaborate
baldachino, while its outer carvings depict St",Isenheim Altarpiece
Augustine and Jerome among others,Isenheim Altarpiece
The first stage shows St,Isenheim Altarpiece
Sebastian on one wing and a Lamenation on the predella,Isenheim Altarpiece
Originally commissioned for a hospice for syphilitics run by the Order of
St,Isenheim Altarpiece
"Anthony, its most compelling part is the gruesomely wounded, crucified Christ in
the center",Isenheim Altarpiece
"FTP, name this polyptych completed in 1515 by Matthias Grunewald.",Isenheim
Altarpiece
"In 1908 Picasso gave a famous banquet, half-serious half-burlesque, in this
artist's honor",Henri Rousseau (prompt on just last name)
"Among his humorous paintings are The Football Players and Boy on the Rocks, mostly
for their gross distortions",Henri Rousseau (prompt on just last name)
"Because of his lack of formal training, he was grouped with the Naives or the
Primitives, but those labels vanished with such brilliant canvases as A Carnival
Evening and The Snake Charmer",Henri Rousseau (prompt on just last name)
"His several years working as a customs officer led to his famous nickname, 'Le
Douanier [DWA-nyea].' FTP, name this French painter whose fame rests in his exotic
jungle depictions and the painting known as The Sleeping Gypsy.",Henri Rousseau
(prompt on just last name)
It was one of the seven poesies that the artist painted for Philip II of Spain and
preceded the Death of Actaeon in that series,The Rape of Europa
The title character is situated on the right side clutching a red robe with her
left hand,The Rape of Europa
On the bottom left a small cupid rides atop one of two giant fish visible in the
foamy waters at the bottom of the painting,The Rape of Europa
"Two more cupids fly in the air in the top left, but one's eyes are drawn to the
right, which is dominated by a massive white bull and the title character, who is
clutching on to the bull's back",The Rape of Europa
"FTP, name this painting by Titian that depicts an amorous adventure of Zeus.",The
Rape of Europa
This artist's fame rests on his later landscapes like Magpie on a Gallows,Pieter
Bruegel the Elder
"However, a small subset of his canvases were successful allegories as in Battle
Between Carnival and Lent and Fall of the Rebel Angels",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"His grimmest works, such as The triumph of Death and Tower of Babel, date from the
Spanish persecution of a large Protestant minority in his native town",Pieter
Bruegel the Elder
"Nevertheless, he found humor, particularly in the comical Parable of the
Blind",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"His supreme achievement is considered to be 1565's The Months of the Year, which
includes August, or Corn Harvest and January, or Hunters in the Snow",Pieter
Bruegel the Elder
"FTP, name this Dutchman known for his everyday depictions like The Peasant
Wedding.",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
To the left is a partial view of a typical country house with a red chimney,The Hay
Wain
"A river dominates the foreground of the painting, and at its bottom bank is a
wandering dog, while on the opposite bank, on the right side of the canvas, is a
man in a small boat huddled amongst some weeds",The Hay Wain
In the bottom center is a pair of black horses being directed by two men,The Hay
Wain
"Those two men stand astride the title object, which is in the shallow part of the
river",The Hay Wain
"FTP, give the British name for this title object, a wagon, and you've named this
1821 painting by John Constable.",The Hay Wain
"This painting was originally meant to be executed by Gabriel-Francois Doyen, but
he refused to do it for moral reasons",The Swing
"The work was commissioned by Baron de Julien, a priest, who had cuckolded a
bishop",The Swing
On the left side is a cupid statue with a finger to its mouth and it seems to be
looking at a shoe in midair,The Swing
"The bishop appears on the right side of the work, while the aforementioned Julien
hides in the bushes and looks up his mistress' skirt",The Swing
"FTP, name this work of the Rococo period that depicts two men and a woman in a
lush landscape by Jean-Honore Fragonard.",The Swing
"His later days were spent writing about the danger of pollution in the future in
such works as The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, but also saw the
discussion of times past with his autobiography, Praeterita",John Ruskin
"His reasons for going mad are explained in his letters to laborers, Fors
Clavigera",John Ruskin
"Works like Unto This Last differed from his three major publications, which were
influenced by his trips to Italy",John Ruskin
Two of those three are The Stones of Venice and The Seven Lamps of
Architecture,John Ruskin
"FTP, name this English art critic best known for his Modern Painters.",John Ruskin
This painting was originally conceived as a homily to educate a young boy of the
Pierfrancesco family,Primavera
The figure on the extreme left stands in boots with toeholes and is dressed in a
pomegranate cloak with a sword belted at his left hip,Primavera
On the far right is a blue-skinned figure whose touching of the woman to his
immediate left transforms her into Flora,Primavera
"In the left center, three Graces dance and Cupid hovers above in the fruit grove
setting",Primavera
"FTP, name this painting that shows Zephyr and Chloris on the right and Venus in
the center, a Botticelli work also known as Allegory of Spring.",Primavera
"Many of his great paintings are now in Russia, as is the case with The
Conversation",Henri Matisse
"Late in his life he was too weak to stand at an easel, so he turned to papercuts,
the most famous of which was Beasts of the Sea",Henri Matisse
"His artistic career began with his decoration of his grandparent's house at Le
Cateau, a theme that he copied in designing the sets for Diaghilev's ballet The
Nightingale",Henri Matisse
"His notable paintings include a portrait of his wife entitled Green Stripe, the
beautifully thematic The Red Room, and perhaps the most famous, his Joy of
Life",Henri Matisse
"FTP, name this French painter known as the founder and leader of the
Fauves.",Henri Matisse
"He was a noted womanizer and used to brag in slang, 'Je peint avec mon bitre,' or
'I paint with my phallus.' In fact, his later career proved successful after he
found a market for seductive portraits like those of Jeanne Samary and Mademoiselle
Charpenti",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"This native of Limoges will always be noted for his warm, luminous nudes and other
portraits like Child With Watering Can",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"During the last 20 years of his life, he was crippled by arthritis and had to
paint with a brush strapped to his arm",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This explains the lack of notable canvases following his 1887 Bathers
series,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"FTP, name this French painter of Au Moulin de la Galette and Luncheon of the
Boating Party.",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"In the background, a farmer in a blue shirt and black trousers steps with one foot
over a wall, and behind him are the torsos of two women walking away",The Yellow
Christ or Le Christ jaune
"Three young women in common Dutch farm dress kneel solemnly in the foreground, two
facing the viewer and one with her back to us",The Yellow Christ or Le Christ jaune
"They are all in front of the title character, who wears only a white loincloth,
and has his goateed face hanging to the right",The Yellow Christ or Le Christ jaune
The most noticeable aspect of the painting is how the hue of the rolling grassland
matches that of the title character,The Yellow Christ or Le Christ jaune
"FTP, name this Paul Gauguin painting, a colorful depiction of the son of God.",The
Yellow Christ or Le Christ jaune
"X-rays have revealed that before the man on the left side of the painting existed,
there was a naked woman in his place",The Tempest
Set off against the aquamarine sky in the background is a wooden bridge supported
by four columns,The Tempest
More noticeable are the two broken white columns in the foreground,The Tempest
"On the bottom left is the aforementioned man, probably a soldier, who is carrying
a long wooden stick in his right hand and looking across the river at the other
figure in this painting, a partially naked woman in white sheets breast-feeding a
child",The Tempest
"Painted in the first decade of the 16th-century, FTP, name this work by Giorgione
that shares its name with a Shakespearean play.",The Tempest
"It now hangs in the Belvedere Gallery, along with many other of the artist's works
in his hometown",The Kiss
In it the two figures rest on a bed of flowers,The Kiss
"The man is dark-haired and his face is turned from the viewer, while the woman
faces out with her eyes closed",The Kiss
Their clothes are a combination of metallic gold paint and patterns of geometric
shapes in the artist's signature style,The Kiss
"Sharing its name with famous sculptures by Brancusi and Rodin, FTP, name this
Gustav Klimt painting of two people locked in an eternal embrace.",The Kiss
His early canvases Women in the Garden and La Promenade set the stage for his
career,Claude Monet
"He said of his second mentor, Jongkind, 'I owed him the definite education of my
eye,' but it was his first teacher, Eugene Boudin, who converted him to painting
the outdoors",Claude Monet
"His The Picnic mocked Manet's Luncheon on the Grass, but this was before his
mature work, which was executed at the home he built at Giverny",Claude Monet
"FTP, name this artist famed for his paintings of Rouen Cathedral, his groups of
Haystacks, and his series of Water Lilies.",Claude Monet
"The hair of the figure on the left is dotted with olive green leaves, while the
hair of the figure on the right contains some white and green stars",The Kiss
"The bottom of this canvas is a mass of green highlighted by purples, blues, reds,
and golds that were supposed to represent a field of flowers",The Kiss
This transitions up to a series of colored rectangles that stud a gold mass,The
Kiss
"At the time it was completed, it was the foremost example of Art Nouveau in
Vienna",The Kiss
"FTP, name this painting by Gustav Klimt of two lovers in an embrace.",The Kiss
"His early work, under John Hesselius, was primarily natural as evinced by his
Landscape Looking Towards Sellers Hall from Mill Bank",Charles Willson Peale
"He later became a master of trompe l'oeil [tromp-LOY], which is seen in his The
Staircase Group, and also of note was the archaeological dig that produced the
canvas Exhuming the Mastodon",Charles Willson Peale
"FTP, name this founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a man who painted
George Washington 7 times and named many of his 17 children after Renaissance
painters.",Charles Willson Peale
Kierkegaard got one of the titles from his books after seeing a copy of this man's
painting The stages of life,Caspar David Friedrich
His nocturnal interests led to a series that included Moonrise over the sea and Man
and Woman Contemplating the Moon,Caspar David Friedrich
"However, it was two of his early paintings, Abbey in the Oak Wood and Monk by the
sea, that he felt summed up his message",Caspar David Friedrich
That message was the essence of the school that he led with Philipp Otto
Runge,Caspar David Friedrich
"FTP, name this artist of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and The Cross in the
Mountains, the leading German Romantic painter.",Caspar David Friedrich
This painting was drawn from a cartoon by Michelangelo showing two of the title
characters kissing,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Love (prompt on
'Allegory with Venus and Cupid')"
"The action takes place around a light blue silk sheet, on which rest two masks on
the bottom left","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Love (prompt on
'Allegory with Venus and Cupid')"
The central figure holds an orange in her left hand and a wand in her upraised
right,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Love (prompt on 'Allegory with
Venus and Cupid')"
"The decapitated man on the top left is Fraud, and just below him is howling
Jealousy","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Love (prompt on 'Allegory
with Venus and Cupid')"
Most noticeable is the raw eroticism as Cupid caresses the breast of Venus and
kisses her,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Love (prompt on 'Allegory
with Venus and Cupid')"
"FTP, name this masterpiece of Agnolo Bronzino.","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or
Allegory of Love (prompt on 'Allegory with Venus and Cupid')"
An engraving of this name by Martin Schongauer inspired famous copies by Raphael
and Correggio,The Temptation of St. Anthony
Salvador Dali's version has a caravan of elephants with incredibly long skinny legs
and a horse rearing up in front of the naked title character brandishing a cross on
the bottom left,The Temptation of St. Anthony
The most famous one is a tryptich that shows the title character being tormented by
devils in the center panel,The Temptation of St. Anthony
"FTP, identify this Hieronymous Bosch depiction of enticements thrown at a
Christian monk, also the name of a novel by Flaubert.",The Temptation of St.
Anthony
The surname's the same,de Stael [SCHTAI]
One was not really a writer but he collaborated with his friend Rene Char on a book
of poems,de Stael [SCHTAI]
This Russian was better known after befriending George Braque and producing such
canvases as The Unicorn and Figures by the sea,de Stael [SCHTAI]
The other gave perhaps the most famous eyewitness account of Louis XVI's execution
and was exiled after the publication of the novels Corinna and Delphine,de Stael
[SCHTAI]
"FTP, give this surname of the painter Nicolas and the daughter of Jacques Necker
often referred to as Madame.",de Stael [SCHTAI]
"The building on the right is taken from the artist's vision of a wealthy house in
Capernaum, while the body of water in the left is supposed to be Lake
Genezaret",The Tribute Money
"In each figure, the line from the weight-bearing foot to the head is
perpendicular, but even more revolutionary was the presence of a background
landscape",The Tribute Money
"In all it depicts three separate scenes from left to right, with the one on the
left showing St",The Tribute Money
Peter grappling with a fish,The Tribute Money
"FTP, name this painting that portrays a tax collector making demands of Christ, a
work by Masaccio.",The Tribute Money
"Critics claimed that 'vegetable anomalies,' overwhelmed the scene, though the
artist claimed it was the dress with silver embroidery that should and did draw
attention",Ophelia
As preparation for it numerous sketches were made of the model Elizabeth Siddal in
the pose of the title character,Ophelia
"That character clutches several flowers in her right hand and roses, pansies, and
poppies surround her, while she wears a necklace of violets",Ophelia
"Depicting a woman lying in a pool facing imminent drowning, FTP, name this John
Everett Millais painting inspired by a scene from Hamlet.",Ophelia
The brown clock in the top of this painting looks to read 12:15,The Night Cafe
"Just below it is an opening into another room, which interrupts the red walls,
which are themselves interrupted by the three yellow hazes of lamps that hang from
the ceiling",The Night Cafe
"A man is seated at the left next to a couple, and two men are seated to the right,
drinking in the titular locale",The Night Cafe
"The most noticeable figure is the standing man in white, who is astride the pool
table that dominates the center of this painting",The Night Cafe
"FTP, name this Vincent van Gogh canvas that depicts the inside of a local eatery
in the evening.",The Night Cafe
"This artist spent much of his short career working for Leonard Smithers's
periodical, The Savoy",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"After his death, his prose parody, The Story of Venus and Tannhauser, was
published, though it initially appeared as Under the Hill",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"However, it was the eroticism of his work on Lysistrata and The Rape of the Lock
that gained him attention in his time",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
He is best-known for collaborating with his fellow aesthete Oscar Wilde on the
drawings for Salome and for his work in The Yellow Book,Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"FTP, name this British Art Nouveau illustrator.",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"The action takes place in either a cave or tent, with all the light coming from
the opening in the left",The Blinding of Samson
"In total there are four soldiers in the painting, with the one on the left
extending a spear toward the abdomen of the title figure",The Blinding of Samson
"One soldier holds a chain around the title figure's right hand, another lies under
him holding him down, and the last engages in the title action",The Blinding of
Samson
"The only woman, standing to the left, holds a pair of shears in her right hand,
and a mass of hair in her left",The Blinding of Samson
"FTP, name this Rembrandt painting depicting an attack on the strongest of the
Israelite judges.",The Blinding of Samson
"His obsession with mortality seems to have arisen with the fact that his name was,
literally, a synonym for skull",Hans Holbein the Younger
"Despite being called an atheist, he painted the Dead Christ, the Passion of
Christ, and Madonna of Burgomaster Mayer",Hans Holbein the Younger
"In his time, he was also famous for illustrations of Erasmus's Praise of Folly and
designs for the title pages of Martin Luther's translation of the Bible and Sir
Thomas More's Utopia",Hans Holbein the Younger
"His early woodcuts like Dance of Death explored the same motif as his most famous
painting, The Ambassadors",Hans Holbein the Younger
"FTP, name this German artist who served as court painter to Henry VIII of
England.",Hans Holbein the Younger
John Ruskin denounced him for 'feeding upon horror and ugliness and filthiness of
sin.' His circular Medusa can be found in the Ufizzi as can his Bacchus,Caravaggio
(accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it is mentioned)
Neither was as controversial as the bare feet of Mary shown in his Death of the
Virgin,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it is mentioned)
These were all painted before he fled to Naples after stabbing a man in the groin
over a tennis match,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it is
mentioned)
"Sadly, he had finished all his great paintings, like Judith Beheading Holofernes
and Supper at Emmaus, by then",Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it
is mentioned)
"FTP, name this master of tenebrism, who painted The Conversion of St",Caravaggio
(accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it is mentioned)
Paul and The Calling of St,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo da Merisi before it is
mentioned)
Matthew and was born Michelangelo da Merisi.,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo da
Merisi before it is mentioned)
Iconography was a series of portraits that was posthumously completed based on his
preliminary sketches,Sir Anthony van Dyck
His painting career began in the workshop of Hendrick van Balen in his native
Antwerp,Sir Anthony van Dyck
"Soon after graduating his apprenticeship, he traveled to Genoa, where he did a
series of famous Baroque portraits of the Genoese aristocracy",Sir Anthony van Dyck
"His most influential teacher was Peter Paul Rubens, with whom he studied for two
years before settling in London in 1632",Sir Anthony van Dyck
"FTP, name this Flemish painter, whose masterpiece is a portrait of his patron
entitled Charles I in Hunting Dress.",Sir Anthony van Dyck
"In top center and top right, there is a multicolored town, including a building
surmounted by a cross",I and the Village
"In total there are four human figures, with two of them being an upside down woman
and a man holding a scythe next to each other near the top",I and the Village
"On the left is a woman milking a goat, horse, or a cow, but the two largest images
are the white animal head on the left and the green human face on the right, both
facing each other",I and the Village
Many of these pictures are superimposed over each other in this 1911 painting,I and
the Village
"FTP, name this famous painting by Marc Chagall.",I and the Village
On the center right is a dark orange door opening in which two hazy onlookers
stand,The Gross Clinic
"In this painting the artist actually portrayed himself as the figure hunched in
the front row of the audience at the far left, sketching",The Gross Clinic
"Below him is a seated woman recoiling in horror, with seemingly arthritic hands
covering her face",The Gross Clinic
"The paint, heavily built up on the canvas, demonstrates a clear debt to
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr",The Gross Clinic
"Tulp, though this work was completed in 1875 for Jefferson Medical College",The
Gross Clinic
"FTP, name this Thomas Eakins depiction of a surgeon operating before his
students.",The Gross Clinic
"In the background a woman in a black dress is in profile, and next to her is
Goulue who adjusts her hair",At the Moulin Rouge
Walking past them are the very tall Dr,At the Moulin Rouge
"Gabriel Tapie' de Celeyran and his cousin, the artist himself",At the Moulin Rouge
"The foreground is dominated by three men, two in tophats, and two women gathered
around a table",At the Moulin Rouge
One of those women has her back to the viewer and a bun of bright red hair,At the
Moulin Rouge
"Foremost, cut off by the right picture edge, is a woman with her face illuminated
by a greenish light",At the Moulin Rouge
"FTP, name this 1892 painting of a popular Parisian nightspot by Henri de Toulouse-
Lautrec",At the Moulin Rouge
The 'Rubenists' faction of the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
scored its final triumph with this 1717 work's admission,Pilgrimage to Cythera or
Embarkment to Cythera or Embarkation to Cythera
"So revolutionary was the work, the academy created a new category, 'elegant
fates,' for it",Pilgrimage to Cythera or Embarkment to Cythera or Embarkation to
Cythera
"Featuring baby angels throughout the mountainous landscape, the work portrays the
voyage of young couples to the island of love to pay homage to Venus, who is drawn
on the far right",Pilgrimage to Cythera or Embarkment to Cythera or Embarkation to
Cythera
"FTP, name this masterpiece by Jean Antoine Watteau.",Pilgrimage to Cythera or
Embarkment to Cythera or Embarkation to Cythera
"At one time the Duke of Alva attempted to seize this painting by force, leading to
a break with its owner, William of Orange",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"Alva's son gave it to King Philip II of Spain, the longtime patron of its
artist",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"Its alternate name, The Strawberry Plant, comes from the center portion, which is
unseen when it is closed and the third day of creation is found the outside",The
Garden of Earthly Delights
"On the left is a depiction of God marrying Adam and Eve in Eden, and on the right
are a series of distorted musical instruments shown in some gloomy hell",The Garden
of Earthly Delights
"However, it is the center panel that names this 1510 tryptich",The Garden of
Earthly Delights
"FTP, name this most famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch.",The Garden of Earthly
Delights
Among his pencil drawings the most famous is Under the angel's wing on a steep
path,Paul Klee [KLAY]
"His mountainous landscape Ad Parnassum was painted in his later 'divisionist'
style, while earlier more Cubist canvases include Motif of Hammamet",Paul Klee
[KLAY]
"He presaged his own death with the canvas Death and Fire, which was markedly
different than his Fire in the evening, one of his 'magic squares' series",Paul
Klee [KLAY]
"FTP, name this author of the Pedagogical Sketchbook and painter of Twittering
Machine, a Swiss member of Der Blaue Reiter.",Paul Klee [KLAY]
"In the rear a dark green bureau with a floral design on the drawers blends into
the floral wallpaper, which, in turn also match the rug, made up of flower filled
diamonds",The Bath
"In the front right, a large white pitcher sports yet another floral design",The
Bath
"One of the figures wears her hair up and is in a white, green, and purple striped
dress while the other figure is nude to the waist as her feet dangle into a
washbasin",The Bath
"FTP, identify this 1892 painting of the titular event, the most famous of Mary
Cassatt's most famous mother and child paintings.",The Bath
This artist painted a series of 4 frescos based on the Decameron for the decoration
of the Pucci villa,Alessandro Botticelli
"Also known for 'The Madonna of the Pomegranate' and the 'Mystic Nativity', his
nickname was due to the corpulence of his eldest brother Giovanni, and means
'little barrel' in Italian",Alessandro Botticelli
"The artist of 'Primavera', FTP, who is this 15th Century Italian painter of The
Birth of Venus?",Alessandro Botticelli
"When Manet first saw the works of this painter, he painted the canvas Le Bon Bock
and dedicated it to this man",Frans Hals
"The most successful student of Karel van Mander, his gypsy girl, La Bohmienne, is
considered his first masterpiece",Frans Hals
His broad brushwork and alla prima are easily seen in such group works as Regents
of the Old Men's Alms House and Banquet of the Officers of the St,Frans Hals
George Militia Company,Frans Hals
"FTP, identify this Northern artist best known for the jovial spirit of such
portraits as The Jolly Toper and The Laughing Cavalier.",Frans Hals
Late in his career he worked on a commission for the Boston Public Library to
execute murals on a history of Jewish and Christian religions,John Singer Sargent
After 1910 he began to paint Alpine and Italian landscapes such as Mountain
Fire,John Singer Sargent
"His most popular work at the time of its release was a study of two little girls
lighting Japanese lanterns: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose",John Singer Sargent
But his most famed work was executed during his time as a fashionable portraitist
and depicts a Mrs,John Singer Sargent
Gautreau striking a sensual pose,John Singer Sargent
FTP identify this Italian born American painter of Madame X.,John Singer Sargent
"'If I didn't start painting,' she said late in life, 'I would have raised
chickens.' And about her first exhibition of 1938 she recalled, 'When I had quite
a few paintings on hand, someone suggested that I send them down to the old Thomas'
drug store in ",Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses (accept Robertson)
I also exhibited a few at the Cambridge Fair with some canned fruits and raspberry
jam,Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses (accept Robertson)
"I won a prize for my fruit and jam, but no pictures.' Discovered by Louis J",Anna
Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses (accept Robertson)
"Calder, who was this primitive artist of Catching the Turkey for Thanksgiving,
whose 100th birthday in 1960 was proclaimed an official holiday in the state of New
York?",Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses (accept Robertson)
"In the background at the right a barge is sailing on the river, and the towers of
Notre Dame are visible",Liberty Leading the People
"The rest of the cityscape is obscured by a thick mist, while the foreground is
comprised of a heap of dead bodies over which the main figures march",Liberty
Leading the People
At the left stand a black man wielding a saber and a man in a top hat; at the right
is a small boy brandishing a gun in each hand; and at the middle the bare-breasted
titular figure carries a tricolor flag,Liberty Leading the People
FTP name this 1830 canvas by Eugene Delacroix.,Liberty Leading the People
"Born in Vic, a Burgundian village, this 17th century painter trod the boundary
line between Classicism and the emerging Baroque style of Italy, although it is
unlikely that he ever left France",Georges de La Tour
"Little is known about his early work and chronology, but he worked at Luneville in
the duchy of Lorraine",Georges de La Tour
Some lesser known paintings include The Penitent Magdalene and St,Georges de La
Tour
Sebastian Tended by St,Georges de La Tour
Irene,Georges de La Tour
"FTP, name the French painter of tenebroso--dark, candle-lit--scenes like The Dream
of St",Georges de La Tour
Joseph and beautifully detailed full-light scenes like The Fortune Teller.,Georges
de La Tour
"Born in 1867, she was neglected by an alcoholic mother, and before she was ten she
wandered the streets of Montmartre, skipped school, and took pride in a prodigious
filth",Suzanne Valadon
"'Washing is for pigs,' she said",Suzanne Valadon
"'I am a monkey, I am a cat.' Various friend or lover to several French painters,
her tiny size made Toulouse-Lautrec feel tall beside her, so he introduced her to
Degas, who encouraged her",Suzanne Valadon
"Although she had no formal training, her work showed a fresh, personal vision-
particularly in the fiercely objective nudes and self-portraits that reveal her
formidable character",Suzanne Valadon
"For 10 points, who was this artist of The Blue Room and Nude on a Striped
Bedspread, who was also the mother of the artist Maurice Utrillo?",Suzanne Valadon
"He claimed to be related to Carlotta, the wife of Emperor Maximilian, and dabbled
in cannibalism, recommending women's brains in vinaigrette as a tasty meal",Diego
Rivera
"His first important work, 'Creation', was typical of his style, which depicted
simplified figures in crowded, shallow spaces",Diego Rivera
"Living at 'The Blue House', where he served as host to an exiled Trotsky, his
depiction of Lenin led to the destruction of his fresco 'Man at the
Crossroads'",Diego Rivera
"The husband of Freda Kahlo, FTP, who was this great Mexican muralist?",Diego
Rivera
"The last of the artist's submissions to the Salon, it was first shown there in
1882",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
"A bowl with tangerines rests near a bottle with the Bass Ale label in the bottom
right corner, while a pair of legs in yellow stockings and green shoes is seen in
the top left corner",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
"The appearance of the central figure is echoed in the champagne bottles near her
right hand, while a slanted mirror behind the central woman reveals a gentleman
customer",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
"Set in a famous Parisian nightclub, FTP name this Eduoard Manet painting.",A Bar
at the Folies-Bergere
Later paintings like Persephone and Bower Meadow were created during his time as
invalid recluse,Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"This followed a period that included such canvases as La Ghirlandata and Monna
Vanna, but his prolific output would end after he disinterred some writings he had
buried with his wife in 1869",Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Today he is known for such paintings as The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, Ecce Ancilla
Domini, and Beata Beatrix",Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"FTP, name this English artist, the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood.",Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"It is set during the early evening, as a full moon may be seen in the upper right
corner, and pale orange streaks flow diagonally across a sky with six stars",The
Sleeping Gypsy or La Bohmienne Endormie
The title character is a dark-skinned woman whose left arm can't be seen,The
Sleeping Gypsy or La Bohmienne Endormie
"She is dressed in a multicolored striped outfit, and has apparently been traveling
barefoot through the desert with nothing but a walking stick, a lute, and a large
red vase, and appears to be blissfully unaware of the large male lion that sniffs
her head",The Sleeping Gypsy or La Bohmienne Endormie
"FTP, identify this painting by Henri Rousseau.",The Sleeping Gypsy or La
Bohmienne Endormie
"This artist of House by the Railroad and Sunlight in a Cafeteria originally
trained as an illustrator, and was influenced by his time studying under Robert
Henri",Edward Hopper
"He frequently painted urban scenes, as in 1927's Drug Store and 1930's Early
Sunday Morning, and is known for his masterly use of lighting effects, as in Chop
Suey",Edward Hopper
"For ten points, identify this painter of Nighthawks.",Edward Hopper
The static nature of later paintings like 'The Distribution of the Eagles' stands
in contrast to early works like 'Belisarius Asking Alms' and 'Andromache Mourning
Hector',Jacques-Louis David
He became known as the 'Robespierre of the brush' after his election to the
National Convention,Jacques-Louis David
Works like 'The Coronation of Napoleon' and 'The Death of Socrates' have led him to
be cited as a pioneer of modern art,Jacques-Louis David
"FTP, who is this French artist of 'The Oath of the Horatii' and 'The Death of
Marat'?",Jacques-Louis David
It was inspired by Luca Signarelli's frescoes for Orvieto Cathedral,The Last
Judgement
Among its many figures is one of Saint Bartholomew holding his own skin with a
depiction of the artist's face on it,The Last Judgement
Above him is an Apollo-like rendition of Christ,The Last Judgement
"Illustrating Matthew 24:29-31, its creator began work on it 20 years after doing
the ceiling for the Sistine Chapel",The Last Judgement
"FTP, name this Michaelangelo work, which depicts the end of times.",The Last
Judgement
"A passage in which two dark figures are reclining separates a crowd of onlookers
who are obscured by shadow in the background of this painting, while a skylight not
visible to the viewer illuminates the forehead of one of the central figures",The
Gross Clinic
"On the left, a man behind a desk is writing on a piece of paper above a woman who
raises her hands in a clawlike gesture to shield her view from the central
action",The Gross Clinic
"Blood covers the fingers of the central figure, who stares out at the viewer,
while four figures with scalpels at right concentrate on a naked form",The Gross
Clinic
"FTP, name this painting by Thomas Eakins.",The Gross Clinic
"His Adoration of the Magi features portraits of the Medicis holding the foot of
Christ, while the monk looking at the viewer may be his own self-portrait",Sandro
Botticelli (accept Filipepi until mentioned)
"Born with the surname Filipepi, this man's more famous name may have come from the
name of the goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed before studying under Fra Lippo
Lippi",Sandro Botticelli (accept Filipepi until mentioned)
"Painter of Man with Medal and Judith, his thriftiness and association with the
religious movement of Savonarola led to poverty in his later years, despite a
successful career in which he was known for illustrations of The Divine Comedy and
the painting P",Sandro Botticelli (accept Filipepi until mentioned)
"FTP, name this artist best known for the Birth of Venus.",Sandro Botticelli
(accept Filipepi until mentioned)
"Facing La Disputa in the Stanza della Segnatura, the elements of this painting are
reminiscent of Leonardo's The Last Supper, and Bramante's St",The School of Athens
"Peter's Basilica, and the works of Michelangelo, who appears at bottom center",The
School of Athens
The background contains statues of Apollo and Athena overlooking a mass of people
gathered around four steps,The School of Athens
"The table in the front center is being written upon by Pythagoras, while to the
side Euclid is seen drawing triangles",The School of Athens
"The center is dominated by Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates",The School of Athens
"Located in the Vatican Palace, FTP, name this 1511 fresco by Raphael.",The School
of Athens
"His cartoon for the 'Battle of Cascina' was considered a marvel of the age, while
his 'Holy Family' is considered one of his best paintings",Michelangelo
(Buonarotti)
"Better known as a sculptor, he got his start under Ghirlandajo, soon producing
'The Rape of Deianira' and 'The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs'",Michelangelo
(Buonarotti)
"While working on tombs for the Medicis he created his famous reclining figures of
'Day', 'Night', 'Dawn', and 'Dusk', but his work on the tomb of Julius II was never
completed, despite the creation of the colossal 'Moses'",Michelangelo (Buonarotti)
"FTP, who was this artist perhaps best known for painting the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel?",Michelangelo (Buonarotti)
A barely-visible clock in the top left indicates the time of the scene as 7
o'clock,The Potato Eaters
"In the bottom right is a teapot on a stand, while another is seen in the hand of
the woman on the right, who is pouring drinks",The Potato Eaters
"One woman has her back to the viewer, while a lamp hung from the ceiling
illuminates the faces of the other four people, two of which are reaching for food
with their utensils, while the third holds up one of the titular vegetables",The
Potato Eaters
"FTP, what is this early masterpiece depicting peasants at dinner by Van Gogh?",The
Potato Eaters
"Originally erected above a pool, it is now placed at the top of the main staircase
of the Louvre, appropriate, as it was intended to be viewed obliquely and from
below",Winged Victory of Samothrace or Winged Nike of Samothrace (accept
variations)
"Known for the intricate depiction of the drapes billowing in the wind, it depicts
a figure alighting on the prow of a ship, still partly airborne due to a powerful
head-wind",Winged Victory of Samothrace or Winged Nike of Samothrace (accept
variations)
"Created around 200 BCE, FTP, what is this great monument rediscovered in 1863 on
the island of Samothrace?",Winged Victory of Samothrace or Winged Nike of
Samothrace (accept variations)
"He painted his mistress, Madeleine Knobloch, in 'Woman Powdering Herself', just
before his death by meningitis at age 31",George Seurat
"In 'Les Chahut' he displayed his theories that certain types of lines could invoke
specific emotions, but he is better-known for a technique first expressed in his
first major painting, 'Bathers, Asnieres', and whose popular name was coined by
Felix Feneo",George Seurat
"FTP, who was this French painter, who in his masterpiece 'A Sunday Afternoon on
the Island of La Grande Jatte' utilized the technique of 'pointillism'?",George
Seurat
"In the bottom right of this painting is an open book on a stand, while another
book is seen in the hands of the man in the top center, above and to the left of
which is a signature dating the work to 1632",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. (Nicolaes)
Tulp
"In all, seven men are seen in the top left watching a man using a metal instrument
on the arm of the cadaver before him",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. (Nicolaes) Tulp
"FTP, what is this great group portrait by Rembrandt?",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.
(Nicolaes) Tulp
Early works like the recently discovered Dormition of the Virgin show the influence
of Byzantine icon painting,El Greco or Domenikos Theotocopoulos Cretan
"Kicked out of Titian's workshop in less than 10 days because he was too talented
for Titian's comfort, he excelled as a portraitist, as seen in his painting Felix
Paravicino",El Greco or Domenikos Theotocopoulos Cretan
"Known for a characteristic style representing figures as elongated, flame-like
forms utilizing eerie bluish colors, he created a series of famed altarpieces,
including El Espolio and The Burial of Count Orgaz",El Greco or Domenikos
Theotocopoulos Cretan
"FTP, who was this artist who painted his adopted home in View of Toledo, known by
a name indicating his Cretan origins.",El Greco or Domenikos Theotocopoulos Cretan
"This school's second generation of artists included such figures as Worthington
Whittredge, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Sanford Gifford, who pioneered the movement known
as Luminism",Hudson River School
"Its first generation of artists included Thomas Doughty, Jasper Cropsey, and John
Casilear",Hudson River School
"This movement was discovered by John Trumball and art critic William Dunlap, who
critiqued such works as Cotopaxi, Niagara, and Rocky Mountain-Lender's Peak",Hudson
River School
"Consisting of such artists as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Thomas Cole,
FTP, identify this art movement based on American landscapes and named for a
waterway.",Hudson River School
Alexandre Dumas wrote that this painting's creator worked out of sentimentality
rather than any sense of patriotism,Liberty Leading the People or La Libert
guidant le peuple
Towards the right of the canvas a city can be seen in the foggy background,Liberty
Leading the People or La Libert guidant le peuple
"The soldier on the left wears his hat askew and bears a sabre, while the boy on
the far right charges forward bearing two pistols",Liberty Leading the People or La
Libert guidant le peuple
"The man in the top hat with the musket is supposedly the artist himself and stands
to the left of the central figure, who stands bare-breasted and holds a musket in
one hand and the French tri-color in the other",Liberty Leading the People or La
Libert guidant le peuple
"FTP, identify this 1830 painting, the most famous work of Eugene
Delacroix.",Liberty Leading the People or La Libert guidant le peuple
"On a lower shelf is a book of arithmetic, two Lutheran hymn books, and a lute with
a broken string which some believe signifies religious strife in the painter's
homeland","The Ambassadors (accept before the appropriate clue, Jean de Dinteville
and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors)"
"Symbolizing mortality, what appears to be a distorted skull protrudes into the
foreground","The Ambassadors (accept before the appropriate clue, Jean de
Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors)"
"Leaning on the upper shelf, next to some cartographical instruments and maps are
George de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur and Jean de Dinteville two French men who are,
FTP, what envoys to the Pope and England respectively, the title of a work by Hans
Holbein th","The Ambassadors (accept before the appropriate clue, Jean de
Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors)"
Of note are the grisailles on the top left and right showing the story of Cain and
Abel,the Ghent Altarpiece
"Much of the work was finished under the behest of Jodicus Vyd, whose portrait is
barely evident on the lower right",the Ghent Altarpiece
"A radical depiction is the soft, sensuous, and almost pregnant belly of Eve on the
top right, but perhaps most famous is the Adoration of the Lamb panel at the bottom
center",the Ghent Altarpiece
"FTP, name this work completed around 1432 by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.",the Ghent
Altarpiece
In the 1950's he spent several years working with etchings and lithographs and
followed up by creating ceramic murals of which the most famous were the Wall of
the Moon and the Wall of the Sun for the UNESCO building in Paris,Joan Miro Ferra
"The sea change in his career took place in 1920 when he moved to Paris, met
Picasso, and left his native folk art behind to create such distorted works as
Chiffres et Constellations, Dutch Interior, The Tilled Field and Personage Throwing
a Stone at a Bir",Joan Miro Ferra
"Perhaps best known for Harlequin's Carnival, Head and Bird and Catalan Landscape,
FTP, name this Spanish surrealist.",Joan Miro Ferra
On the far left is the shadowy silhouette of what appears to be a hooded man
extending over the trees that gradually slope upward to the right through the
painting,The Horse Fair or Le March aux chevaux
The other men are not waiters but they are dressed in white shirts with black
trousers,The Horse Fair or Le March aux chevaux
"The lone animal on the far left is white, with the next several figures being red,
followed by several white ones and then a red animal on the far right",The Horse
Fair or Le March aux chevaux
The painting was a success at the 1853 Paris Salon despite its author needing
police permission to wear masculine clothes so as to enter the titular location,The
Horse Fair or Le March aux chevaux
"FTP, name this massive canvas by Rosa Bonheur.",The Horse Fair or Le March aux
chevaux
"The Prado houses his erotic portrait 'Woman Revelaing her Breasts,' while the vast
'Paradise' stands out from the cycle he and his assistants produced for the Palazzo
Ducale",Tintorreto or Jacopo Robusti before it is said
"Paintings based on religious and mythological scenes include 'the Origin of the
Mily Way' and 'St George and the Dragon,' both on display in London",Tintorreto or
Jacopo Robusti before it is said
But his best known works remain in Venice and include the St,Tintorreto or Jacopo
Robusti before it is said
Mark miracles for the Scuola di San Marco and his scandalous 'Last Supper' for San
Giorgio,Tintorreto or Jacopo Robusti before it is said
FTP identify this Mannerist painter born Jacopo Robusti whose epithet means 'little
dyer.',Tintorreto or Jacopo Robusti before it is said
"Composed during the artist's stay in Nuenen, a village in Brabant, an extra teapot
sits in the bottom right corner, while a clock is barely visible in the upper
left",The Potato Eaters
"The two windows in the back tell us that night has arrived and the entire scene is
lit by a single lamp that hangs above the five figures, who are all huddled around
a small rectangular table in a dilapidated room",The Potato Eaters
"A young girl sits with her back to the viewer, while her father, in profile, picks
at the titular food",The Potato Eaters
"FTP identify this drab painting meant to evoke the poverty of rural peasant
families, an 1885 work by Vincent Van Gogh.",The Potato Eaters
In art books it is often paired with 'Both Members of this Club' as the two were
completed in 1909,Stag at Sharkey's
"The bottom third of the canvas features numerous heads looking up at the action,
while a seedy looking chap with a cigar points forward and looks out at the
viewer",Stag at Sharkey's
"The center of the painting is framed by two dark ropes, while of the three central
figures the one on the right is the only wearing a shirt, and he seems to be
checking for illegal holding as the two combatants lunge savagely at one
another",Stag at Sharkey's
"FTP identify this depiction of a boxing match at a particular venue, the most
famed work of George Bellows.",Stag at Sharkey's
"In his many letters to his lifelong friend, Willibald Pirckheimer, he stressed
geometry and measurement as the keys to understanding art and he turned notes and
drawings into his best-known treatise, the Four Books on Human
Proportions",Albrecht Durer
After meeting Bellini in Venice he obtained a commission for the Madonna of the
Rose Garlands,Albrecht Durer
"Back in Nuremberg he devoted himself to engravings including The Knight, Death,
and the Devil , and Saint Jerome in His Study",Albrecht Durer
"His last monumental works are two large panels, depicting the Four
Apostles",Albrecht Durer
"FTP identify this man most famous for his woodcut series Large Fortune, The Fall
of Man, and the Apocalypse.",Albrecht Durer
"In a bit of subtle foreshadowing, this painting is deliberately cropped so that
the title man's right foot is not visible",Watson and the Shark
"As a wealthy merchant in adulthood, he commissioned the painting in the hopes that
it would provide a useful lesson to youths on triumph over adversity",Watson and
the Shark
"Depicting an event that occurred in 1749 in the harbor of Havana, it shows nine
men in a boat, one of whom is black, and one of whom wields a harpoon",Watson and
the Shark
FTP name this painting by John Singleton Copley of an impromptu rescue mission from
the title animal.,Watson and the Shark
Gerrid Rietveld and J,De Stijl (pronounced Style) or neoplasticism or The Style
J,De Stijl (pronounced Style) or neoplasticism or The Style
P,De Stijl (pronounced Style) or neoplasticism or The Style
Oud were the best known architects of this movement,De Stijl (pronounced Style) or
neoplasticism or The Style
"One of the founders said, 'The square is to us as the cross was to the early
Christians.' In 1917 a namesake journal was published to explain the group's art,
which was centered in Amsterdam",De Stijl (pronounced Style) or neoplasticism or
The Style
"Although Theo Van Doesburg began using green and diagonal lines in 1925, the
original focus was on horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors",De Stijl
(pronounced Style) or neoplasticism or The Style
"FTP, name the movement that included Piet Mondrian.",De Stijl (pronounced Style)
or neoplasticism or The Style
"The original, which has been lost, was obtained from the J",Fountain
L,Fountain
"Mott Iron Works and in 1964, the Galleria Schwarz in Milan was entrusted to
produced eight signed and numbered replicas, the most exact being the Arturo
Schwarz 4th version",Fountain
The only writing on it is the inscription 'R,Fountain
"Mutt 1917.' FTP, name this most notorious and important ready-made by Marcel
Duchamp.",Fountain
"This artist began his career as something of a Symbolist landscape painter, as can
be seen in paintings like Avond or The Red Tree and the Mill, though he would later
leave that style behind, with the influence of the Luminists showing in his
Evolution, i",Piet Mondrian
"Oval Composition (Kub) dates from his flirtation with Cubism, but he is best known
for abandoning representation entirely in such works as Fox Trot: Lozenge
Composition and New York City I, for whose style he coined the term
'neoplasticism'",Piet Mondrian
"FTP name this artist around whom de Stijl was founded best known for Composition
in Red, Blue, and Yellow and Broadway Boogie-Woogie.",Piet Mondrian
His 'Madonna of St,Antonio Allegri or Correggio
"Francis' altarpiece, commissioned for the church of San Francesco is his first
documented work",Antonio Allegri or Correggio
He painted 'Ascension of Christ' for the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in his
adopted hometown and later decorated the apse of the same church though only the
'Coronation of the Virgin' survives,Antonio Allegri or Correggio
"Among his murals, it is the 'Assumption of the Virgin,' for the dome of the Parma
cathedral, and its odd sky perspective that gained him notoriety, FTP, identify
this painter best known for Classical myth inspired works like 'Danae,' 'The Rape
of Ganymede",Antonio Allegri or Correggio
"A mustachioed man in a top hat is seen in the upper right hand corner talking to a
woman whose back is turned to the viewer, while the upper left hand corner features
the inexplicable legs of a trapeze artist",The Bar at the Foiles-Bergere
The central figure stares out at the viewer of this painting from between bottles
and a bowl of oranges on the marble countertop upon which she leans,The Bar at the
Foiles-Bergere
It can be seen that she is looking at a man from the mirror which lines the wall
behind her,The Bar at the Foiles-Bergere
"FTP- What is this 1881 work housed in the Courtold Collection, London painted by
Edouard Manet?",The Bar at the Foiles-Bergere
"Among the 'instruments' of torture on the right part of this work are a giant
bagpipe, harp, and lute, and nude figures are devoured by cats, a giant rabbit, and
insects",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"The other two panels are significantly cheerier, with the left panel depicting a
nude male and female, as well as an older, robed male in the foreground, in front
of a fanciful lake surrounded by animals including a giraffe, elephant and flock of
birds",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"In the central panel, large groups of nude figures cavort with deer, goats, giant
birds and enormous fruit",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"FTP, name this painting in the Prado in Spain, the most famous work by Hieronymus
Bosch",The Garden of Earthly Delights
He claimed his art was concrete rather than abstract since it takes up space,Jean
Arp
In 1912 he moved to Munich where he met Kandinsky and briefly joined Der Blaue
Reiter,Jean Arp
"In 1931 he joined Abstract-Creation at which point his work became more three-
dimensional, and in 1950 he executed a wood and metal relief at Harvard",Jean Arp
"In between though, he worked with paper cutouts and founded the movement he is
most associated with in Zurich",Jean Arp
"FTP, name this German-French dada artist.",Jean Arp
"She worked on three or more paintings at once, painting a series of backgrounds,
then filling in details in the 'sky-down' method",Anna Mary Robinson 'Grandma'
Moses
"Early in her career, she copied postcards and prints and displayed the results at
a drugstore",Anna Mary Robinson 'Grandma' Moses
"Her work achieved popularity in unusual forms, such as the use of 'Home for
Thanksgiving' on dinnerware",Anna Mary Robinson 'Grandma' Moses
"FTP, name this major example of 'nave painting,' an American whose nickname
reflects the fact that she started her career at age seventy-seven.",Anna Mary
Robinson 'Grandma' Moses
This artist froze a second from Eisenstein's Potemkin in one of his works and also
painted studies of Muybridge's horse,Francis Bacon
"His 'Three Studies for the Base of a Crucifixion' caused a furor when it was
exhibited in the Tate Gallery, because of the gruesome treatment of his
subject",Francis Bacon
"More famous now are his versions of 'Velazquez's Innocent X', which portray the
pope with slabs of butchered meat hanging next to him",Francis Bacon
"FTP name this 20th century painter of terror, who shares his name with a British
philosopher and scientist.",Francis Bacon
"Painted in Dusseldorf in 1851, this work was such an immediate success that it
brought its German-born American artist a commission to paint a mural for the
United States Capitol, which culminated in 1860's Westward the Course of Empire
Takes its Way",Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Land can be seen on the left, and a man struggles with an ice floe, while other
boats are visible in the right background",Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Identify this painting by Emanuel Leutze, whose title figure assumes a determined
stance in a portrayal of, FTP, an event from Christmas Eve of 1776.",Washington
Crossing the Delaware
"He was first attracted to Mannerism after studying under Antonio Badile, producing
such early works as The Family of Darius before Alexander",Paolo Caliari Veronese
"However, he fell under the influence of Tintoretto and produced such works as
Agony in the Garden and 1587's Saint Pantaleone Healing a Child",Paolo Caliari
Veronese
"His large workshop featured such artists as del Frisco and produced the scandalous
1573 Last Supper in the House of Simon, which the Inquisition forced him to rename
The Feast in the House of Levi",Paolo Caliari Veronese
"FTP, identify this painter from Verona perhaps best known for his The Marriage at
Cana.",Paolo Caliari Veronese
This group moved to Berlin in 1911 and briefly became part of the New Secession
movement,Die Brcke or The Bridge
"They dissolved in 1913 after contributing to the Sonderbund exhibition, and
nominally included such members as Amiet, Gallen-Kallela, and Van Dongen",Die
Brcke or The Bridge
"More prominent members included Nolde and Pechstein, and they espoused as their
tenets the German Renaissance and primitive artifacts",Die Brcke or The Bridge
"Founded in Dresden in 1905, its 1906 manifesto claimed it sought an adjoining of
the past and future of painting",Die Brcke or The Bridge
"FTP, identify this German Expressionist movement founded by Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner.",Die Brcke or The Bridge
"A long, white stadium-like building stretches far into the background and bears a
red pennant flag waving towards the left",Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
"A dark, shadowy building dominates the foreground and the right of the canvas,
next to which sits a covered wagon with an open door",Mystery and Melancholy of a
Street
The light alley between the two buildings contains the shadow of a man on the
ground and the silhouette of a girl rolling a hoop down the street,Mystery and
Melancholy of a Street
"FTP, identify this 1914 painting, perhaps the most famous work by Giorgio de
Chirico.",Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
A common element studied in this painting is the lone bird soaring above the
landscape near the top right of this painting,The Hunters in the Snow
The town at this painting's center lies at the foothills of jagged peaks in the
background,The Hunters in the Snow
"A group of peasants tend to household work around a large fire on the left of the
canvas, while in the background many villagers can be seen skating on a frozen
pond, which dominates the landscape",The Hunters in the Snow
"In the foreground, the title group marches into the town followed by a pack of
dogs",The Hunters in the Snow
"FTP, identify this snow-covered 1565 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.",The
Hunters in the Snow
He served a prison stint for his depiction of Louis Philippe in his 1832
Gargantua,Honor Daumier
"This noted satirist wrote for Charivari, but was later recognized for his artistic
skill after his one-man show at Durand-Ruel's gallery in 1878",Honor Daumier
"He created close to 4000 lithographs during his life, but is better remembered for
his paintings of the urban peasantry such as Wandering Saltimbanques and Two
Sculptors",Honor Daumier
Paintings of the underprivileged like The Uprising and Laundress on the Quai
d'Anjou typify his impressionistic subjects,Honor Daumier
"FTP, identify this French artist perhaps best known for his The Third-Class
Carriage.",Honor Daumier
"Although he taught monochromatic painting in Massachusetts by 1850, his skill
increased dramatically while studying later at the Dsseldorf Art Academy",Albert
Bierstadt
"His career really took off following an 1859 trip under Colonel Frederick Lander
to Colorado and Wyoming, followed by two more journeys to the American West, where
he painted such works as Sunset in the Yosemite Valley and Seal Rock",Albert
Bierstadt
"FTP, name this rival of Frederic Church, a German-born member of the Hudson River
School.",Albert Bierstadt
His first attempts at landscapes were made after learning oils from an itinerant
portraitist named Stein,Thomas Cole
"After studying the techniques of Thomas Doughty and Thomas Birch at the
Pennsylvania Academy, he went on to produce such works as Falls of Kaaterskill and
Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks",Thomas Cole
"He also painted The Departure and The Return, though the prime example of his
works may be found in View on the Catskill - Early Autumn and The Clove, Catskills,
which influenced Asher Durand and Frederic Church",Thomas Cole
"FTP, identify this Hudson River School artist of The Voyage of Life and The Course
of Empire.",Thomas Cole
"An enormous wave can be seen on the left of this painting, while in the top right
is the almost imperceptible image of a ship in the distance",The Raft of the Medusa
or Scene of Shipwreck
"Measuring an enormous 16 feet by 23 1/2 feet, it uses a famous triangular scheme
to depict its subject",The Raft of the Medusa or Scene of Shipwreck
"On the bottom are those who have already died, above which is a cluster of sailors
waving their shirts at the distant ship",The Raft of the Medusa or Scene of
Shipwreck
"Depicting a notorious maritime disaster of 1816, FTP, what is this most famous
painting by Theodore Gericault?",The Raft of the Medusa or Scene of Shipwreck
"A pupil of Guglielmo de Marcillat, this artist is known for such paintings as the
100-day fresco, which depicted scenes from the life of Pope Paul III, and the
fresco cycles in the PalazzoVecchio",Giorgio Vasari
"Patronized by the de Medici family, he was also an architect who constructed the
church, monastery, and palace created for the Cavalieri di San Stefano in Pisa, and
the Uffizi in Florence",Giorgio Vasari
"FTP, name this Italian painter best known for a book on art called Lives of the
Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.",Giorgio Vasari
"The ornate chandelier at the top of the painting holds a single lit candle, while
several pieces of fruit can be seen by the window on the left","The Arnolfini
Wedding (accept alternatives, such as The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and
Giovanna Cenami or The Betrothal of the Arnolfini"
A red pair of shoes on the floor in the back contrasts with the pair of wooden
clogs in the lower left,"The Arnolfini Wedding (accept alternatives, such as The
Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami or The Betrothal of the
Arnolfini"
"The figure on the right has her green dress gathered up in one hand, while a
little dog, possibly representing fidelity, stands in the middle at the
participants' feet","The Arnolfini Wedding (accept alternatives, such as The
Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami or The Betrothal of the
Arnolfini"
"Perhaps best known for the concave mirror in the background that reflects two
witnesses, including the artist, FTP, identify this Jan van Eyck painting depicting
the marriage vows of a certain couple.","The Arnolfini Wedding (accept
alternatives, such as The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami or The
Betrothal of the Arnolfini"
His relief 'The Feast of Herod' graces the front of the baptismal font in the Siena
Cathedral,Donatello (or Donato di Niccolo)
"He embedded pieces of colored glass in marble to create his unique Canteria, or
'Singing Gallery,' for the Florence Cathedral",Donatello (or Donato di Niccolo)
"According to Vasari, he could be observed repeatedly muttering, 'Speak, damn you;
speak!' while creating his sculpture of the prophet Habbakuk whose bald head has
led it to be nicknamed the Zuccone",Donatello (or Donato di Niccolo)
"FTP, who was this great Early Renaissance sculptor who created the equestrian
statue Gattemalata and the bronze David?",Donatello (or Donato di Niccolo)
"Currently on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this 1928
painting was part of Alfred Stieglitz's personal collection before his death",I Saw
the Figure Five in Gold
"In its upper-right quadrant the name 'Carlo' can be seen, seemingly spelled out in
lights",I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
"The name 'Bill' appears in all caps at the top left, partly cut off by the edge",I
Saw the Figure Five in Gold
The background of geometric grays and silvers is dominated by a red field and three
gold numerals,I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
"This describes, FTP, what work based on a William Carlos Williams poem by Charles
Demuth?",I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
"A red barn can be seen in the back right of this painting, while the main
building's attic features a pointed arch window that provides part of the basis for
its title",American Gothic
"One figure is seen staring at something to the viewer's right, and is based on the
artist's sister Nan",American Gothic
"Byron McKeeby, the artist's dentist, modeled for the other figure, who is given
symbolic significance by holding a pitchfork in his right hand",American Gothic
"FTP, what is this classic of American Regionalism, painted by Grant
Wood?",American Gothic
"This artist's early paintings often concerned Classical themes, as in Young
Spartans, but his work soon developed an undercurrent of violence, seen in
Interior, which is sometimes called The Rape",Edgar Degas
"His exploration of unusual artistic subjects resulted in The Cotton Exchange in
New Orleans and The Absinthe Drinker, while the only sculpture exhibited during his
lifetime, Little Fourteen-year-old Dancer, was an example of his most famous
subject",Edgar Degas
"FTP, who was this French painter of The Rehearsal and The Dance Class?",Edgar
Degas
The background of this painting is a vast landscape in which two men can be seen
walking away from the viewer up a road on the left,St. Sebastian
"Various remains from antiquity can be seen littered about a green and white floor
in the foreground, which is dominated by a stone column featuring the artist's
signature in Greek",St. Sebastian
"The title figure is standing on a block of stone with his feet tied to the column,
dying from the numerous arrows piercing him",St. Sebastian
"FTP, what is this painting by Andrea Mantegna?",St. Sebastian
"Willy Lott is the owner of the building shown in this painting, in which a figure
makes his way through thick hedges along the river at right, below which a boat is
concealed",The Hay Wain
"Four figures are plying their trade in a meadow across the river Stour opposite a
cottage behind Flatford Mill, in front of which a small dog watches the main
action",The Hay Wain
"FTP, what is this famous painting depicting two men attempting to guide a large
ox-drawn cart through the water, the masterpiece of John Constable?",The Hay Wain
"Early in his career, this artist executed a series of powerful engravings, notably
The Frugal Repast, while his contributions to the realm of sculpture included Head
of a Bull, Metamorphosis, made using the seat and handlebars of a bicycle",Pablo
Picasso
"Images like the Dying Horse, the Weeping Woman, and the Minotaur predominate in
his late work, which includes The Charnel House, while his early efforts, like La
Vie, The Family of Saltimbanques, and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, are often divided
into perio",Pablo Picasso
"FTP, who was this Spanish painter probably best known for Guernica?",Pablo Picasso
In the bottom right of this painting can be seen a young girl dressed in red with
her left foot on a dog lying on the floor,Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor
"On the back wall, the king and queen are reflected in a mirror next to an open
doorway, in which a man in black is seen peering at the main scene",Las Meninas or
The Maids of Honor
"To the left, the artist is looking at the viewer while working on the huge canvas
before him, while the front center is dominated by the Princess Margarita and her
attendants",Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor
"FTP, what is this 1656 painting, one of the masterpieces of Diego Velazquez?",Las
Meninas or The Maids of Honor
"This artist's early period is marked by works like Self-Portrait with Felt Hat,
Still Life With Shoes, and Portrait of Pere Tanguy",Vincent van Gogh
"Late works like Wheat Field With Crows and Village Street in Auvers were created
while he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise to be near one of his subjects, Dr",Vincent van
Gogh
Gachet,Vincent van Gogh
"Red Vineyard at Arles was the only work sold during his lifetime, but today he is
known for works like The Night Cafe, The Potato Eaters, and Starry Night",Vincent
van Gogh
"FTP, who was this artist of Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?",Vincent van Gogh
This painting is displayed in the main hall at the Huntington Gallery across from
Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton so as to contrast and highlight
its most prominent feature,The Blue Boy (accept Portrait of Jonathon Buttall before
*)
"Completed in 1770, its subject wears clothes from the previous century in homage
to the paintings of Van Dyck",The Blue Boy (accept Portrait of Jonathon Buttall
before *)
"Standing out against a brown and green landscape, the subject looks out
confidently at the viewer with his left arm akimbo and his right hand holding a
feathered hat",The Blue Boy (accept Portrait of Jonathon Buttall before *)
"Depicting the son of a hardware merchant named * Jonathan Buttall, FTP, what is
this portrait by Gainsborough named for the color of the boy's costume?",The Blue
Boy (accept Portrait of Jonathon Buttall before *)
Etienne Falconet is often cited as the quintessential sculptor of this art movement
whose early masters included Audran and Berain,rococo
Its name was apparently coined by a student of David as a term of derision,rococo
"It was practiced in Italy by Guardi, Longhi, and Tiepolo, but enjoyed its greatest
vogue in France, where Boucher, Watteau, and Fragonard created works typified by
grace, playfulness, and intimacy",rococo
"FTP, what is this 18th century art movement whose name is a combination of the
terms rocaille and barocco?",rococo
His late interest in photography can be seen in works with Durieu like Draped Model
and in his own portrait done by Nadar,Eugene Delacroix
"Late works like The Hunt show the Romantic spirit he exemplified his whole
artistic life, as seen in his painting of Paganini, the Death of Sardanapalus, and
The Massacre at Chios FTP, name this French artist, most famous for Liberty
Leading the People.",Eugene Delacroix
"The subject is unknown, but from the description in the upper right-hand corner,
it is known that he was 26 years old when he was painted",The Laughing Cavalier
The light source seems to come from the left from beyond the painting and the broad
brush strokes on the subject's black overcoat are thought to have influenced many
Impressionists,The Laughing Cavalier
"The subject stands with his left hand on his hip, the sleeves of his shirt are
painstakingly detailed, and he wears a short beard and a mustache curled
upwards",The Laughing Cavalier
"Inaccurately titled since the subject's facial expression probably conveys
haughtiness or pride rather than mirth, this is, FTP, what most famous painting of
Franz Hals?",The Laughing Cavalier
"This canvas was an expansion of an earlier work by the artist, a conte crayon on
paper entitled The Couple, which is featured prominently in this work",A Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
In the background can be seen two steamships and four men in red hats in a
rowboat,A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
A black dog plays at the bottom center and to its right a small brown dog and a
monkey on a leash are playing as well,A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
More noticeable are the men in tophats and the women in long dresses who carry
parasols,A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
"FTP, name this idyllic masterpiece of pointillism painted by Georges Seraut.",A
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
In this tempera and gesso on panel a hitching cart and a chicken wire supported by
black posts can be seen in the distance,Christina's World
The central figure wears white socks and possesses unnaturally lean
arms,Christina's World
"Two buildings can be seen at the top, though it is unclear which one the title
character looks at",Christina's World
"She is dressed in a pink dress and the wind blows at her hair, as she lies in the
field that dominates this painting",Christina's World
"FTP, name this 1948 painting, the most famous of Andrew Wyeth.",Christina's World
"His early works, such as The Martydom of St",Nicolas Poussin
"Erasmus, differ from later canvases like The Gathering of the Manna",Nicolas
Poussin
He initially copied the style of Titian as in Plague at Ashod but moved to echoing
a mature Raphael as in Adoration of the Golden Calf and Flight Into Egypt,Nicolas
Poussin
"After coming to Rome, he lived in Italy for the rest of his life except for a few
years as court painter to Louis XIII",Nicolas Poussin
"FTP, name this painter of Et in Arcadia Ego and Holy Family on the Steps, the
preeminent French classical painter of the 17th-century.",Nicolas Poussin
"He aided his friend, architect Josef Hoffmann, by painting a series of mosaic
murals in the Palais Stoclet, a Brussels mansion designed by Hoffmann",Gustav Klimt
"His best known works are later portraits like Judith I and Frau Fritsa Reidler,
which were better received than early murals like the set Philosophy, Medicine, and
Jurisprudence",Gustav Klimt
"As founder of the Sezessionstil [se-zess-one-schteel], he directed the art nouveau
movement in his country",Gustav Klimt
"FTP, name this leader of the Vienna Secession movement, the Austrian painter of
The Kiss.",Gustav Klimt
The figures on the upper right are enlarged from Pietro Lorenzetti's Birth of the
Virgin,the Brancacci Chapel
It wasn't decorated until the Florentine ambassador to Cairo returned and
commissioned Panicale to illustrate it with frescoes from Genesis and the Life of
St,the Brancacci Chapel
Peter,the Brancacci Chapel
"Panicale, better known by his first name of Masolino, completed several scenes,
but the frescoes were ultimately finished by Filippino Lippi",the Brancacci Chapel
"Located in Santa Maria del Carmine, its most famous decorations include The
Expulsion from Paradise and The Tribute Money",the Brancacci Chapel
"FTP, name this famous chapel frescoed by Masaccio.",the Brancacci Chapel
In 1850 this man entered the studio of Thomas Couture,Edouard Manet
"The Franco Prussian War, in which he saw service as a gunner in the National
Guard, inspired him to paint such terse pictures as The Barricade and The Execution
of Maximilan III",Edouard Manet
"Earlier, after the suicide of the model for his Boy With Cherries he fell into a
depression reflected in his morbid Absinthe Drinker",Edouard Manet
"He is better known for more vibrant works, such as Concert in Tuileries
Garden",Edouard Manet
"FTP, name this French artist whose nude Olympia was less controversial than his
Luncheon on the Grass.",Edouard Manet
The year after it was finished the artist took this painting on a tour of
England,The Raft of the 'Medusa'
A little bright color is provided by the red cloth worn by the pensive figure
modeled on Michelangelo and seated on the left side,The Raft of the 'Medusa'
"Two pyramidal structures are formed, first by the two figures waving flags on the
top right and second by the title object itself",The Raft of the 'Medusa'
"The artist studied corpses and interviewed survivors before finishing this
painting in 1819, a year after an incident off the West African coast inspired this
work",The Raft of the 'Medusa'
"FTP, name this painting depicting the survivors of a French government ship, the
masterwork of Theodore Gericault.",The Raft of the 'Medusa'
"The gray wall that serves as the background for most of this painting bears on it
a single black ring in the right hand corner, which seems to match the manacles on
the floor",The Death of Socrates
"As four men cover their eyes in the main chamber, three others can be seen
climbing stairs through a gateway on the left side of the canvas",The Death of
Socrates
"The title figure, whose leg is gripped by an orange clad man sitting on a stone
stool beside the centrally located bed, has his left hand raised and his index
finger in the air as he reaches for a wooden goblet presumably filled with
hemlock",The Death of Socrates
"FTP, name this 1787 depiction of a famed philosopher's last day by Jacques Louis
David.",The Death of Socrates
"Completed in the late 1400's, the earlier version is a triptych satirizing greed
and features its painter's earliest depiction of Hell",The Hay-Wain
"The titular object of this Hieronymus Bosch painting is drawn by demons and
surrounded by a mob, while nuns cradle beggars and make amorous advances towards
musicians",The Hay-Wain
"The later version is more subdued, featuring only a handful of peasants on the
banks of the River Stour and depicting a cottage nestled on the left",The Hay-Wain
"FTP, name this depiction of the titular vehicle crossing the river, a work by John
Constable.",The Hay-Wain
On the right are ointments and the opening of a dark room,"Dead Christ (do not
accept equivalents, the painting is known by this name)"
"On the left can be seen Mary crying, John praying, and Mary Magdalene looking
downcast","Dead Christ (do not accept equivalents, the painting is known by this
name)"
The body is partially covered by a shroud and lies on the annointing rock,"Dead
Christ (do not accept equivalents, the painting is known by this name)"
"The view, from the pillow at the top to the upturned feet at the bottom,
emphasizes the swollen chest and the open wounds of crucifixion","Dead Christ (do
not accept equivalents, the painting is known by this name)"
"Best-known for the technique used to depict Jesus, FTP, name this Andrea Mantegna
masterpiece of foreshortening.","Dead Christ (do not accept equivalents, the
painting is known by this name)"
Rembrandt painted a 1630 version largely based on this canvas,Supper at Emmaus
The man on the right possesses a seashell brooch and has both his arms
extended,Supper at Emmaus
"All together three men are seated around a table topped with fruit, bread, and a
chicken, while an innkeeper wearing a white cap stands nearby",Supper at Emmaus
The central figure is dressed in red and has a youthfully pudgy face,Supper at
Emmaus
"FTP, name this Caravaggio work showing the moment Christ revealed his identity
after his resurrection to two disciples during a meal.",Supper at Emmaus
Jacob Jordaens' depiction of them shows them at half-length and almost obliterating
the background of red velvety drapery and a glint of sky,The Four Apostles or The
Four Evangelists or The Four Holy Men
They are absorbed in a study of the text on the table at the bottom left,The Four
Apostles or The Four Evangelists or The Four Holy Men
"A more famous 1526 version has them divided onto two panels, with the figure on
the left draped in an orange cloak and the figure on the right draped in a white
cloak",The Four Apostles or The Four Evangelists or The Four Holy Men
Three of them are bearded and all four are engaged by two religious texts,The Four
Apostles or The Four Evangelists or The Four Holy Men
"FTP, name this Albrecht Durer depiction of John, Peter, Paul, and Mark.",The Four
Apostles or The Four Evangelists or The Four Holy Men
"During his second trip to Italy, he painted landscapes in the Villa Medici, some
of the first known plen-aire work in Europe",Diego Velazquez
His oil on canvas The Triumph of Bacchus appeared after he had received Rubens as a
visitor,Diego Velazquez
His battle series is most typified by Surrender and Breda and among his remarkable
portraits is that of his valet Juan de Pareja,Diego Velazquez
"Even better known is his portrait of Innocent X, but it was work done as court
painter to Philip IV that gained him lasting fame",Diego Velazquez
"FTP, name this Spanish painter of Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honor.",Diego
Velazquez
"After his painting The Croquet Game received some notice, he went to study in
France",Winslow Homer
"Eight Bells is considered one of his realist masterpieces, while Prisoners from
the Front is his most important war painting",Winslow Homer
"Returning home from Europe, he crafted such homespun scenes as Snap the Whip and
Long Branch, New Jersey",Winslow Homer
In the next decade he found his typical subject matter with works like The Life
Line and Fog Warning,Winslow Homer
"FTP, name this American painter of The Gulf Stream.",Winslow Homer
This canvas was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour to hang in the Chteau de
Bellevue,The Toilet of Venus (accept equivalents)
"Cast against a dark, cloudy background, a cherub on the bottom left retrieves a
string of pearls from a half-shell tray, while a dove caresses the feet of the
title character",The Toilet of Venus (accept equivalents)
"Another cherub attends to the title character's hair, while a third on the right
helps the titular figure tie a blue ribbon around a dove in her lap",The Toilet of
Venus (accept equivalents)
"Depicting the scene of a goddess in her private room, FTP, identify this most
famous painting by Franois Boucher.",The Toilet of Venus (accept equivalents)
"This man served on the town council of Regensburg in 1519 when the decision was
made to expel the city's Jewish community, which he celebrated with two
etchings",Albrecht Altdorfer
While the main body of this artist's works include forested scenes such as
St,Albrecht Altdorfer
"George in a Wood, he was most noted for his small scale works like 1507's Satyr
Family",Albrecht Altdorfer
His most characteristic works were modeled after Bramante sketches and include
Susannah in the Bath and Danube Landscape,Albrecht Altdorfer
"FTP, identify this most famous member of the Danube school whose most famous work
was The Battle of Issus.",Albrecht Altdorfer
"This painting is thought to be inspired by, and an homage to, Velazquez's Las
Menias, and is actually a composite of a studio portrait and some rough sketches
taken of the title location",A Bar at the Folies-Bergres or Un Bar aux Folies-
Bergres
"The dining crowd in the background supposedly contains renditions of the artist's
friends, which probably don't include the pair of legs dangling from the trapeze in
the top left",A Bar at the Folies-Bergres or Un Bar aux Folies-Bergres
"The marble tabletop in the foreground is strewn with bottles and a bowl of
oranges, while the central figure is approached by a sinister man in a tophat, all
of which can be seen in a mirror in the background",A Bar at the Folies-Bergres or
Un Bar aux Folies-Bergres
"FTP, identify this painting by Edouard Manet.",A Bar at the Folies-Bergres or Un
Bar aux Folies-Bergres
"Copies of this canvas were rare until the last decade because its owner, Albert
Barnes, disapproved of color reproductions",The Joy of Life or Le Bonheur de Vivre
"A woman in the background to the right can be seen herding goats with a flute,
while the foreground is dominated by another flute-playing figure and an embracing
couple",The Joy of Life or Le Bonheur de Vivre
"A huge swath of orange dominates the left side of the canvas, where a squatting
man can be seen in front of a stretching nude",The Joy of Life or Le Bonheur de
Vivre
Perhaps this painting's most interesting feature is the circle of six dancing
figures in the background,The Joy of Life or Le Bonheur de Vivre
"FTP, identify this colorful canvas by Henri Matisse.",The Joy of Life or Le
Bonheur de Vivre
"Vincent Van Gogh expressed his admiration for this school, particularly the
painting Snow Scene with Sheep by his uncle Anton Mauve",The Hague School
"Also known as the Gray School, this movement's penchant for subdued colors and
nature scenes was manifested in the works of J",The Hague School
H,The Hague School
Weissenbruch and Johannes Bosboom,The Hague School
This group developed primarily in the 1870s and also contained such members as
Hendrik Mesdag and Gerald Bilders,The Hague School
"Led by Jacob and Matthijs Maris and Jozef Israls, FTP, identify this Dutch
landscape school that was centered at its namesake city.",The Hague School
Their brief success came with the awarding of two major commissions for work at
Casa Bartholdy and at the Casino Massimo,Nazarenes or Lucas Brotherhood or
Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukasbund
Their style was typified by works like Rose Miracle of St,Nazarenes or Lucas
Brotherhood or Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukasbund
"Francis in the Little Chapel at Assissi, which is the major work of this
movement's founder",Nazarenes or Lucas Brotherhood or Brotherhood of St. Luke or
Lukasbund
"They secluded themselves at San Isidro, earning their most common nickname, and
they would be joined there by later members Wilhelm von Schadow and Peter von
Cornelius",Nazarenes or Lucas Brotherhood or Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukasbund
"Founded in Rome in 1809, FTP, name this group of religiously minded German
painters headed by Johann Friedrich Overbeck.",Nazarenes or Lucas Brotherhood or
Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukasbund
"This painting was commissioned by the Trudaine de Montigny brothers, and Thomas
Jefferson was present at its unveiling",The Death of Socrates
Sir Joshua Reynolds compared the title figure's reaching hand to Adam's in the
Sistine Chapel,The Death of Socrates
"Down the hall in the distance on the left, the title figure's wife can be seen
leaving, while the title figure himself is surrounded by sorrowful men, save for
the seated figure in white at the foot of the bed and the one touching the title
figure's leg",The Death of Socrates
"FTP, identify this Jacques-Louis David painting in which the title character is
reaching for a cup of hemlock.",The Death of Socrates
This primarily dark canvas shows an intense white light that centers on the nine
figures at its center,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp
"A man in the background huddles over a paper, but stares out at the viewer, while
the rest of the group is either transfixed on the titular event or the large text
in the foreground of the bottom right corner",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas
Tulp
"The title figure raises one hand in gesticulation, while the other probes the body
of an executed criminal with a pair of forceps",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas
Tulp
"Graphically depicting the muscles of a cadaver's forearm, FTP, identify this
medical painting by Rembrandt.",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp
"His last important works were a series of scenes including Saint Sixtus ordaining
Saint Lawrence and scenes from the life of Saint Stephen, which were frescoes
executed for the chapel of Pope Nicholas",Fra Angelico (accept early Guido di
Pietro)
"After entering a Dominican convent in Fiesole, he started producing altarpieces
like the Madonna of the Star, which is currently in the convent of San Marco in
Florence to which he moved in 1436",Fra Angelico (accept early Guido di Pietro)
"FTP, name this artist of Christ as a Pilgrim and the Madonna of the Linen Weavers,
born Guido di Pietro, whose better known name refers to his noted piety.",Fra
Angelico (accept early Guido di Pietro)
"At the upper left of this painting, a figure wearing a white shawl on his head
watches the central scene, while a man wearing a seashell on his vest spreads his
arms at right",The Supper at Emmaus
"The sleeve of the man at lower left tears at the elbow as he rises from his chair
towards the central figure, who is reaching for a plate of poultry",The Supper at
Emmaus
"The light source at the upper left is usually interpreted as an allegory depicting
the uncertain atmosphere around the central figure, who Mark 16:12 tells vanishes
as all three figures recognize him",The Supper at Emmaus
"FTP, name this scene of a meeting of two apostles with the resurrected Christ by
Caravaggio.",The Supper at Emmaus
"This work was one of thirteen its creator painted for the 1827 Salon, and its
original title was Massacre Number Two",The Death of Sardanapalus
A broken elephant tusk near the center of the canvas represents title character's
impotence,The Death of Sardanapalus
A woman covers her face with a dress while a tanned man falls on his sword,The
Death of Sardanapalus
On the bottom left a muscular African reigns in a horse,The Death of Sardanapalus
"The dominant feature of this painting is the bed on which a nude prostrates
herself and beseeches the apathetic title character, who watches as his worldly
possessions are destroyed",The Death of Sardanapalus
"Based on a poem by Byron, FTP, identify this painting by Eugne Delacroix.",The
Death of Sardanapalus
The works A Wooded Stream of the Bredel collection and The Cottages under Trees of
the Ford collection are often attributed to this artist,Meyndert Hobbema
"Early works like Landscape with a Hut and Road on a Dyke demonstrate his affinity
for landscape scenes, as does his series of water mills",Meyndert Hobbema
"This Amsterdam native's Ruins of Breberode Castle gained him much recognition in
England, where he is thought to be one of the biggest influences on Thomas
Gainesborough",Meyndert Hobbema
His most famous painting is 1689's The Avenue at Middleharnis,Meyndert Hobbema
"FTP, identify this Dutch landscape artist and pupil of Jacob van
Ruisdael.",Meyndert Hobbema
"Located in the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome,
the only object visible in the background of this work is a window of a tavern",The
Calling of St. Matthew
"The titular figure sits on the far left with his head bowed and a light shining on
him from the upper right, and a man in the middle of the table points at him in
surprise",The Calling of St. Matthew
"Jesus, mostly hidden behind St",The Calling of St. Matthew
"Peter on the far right, also points at the titular figure, indicating him to
follow in, FTP, what great tenebrist painting by Caravaggio?",The Calling of St.
Matthew
"One man by this name produced fantastic Italian landscapes like The Storm and was
known by the moniker 'Francisque.' The other, studied under Delarouche and
produced early portraits like The Naval Officer, though he gained fame for an 1848
work, now lost",Jean Franois Millet
"That canvas, The Winnower, was followed by others like The Walk to Work and Man
with a Hoe",Jean Franois Millet
"Often suspected of being a socialist, he left Paris after a cholera epidemic
forced him to move to Barbizon",Jean Franois Millet
"FTP, identify this realist painter best known for Angelus and The Gleaners.",Jean
Franois Millet
"Completed for the Alabaster Chamber of Alfonso d'Este's palace, this work was
later recolored by Dosso Dossi and famously completed by the artist's pupil",Feast
of the Gods
A major point of study in this painting is the bird in the trees above the titular
scene,Feast of the Gods
The nymph Lotis is reclining at the far right,Feast of the Gods
"Silenus' ass foils the advances of Priapus, who attempts to lift the nymph's
skirt",Feast of the Gods
"Completely redone by the artist's student Titian, FTP, name this Renaissance work
depicting an immortal celebration by Giovanni Bellini.",Feast of the Gods
A prior painting of the same subject includes two lovers in the foreground and a
reflection of city lights on the Rhne River,The Starry Night
"The buildings in the foreground are created with straight strokes, with a church
spire just breaking the sky",The Starry Night
"Venus is created with spiraling strokes, and located slightly left of the center,
which some say resembles a yin-yang",The Starry Night
"To the left of them, cypress trees extend to the heavens",The Starry Night
"FTP, name this nocturnal portrait of the village of Saint-Remy by Vincent Van
Gogh.",The Starry Night
"Among his early drawings, he shows a fascination with the necks of old
people",Leonardo da Vinci (accept either name)
"His Madonna Litta is the only painting of his in Russia, while his portrait of
Ginevra de' Benci is the only painting of his in America",Leonardo da Vinci (accept
either name)
Most of his paintings date from the fifteen years after he left the workshop of
Andrea del Verrocchio to settle in Milan,Leonardo da Vinci (accept either name)
The lone exception is his Madonna of the Rocks,Leonardo da Vinci (accept either
name)
"FTP, name this painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer perhaps best
known for his Last Supper and portrait of Mona Lisa.",Leonardo da Vinci (accept
either name)
"The subject of this painting was painted twice more, by Gustave Courti and Antonio
de la Gandara, seven and fourteen years later, respectively",Madame X
"In the original, the light source is from the right, accentuating a little jewel
in the subject's red hair and the shoulder straps on her dress",Madame X
"She stands next to a table with a fan in her left hand, wearing a low cut black
dress showing her pale skin",Madame X
"Perhaps to shield the subject from the foreseen controversy, the artist withheld
her real name, Gautreau, from the painting's title",Madame X
"FTP who is this woman, subject of an 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent?",Madame
X
"This painting inspired 27 oil paintings and over 100 drawings by Picasso, and an
unfinished painting by Monet, set in the forest of Fontainebleau","The Luncheon on
the Grass or Le Djeuner sur l'Herbe (prompt on 'The Bath' or 'Le Bain,' the
original title)"
"It was itself indebted to Raimondi's engraving of Raphael's The Judgement of
Paris, Courbet's Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, and the Concert Champetre
of Giorgione and/or Titian","The Luncheon on the Grass or Le Djeuner sur l'Herbe
(prompt on 'The Bath' or 'Le Bain,' the original title)"
"A young woman stands in the stream in the rear, and the figure modeled by
Victorine Meurent sits at the left, on her discarded blue dress","The Luncheon on
the Grass or Le Djeuner sur l'Herbe (prompt on 'The Bath' or 'Le Bain,' the
original title)"
"Two dressed men and a nude woman appear in, FTP, what picnic scene by Edouard
Manet?","The Luncheon on the Grass or Le Djeuner sur l'Herbe (prompt on 'The Bath'
or 'Le Bain,' the original title)"
"The depiction of the main figure in this painting is based on the same figure's
depiction in Giotto's Rising of Drusiana scene in the Peruzzi chapel, even down to
the identical dress",Tribute Money (accept reasonable equivalents)
"The theme of the work is taken from Matthew 17:24-26 and was intended to be 'read'
by starting in the middle, which showed how to satisfy the request, then to the
left, where a fish is caught with a coin in its mouth, finally to the right, where
a tax col",Tribute Money (accept reasonable equivalents)
"FTP, name this painting in the Brancacci Chapel of the Santa Maria del Carmine in
Florence, a masterwork by Masaccio.",Tribute Money (accept reasonable equivalents)
"In commissioning a portrait of himself on the imperial throne Napoleon instructed
Jean Ingres to make him reminiscent of God in this artwork, which the emperor had
plundered and moved to the Louvre",Ghent altarpiece (need to say 'altarpiece' until
it's mentioned)
"At the very bottom we learn that the work was completed for Jodicus Vyd, but more
noticeable are the depictions of Adam and Eve at either end, particularly Eve's
almost pregnant belly",Ghent altarpiece (need to say 'altarpiece' until it's
mentioned)
Even more famous is the Adoration of the Lamb portion at the bottom,Ghent
altarpiece (need to say 'altarpiece' until it's mentioned)
"Begun by the artist's brother Hubert and completed in 1432, FTP, name this large
altarpiece painted by Jan van Eyck.",Ghent altarpiece (need to say 'altarpiece'
until it's mentioned)
"The interplay of separately lit spaces, in the foreground versus the background,
was anticipated by the artist's earlier painting The Tapestry Weavers",Las Meninas
(accept early buzz of Maids of Honor)
The pairing of the nun and man-servant on the right of the canvas parallels the
shadowy and silvery depiction of the royal couple in the center,Las Meninas (accept
early buzz of Maids of Honor)
Two large Ruben-like paintings hang above the scene as a young boy threatens to
kick a contented looking dog and a painter tries to work in his studio,Las Meninas
(accept early buzz of Maids of Honor)
But the most enigmatic parts of the painting are the man in the open doorway in the
background and the dwarf whose pose echoes that of the Infanta,Las Meninas (accept
early buzz of Maids of Honor)
"FTP, identify this 1656 depiction of 'The Maids of Honor' by Velazquez.",Las
Meninas (accept early buzz of Maids of Honor)
"An oddity in this painting is a scene in the background at the far right,
featuring a toga-clad man unrolling a parchment and standing in front of a large
unfinished pillar",Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna dal Collo Lungo
"The central scene is set against a backdrop of a red curtain, where the title
character, clad in flowing brown and blue robes, sits and rests her feet on pillows
while a quintet of androgynous youths stare over her shoulder in awe of the
unnaturally shape",Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna dal Collo Lungo
"FTP, name this Mannerist work painted by Parmigianino and named for an extended
feature of Mary's anatomy.",Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna dal Collo Lungo
"Surviving studies for the work show that two men, a student and a seated sailor,
were originally meant to have been included in this painting",Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon
"A thin strip of shades of brown appears on the left, but more disconcerting is the
wedge of melon, bunch of grapes, and other pieces of fruit that are out of place at
the bottom center",Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
"The final word in its title refers, surprisingly, to a red-light district in
Barcelona whose prostitutes inspired this 1907 work",Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
"Often considered the earliest Cubist work, FTP, name this depiction of five female
nudes and first masterpiece of Pablo Picasso.",Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Its tile floor borrows its design from the mosaic floor of Westminster Abbey,The
(French) Ambassadors
"Sometimes seen as an allusion to Plutarch's Parallel Lives, which had recently
been translated by one of its subjects, it includes Peter Apian's book on
accounting as one of the representatives of the quadrivium on display",The (French)
Ambassadors
"This is on one of the shelves in the back, which also hold a sundial and a
globe",The (French) Ambassadors
Just below Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve is a distorted skull that
appears normally if viewed from below,The (French) Ambassadors
"FTP, name this portrait by Hans Holbein depicting two representatives of Francis I
in London.",The (French) Ambassadors
He studied under French painters Carle Vernet and Pierre Guerin before traveling to
Italy to further his career,Theodore Gericault
"His earliest major work, The Charging Chasseur, as well as Wounded Cuirassier and
Race of the Riderless Horse, convey one of the chief interests of this avid
horseman",Theodore Gericault
"He was a frequent patient at numerous asylums and mental hospitals, which served
as the inspirations for paintings like A Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy",Theodore
Gericault
"FTP, name this 19th-century French Romantic painter who depicted a recent national
tragedy by showing the dying survivors of a shipwreck in his The Raft of the
Medusa.",Theodore Gericault
"Just to the right of center in this painting rises the tower of the Nieuwe [NOY-
va] Kerk, a large church",View of Delft
"In the foreground two women speak, and a group of five citizens exit a barge,
while clouds loom overhead",View of Delft
"While there is no documentary evidence to suggest the artist used a camera
obscura, the slightly unfocused edges of boats and buildings in this cityscape
indicate he may have",View of Delft
"FTP, name this painting of a Dutch city, the hometown of its artist Jan
Vermeer.",View of Delft
"The background is painted in muted yellows and greens, and a crucifix pokes into
the sky on the left side of the canvas",Burial at Ornans or L'enterrement Ornans
A dog is just right of center; his body faces the titular action though his head
turns away,Burial at Ornans or L'enterrement Ornans
"Two clergy are noticeable for their red vestments, while the majority of the
people wear black and a couple women cover their faces with handkerchiefs",Burial
at Ornans or L'enterrement Ornans
"Set in the titular village, which was the artist's hometown, FTP, name this
depiction of a peasant's internment by Gustave Courbet.",Burial at Ornans or
L'enterrement Ornans
"This painting is based on a legend that dates back to the real life title event,
which occurred in 1323, though those portrayed are depicted in the dress of the
artist's time",The Burial of Count Orgaz
"Compositionally, it is divided into two sections, a more Venetian-based bottom
half and a clearer Mannerist upper section drawn from the time after its artist
left Venice",The Burial of Count Orgaz
"A series of men in black, with white lace at their necks stand behind the titular
figure at the bottom, but perhaps more startling amidst the swirling figures at the
top are Saints Stephen and Augustine",The Burial of Count Orgaz
"FTP, name this 1586 painting that depicts the interment of a noble, a masterpiece
by El Greco.",The Burial of Count Orgaz
Among the scenes of his later career are superstitious ones like Spirit of the Dead
Watching,Paul Gauguin
"With Emile Bernard he proposed a synthetist theory of art emphasizing the use of
flat planes and bright, non-naturalistic color in conjunction with symbolic or
primitive objects, and he would stress this theory in the Pont-Aven school that he
led",Paul Gauguin
Among his major works are the late masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going? and the earlier The Yellow Christ,Paul Gauguin
"FTP, name this one-time French stockbroker, who left his family and retired to
paint in Tahiti.",Paul Gauguin
Each of the leaves on the right side of this painting has a gold spine and outline
and the tree trunks are highlighted with short diagonal lines of gold,The Birth of
Venus
"The scene is meant to be set off of Paphos in Cyprus, explaining the orange grove
on the right",The Birth of Venus
"Rose blossoms with golden hearts float in the air on the left, while one of the
Horae holds a robe up for the titular figure on the right",The Birth of Venus
Zephyrus and Chloris are aloft at the left and blow that figure toward the
shore,The Birth of Venus
"FTP, identify this depiction of a Roman goddess emerging from a scallop shell, a
masterwork of Sandro Botticelli.",The Birth of Venus
Very few people notice the rust colored butterfly that flits above a dark colored
dog of indistinguishable breed in this painting,A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
la Grande Jatte (accept Isle of Grand Jatte or Island of Grande Jatte)
The only person directly facing the viewer is a young girl in a white sundress and
hat,A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte (accept Isle of Grand Jatte
or Island of Grande Jatte)
"She holds the hand of her mother, who is dressed and equipped like all the women
in this painting",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte (accept Isle
of Grand Jatte or Island of Grande Jatte)
"It's hard to find all seven parasols that appear, but much easier to see the lone
monkey and even easier to see the river Seine on the entire top left of the
painting",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte (accept Isle of Grand
Jatte or Island of Grande Jatte)
"FTP, name this canvas depicted a popular Parisian picnic spot, the pointillist
masterpiece of Georges Seraut.",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte
(accept Isle of Grand Jatte or Island of Grande Jatte)
"An unfinished second version hangs at the Tate, and its creator worked on the
painting throughout the summer of 1883 at the subject's summer house in
Brittany",Portrait of Madame X
That subject was the daughter of an Italian migr to Louisiana who had died at the
Battle of Shiloh,Portrait of Madame X
"One hand holds a black fan that matches her dress, while the other is balanced on
a table",Portrait of Madame X
"She looks away to the viewer's right as if to expose more of the porcelain, white
skin that the painter emphasized with the flimsy bejeweled straps and the low cut
top",Portrait of Madame X
FTP identify this notorious portrait which was exhibited without Mrs,Portrait of
Madame X
"Gautreau's name, a work by John Singer Sargent.",Portrait of Madame X
"Five of this man's sons also became painters, though none reached his
notoriety",Franz Hals
"Although Adriaen Brouwer used this man's techniques, he left few if any direct
followers",Franz Hals
This pupil of Carel van Mander painted with a loose brushstroke technique that
allowed him to capture the vitality of sitters like Mr,Franz Hals
"Verdonck, who carries a jawbone, or the carelessly dressed Gypsy Girl",Franz Hals
Though later works like his portrait of Descartes and his Daniel van Aken Playing
the Violin reveal a sense of foreboding he will always be associated with the
liveliness of group scenes like The Archers of St,Franz Hals
Adrian and Banquet of the Officers of St,Franz Hals
George,Franz Hals
FTP name this Haarlem native best known The Governors of the Almshouse and his pair
of 1620s works The Merry Toper and The Laughing Cavalier.,Franz Hals
"On the top right, light creeps over a tan bluff as if the sun were going down over
the hill that serves as the setting for the painting",The Stonebreakers
"A pot and some linen are strewn in the right foreground near some weeds, while the
left side of the canvas shows various tools in a wheel barrow",The Stonebreakers
"One figure wears a hat, while the other, in what appears to be striped pants held
up by one filthy suspender, lifts a heavy load",The Stonebreakers
Both are turned away from the viewer and are intent on using their picks and
hammers to perform the title activity,The Stonebreakers
"Completed one year after the artist's similarly bleak The Burial at Ornans and
later destroyed during the bombing of Dresden, FTP, identify this painting by
Gustave Courbet.",The Stonebreakers
This man's father in law was the man to whom the tea that provoked the Boston Tea
Party was consigned,John Singleton Copley
"His Head of a Man was one of the first portraits of a black man produced by an
American and contrasts with his usual subjects, the privileged and wealthy, many of
whom would travel to London to be painted",John Singleton Copley
Early canvases like The Return of Neptune foreshadowed his interest in the dramatic
events he later chose to portray,John Singleton Copley
But it was his Boy with a Squirrel that caught the eye of Benjamin West and helped
make his name,John Singleton Copley
"Famous sitters for him included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, but he is best known
for painting historical scenes",John Singleton Copley
FTP name this painter of The Death of Chatham and Watson and the Shark.,John
Singleton Copley
"The artist owed much of this painting to his friend Nicolaus Kratzer, who sent him
many of the pieces exhibited in it",The French Ambassadors
Kratzer did not provide the silver crucifix that peeks out in the top left corner
nor did he provide the large object at the bottom that is distorted via anomorphic
projection,The French Ambassadors
"An expanse of green drapery sets of the background, and in the center we see such
things as a torquetum, a quadrant, a lute, and a sundial",The French Ambassadors
"Though the artist titled this work Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, the
painting is now know by another name",The French Ambassadors
"FTP, name this 1533 Hans Holbein depiction of a pair of emissaries.",The French
Ambassadors
"He created work illustrating the life of the saint Filippo Benizzi for the order
of the Servites, in addition to the 'Nativity of the Virgin' and the 'Procession of
the Magi.' After a Pieta and a Madonna of his were sent to the French court,
Francis I in",Andrea del Sarto (or Andrea _d'Agnolo_)
"On his return to Paris, he created 'Dance of the Daughter of Herodias' and
'Beheading of the Baptist,' as part of a series of works depicting the life of John
the Baptist",Andrea del Sarto (or Andrea _d'Agnolo_)
"The teacher of Pontormo his 'Madonna del Sacco was painted in the shape of a
lunette, but he is probably more famous for a different Madonna who is perched
precariously on a stool",Andrea del Sarto (or Andrea _d'Agnolo_)
"Nicknamed 'the faultless painter,' this is, FTP, what creator of 'Madonna of the
Harpies'?",Andrea del Sarto (or Andrea _d'Agnolo_)
This artist was inspired by Japanese woodcuts and would often compose whole works
from a single block of wood,Edvard Munch
Landscapes like Couple on the Shore form part of later works like The Reinhardt
Frieze,Edvard Munch
"Various self-portraits depict him 'with a burning cigarette,' 'with a bottle of
wine,' and 'as the Night Wanderer.' The deaths of family members when he was young
had a profound influence on early paintings like The Sick Child which depicts his
eldest sis",Edvard Munch
"Loneliness is constantly present in his works, especially in the 22 paintings
making up the Frieze of Life, in which even those pictures about love convey a hint
of death",Edvard Munch
"FTP, identify this artist who most poignantly expressed feelings about anxiety and
isolation in 1893's The Scream.",Edvard Munch
"Pablo Picasso made a series of 58 variations on this painting, and it was only
given its modern title in 1834, nearly two hundred years after it was painted",Las
Meninas
"The scene takes place in a room decorated by large canvases, and a dog lies
comfortably in the right foreground",Las Meninas
"In a doorway in the background, we see Jose Nieto, while in the foreground are two
dwarves and the two figures mentioned in the title, Isabel Velasco and Agustina
Sarmiento",Las Meninas
"FTP, a mirror showing the king and queen, and the artist himself standing near an
easel are the two most famous features of what Velazquez masterpiece?",Las Meninas
"Though this man incessantly painted his associates, including Leopold Zborowski
and Beatrice Hastings, he only thought to paint himself once",Amedeo 'Dedo'
Modigliani
"In that self-portrait, we see the artist at work in a red shirt and blue scarf,
with his characteristic blacking-out of the eyes evident",Amedeo 'Dedo' Modigliani
"Under the tutelage of Brancusi, this man gained the African sculptural stylings
visible in his series of stone head sculptures, which expose his characteristic
elongation of the human figure",Amedeo 'Dedo' Modigliani
"FTP, name the artist who created such works as 'Reclining Nude from the Back' and
'Yellow Sweater' and whose very pregnant lover, Jeanne Hbuterne, committed suicide
by defenestration the day after his 1920 death from tubercular meningitis.",Amedeo
'Dedo' Modigliani
Later in his life the architect Jose Luis Sert built him a namesake studio on the
island of Majorca,Joan Miro
"His The Reaper was painted for the Paris World Exhibition, and in 1968 he finished
two large ceramic murals for the UNESCO buildings in Paris",Joan Miro
"Originally involved with the Dadaists, from 1924-27 he completed 100 canvases in
the 'dream painting' and 'imaginary landscape' styles including The Birth of the
World",Joan Miro
"He usually tried to work in the style of automatism, which explains the stick
figure character of many of his works",Joan Miro
"FTP identify this Catalan artist of The Lovers, The Carnival of Harlequin, and Dog
Barking at the Moon, a Spanish Surrealist.",Joan Miro
"He once declared that his 'pictures were dramas', and, with Adolph Gottlieb, wrote
a contradictory letter to critic Edward Jewell who had said he didn't understand
this artist's Syrian Bull",Mark Rothko
He showed his surrealist influence and the influence of Northwest Indian art in
Slow Swirl by the Edge of the Sea but soon abandoned this style,Mark Rothko
"Although he hated being called a colorist, he became famous as one of the main
artists in the color field school",Mark Rothko
"FTP, name this Russian-born American artist who often painted rectangles and
horizontal lines of color as in Red on Maroon, and Green White.",Mark Rothko
His large altarpiece at St,Nicolas Poussin
"Peter's, the Martyrdom of St",Nicolas Poussin
"Erasmus, was a critical failure, but he recouped respect with works like the '7
Sacraments' series for Cassiano Pozzo",Nicolas Poussin
"His first works were copies of Raphael, and differed distinctly from mature pieces
like Death of Meleager and Death of Germanicus",Nicolas Poussin
"Early commissions, including a set of illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, were
made in his adopted country",Nicolas Poussin
"And though he worked almost entirely in Rome, he briefly returned to his native
land in 1641 when Louis XIII asked him to decorate the Great Gallery of the
Louvre",Nicolas Poussin
"Landscapes like Landscape with Polyphemus are typical of, for 10 points, what
baroque French artist of The Arcadian Shepherds and Holy Family on the
Steps?",Nicolas Poussin
This artistic group published a namesake almanac that featured folk art and argued
that the artificial separation of form and idea could not truthfully express the
inner rhythm of the spirit,Der Blaue Reiter or The Blue Rider
"A collection of this group's works is held in the former home of Franz von Lenbach
and the group met at the home of one of its founders, Gabriele Mnter",Der Blaue
Reiter or The Blue Rider
"Completing such works as Study for Improvisation V and Yellow Cow, the
collaboration ended with the World War I deaths of August Macke and Franz Marc",Der
Blaue Reiter or The Blue Rider
"FTP, name this expressionistic movement led by Wassily Kandinsky and which often
employed an equine motif.",Der Blaue Reiter or The Blue Rider
"This canvas features a small cross lit up on the left bank, while the right side
features two trees that are about to fall into the sparkling river",Heart of the
Andes
When it was unveiled at New York's Lyrique Hall in 1859 it caused a sensation and
thousands of patrons paid money to file past it every month in the hopes of
catching a glimpse of the exotic terrain described in Humboldt's scientific
writings,Heart of the Andes
"Painted on the artist's second trip to Ecuador, the titular mountains can be seen
rising majestically in the distance",Heart of the Andes
FTP identify this landscape painting by Frederick Edwin Church.,Heart of the Andes
"Cabanel's Birth of Venus, shown near the original at the Musee d'Orsay, is often
taken as a point of departure for discussing this work",Olympia (accept Modern
Olympia before it is said)
A second version painted in 1873 moves the title figure to the background as a
gentleman with a cane looks on and a black servant hurries to cover her with a
white sheet,Olympia (accept Modern Olympia before it is said)
"That 'Modern' version by Cezanne is in sharp contrast to the original, where the
title woman wears a flower behind her left ear, a black string around her neck, and
little else, and brazenly stares out of the canvas",Olympia (accept Modern Olympia
before it is said)
"FTP identify this nude which caused an uproar at the Salon of 1865, a work by
Manet.",Olympia (accept Modern Olympia before it is said)
"At the extreme left, a group of two men, a woman and her child wind around a
column opposite from a man perched on a throne",Miracle of the Slave
In the background is a Greek Temple-style building with caryatids,Miracle of the
Slave
St,Miracle of the Slave
Mark plunges down contrasting with a man in a turban who raises his hammer and
chisel with his back turned to a half-naked man lying on the ground,Miracle of the
Slave
"Spectators turn towards the incapacitated servant in, for 10 points, what 1548
painting by Tintoretto?",Miracle of the Slave
At Andre Malraux's urging he asked Andre Hermant to design his museum at Nice,Marc
Chagall
"That museum displays his illustrations of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Homer's
Odyssey, lithographs published in Derriere le mirroir, and numerous Biblical
stories showing his 'Biblical Message' which included beliefs in communion with God
through dance and",Marc Chagall
"His The Soldier Drinks reflects his memories from the Russo-Japanese War, painted
years before his first work of Orphic Cubism named by Blaise Cendrars, Paris
Through a Window",Marc Chagall
"For 10 points, name this artist of Green Violinist and I and the Village.",Marc
Chagall
"The two kneeling donors, dressed in flowing, red and blue robes respectively,
flank the entrance to the barrel vault that houses the main scene","The Holy
Trinity with the Virgin, St. John and Two Donors"
"The lowest section of the work, linked with a tomb below, shows the words 'What
you are, I once was, what I am, you will become' inscribed above a skeleton on a
sarcophagus","The Holy Trinity with the Virgin, St. John and Two Donors"
"In the main scene, the Virgin extends her hand, while St","The Holy Trinity with
the Virgin, St. John and Two Donors"
"John stares up at God the Father who stands on a ledge behind Jesus in, FTP, what
1425 fresco in the Santa Maria de Novella by Massacio.","The Holy Trinity with the
Virgin, St. John and Two Donors"
This painting is known for the zigzag of characters and paths that leads the
viewers eyes into the background,Flight into Egypt
In the middle right a flock of sheep walks down to a river and on the next hill a
man stands next to several cattle below an Italian castle,Flight into Egypt
Two white doves lead the central figures up from the river they have just been
ferried across as the ferryman rows away,Flight into Egypt
The central group are separated by a donkey covered with a red blanket as Joseph
walks behind holding the animals reigns,Flight into Egypt
"For 10 points, name this Carracci painting that features Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
escaping from Herod.",Flight into Egypt
"Among the artists to join later were Otto Mller, Cuno Amiet, the Akseli Galln-
Kallela, and Kees van Dongen",Die Brucke
"Their lasting value was their revival of graphic arts, in particular the
woodcut",Die Brucke
"Characteristic works include Sleeping Negress and Crouching Girl by Erich Heckel,
Self-Portrait with Monacle by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Bathers at Moritzburg by
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner whose writings in their Chronicle led to the groups break up
in 1913",Die Brucke
"For 10 points, name this twentieth-century association of German painters that
also included Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde whose name means 'the Bridge'.",Die
Brucke
A black cap rests on a small case on the right edge of this painting,The Third
Class Carriage
Hilly countryside is visible through the windows at the left,The Third Class
Carriage
The professions of men are highlighted as some wear peasant attire and others don
top hats,The Third Class Carriage
"A boy sleeps with his back to a laborer and leans on an old, roughly dressed woman
who is carrying a basket",The Third Class Carriage
On the left of the front bench is a woman breastfeeding her baby,The Third Class
Carriage
"For 10 points, identify this oil canvas painting showing peasants on a train,
painted by Honore Daumier.",The Third Class Carriage
The ornate geometric pattern of the mosaic pavement is copied from a 14th century
work in Westminster Abbey,The French Ambassadors
"The presence of a Protestant psalm book open to two Lutheran hymns is explained by
the fact that one of the titular figures sympathized with the Reformation, and the
entire scene is depicted against the background of green curtain",The French
Ambassadors
"Both of the title figures lean on a shelf, which holds a compass, two globes, and
a lute",The French Ambassadors
"Depicting Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, FTP, name this 1533 canvas most
famous for the anamorphic skull in the floor that was painted by Hans Holbein the
Younger.",The French Ambassadors
"There are two extant versions of this painting, the Detroit and the Dresden
variations",The Jewish Cemetery
"Although they are both views of a site at Ouderkerk, on the Amstel River, the
ruins in the background of the Detroit version are based on the old Abbey Church at
Egmond while those in the Dresden painting are taken from Egmond Castle",The Jewish
Cemetery
"Both landscapes are bisected by a rushing stream, while the Detroit variant
includes a rainbow and brighter sky than the more solemn Dresden painting with its
barren beech tree",The Jewish Cemetery
"With both paintings featuring three large white tombs, FTP, name these works by
Jacob van Ruisdael, featuring a religious graveyard.",The Jewish Cemetery
"It was only loaned out of the Courtauld Institute once, for an exhibition of its
artist's work in the Prado in October 2003",Bar at the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux
Folies-Bergere
"Despite the blur of the background, two portraits are apparent, those of Mery
Laurent and Jeanne Demarsy, two friends of the artist who sit in the back left with
yellow and gray gloves respectively",Bar at the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux
Folies-Bergere
In the foreground things of note include a container of crme de menthe and a
bottle of Bass beer,Bar at the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere
More prominent are the bowl of oranges and the reflection of the man in a top hat
at the right,Bar at the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere
"Most prominent is the auburn-haired Suzon, who works at the title location",Bar at
the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere
For 10 points name this Edouard Manet depiction of a popular Parisian
nightspot.,Bar at the Folies-Bergere or Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere
"A faint blue mountain, indicative of Da Vinci's influence on the artist, can be
seen in the background, while the subject of the painting is based on Rubens'
Jardin d'Amour",The Embarkation for Cythera or The Embarkation from Cythera or
l'Embarquement de Cythere
A man with a staff in his left hand can be seen helping a woman in a yellow dress
up from her seat in the center,The Embarkation for Cythera or The Embarkation from
Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere
Floating cherubs appear on the left,The Embarkation for Cythera or The Embarkation
from Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere
"More are added in a later edition, to raise a mast, and float around a statue of
Venus on the right as the people get ready to leave",The Embarkation for Cythera or
The Embarkation from Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere
"FTP, name this 1717 painting with an oft-mistranslated title, the most famous
work of Jean-Antoine Watteau.",The Embarkation for Cythera or The Embarkation from
Cythera or l'Embarquement de Cythere
A sword stuck in its holder and the head of a corpse are seen near bushes on the
lower left,Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"In the background, smoke rises above two ends of an island",Landscape with the
Fall of Icarus
"At right, a partridge watches as a man with his back to the viewer fishes, while a
ruined castle on an island at center appears behind a shepherd who gazes skyward in
the midst of his flock",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"Furrows emerge from a grassy field as a red-jacketed farmer follows a horse and
plow, and a ship nonchalantly passes by the title action",Landscape with the Fall
of Icarus
"FTP, name this painting depicting the seacliffs of Crete and the pair of legs
belonging to a drowning youth, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.",Landscape with the
Fall of Icarus
"This title names two paintings, one now housed in the Prado in Madrid and the
other in the National Gallery in London",The Haywain
The first is a triptych in which title object in the middle panel symbolizes
humanity's greed while the left panel depicts Eden and the right Hell,The Haywain
"The second was based on sketches the artist had done earlier of his family's
property in East Bergholt, Suffolk",The Haywain
"On the left is a copse of trees and a cottage while in the mid-left a dog watches
the main action, two men driving a horse-drawn cart through a mill-pond",The
Haywain
For 10 points - identify these works by Hieronymus Bosch and John Constable.,The
Haywain
Valentine Greene's 1779 mezzotint popularized this painting,Watson and the Shark
Infrared reflectography has revealed that the artist originally intended to add
another young man where the balding sailor in the beige coat appears in the final
work,Watson and the Shark
"While men in gray remain firmly within the craft, two men in white stretch forward
and a man in a black coat thrusts a harpoon at one of the title figures",Watson and
the Shark
"Set against the placid harbor of Havana, it depicts an event that took place in
1749 when a 14-year-old orphan was attacked while swimming alone",Watson and the
Shark
For 10 points - name this Copley painting of a man losing his leg to an
animal.,Watson and the Shark
This painting was originally bought by the couturier Jacques Doucet but came to its
current home in 1939,Demoiselles d'Avignon (accept 'Young Ladies of Avignon' or
such like translations)
"Originally, it was supposed to have a man in it holding a skull, but the artist
eventually got rid of him in favor of the current five figures",Demoiselles
d'Avignon (accept 'Young Ladies of Avignon' or such like translations)
"The left-hand edge is sharply red, as is the left-most figure",Demoiselles
d'Avignon (accept 'Young Ladies of Avignon' or such like translations)
"Two of the central figures have recognizable faces, but the outer pair of standing
figures as well as the woman sitting on the right are wearing primitivist-type
masks",Demoiselles d'Avignon (accept 'Young Ladies of Avignon' or such like
translations)
"The Philosophical Bordello was the original title of -- for 10 points -- what
painting by Pablo Picasso whose current name refers to the street in Barcelona
inhabited by the title women, and not to a former seat of the popes?",Demoiselles
d'Avignon (accept 'Young Ladies of Avignon' or such like translations)
"Some people think that his lost work, Reclining Magdalene, was originally executed
under the patronage of the Gonzagas of Mantua",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri
before the words 'Antonio Allegri')
"His numerous other paintings of the Virgin Mary, including Madonna with
St",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before the words 'Antonio Allegri')
"Jerome, Madonna with St",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before the words
'Antonio Allegri')
"Francis, Madonna della Scodella, and Madonna of the Basket show the influence of
Andrea Mantegna and Leonardo",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before the words
'Antonio Allegri')
"He painted Diana Returning from the Chase for the Convent of San Paolo, and from
1526 to 1530, worked on The Assumption of the Virgin in the Cathedral of
Parma",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before the words 'Antonio Allegri')
He was born with the name Antonio Allegri,Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before
the words 'Antonio Allegri')
"For 10 points -- name this Italian Renaissance painter, who painted scenes such as
Leda with the Swan and Jupiter and Io.",Correggio (accept Antonio Allegri before
the words 'Antonio Allegri')
"Originally owned by Marchal de Crquy, the center of this painting shows an
elderly woman in an orange tunic, who would be used as a model for a character in
Gericault's Massacre at Chios","Abduction or Rape of the Sabines or Sabine Women or
(do not accept: Carrying off of the Sabines, which is another work held by the
Louvre)"
A dark sky and a temple in the background set off the action in the
foreground,"Abduction or Rape of the Sabines or Sabine Women or (do not accept:
Carrying off of the Sabines, which is another work held by the Louvre)"
"Two babies lie crying on the bottom, on the right a man wears yellow armor modeled
after the ancient 'lorica,' while on the left Romulus, dressed in a red cloak,
watches as the titular action is carried out","Abduction or Rape of the Sabines or
Sabine Women or (do not accept: Carrying off of the Sabines, which is another work
held by the Louvre)"
Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art --for 10 points-- name this Poussin work
which depicts the Roman army taking women of the namesake tribe.,"Abduction or Rape
of the Sabines or Sabine Women or (do not accept: Carrying off of the Sabines,
which is another work held by the Louvre)"
"The largest factory producing crafts in the style of this period was at Meissen,
near Dresden",Rococo
"In Germany its leading sculptor was Ignaz Gunther, while in France Etienne-Maurice
Falconet was celebrated for his porcelain sculptures produced at Sevres",Rococo
"In Catholic Germany, the churches of Neumann and Dominikus Zimmerman exemplify
this style, while in Italy its influence was confined primarily to Venice",Rococo
"Its primary Venetian proponent was the painter of The Apotheosis of the Spanish
Republic and Tarquin and Lucretia, Giambattista Tiepolo, but it was most prominent
in France, whose painters of this style included Francois Boucher, Antoine Watteau,
and the ",Rococo
"FTP name this period of art that directly followed the Baroque, known for its
overly ornate style as exemplified by Jean-Honore Fragonard.",Rococo
"Renoir referred to it as a 'big gendarme', despite a popularity campaign
spearheaded by the French government",Venus de Milo
"Discovered by a peasant named Yorgos and sold for 1,000 francs to the Marquis de
Rivire, the island on which it is found has the name of the Greek word for
'apple,' which lends credence to the theory that this figure was holding the golden
apple awarded ",Venus de Milo
"However, that apple, along with the plinth, is now lost",Venus de Milo
"FTP, name this sculpture, originally thought to be by Praxiteles but now
attributed to Alexandros of Antioch, which is most famous for her conspicuous lack
of arms.",Venus de Milo
Jonathan Harr's new novel The Lost Painting describes the search for this man's The
Taking of Christ,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is read)
"This man won early success with mythological portraits such as his Bacchus, whom
he depicts in a toga holding a black ribbon, and a portrait of Cupid standing over
a heap of musical instruments with his arrows in his right hand",Caravaggio (accept
Michelangelo Merisi before it is read)
"It did not take long, however, for him to start painting hagiographical portraits,
such as The Incredulity of St",Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is
read)
Thomas and a large depiction of the beheading of St,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo
Merisi before it is read)
"John that now resides in a church on Malta, where he lived toward the end of his
life",Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is read)
He is more famous for works like his Supper at Emmaus and a depiction of
St,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is read)
Paul having fallen from his horse,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it
is read)
"FTP, name this Italian painter, who was born Michelangelo Merisi and who is best
known for his Calling of St",Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is
read)
Matthew.,Caravaggio (accept Michelangelo Merisi before it is read)
"The artist of this work had doctors provide him with used parts of cadavers, on
which he based a number of preparatory sketches known as his Severed Heads and
Dissected Limbs",The Raft of the Medusa
"On the left sits a bearded man with curly, silver hair hunched over in pensive
despair, his arm over a dead body clothed only in shoes",The Raft of the Medusa
On the right is another body wrapped in cloth whose head disappears below the
boundary of the painting,The Raft of the Medusa
"The center is dominated by a number of figures looking and reaching upward,
culminating in a black man holding a red and white signal flag",The Raft of the
Medusa
"FTP name this painting depicting the aftermath of the wreck of a ship carrying
Algerian immigrants, a work of Theodore Gricault.",The Raft of the Medusa
Antonio Buero Vallejo wrote a play about this painting that shares its title,Las
Meninas or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV or The Family of Philip
IV
"The most important commentaries on are those of Sir Kenneth Clark and Michel
Foucault, whose take on it can be found in his book The Order of Things",Las
Meninas or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV or The Family of Philip
IV
The ceiling of the room in which it is set has two mounts for chandeliers that do
not appear in the painting,Las Meninas or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de
Felipe IV or The Family of Philip IV
In the rear are two large but unintelligible paintings above a mirror in which two
people can be seen,Las Meninas or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV
or The Family of Philip IV
"In the right front corner stand two dwarves and a dog, while on the left stands
the artist himself with a red cross on his chest, in the act of painting",Las
Meninas or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV or The Family of Philip
IV
"In the foreground is the Infanta, surrounded by the titular servants",Las Meninas
or The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV or The Family of Philip IV
"FTP, name this painting of the Spanish court by Diego Velzquez.",Las Meninas or
The Ladies in Waiting or La Familia de Felipe IV or The Family of Philip IV
Ted Rose did a watercolor 'Revisited' version of this work into which he inserts an
incredulous officer of the law with his white dog,Nighthawks
"In the upper left-hand corner of this painting one can see that the windows have
their blinds halfway down, and the shops below are bare",Nighthawks
Two large percolators sit on a counter toward the back next to a door with a window
but no knob,Nighthawks
"The clothes of the people inside the all-night diner bring to mind the 1930s and
early 40s, as well as the lettering which reveals the name of the 'lunch-counter'
as being Phillies",Nighthawks
"FTP, name this painting by Edward Hopper.",Nighthawks
"He aroused controversy by depicting a chamber pot and a pair of slippers in a
painting which shows a woman with her legs crossed removing a red sock, The
Toilet",Jan Steen
"An old woman offers Joseph a bowl of eggs in his Adoration of the Shepherds, while
an ugly child holding a statuette and a pail looks at her grandmother in his The
Feast of Saint Nicholas",Jan Steen
"A lute hangs behind the bed on which the title character's head rests while a
doctor takes her pulse in his The Sick Lady, while the artist included a self-
portrait as a man playing the bagpipes in a 1668 work, The Merry Family.",Jan Steen
The latest novel by Gioia Diliberto is a fictional memoir of this painting's
subject,Madame X
"A flash of gold above the central character's head represents a tiara, the only
jewelry the central character wears as she leans against a table",Madame X
Two ornate silver stars mark the spots on her dress where the silver straps that
come up her shoulders attach,Madame X
"Her only visible ear is bright pink, which contrasts with the stark paleness of
her body and the redness of her hair",Madame X
FTP name this monumental portrait of Virginie Gautreau by John Singer
Sargent.,Madame X
One of them simply depicts a plain coastal landscape on which two men are fighting
with sticks,Black Paintings
"Ethereal figures sit behind several real women and a laurel-wreathed horned animal
standing on its hind legs in The Witches' Sabbath, and other subjects include a
drowning dog, old people eating, and Judith and Holofernes",Black Paintings
"Created in the 'Quinta del sordo' or 'Country-house of the Deaf-Man,' this series
that also depicts Saturn Devouring His Children reflects similar themes to the
earlier Caprichios and Disasters of War",Black Paintings
"FTP, name this series of somber Goya paintings named for a traditionally
depressing color.",Black Paintings
"This man's woodcuts include a procession of ten blocks known as The Triumph of
Christ and the enormous Crossing of the Red Sea, and his woodcut of St",Titian or
Tiziano Vecellio (accept either)
Jerome is one of the first examples of chiaroscuro,Titian or Tiziano Vecellio
(accept either)
"He was commissioned by Mary, Queen of Hungary, to paint a series of four
mythological portraits known as the Furias which resembled his earlier ceiling
frescoes for the Santo Spirito in his hometown",Titian or Tiziano Vecellio (accept
either)
One of his first commissions was for the two altarpieces of St,Titian or Tiziano
Vecellio (accept either)
"Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, one of which is known as the Pesaro Madonna",Titian or
Tiziano Vecellio (accept either)
"While in Ferrara he painted mythological works such as Bacchas and Ariadne, while
he later traveled to Urbino and did a portrait of a reclining nude",Titian or
Tiziano Vecellio (accept either)
"Perhaps best known for a painting done in honor of a 1514 wedding, FTP name this
Venetian painter of Venus of Urbino and Sacred and Profane Love",Titian or Tiziano
Vecellio (accept either)
"In the background of this painting one can see the cart that made the two apparent
ruts on the right, which is lying abandoned on its side",Christina's World
"The most prominent house in this work was built in Cushing overlooking the Georges
river by the Hathorne family, which later became the Olson family",Christina's
World
"The painter left the horizon devoid of pine trees and changed the slope of the
hill, on which a woman in a pink dress can be seen crawling through the
grass",Christina's World
"FTP, name this 1948 work painted by Andrew Wyeth.",Christina's World
"Along with Zelotti, he was commissioned to decorate some ceilings in the Consiglio
dei Dieci, which resulted in a painting in which a goddess drops coins and crowns
on a seated woman",Paolo Veronese
"That allegory, Juno Presenting Gifts to Venice, was created in the 1550s, a decade
in which this man began work on the Church of San Sebastiano",Paolo Veronese
"He painted a naked woman holding her own right breast with her left arm aronud a
bearded god in Mars and Venus United by Love, while he went to the Gospels for
inspiration in such works as The Feast in the House of Levi",Paolo Veronese
"FTP, name this Italian painter of Marriage at Cana, who was born Paolo Caliari but
took a name referring to his hometown.",Paolo Veronese
"In an 1891 painting in which this man depicted his wife sitting in 'the
conservatory,' she wears a black dress and has her hands folded in her lap",Paul
Czanne
"In another painting of the early 1890s, this man depicted a table on which are
placed a white teapot, a jug, several pears and a plate of five peaches",Paul
Czanne
"More famously, this man produced a series of paintings of a large, squat mountain
which he could see from the windows of his studio",Paul Czanne
"As a young man in Provence, he befriended the writer Emile Zola, who wrote about
this man in his novel The Masterpiece",Paul Czanne
"FTP, name this French artist who created many depictions of still-lifes, Mont
Sainte-Victoire, and the painting The Card Players.",Paul Czanne
"He loved to work with wood, as seen in woodcuts like Be in Love and You Will Be
Happy and a wooden sculpture of the Birth of Venus, while his Still Life with Ham
represents his flirtation with Divisionism",Paul Gauguin
"During his time in Le Pouldo he worked with the Dutch painter Jacob Meyer de Haan,
after which he went to Paris, where he produced controversial canvases such as The
Loss of Virginity",Paul Gauguin
"It was earlier, though, while staying with Emile Bernard at Pont-Aven, that he
produced one of his better known works, a painting of a contest between god and man
set in front of a blood red background, and The Yellow Christ while at Arles with
Vincent va",Paul Gauguin
"FTP name this painter of Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling the Angel, who
later in life went to Tahiti.",Paul Gauguin
"It was used in wall paintings in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, and during the
Mycenaean period in Greece, where a little vinegar was probably added",Tempera
"One must first fill all the cracks and crevices in the panel with a mixture of
size, glue or sawdust",Tempera
The panel is then covered with cloth and the surface is coated with heavy
gesso,Tempera
"The painter had to work with great rapidity and sureness, because correcting
errors was nearly impossible and it dried very quickly",Tempera
"FTP, name this oldest method of painting, which usually used egg yolk and was
practiced by such painters as Giotto and Cimabue.",Tempera
"The artist was comfortable with the nudity in this work, though drapery has been
strategically painted in over the years",The Last Judgment
"The figures get progressively larger from the bottom up to the main focus, and
then smaller again at the top where angels hold a column on the right and a cross
on the left",The Last Judgment
"In the lower right, figures cross the River Sytx near the depiction of Hell-
mouth",The Last Judgment
Famous for its portrayal of the artist's critic Pietro Aretino as St,The Last
Judgment
"Bartholomew and the artist himself as dangling skin, FTP name this Michelangelo
work in the Sistine Chapel that shows Christ raising figures from their graves for
the titular event.",The Last Judgment
"In one of his most famous drawings, one of the title figures wears a cap and holds
a brush while the other stands behind him and looks interested in his work",Pieter
Breugel the Elder
"In one of his paintings, a street is thronged with people walking on stilts,
rolling hoops, sitting on barrels, and engaging in other forms of the titular
activities",Pieter Breugel the Elder
"In addition to The Painter and the Buyer and Children's Games, he produced
drawings to be engraved by Hieronymous Cock, such as Big Fish Eat Little
Fish",Pieter Breugel the Elder
"His later works include The Magpie on the Gallows, while his religious works
include The Procession to Calvary and The Adoration of the Kings",Pieter Breugel
the Elder
"His light-hearted works include The Battle Between Carnival and Lent and the
Peasant Wedding, while he was more severe in The Triumph of Death",Pieter Breugel
the Elder
"FTP, name this Flemish artist of Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.",Pieter
Breugel the Elder
"In a painting by this artist, a man clad in a striped orange outfit seems to be
punching the midsecton of a man in a striped blue outfit in a clearing in the
woods",Henri Rousseau
"The Football Players was created in 1908, a year after he painted some
uncomfortable looking officials on a red platform with a woman clad in red and a
lion",Henri Rousseau
"The large feline appearing in The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to
Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace is not unique in his work, as big cats also
appear in The Repast of the Lion and Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo",Henri
Rousseau
"In one of his most famous works, a large lion looks down at the titular woman, who
has a pitcher and a stringed instrument",Henri Rousseau
"FTP, name this French painter of The Snake Charmer, The Dream, and The Sleeping
Gypsy.",Henri Rousseau
"In his most homoerotic painting, a nude boy hugs a brown and white cat, though
some prefer the sexual energy captured in his portrait of the seated painter
Bazille",Pierre Auguste Renoir
"His paintings of major European landmarks characterized his so-called 'Dry
Period,' which he followed up by exhibiting with Les Vingt (lay van), a group of
modern artists based in Brussels",Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The Montmartre model Nini was the subject of his At the Theater and The Theater
Box, which also featured his brother Edmond",Pierre Auguste Renoir
"However, he would abandon his Impressionist style with the masterpiece The
Umbrellas",Pierre Auguste Renoir
"FTP, name this oversexed French painter of such group scenes as Le Moulin de la
Galette and Luncheon of the Boating Party.",Pierre Auguste Renoir
"It is depicted 'by moonlight' in an 1885 work by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, and
is shown at 'night' by Canadian painter James Wilson Morrice",Venice
Michele Marieschi lived here until 1735 and painted numerous capriccios of places
in it,Venice
A man in black talks to a woman wearing a black shawl and a pink dress on a
'street' in this city in an 1880 painting by John Singer Sargent,Venice
"It appears 'at dusk' in a 1908 painting by Claude Monet, which features its Church
of San Giorgio Maggiore",Venice
"It was painted many times by Turner, who depicted the Rialto and a scene 'looking
toward the Dogana' that shows the Grand Canal",Venice
"FTP, name this Italian city which also appears in many paintings by
Canaletto.",Venice
He only completed sketches for a painting on the Opening of the Doors of the
Spanish Inquisition and another on the African Slave Trade before his
death,Thodore Gricault
"His last major finished work was a series of ten portraits done for Etienne-Jean
Georget, five of which survive and depict such subjects as Kleptomania and Delusion
of Military Command",Thodore Gricault
"A visit to Rome prompted his depictions of the Barberi horses, while he painted
the Wounded Cuirassier Leaving the Field of Battle for the Salon of 1814",Thodore
Gricault
"He is perhaps most famous for a work that was based on the consequences of the
incompetence of Frigate-Captain Hugues Duroy de Chaumereys, who left seventeen men
on the title object",Thodore Gricault
"FTP, name this artist of The Raft of the Medusa.",Thodore Gricault
This work lent its name to a biography of its artist by Meredith Etherington-
Smith,The Persistence of Memory
"In the right background is a small egg-shaped object, which sits at the foot of
some cliffs at the edge of the sea",The Persistence of Memory
"It originated as a landscape of the seashore at Cape Creus, where the artist had
been on vacation with his wife when a lunch of Camembert inspired some of its most
famous features",The Persistence of Memory
"In the upper left rests a plane surface of some sort, while the lower left
contains a brown platform from which a small tree is growing",The Persistence of
Memory
"Some ants are swarming on a gold item in the lower left corner, while the middle
of the painting features a ridge over which some sort of fleshy object is
draped",The Persistence of Memory
"FTP, name this 1931 painting best known for its three melted timepieces, a work of
Salvador Dali.",The Persistence of Memory
The state funeral of Napoleon prompted his painting War: The Exile and the Rock
Limpet,Joseph Mallord William Turner
"The following year he painted the popular The Opening of the Wallhalla and two
didactic works on the 'evening' and the 'morning after' a 'Deluge,' which were
supposed to illustrate Goethe's theory of color",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"Later in the 1840s he painted Queen Mab's Cave, The Angel Standing in the Sun, and
a work which depicts the Great Western Railway",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"He raised a ruckus in 1840 with a painting which shows a typhoon coming on as the
dead and dying are thrown overboard by slavers, a work known as The Slave
Ship",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"FTP, name this English painter beloved of Ruskin, whose works include Rain, Steam
and Speed and The Fighting Temeraire.",Joseph Mallord William Turner
"It first hung in a villa outside Catello that belonged to Lorenzo de
Pierfrancesco, and its images were probably conceived of as educational aides by
Marsilio Ficino",Primavera
"Based on the Stanze of Poliziano, the three intertwined figures on the left side
of the canvas were singled out by Alberti in his treatise on painting, while the
rustic lad who is dressed in red, wears a cap, and points up at the sky represents
Mercury",Primavera
The central figure is framed by the myrtle tree and oranges abound throughout the
scene,Primavera
"To Venus' right the blue skinned Zephyr grabs Chloris and helps her to transform
into Flora, the confident goddess of the the painting's title season",Primavera
"FTP, identify this work, a celebration of Spring by Sandro Botticelli.",Primavera
It became popular due to an engraving by Nicholas de Launay,The Swing or Les
heureux hazards de I'escarpolette
"This work was originally commissioned from Gabriel-Francois Doyen, who suggested
the addition of cupids but ended up refusing to paint it",The Swing or Les heureux
hazards de I'escarpolette
"The original was to have included a bishop, but that was changed to a generic old
man in the final version",The Swing or Les heureux hazards de I'escarpolette
"In the lower center, a statue depicts dolphins driven by cupids who pull the
water-chariot of Venus",The Swing or Les heureux hazards de I'escarpolette
"On the left, a young man lies luxuriously on a bush with his hat extended, staring
upward at the erotic central scene",The Swing or Les heureux hazards de
I'escarpolette
That central scene depicts the 'happy dangers' of a certain object which contains
the mistress of the Baron de Saint-Julien,The Swing or Les heureux hazards de
I'escarpolette
"A pink shoe flies through the sky toward a cupid as a woman reaches her apex in,
FTP, what Rococo masterpiece by Jean-Honore Fragonard?",The Swing or Les heureux
hazards de I'escarpolette
The model for this work also appeared in the artist's earlier La Bella,Venus of
Urbino
"The artist originally refused to paint this work, but changed his mind after
Pietro Aretino suggested that he depict a prostitute's body instead of that of the
old lady who is its ostensible subject",Venus of Urbino
"The titular figure wears a bracelet on her right arm and in her right hand holds a
bunch of flowers, one of which has fallen to the couch",Venus of Urbino
"The left half of the background is blocked by a drape, but the right background
contains two woman, one of whom is standing and looking down on the other, who is
kneeling with her back to the viewer",Venus of Urbino
"To the right of the painting's subject, a small dog is taking a nap",Venus of
Urbino
"FTP, name this 1538 depiction of a nude woman, which was painted by Titian.",Venus
of Urbino
His friend Charles Blanc helped him win government commissions to produce religious
works such as Mary Magdalene in the Desert and We Want Barabbas!,Honor Daumier
"His mythological works include Two Nymphs Pursued by Satyrs and The Drunkenness of
Silenus, and he exhibited his Don Quixote Going to the Wedding of Gamaches at the
Salon of 1851",Honor Daumier
"A student of Alexandre Lenoir, he began his career as a lithographer, and made a
name for himself in the pages of a journal published by Aubert (oh-bear) and
Philipon, Le Charivari",Honor Daumier
His Gargantua led Louis Phillipe to throw him in prison for six months,Honor
Daumier
"FTP, name this French artist who also painted Third Class Carriage.",Honor
Daumier
A goat sits calmly between the two human figures in a 1740 depiction of this event
by Charles Joseph Natoire,The Expulsion from Paradise (or: Expulsion from the
Garden of Eden)
"An angel puts his hand on a bearded man's back, while his wife bares her prominent
buttocks to the viewer in a 1510 engraving of it by Albrecht Durer",The Expulsion
from Paradise (or: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden)
"In one of the most famous depictions, an angel wearing a red robe points a sword
at the neck of a male human figure",The Expulsion from Paradise (or: Expulsion from
the Garden of Eden)
"In another famous depiction, an arched doorway appears to the left of the
painting, beneath an angel in red holding a black sword, while two nude and weeping
figures walk into a desert",The Expulsion from Paradise (or: Expulsion from the
Garden of Eden)
Those two versions are to be found in the Sistine Chapel and the Brancacci
Chapels,The Expulsion from Paradise (or: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden)
"FTP, name this Biblical scene which inspired artworks by Michelangelo and
Masaccio, the last of which appears next to The Tribute Money and depicts the
forced departure of two people from a garden.",The Expulsion from Paradise (or:
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden)
"This work was created in the aftermath of the artist's failed affair with Anna
Landolt, the niece of Johann Casper Lavater",The Nightmare
"It was the inspiration of Charles Nodier's story Smarra, while it became more
popular in England after a version of it appeared in The Botanical Garden",The
Nightmare
"In the same year it was painted, its artist created The Oath of the Ruttli",The
Nightmare
"In the painting, a small wooden table on the lower left supports several
vials",The Nightmare
"In the upper left, an open-mouthed black horse stands next to some red curtains,
though the unconscious blond woman sprawled upon the bed doesn't notice it, anymore
than she notices the troll-like figure seated on her chest",The Nightmare
"FTP, name this 1781 painting by Henry Fuseli.",The Nightmare
"This artist's output began to decline during his Lake Millinocket period, though
his success began early with works like Hooker Journeying from Plymouth to
Hartford",Frederick Edwin Church
"His travels took him to Jamaica, which inspired his The Vale of St",Frederick
Edwin Church
"Thomas, and to Labrador, the subject of his seascape Icebergs",Frederick Edwin
Church
"Several of his luminist works, like Sunset, Hudson Valley are based on the view
from his estate Olana, but he is better known for an 1853 trip to New Granada with
Cyrus Field which brought about river scenes like La Magdalena and The Falls of
Tequendama",Frederick Edwin Church
"FTP, name this painter of the Hudson River School famous for landscapes like
Niagara and Heart of the Andes.",Frederick Edwin Church
The artist's first version of this work is alternately known as the Chatsworth
version and more closely resembles a Guercino work painted a decade earlier,"Et in
Arcadia Ego (accept early answer of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt on any
English variations of 'I too was once in Arcadia' or 'I, Death, was in Arcadia too'
as there's no exact accepted translation to English)"
The figure on the right affects a statuesque pose and is dressed in a gold cloth up
top and a blue cloth at bottom,"Et in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer of Happiness
Pursued by Death; prompt on any English variations of 'I too was once in Arcadia'
or 'I, Death, was in Arcadia too' as there's no exact accepted translation to
English)"
The only other figure looking at her is leaning over to her immediate left and he
is dressed in a red cloth and white sandals and holds a staff in his right hand,"Et
in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt on any
English variations of 'I too was once in Arcadia' or 'I, Death, was in Arcadia too'
as there's no exact accepted translation to English)"
The two remaining figures examine the central structure and ponder what they
see,"Et in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt
on any English variations of 'I too was once in Arcadia' or 'I, Death, was in
Arcadia too' as there's no exact accepted translation to English)"
"Originally titled Happiness Pursued by Death on its 1640 completion, its current
title has no known source in the classics","Et in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer
of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt on any English variations of 'I too was once
in Arcadia' or 'I, Death, was in Arcadia too' as there's no exact accepted
translation to English)"
"FTP, identify this painting that depicts four shepherds at a tomb in the titular
region in southern Greece, a painting by Nicolas Poussin whose Latin title can be
translated as 'I too was once in Arcadia.'","Et in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer
of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt on any English variations of 'I too was once
in Arcadia' or 'I, Death, was in Arcadia too' as there's no exact accepted
translation to English)"
"El Kantara and Marabout, Exodus resulted from his travels to Tunis and the
Sahara",Oskar Kokoschka
"This artist wrote a children's book, The Dreaming Youth, which was deemed
inappropriate because of the psychosexual illustrations that he provided",Oskar
Kokoschka
He had already been kicked out of art school for his Pieta with Bloody Man and been
in hot water for his pen drawings of a naked Mata Hari,Oskar Kokoschka
"His mature period saw the production of such major canvases as Venice, Boats at
the Dagana, Help the Basque Children, and his Portrait of Tomas Masaryk",Oskar
Kokoschka
This followed a time when he had made a life-sized doll of his mistress that he
would often take to the opera before smashing the doll to pieces during a night of
heavy drinking,Oskar Kokoschka
"That doll was a likeness of his infatuation, Alma Mahler, whom he depicted in his
major work",Oskar Kokoschka
"FTP, name this member of the so-called Viennese Big Three and artist of Bride of
the Wind, or The Tempest.",Oskar Kokoschka
"He implicitly criticized the beach paintings of William Collins in his depiction
of a choppy sea in Chain Pier, Brighton",John Constable
"He paid tribute to Bishop Fisher by depicting his living, Langham Church, in his
Glebe Farm",John Constable
"He was inspired by Claude, whose work he saw through his patron Sir George
Beaumont, in works like Dedham Vale, Evening",John Constable
"With his largescale 1819 painting of a White Horse, his reputation was
established, though he had to suppress his Whitehall Stairs to consolidate his
reputation as a landscape painter",John Constable
"He painted in Dorset, Hampstead, and Salisbury, but is best known for a series
depicting the Stour valley",John Constable
"FTP, name this British artist, best known for The Hay Wain.",John Constable
"He was inspired by Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery to paint Roadside Meeting,
while a poem by Thomas Campbell inspired Lord Ullin's Daughter and the 'Man of
Law's Tale' inspired his depiction of a woman lounging in a canoe,
Constance",Albert Pinkham Ryder
He depicted the sun setting behind a strangely bowed sailboat in his With Sloping
Mast and Dipping Prow,Albert Pinkham Ryder
"Two people in Elizabethan garb stand in the lower left of his The Forest of Arden,
while God holds a brown orb and raises his left hand in the center background in
this man's Jonah",Albert Pinkham Ryder
His other depictions of boats on the ocean include Toilers of the Sea and The
Flying Dutchman,Albert Pinkham Ryder
"In his most famous painting, a snake hangs out by a ruined fence in the
foreground, while the central figure rides by holding a scythe",Albert Pinkham
Ryder
"FTP, name this American artist of Death on a Pale Horse.",Albert Pinkham Ryder
"He updated Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation by arguing that the
artist must create new forms of cognition to subvert the tyranny of the object
world in his The World as Non-Objectivity, which followed up his earlier book God
Is Not Cast",Kazimir Malevich
"His early paintings, such as Peasant Woman With Buckets, were produced while he
was associated with such groups as 'Jack of Diamonds' and 'Donkey's Tail,' but
after appearing in the Tramway V exhibition of 1915 he lost interest in non-
geometrical represen",Kazimir Malevich
"During the 1920s he worked on 'arkhitektona' and models of Utopian cities, which
were exhibited at Chagall's school in Vitebsk",Kazimir Malevich
His own movement reached its culmination in the White on White series of
paintings,Kazimir Malevich
"FTP, name this Russian artist of Black Square who founded Suprematism.",Kazimir
Malevich
"It may be a response to a now-lost work in which a young woman attached pieces of
boxwood to pictures of her parents, Albert Stevens's Palm Sunday",Olympia
"It may take its name from a character in The Dialogue of the Foolish Virgins and
the Wise Virgins by Zacharie Astruc, whose poem about this work was quoted by its
artist in response to questions about its meaning",Olympia
"In earlier works, the artist depicted the model for this work 'in the costume of
an espada' and as a 'street singer.' The subject of the painting wears a black
ribbon around her neck and a pink flower in her hair, while a bouquet of flowers is
brought to",Olympia
"A portrayal of Victorine Meurent, it also features a small black cat",Olympia
"FTP, name this 1863 painting of a reclining nude whose left hand covers her
genitals, a work by Edouard Manet.",Olympia
"In one that was painted for Franois Derbais, three angels loll on a cloud above
the title figure, while another angel sits at her right knee",The Rape of Europa
"About 90 years before Franois Boucher painted that version, Guido Reni produced
one in which the title figure is looking toward a Cupid who hovers in the upper
right of the canvas",The Rape of Europa
"Two women support the title figure, while another woman explostulates toward two
angels dangling from the trees overhead, in one that was painted around 1570 by
Paolo Veronese",The Rape of Europa
"In the most famous one, completed in 1562, a cherub rides a fish to the left of
the titular event, while the title character holds a red cloth in her right hand
and a horn in her left",The Rape of Europa
"FTP, give the name shared by these depictions of the abduction of the daughter of
Agenor by Zeus in the form of a bull, the most famous of which was by Titian.",The
Rape of Europa
"One of his paintings depicts a throng of people rushing toward the lighted doors
of a building labelled 'CAFF.' In another of his paintings, a man in black boots
rides a red horse through a landscape marked by factory chimneys and high-tension
poles",Umberto Boccioni
"In addition to Riot in the Galleria and Elasticity, he depicted a glum man sitting
with his hands folded in his lap in Horizontal Volumes, while The Farewells, Those
Who Go, and Those Who Stay figure in his States of Mind series",Umberto Boccioni
"Some street workers and a straining horse are seen in his The City Rises, while a
man's head, a cyclist, and a soccer player are among the figures whose 'dynamism'
he depicted",Umberto Boccioni
"FTP, name this Italian artist best known for a 1913 bronze sculpture, Unique Forms
of Continuity in Space.",Umberto Boccioni
Some trees are inexplicably knocked over in the background of one of his paintings
which shows a man with enormous hands playing the titular instrument,Ben Shahn
"In addition to Blind Accordion Player, he depicted a man with one leg ascending
the titular structure by the side of a ruined building in The Red Stairway",Ben
Shahn
"He was the first painter to give Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton lectures on the
arts, which were published as The Shape of Content",Ben Shahn
"He depicted a group of stunt cyclists in Epoch, while his more overtly political
works include 1947's Death of a Miner",Ben Shahn
"During World War II, he painted the mural in Washington's Social Security
Building",Ben Shahn
"Born in Lithuania, his works in the 1930s include a series of 15 paintings of Tom
Mooney, but he is better known for a group of 23 paintings of two immigrants who
were executed",Ben Shahn
"FTP, name this artist of The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti.",Ben Shahn
"The Maharajah of Indore commissioned him to design a Temple of Meditation to house
his works, but it never got built",Constantin Brancusi
"If it had been built, it might have included works like his Vitellius and Head of
Laocoon",Constantin Brancusi
"His last important work was Flying Turtle, while he created controversy with the
phallic Princess X and the wooden The Prodigal Son",Constantin Brancusi
"One of his most important works was commissioned by his country's National League
of Women, and includes the circular Table of Silence and a stylized version of a
funeral pole, Endless Column",Constantin Brancusi
"The creator of such ovoid works as The Newborn and The Beginning of the World, he
sculpted a famous funeral monument for the grave of a suicide in Montparnasse
Cemetary",Constantin Brancusi
"FTP, name this creator of Mademoiselle Pogany and The Kiss, best known for his
numerous bronze sculptures of a Bird in Space.",Constantin Brancusi
"In the extreme upper left, a bell hanging from a tree is rung by two figures",The
Triumph of Death
"In the far lower right, a man plays a lute while lying in the lap of his lover,
while a figure watches over them",The Triumph of Death
"Behind them is a round table with a white cloth, in front of which a man in red
draws a long sword",The Triumph of Death
"The upper right features a man at the gallows, and a group of chanting monks
appears on the left over some water",The Triumph of Death
"Smoke billows from the mountains and sea in the background, and a slain king is
seen in the lower left",The Triumph of Death
"On the right, phalanxes guard a gigantic coffin into which people are being driven
in, FTP, what painting showing a bunch of skeletons kicking mortals' asses by
Pieter Bruegel the Elder?",The Triumph of Death
Two versions of it exist because its creator decided to keep the original and send
a copy to the fraternity at San Francesco Grande in Milan,The Virgin of the Rocks
It was designed to be the center of an altarpiece that was originally commissioned
by the De Predis brothers,The Virgin of the Rocks
"A natural window opening up to the misty sea can be seen in the left background,
while exquisite plants and flowers dot the foreground and contrast with the
bleakness of the setting",The Virgin of the Rocks
Perhaps the most impressive detail is the title figure's foreshortened hand which
hovers above one of the other three figures,The Virgin of the Rocks
Departing noticeably from contemporary depictions of the 'Immaculate Conception' it
features a sitting angel and a young John the Baptist kneeling in homage to his
cousin,The Virgin of the Rocks
"Drawn primarily from sketches of geological formations in the painter's notebooks,
FTP, identify this work by Leonardo Da Vinci that shows the Christ child and his
mother in a stony grotto.",The Virgin of the Rocks
"Thunderclouds race across the sky helping to dim much of the canvas, which is
already thrown into darkness by the vegetation and the jutting rock-face that hangs
over and surrounds the painting's focal point",Horse Attacked by a Lion or Lion
Attacking a Horse or anything that mentions a horse a lion and some attacking
"Modeled on a Roman sculpture on view at the time at the Palazzo Senatorio, its
creator was haunted by an image he saw returning home from Italy, during a stop at
Ceuta in Morocco",Horse Attacked by a Lion or Lion Attacking a Horse or anything
that mentions a horse a lion and some attacking
"One of the title figures seems to have emerged out of the shadows to surprise the
other, whose white coat makes it stand out and whose head has whipped around in
panicked anguish to try and dislodge the predator on its back",Horse Attacked by a
Lion or Lion Attacking a Horse or anything that mentions a horse a lion and some
attacking
"FTP identify this work that depicts the violent encounter between a big cat and a
Barbary stallion, a painting by George Stubbs.",Horse Attacked by a Lion or Lion
Attacking a Horse or anything that mentions a horse a lion and some attacking
"This man's unusual views on nutrition led to the starvation of his two boys, and
he may have been poisoned while working on some copper altarpieces for the Cappella
del Tesoro",Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
His first important work was the Liberation of St,Domenichino (accept Domenico
Zampieri before it is mentioned)
"Peter from Prison, and after completing his teacher's Flagellation of
St",Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
Andrew he began to establish his own style in works like the Meeting of
St,Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
Nilus and Otto III,Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
"His only undisputed work at the Palazzo Farnese is the Maiden with the Unicorn,
though he definitely decorated Santa Luigi dei Francesci with scenes from the life
of St",Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
Cecilia,Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
"In 1631, he moved to Naples and did the ceiling frescos of the San Gennaro
chapel",Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
"The favorite pupil of Annibale Carracci and one-time teacher of Poussin, FTP, name
this Italian Baroque painter from Bologna most famous for the Last Communion of
St",Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri before it is mentioned)
Jerome whose real name was Domenico Zampieri.,Domenichino (accept Domenico Zampieri
before it is mentioned)
"The town of Arkona can be seen in the distant background of this man's The Tree of
Crows, while three people walk down a deserted road beneath a bright sun in his
Easter Morning",Caspar David Friedrich
"The lady in a greenish dress looking out a square windowsill in his Woman at the
Window was his wife, Caroline Bommer, who appeared in the painting with her back
facing the viewer, like most of the human subjects in his paintings",Caspar David
Friedrich
"Depicted in his studio with a trademark oversized easel and canvas in a portrait
by Georg Kersting, this man also painted Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Chalk
Cliffs on Rugen, and Wanderer above the Sea of Fog",Caspar David Friedrich
"Fond of snowy winter settings, he depicted an icebound shipwreck in Polar Sea, and
is also known for an 1812 painting that put the elements of a religious altarpiece
into a landscape setting",Caspar David Friedrich
"FTP, name this German Romantic artist, who painted the Cross in the
Mountains.",Caspar David Friedrich
"One of his late works was a nude crucifixion, currently housed at El Escorial,
which was probably modeled by his assistant Fernando",Benvenuto Cellini
"One of his works shows a nude young man who holds his left arm in the air, while
his right hand rests on a wing of the bird he is riding",Benvenuto Cellini
"Another of his works depicts two figures who sit across from each other with their
legs crossed, in the same way that the arms of the sea flow into the land, and
features a man mounted on four seahorses and a woman sitting next to a
temple",Benvenuto Cellini
"Yet another, which is located in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, shows a young
man holding a sword in his right hand and a decapitated head in his left",Benvenuto
Cellini
"He sculpted a bust of Cosimo I di Medici as well as Ganymede Riding the Eagle, and
like Canova he sculpted a Perseus with the Head of Medusa",Benvenuto Cellini
"FTP, name this larger-than-life Renaissance artist, whose works include a notable
'Saltcellar' and a lurid Autobiography.",Benvenuto Cellini
"It was much admired by Michael Angelo Titmarsh, who noted that the fire in it
looked red but might have been done with cobalt and pea-green","Rain, Steam and
Speed. The Great Western Railway"
It may be a response to a work by Thomas Talbot Bury which depicts the excavation
of Olive Mount Cutting,"Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway"
"A farmer plows a field on the right of this work, while on the left some people
are boating on a river","Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway"
At the center is a bridge composed of two brick arches which connects Taplow and
Maidenhead,"Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway"
"A rabbit runs to take cover from the central object in this work, which approaches
the viewer","Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway"
"Also of note is the yellow-brown puff of smoke which dominates the left-center,
and which is one of the title components","Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western
Railway"
"FTP, name this 1844 landscape depicting a train crossing a bridge, a depiction of
'the Great Western Railway' by J.M.W","Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western
Railway"
Turner.,"Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway"
"His late works include a depiction of a doleful 'cottage girl' who holds a pitcher
in her right hand and a dog in her left hand, as well as a depiction of Actaeon
surprising Diana and her attendants",Thomas Gainsborough
His early works include the desolate Landscape with Sandpit and a self-portrait
with a woman in a voluminous pink dress who is probably his wife,Thomas
Gainsborough
"One of his most famous works is set at the Auberies and features an enclosed
pasture of grazing sheep, a girl named Frances Mary Carter, and a man wearing a
three-cornered hat and holding a rifle",Thomas Gainsborough
"Another of his paintings shows his children Margaret and Mary chasing a butterfly,
while he made portraits of William Wollaston, the Duchess of Cumberland, and the
Honorable Mrs",Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Graham,Thomas Gainsborough
"FTP, name this artist who famously depicted Mr",Thomas Gainsborough
and Mrs,Thomas Gainsborough
"Robert Andrews, as well as a notorious boy dressed in blue clothing.",Thomas
Gainsborough
This artist depicted an angel in red robes pointing one of the title figures toward
a seated and bound Jesus in his Christ and the Christian Soul,Diego Velsquez
A young man holds a beaker to the left of the seated title figure in his Old Woman
Frying Eggs,Diego Velsquez
"He showed five brothers tricking their horrified father in Joseph's Bloody Coat
Brought to Jacob, while Francisco Lezcano and Sebastiano de Morra are two of the
dwarves he painted",Diego Velsquez
"The title figure reclines naked on a bed and looks into a mirror supported by a
cherub in his Venus at Her Mirror, also known as the Rokeby Venus",Diego Velsquez
"FTP, name this painter whose other works include the Surrender at Breda and Las
Meninas.",Diego Velsquez
The dresses of the female figures blur into a nondescript box at the center of
Biscaino's red-on-tan chalk drawing of this event,Mystic Marriage of Saint
Catherine of Alexandria (accept equivalents but make sure the player doesn't
specify the wrong Saint Catherine)
It is depicted in the central panel of the Bruges St,Mystic Marriage of Saint
Catherine of Alexandria (accept equivalents but make sure the player doesn't
specify the wrong Saint Catherine)
"John Altarpiece by Hans Memling, and a row of seven cherubs are climbing over a
hill to watch it in Lucas Cranach's version",Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of
Alexandria (accept equivalents but make sure the player doesn't specify the wrong
Saint Catherine)
"While painting this scene in Cadiz, Bartolom Murillo fell off a scaffold and
fatally injured himself",Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (accept
equivalents but make sure the player doesn't specify the wrong Saint Catherine)
A disturbing humanoid cat appears next to St,Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of
Alexandria (accept equivalents but make sure the player doesn't specify the wrong
Saint Catherine)
"Sebastian in Lorenzo Lotto's version which, like Parmagianino's, shows Mary with a
white shawl and red dress and the title character in yellow",Mystic Marriage of
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (accept equivalents but make sure the player doesn't
specify the wrong Saint Catherine)
"FTP, identify this popular artistic theme, in which the infant Christ is joined in
a vision to an Alexandrian saint who was later miraculously saved from dying on a
spiked wheel.",Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (accept equivalents
but make sure the player doesn't specify the wrong Saint Catherine)
"The identities of all the figures in this painting are known, except for the pair
of hands at the upper left holding a pen against a chair",The Agnew Clinic
"Of the six figures lit in the foreground, three are engaged in work, while the one
dressed in what looks like a maid's uniform appears less interested than several
audience members who have stood up from their seats",The Agnew Clinic
"The man in the shadows on the right listening to a whisper is the painter
responsible for the rest of the scene, who was added to the work by his wife",The
Agnew Clinic
"Described as 'Chirurgus expertissimus' in an inscription on the frame, the bald,
white-mustached title figure is shown with a scalpel in his left hand, overseeing a
mastectomy",The Agnew Clinic
"FTP, name this painting, reproduced on diplomas at Penn's medical school, the
second of two medical scenes produced by Thomas Eakins.",The Agnew Clinic
A story surrounding this work told by Antonio Trueba has the painter being led to
the scene it was based on by his servant Isidro after witnessing the action through
a telescope,"The Executions of the Third of May, 1808: The Shootings on Prncipe
Po Mountain or El ejecucin del tris de mayo, 1808: El disparacion en la montaa
del Prncipe Po"
"Two fists are visible, one of which covers a man's left ear in the
background","The Executions of the Third of May, 1808: The Shootings on Prncipe
Po Mountain or El ejecucin del tris de mayo, 1808: El disparacion en la montaa
del Prncipe Po"
The figure in the green jacket at lower left has been identified with a peasant who
stabs a horse in this painting's companion piece,"The Executions of the Third of
May, 1808: The Shootings on Prncipe Po Mountain or El ejecucin del tris de mayo,
1808: El disparacion en la montaa del Prncipe Po"
"That figure provides one of its most poignant symbols, which resembles the angle
made by the box lantern at center, an inverted v-shaped pose","The Executions of
the Third of May, 1808: The Shootings on Prncipe Po Mountain or El ejecucin del
tris de mayo, 1808: El disparacion en la montaa del Prncipe Po"
"The folded hands of a Franciscan monk sink toward the ground, contrasting with the
pierced hands of the central figure, who lifts his arms in futile surrender","The
Executions of the Third of May, 1808: The Shootings on Prncipe Po Mountain or El
ejecucin del tris de mayo, 1808: El disparacion en la montaa del Prncipe Po"
"FTP, name this painting in which a group of madrilenos is put to death by firing
squad, a work by Francisco Goya.","The Executions of the Third of May, 1808: The
Shootings on Prncipe Po Mountain or El ejecucin del tris de mayo, 1808: El
disparacion en la montaa del Prncipe Po"
It is often called the classical companion to the artist's Vow of Louis XIII and
was lambasted by Champfleury as 'insincere mannerism' after its installation in
room nine of the Musee Charles X,The Apotheosis of Homer
"The artist himself can be seen peeping out from behind a pedestal, gazing at the
central figure, which is flanked by a man holding a sword and another holding an
oar in a triangular composition",The Apotheosis of Homer
"Boileau, Racine and Moliere appear, but only in half-portrait, and men holding out
a lyre, mallets, and scroll, represent Pindar, Phidias and Aeschylus,
respectively",The Apotheosis of Homer
"Based on a Hellenistic relief by Archelaus of Priene, the painter's master, David,
is notably absent, but Tasso appears in the lower-left corner as does a cropped
portrait of Shakespeare",The Apotheosis of Homer
"FTP, name this painting by Ingres depicting the author of the Iliad being raised
to godhood.",The Apotheosis of Homer
"The creation of this painting was influenced by a similarly titled 1619 work by
Thomas de Keyzer as well as by its painter's studies with Pieter Lastman, while the
commission itself was suggested by an art dealer named Ulyenburgh",The Anatomy
Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
"Its subject was a man named Adriaan Adriaanson who had been found guilty of
robbery, though the painting is named for a man known in his own time for his
treatises on monsters",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
"One of the men in the background holds a list of government officials, while in
the foreground is another open book",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
"The title figure is holding forceps, not a pointer, suggesting to some that he was
trying to demonstrate something about muscle movement",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.
Nicholas Tulp
"FTP, identify this painting which shows a group of men watching a dissection, a
work of Rembrandt.",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
This painting was the inspiration for Rilke's poem Der Berg and was also used for
the cover of the first edition of Debussy's La mer,"The Great Wave off Kanagawa or
Fugaku sanjurokkei: Kanagawaoki namiura (or In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast
at Kanagawa; be generous with the title, as various translations are acceptable as
long as wave and Kanagawa are present)"
This work inverts the traditional meisho-e conventions by placing the famous place
in the background and the titular entity in the foreground,"The Great Wave off
Kanagawa or Fugaku sanjurokkei: Kanagawaoki namiura (or In the Hollow of a Wave off
the Coast at Kanagawa; be generous with the title, as various translations are
acceptable as long as wave and Kanagawa are present)"
"Three fishing boats can be seen in this painting, one moving against the titular
object and the other two resting in its trough","The Great Wave off Kanagawa or
Fugaku sanjurokkei: Kanagawaoki namiura (or In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast
at Kanagawa; be generous with the title, as various translations are acceptable as
long as wave and Kanagawa are present)"
The background of this work depicts a snow-capped peak which is also depicted in
thirty-five other paintings from the same series by this work's artist,"The Great
Wave off Kanagawa or Fugaku sanjurokkei: Kanagawaoki namiura (or In the Hollow of a
Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa; be generous with the title, as various translations
are acceptable as long as wave and Kanagawa are present)"
"FTP, identify this ukio-e print from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji; the most
famous painting of Katsushika Hokusai.","The Great Wave off Kanagawa or Fugaku
sanjurokkei: Kanagawaoki namiura (or In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at
Kanagawa; be generous with the title, as various translations are acceptable as
long as wave and Kanagawa are present)"
"This work was a response to the artist's rejection by Augusta Boogaerts, who he
called 'La Sirene.' In an etching of the same subject, this work's artist included
an advertisement for Colman's Mustard and a banner with the slogan 'Noisy Wagner
Army.' A de",Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (accept equivalents like The
Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889)
"The title figure, a self-portrait of the artist, can be seen riding on a donkey
behind a marching band",Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (accept equivalents
like The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889)
"FTP, name this painting first shown publicly forty years after it was listed in
the 1889 exhibition catalogue of Les Vingt [LAY VAHNT]; a James Ensor painting
imagining the reaction to Jesus's appearance in a Belgian city.",Christ's Entry
into Brussels in 1889 (accept equivalents like The Entry of Christ into Brussels in
1889)
He depicted a man in a suit of armor standing on a small boat and kissing a naked
woman whose pudenda are obscured by a metal chain in his painting The Deliverance
of Arsinoe,Tintoretto (accept Jacopo Robusti before it's mentioned)
"The titular nude figure dips her left leg into a pool of water while looking at a
mirror behind which can be seen a bald, bearded man in his The Bathing
Susanna",Tintoretto (accept Jacopo Robusti before it's mentioned)
A figure hanging horizontally in space and wearing a red robe holds a baby which
sucks at the breast of another naked woman in his The Origin of the Milky
Way,Tintoretto (accept Jacopo Robusti before it's mentioned)
His other works include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars and a notable 1594 version
of the Last Supper,Tintoretto (accept Jacopo Robusti before it's mentioned)
"FTP, name this mannerist painter who was born Jacopo Robusti.",Tintoretto (accept
Jacopo Robusti before it's mentioned)
"Painted during the artist's shift towards more abstract watercolors, this oil work
was created after two separate trips to Nassau",The Gulf Stream
The scene features numerous stalks of sugar cane that lie scattered at the central
figure's feet,The Gulf Stream
Some critics have speculated that the 'rigger' in the upper left-hand corner was
added in order to offer hope and make the work more appealing to buyers,The Gulf
Stream
"FTP, identify this picture depicting a tumultuous water spout, raging sharks, and
a seemingly stoic black man awaiting his demise; a painting of a boat drifting
along the titular ocean current by Winslow Homer.",The Gulf Stream
Its pictorial composition was inspired by an Emile Bernard painting and it was the
painter's first definitive break with the orthodox Cloissonist style,Vision After
the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling the Angel)
"Across the top center of this painting appears to run the trunk of a tree and it
contains at least twelve distinct forms of life, one of which is a bull",Vision
After the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling the Angel)
The tree divides the scene on the right side from the Breton people with their
hands clasped in prayer in the foreground,Vision After the Sermon (or Jacob
Wrestling the Angel)
"The strikingly red background punctuates the colors in the right-hand side of the
painting, which shows one man dressed in black attempting to subdue another man who
is dressed in blue and has wings",Vision After the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling the
Angel)
"FTP, name this painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a memorable scene involving a
son of Isaac.",Vision After the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling the Angel)
It was first exhibited under the title The Defeated One and was also titled The
Awakening of Humanity at one point,The Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept The
Awakening of Humanity or The Defeated One before they're mentioned)
The plaster version of this sculpture was displayed at the Cercle Artistique in
Brussels and this version is recognized because of valuable photographs by Marconi
and Druet,The Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept The Awakening of Humanity or
The Defeated One before they're mentioned)
"Its strangeness attracted the attention of L'Etoile Belge, who thought it
represented a man on the verge of committing suicide",The Age of Bronze or L'Age
d'Airain (accept The Awakening of Humanity or The Defeated One before they're
mentioned)
"Its model was a twenty-two-year-old Belgian soldier, Auguste Neyt, and in order to
discredit its creator, his contemporaries claimed the sculpture was cast from
life",The Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept The Awakening of Humanity or The
Defeated One before they're mentioned)
"The better-recognized bronze version of it was commissioned by Edmund Turquet, the
director of the Beaux-Arts, in 1900",The Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept
The Awakening of Humanity or The Defeated One before they're mentioned)
"FTP, name this Rodin sculpture of a nude man touching his head with one hand.",The
Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept The Awakening of Humanity or The Defeated
One before they're mentioned)
The signature of the artist in this work is an etching off of the background which
is decorated with a technique also used for the Palais Stoclet friezes in
Brussels,The Kiss
"Housed in the Upper Belvedere, it shows a woman's hand sliding beneath the cloak
of a man's before emerging to grasp the man's right hand",The Kiss
The St,The Kiss
Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna is the inspiration for the field of flowers on
which the woman kneels with the edge of her feet standing next to nothingness,The
Kiss
Black and white rectangles decorate the man's cloak while circles of flowers
surrounded by gold tesserae cover the woman's dress and hair,The Kiss
"FTP, name this Gustav Klimt painting of an act of love.",The Kiss
"In the upper left, one can see some buildings in the distance fading into some
hazy hills at the edge of a harbor",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"Several ships sail in the harbor though only one, with a bellying mainsail,
features prominently on the right side",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
A singing shepherd tends to his sheep near the center and a man appears to be
fishing in the lower right corner,Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"In the lower left, the most visible scene shows a horse pulling a plow in front of
a colorfully dressed farmer",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"All of these scenes, however, distract the viewer from the titular event in the
lower right, depicted as a cascade of feathers and a pair of legs sticking out of
the water",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"FTP, name this Peter Bruegel painting pitting the son of Daedalus against an
Italian coastal setting.",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"His two altarpieces, the Virgin with Saint Bernard and Saint Ildefonsus Receiving
the Chasuble, were probably painted for the convent of Saint Clemente, and his
Flight Into Egypt resides at the Detroit Institute of Art",Bartolome Esteban
Murillo
His first documented works are the Vision of Friar Lauterio and the Virgin
Presenting the Rosary to St Dominic,Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Palomino wrote that he first worked as a festival painter and in 1645 he married
Beatrice Villalobos,Bartolome Esteban Murillo
"The Ecstasy of Saint Francis reflects the influence of Zurburan and Boy De-Lousing
Himself was the first of his canvasses depicting children, another of which is the
Grape and Melon Eaters",Bartolome Esteban Murillo
"FTP, name this seventeenth-century Spanish realist best known for his numerous
versions of the Immaculate Conception, especially that of the Escorial.",Bartolome
Esteban Murillo
"Late in life, this artist created a number of pastel self-portraits such as his
Self-portrait with Spectacles and Self-portrait at Easel",Jean-Baptiste-Simon
Chardin
"His figure paintings began as single domestic scenes like Woman Sealing a Letter,
Woman Drawing Water from a Cistern, and Soap Bubbles, but evolved into more complex
works like House of Cards and Saying Grace",Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin
"His first commission was for two sets of decorative works entitled Attributes of
the Arts and Attributes of Exploration for the Paris house of Konrad von
Rothenburg, although he was better known for later works such as Jar of Olives and
Kitchen Table",Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin
"FTP, name this great eighteenth century French painter of still-lifes.",Jean-
Baptiste-Simon Chardin
"In one of his works, a female on the left floats in the air dripping blood out of
the object in her hands onto a prominent flower sticking straight up in the
foreground",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"That work, The Climax, was done shortly before he was fired and went to work with
Arthur Symons at The Savoy, where he contributed to a translation commissioned by
the 'decadent' publisher Leonard Smithers, The Rape of the Lock",Aubrey Vincent
Beardsley
"He took classes at the urging of Edward Burne-Jones, was soon commissioned to work
on a new edition of Le Morte D'arthur, and quickly gained fame working under Lane
and Harland at The Yellow Book",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
"FTP, name this artist who courted controversy with his erotic drawings for
Lysistrata and for Oscar Wilde's Salom.",Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Animals that can be seen in this painting include a black dog on the far right and
a white bird at the feet of a woman in the lower left corner,Where Do We Come From?
What Are We? Where Are We Going? or D'o venons nous? Que sommes nous? O allons
nous?
"Currently residing in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, it was called its
creator's 'testament' as he planned to commit suicide upon its completion",Where Do
We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? or D'o venons nous? Que sommes
nous? O allons nous?
"This painting features three women with a child on the right, a youth taking fruit
from a tree and two women talking about destiny in the middle, and a blue statue on
the left background while an old woman approaches death",Where Do We Come From?
What Are We? Where Are We Going? or D'o venons nous? Que sommes nous? O allons
nous?
"Its artist believed this work, one of his works done in Tahiti, should be read
from right to left to symbolize the progression from birth to death",Where Do We
Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? or D'o venons nous? Que sommes nous?
O allons nous?
"FTP, identify this painting by Paul Gauguin whose title consists of three
questions.",Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? or D'o venons
nous? Que sommes nous? O allons nous?
His last work was completed by his pupil Alessandro Allori,Agnolo Bronzino or
Agnolo di Cosimo
"In his youth, he was forced to Certosa by an outbreak of the plague in his
hometown",Agnolo Bronzino or Agnolo di Cosimo
He was used as the figure of a child in his teacher Pontormo's Joseph in
Egypt,Agnolo Bronzino or Agnolo di Cosimo
"He worked for the Duke of Urbino for a time, and painted a portrait of Andrea
Doria as Neptune",Agnolo Bronzino or Agnolo di Cosimo
"He decorated the chapel of Eleanora of Toledo, the wife of his patron Cosimo di
Medici",Agnolo Bronzino or Agnolo di Cosimo
"One of the premier portraitists among the Mannerists, for 10 points, name this
Florentine, best known for Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time.",Agnolo Bronzino or
Agnolo di Cosimo
This student of Jean-Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts was one of the
subjects of Mumford's The Brown Decades,Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
"His students included Henry Ossawa Tanner and Thomas Anschutz, and he painted
Mending the Net and Arcadia after learning of Muybridge's work",Thomas
Cowperthwaite Eakins
"He painted a portrait of his friend Walt Whitman, rumored to be Whitman's
favorite, and painted himself in a small boat behind the title figure in Max
Schmitt in a Single Scull",Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
"A man lectures to the students of Jefferson Medical College in, FTP, this American
realist's monumental painting of a surgery in progress, The Gross Clinic.",Thomas
Cowperthwaite Eakins
The title figure holds an accordion in her lap while rainbows descend from the
stormy sky in the background in this artist's The Blind Girl,John Everett Millais
"He created a depiction of the last days of Atahualpa, Pizarro Seizing the Inca of
Peru",John Everett Millais
"He depicted a British soldier handing the titular notification to the wife of a
wounded Scotsman in The Order of Release, while the title character sits with
another child listening to the story of a sailor in 1870's The Boyhood of
Raleigh",John Everett Millais
"The creator of a controversially realistic depiction of the Holy Family, Christ in
the House of His Parents, FTP, identify this pre-Raphaelite painter who depicted a
deceased Shakespearean character in his Ophelia.",John Everett Millais
"This group's main publication was later supplemented by an addition called Mecano,
and its work prompted the formation of the COBRA group",De Stijl (or The Style)
"Its building designs include the Caf de Unie and a factory in Permerund, and a
building containing free-floating walls, painted steel beams, and interior sliding
partitions, the Schroder House",De Stijl (or The Style)
Including such people as Gerrit Rietveld and J,De Stijl (or The Style)
J,De Stijl (or The Style)
"Oud, and growing out of Neo-Plasticism, FTP, identify this art movement
exemplified by such works as Broadway Boogie-Woogie, which was founded Theo van
Doesburg and whose main exponent was Piet Mondrian.",De Stijl (or The Style)
"Among this group's aims was the revival of monumental fresco painting, and one of
its main patrons was the Marquis Massimo, whose Casino near the Lateran was the
site of one of its major commissions",the Nazarene movement (or the Brotherhood of
St. Luke before it's mentioned)
"Among works produced by one its adherents is the tempera fresco Joseph
Interpreting Pharaoh's Dream, while another created The Triumph of Religion in
Art",the Nazarene movement (or the Brotherhood of St. Luke before it's mentioned)
"Initially working out of the abandoned monastery of San Isidoro, this group's main
commission was the Casa Bartholdi",the Nazarene movement (or the Brotherhood of St.
Luke before it's mentioned)
"They included the designer of the Munich Glyptothek, Peter Cornelius, whose Last
Judgement covers the entire east wall in Munich's Ludwigskirche",the Nazarene
movement (or the Brotherhood of St. Luke before it's mentioned)
Founded as the Brotherhood of St,the Nazarene movement (or the Brotherhood of St.
Luke before it's mentioned)
"Luke, FTP, identify this group of religious German painters including Friedrich
Overbeck and Friedrich Schadow.",the Nazarene movement (or the Brotherhood of St.
Luke before it's mentioned)
"John Ruskin derided its creator for painting 'the foulest things he could see by
rushlight.' Seymour Slive of Harvard has definitively debunked the popularly
believed poor reception of this painting, one of whose titular subjects had a
watercolor copy of ",The Night Watch or The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and
Willem van Ruytenburch
"A small girl, the mascot of the titular group, stands in the left middle next to a
man in red, while the two title figures, one all in yellow and one in a red sash,
lead the titular group, who hoist their pikes in the air",The Night Watch or The
Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch
"For ten points, identify this painting which depicts the company of Captain Franz
Banning Cocq, the most famous work of Rembrandt van Rijn.",The Night Watch or The
Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch
"This painting was commissioned by the Baron de Julien, a priest who had cuckolded
a bishop, and its artist took the job five years after returning from his Prix de
Rome trip",The Swing
Julien's flush cheeks are reminiscent of the artist's style in such works as Blind
Man's Bluff,The Swing
"On the left, a cupid statue with a finger to its mouth observes the action from
above, while two putto statues look at the title object from below",The Swing
"The aforementioned bishop sits at the right side of the work, while Julien hides
in the lower-left bushes and looks up the billowing pink skirt of his mistress, who
is kicking off her left shoe",The Swing
"A tree to the far right suspends, FTP, which title object of a lush Rococo
landscape by Jean-Honor Fragonard?",The Swing
"This man's early work included illustrations in the satirical paper The Vanguard,
though he claimed to dislike propagandistic art, stating 'my one theme is
humanity.' His work depicting Prometheus bound was inspired by Michelangelo, and
the critical react",Jose Clemente Orozco
"Skeletons clad in robes look on as another skeleton gives birth to a skeleton baby
in 'Gods of the Modern World,' part of his monumental series for the Baker Library
at Dartmouth, while the mural Catharsis resides in the Palace of Fine Arts in the
capital",Jose Clemente Orozco
FTP name this Mexican muralist of The Coming of Quetzalcoatl and Man on Fire.,Jose
Clemente Orozco
"In a letter to the man who would go on to sell this work, its creator noted that
his interest was 'religious atavism.' Fred Kliener considered this work to be the
first true symbolist painting, and a deer can be seen wandering across the canvas
in the upp",The Vision After the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
"The artist described the setting of the event that gives this painting its
alternate name as 'pure vermillion,' while women in 'intensely black clothes' and
'yellow-white bonnets' look on",The Vision After the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with
the Angel
"For ten points, identify this painting, in which Breton women observe combat
between a divine being and a mortal, created by Paul Gauguin.",The Vision After the
Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
"One of this artist's works originally featured an angel, which was removed at the
request of Clare Boothe Luce, who commissioned the painting depicting Hampshire
House and the suicide of Dorothy Hale",Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Caldern
"Images of Alexander the Great, Martin Luther, Ghandi, Napoleon, Hitler, and Marx
are to the left of the embryo of Moses, in one of this artist's
paintings",Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Caldern
"Andre Breton got her a showing at the Julian Levy Gallery, and her other works
include a depiction of herself sitting under a portrait of Dr",Magdalena Carmen
Frieda Kahlo y Caldern
"Farrill, whom she credited with saving her life, as well as Miscarriage in
Detroit, inspired by retablos",Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Caldern
"For ten points, name this Mexican artist, the wife of Diego Rivera who notably
painted a self-portrait with monkeys, as well as a painting depicting two versions
of herself.",Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Caldern
This painting is alluded to in Chilean writer Rosamel del Valle's Eva the Fugitive
and was featured on the cover of an edition of Philip Pullman's The Subtle
Knife,Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
"A red flag is seen in the background towards the top of this work and like the
painter's creation of the previous year, The Soothsayer's Recompense, this painting
features multiple arcades, one of which shades an abandoned horse
trailer",Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
"A half-shadow of a man appears at the far end of the title setting, and each of
the planes in this painting have their own perspective",Melancholy and Mystery of a
Street
"Most famous for its image of a girl rolling a hoop with a stick, for ten points,
identify this painting by Giorgio de Chirico.",Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
"This painting's theme may have been suggested by the play The Three Cousins,
though it was more likely inspired by Houdar de la Motte's opera ballet La
Venitienne",A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or Embarkation from Cythera; or Embarkation to
Cythera]
Most of the artistic techniques were probably taken from the artist's close study
of Rubens' Garden of Love,A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or Embarkation from Cythera; or
Embarkation to Cythera]
A statue wound about with flowers appears on the right,A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or
Embarkation from Cythera; or Embarkation to Cythera]
"In the center, a man faces away from the viewer and holds a staff in his left
hand, with his right arm around a woman in a bright gold dress, while four other
couples stand under the large trees that dominate the upper right of this
painting",A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or Embarkation from Cythera; or Embarkation to
Cythera]
"On the left, cherubs fly around the red and white sails of a golden boat, which
people are boarding, while the far right features Cupid's quiver of arrows at the
base of a statue of Venus",A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or Embarkation from Cythera; or
Embarkation to Cythera]
"For ten points, name this painting depicting a leisurely trip to an enchanted
island, a fete-galante by Watteau.",A Pilgrimage to Cythera [or Embarkation from
Cythera; or Embarkation to Cythera]
The Hollywood art satirist John Decker painted Charlie McCarthy as this painting's
subject,The Laughing Cavalier
"It brought its long-dead creator out of obscurity when it was purchased, under the
title 'Portrait of a Man' at an 1865 auction and is now found in the Wallace
Collection",The Laughing Cavalier
"An inscription on the upper right notes that the anonymous subject is twenty-six
years old; he wears ruffles on his wrists, attached to his black doublet inlaid
with gold and colored lace",The Laughing Cavalier
"A giant collar, visible pink around the nose and curled hair brushed backwards
also appear, along with an enormous, upward-pointing mustache and a goatee on this
man wearing a gigantic black hat",The Laughing Cavalier
"For 10 points, identify this misnamed painting of a man who is merely smiling, a
work by Franz Hals.",The Laughing Cavalier
"His teacher Claude Gillot's interest in the commedia dell'arte and scenes d'opera
were an important influence on this artist, whose depiction of Diana was an
inspiration for Manet's Dejeuner Sur l'herbe",Antoine Watteau
"A clown during intermission is the subject of his Gilles, and he painted a wounded
soldier in convalescence in Les Fatigues de la guerre",Antoine Watteau
"His Gersaint signboard shows an art dealer's shop, though more typical works
include Do You Want to Succeed with Women? and The Pleasures of Love",Antoine
Watteau
"A rococo artist known for his fetes galantes, this is, for 10 points, what painter
best known for his depiction of pilgrims traveling to a mythical island,
Embarkation to Cythera.",Antoine Watteau
"One of his works shows a water nymph in the lower right, holding a piece of music
after lulling to sleep Rinaldo, who leans against a tree as Armida discovers
him",Anthony van Dyck
"His time in Italy resulted in portraits like Cardinal Bentivolo and George Gage,
Looking at a Statuette, and he created a series of etchings and engravings
depicting various colleagues known as his Iconography",Anthony van Dyck
"At the court of the Earl of Arundel, he painted a portrait of Thomas Howard, and
he executed 35 paintings of Queen Henrietta Maria, but is better known for
portraits of her husband, including one ...in Hunting Dress",Anthony van Dyck
"For 10 points, name this Flemish pupil of Rubens and portraitist of England's
Charles I.",Anthony van Dyck
"This artist used pre-made letters known as 'Letraset' to vary the surface of
paintings like Sphinx-Portrait of Muriel Belcher, and he juxtaposed oil and pastel
paints in his Study of the Human Body",Francis Bacon
"He began his 'light' period with Van Gogh's Painter on the Way to Tarascon,
eschewing the darkness of works like Study of a Baboon",Francis Bacon
Many of his paintings were based on photographs by Eadweard Muybridge,Francis Bacon
"The Furies are the title images of his triptych Three Figures at the Base of a
Crucifixion, created shortly before a series of deconstructions of a famous
portrait by Velasquez",Francis Bacon
"For 10 points, name this British artist known for his shocking depictions of Pope
Innocent X.",Francis Bacon
One member of this group designed the Allegonda villa at Katwik and the Caf de
Unie,De Stijl [prompt on neoplasticism]
"The early works of Burgoyne Diller are often said to belong to this group, which
also included the painter of Mechano-Dancer, Vilmos Huszr",De Stijl [prompt on
neoplasticism]
"A home constructed with its principles has a sub-dividable open space on the 2nd
floor and a faade of protruding planes, designed by the man who did the Red and
Blue Chair",De Stijl [prompt on neoplasticism]
With J.J.P,De Stijl [prompt on neoplasticism]
"Oud and Bart van der Leck, Theo von Doesburg founded the journal of this group,
whose work was exemplified by Rietveld's Schrder House and another artist's
Broadway Boogie Woogie",De Stijl [prompt on neoplasticism]
"For 10 points, name this Dutch art school including Piet Mondrian.",De Stijl
[prompt on neoplasticism]
"In the lower left of this painting, a man in a hooded gray robe bows his head in
front of a man in a hooded black robe with his right arm extended",The Burial of
Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de
Orgaz]
"In the lower right, a man in white partially obscures a priest while looking to
the upper left, where St",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of
Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"Peter dangles his keys as he looks over the shoulder of Mary, who is below a
white-shrouded Jesus and on one side of an opening in the clouds through which an
angel flies holding a small spirit",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the
Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"In the center, the artist's son points at the golden sleeve of St",The Burial of
Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de
Orgaz]
"Stephen, who along with St",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count
of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
Augustine holds the title figure clad in black armor,The Burial of Count Orgaz [or
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"For 10 points, name this work depicting the internment of a pious Spaniard, a work
of El Greco.",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El
Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
One of his works shows a left-facing female with her hair in a bun looking downward
and using a spoon for stirring,Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro
"He was shown in his early job as a blinds-painter in a painting by Armand
Guillaumin, and his son Lucien was part of Walter Sickert's Camden Town
Group",Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro
"He wears a black hat and coat, a long beard, and a confused expression in a late
self-portrait",Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro
He presented his work under the name 'Pupil of A,Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro
"Melbye' for seven years, and he showed The Old Road to Ennery and Hoar Frost at
the first Impressionist exhibition",Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro
"For 10 points, name this creator of Peasant Girl Drinking Her Coffee, whose
mentorship of other Impressionists led to his epithet 'father.'",Jacob Abraham
Camille Pissarro
"The artist's time as a douanier contributed to the unique characteristics of this
work's central figures, and it was intended as a tribute to Laval but refused by
that town's mayor",The Sleeping Gypsy [or La Bohmienne endormie]
A realistic moon at the top-right of this work hangs in an otherwise clear sky over
a series of low mountains in the background,The Sleeping Gypsy [or La Bohmienne
endormie]
"One central figure stands on top of a small dune, in front of which is found a red
vase carrying drinking water and a mandolin",The Sleeping Gypsy [or La Bohmienne
endormie]
"Often cited as an example of Primitivism, its artist used dolls as the models for
the woman in a multi-colored robe and the nearby lion",The Sleeping Gypsy [or La
Bohmienne endormie]
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting a reposing traveling musician that was
created by Henri Rousseau.",The Sleeping Gypsy [or La Bohmienne endormie]
"In a Frederic Bazille painting of this English title, a man plays the piano in the
back right, while two men address the central figure in front of a large
window",The Artist's Studio [accept reasonable approximations here as long as
'Artist' and 'Studio' are said]
"Another painting of this name features a woman in a yellow dress looking into a
mirror, a woman in a white dress sitting on a chaise, and the title figure in a
gray suit carefully eyeing something, and was painted by James Whistler",The
Artist's Studio [accept reasonable approximations here as long as 'Artist' and
'Studio' are said]
"In another version, a mix of all walks of life are found on the left, with Charles
Baudelaire on the right, and a small boy and a nude model watching the central
figure sitting in front of a canvas",The Artist's Studio [accept reasonable
approximations here as long as 'Artist' and 'Studio' are said]
"For 10 points, give the title of these works, including one by Gustave Courbet
showing his place of work.",The Artist's Studio [accept reasonable approximations
here as long as 'Artist' and 'Studio' are said]
He painted his dad sitting in a chair with his legs crossed in his Fauvist Portrait
of the Artist's Father,Marcel Duchamp
"He created a fake rip in the canvas near a pointing hand and a real bottle brush
in Tu m', and his last major work was a peep show created in secret",Marcel Duchamp
"He collaborated on the film Anemic Cinema with Man Ray, who photographed him in
drag as Rrose Selavy, and he never quite finished a work also known as The Large
Glass",Marcel Duchamp
In Advance of the Broken Arm and Bicycle Wheel are examples of a form he created
that included one signed by R,Marcel Duchamp
Mutt,Marcel Duchamp
"For 10 points, name this producer of ready-mades who caused a stir at the Armory
Show with his Nude Descending a Staircase, No",Marcel Duchamp
2.,Marcel Duchamp
He showed two hands shaking and a combination of a hammer and a sickle extending
out of a man's face in the Carnival of the Ideologies,Jose Clemente Orozco
"His opposition to World War II was manifest in his publicly painted send up of
mechanized warfare, Dive Bomber and Tank, while he fled his home country following
his series that depicted the lives of prostitutes, The House of Tears",Jose
Clemente Orozco
"In a series of frescos, he depicted scenes such as Gods of the Modern World and
Symbols of Nationalism in his Epic of American Civilization, which also included
the Coming..",Jose Clemente Orozco
and Return of Quetzalcoatl,Jose Clemente Orozco
"For 10 points, identify this contemporary of Diego Rivera, a Mexican
muralist.",Jose Clemente Orozco
This man used pastel paint to write the printing instructions for his lithograph
Pinned Hat,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"His somber early period is exemplified by his Cabaret of Mother Antony, while
Woman Bathing with Griffon was posed for by his mistress, Lise Trehot",Pierre-
Auguste Renoir
Early paintings in the style for which he is best-known include Parisian Woman and
The Theater Box,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Favorite portrait subjects of his included Jeanne Samary and Mme Charpentier and
her children, while Gustave Caillebotte can be seen in a better-known en plein air
work",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"For 10 points, name this impressionist painter of Moulin de la Gallette and The
Luncheon of the Boating Party.",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Foucault's The Order of Things opens with an extensive discussion of how this
painting signals an epistemological break in its complex sightlines, and Luca
Giordano called it the 'Theology of Painting.' A dark figure, knee half bent,
pauses in a doorway ",Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor]
"The greatest emphasis in this painting is on a young girl, illuminated by a window
at right and accompanied by her attendants, one of whom is rousing a sleeping dog
with his foot",Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor]
"The Infanta Margarita and two dwarfs are the central figures of, for 10 points,
what painting by Diego Velazquez?",Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor]
"A woman who had been this man's housekeeper was painted by him wearing a veil in
mourning in the painting Leocadia, while he painted two young men each raising a
wooden object ready to strike the other in his Duel with Cudgels",Francisco Jos de
Goya y Lucientes
"Those works were part of a series he did in the 'House of the Deaf Man,' while he
did a series of 80 etchings, including 'Hunting for Teeth,' called
Caprichos",Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes
"Another of his paintings possibly depicting the Duchess of Alba was scandalous for
its depiction of pubic hair, while his later works include his 14 Black
Paintings",Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes
"For 10 points, name this painter of The Nude Maja, whose Disasters of War series
contains The Third of May, 1808.",Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes
The artist of this work intended to create an entire Corinthian temple portico in
the background but left it with just a single column,Madonna of the Long Neck [or
Madonna with the Long Neck; or Madonna dal Collo Lungo]
"One of the figures on the left, possibly John the Baptist, holds a crystal vase
and stares at the title figure, whose right foot seems to jut out toward the viewer
as it rests on some pillows",Madonna of the Long Neck [or Madonna with the Long
Neck; or Madonna dal Collo Lungo]
"In the lower right corner is a rather small depiction of a prophet, possibly
Isaiah, reading from a scroll, while a large infant Christ lies sprawled out in an
S-shape in the center on Mary's lap",Madonna of the Long Neck [or Madonna with the
Long Neck; or Madonna dal Collo Lungo]
"For 10 points, name this painting in which Mary has some rather exaggerated
features, a work of Parmigianino.",Madonna of the Long Neck [or Madonna with the
Long Neck; or Madonna dal Collo Lungo]
"This artist executed the Blue series for the Centre Pompidou and Personages and
Birds for the Wichita State Art Museum, while a stuffed parrot sits on top of his
sculpture simply called Object",Joan Miro
"A Jan Steen painting influenced the second entry in his Dutch Interiors series,
and he created the ceramic murals Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon for the
UNESCO building",Joan Miro
"A blackberry jam stain became his Birth of the World, and another work features
the multi-colored title animal below the multi-colored title celestial object",Joan
Miro
"For 10 points, name this artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Harlequin's
Carnival, a Catalan surrealist.",Joan Miro
"One painting on this theme, by Bartolome Murillo, shows a man clad in a bright
orange robe with white fur at the top kneeling in the bottom center with two young
girls on the left",Adoration of the Magi [or reasonable equivalents]
The version by Leonardo da Vinci was for the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto and
originally featured a camel,Adoration of the Magi [or reasonable equivalents]
Maybe the most important one is the center of an altarpiece for the Strozzi family
chapel in Florence and is by Gentile da Fabriano,Adoration of the Magi [or
reasonable equivalents]
Pieter Bruegel the Elder did one 'in winter landscape' and Bosch did one in
triptych form showing Joseph handling some diapers,Adoration of the Magi [or
reasonable equivalents]
"For 10 points, name this artistic theme which shows the laying of gold,
frankincense, and myrrh before Jesus by the title dudes.",Adoration of the Magi [or
reasonable equivalents]
"This artist depicted the remnants of a tree hanging over the edge of a cliff after
a lightning strike in Storm in the Mountains, and he showed a man walking toward
the titular structure high on a cliff in The Monastery of San Pedro",Frederick
Edwin Church
"His former home Olana is now a tourist site, and no single place inspired the
setting of Twilight in the Wilderness",Frederick Edwin Church
"Various trips led to many of his works, including The Icebergs and Falls of
Tequendama, as well as images of the volcanos Chimborozo and Cotopaxi",Frederick
Edwin Church
"For ten points, name this student of Thomas Cole who painted a famous version of
some New York falls in Niagara and an idealized South American landscape in Heart
of the Andes.",Frederick Edwin Church
One piece of artwork with this name includes two figures blowing into seashell
horns,The Birth of Venus
"Another piece of artwork with this name includes five puttos flying above the
title figure, who has her hand on her forehead",The Birth of Venus
"The most famous piece of artwork with this title features spines of leaves and
lines in tree trunks accented with gold, and a top-left section which features rose
blossoms with a gold center falling around two interwind characters, Zephyrus and
Chloris",The Birth of Venus
"The works by Bouguereau and Cabanel are not nearly as famous as one by an Italian,
who painted a figure on the right holding a robe for the female title character,
who is emerging from the water on a shell",The Birth of Venus
"FTP, name this common painting title, the most famous of which was created by
Botticelli.",The Birth of Venus
"In this work, the title figure has her hand on her breast, and her right foot
rests on two pillows",Madonna with the Long Neck (or Madonna of the Long Neck or
Madonna del Cullo Longo)
"In the right background of this painting near the lush pink drapery , there is a
miniature man unfolding a scroll in front of an unfinished line of columns without
capitals",Madonna with the Long Neck (or Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna del
Cullo Longo)
"In the left foreground, angelic figures watch the titular figure seated on a very
luxurious chair with green and red pillows at her feet",Madonna with the Long Neck
(or Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna del Cullo Longo)
"The title figures elongated fingers hold back her shawl, and her eyes focus on the
very alien-looking child in her lap",Madonna with the Long Neck (or Madonna of the
Long Neck or Madonna del Cullo Longo)
"FTP, name this Mannerist painting by Parmigianino, whose titular figure has an
extended feature.",Madonna with the Long Neck (or Madonna of the Long Neck or
Madonna del Cullo Longo)
"In this painting, a tree outside is obscured from the viewer by a column",Venus of
Urbino
"The artist of this work originally refused to paint it, until Pietro Aretino
suggested depicting a prostitutute's body",Venus of Urbino
"In the back right of this painting, two servants are looking for something in a
chest",Venus of Urbino
"On the figure's bed, a dog rests",Venus of Urbino
"The main figure is reclined fully nude on the bed, with her left hand covering her
crotch and her left holding some flowers as she stares directly at the
viewer",Venus of Urbino
"FTP, name this 1538 Titian work that depicts the title goddess in a Renaissance-
era palace.",Venus of Urbino
"His early works included self portraits such as The Wounded Man, The Cellist, and
The Man with a Pipe",Gustav Courbet
His works concerning dormancy include The Sleeping Spinner and an erotic work
featuring two females entitled The Sleepers,Gustav Courbet
"One of his best-known works, which depicts a young and old man performing the
titular backbreaking action, was destroyed during the bombing of Dresden, and
another depicts the internment of a peasant in the presence of two clergy wearing
red",Gustav Courbet
"FTP, name this French painter of The Stone-breaker and The Burial at
Organs.",Gustav Courbet
"He painted a portrait of Thodore Duret holding a top hat in his right hand, and
in another of his works, painted a woman, with her head turned to the right,
wearing a pinkish-purple dress, a work entitled Mother of Pearl and Silver",James
Whistler
"He explained his thoughts on art in Ten O'Clock Lecture, and another of his works
shows a young girl in a white dress leaning on the titular instrument being played
by an elderly woman in black, a painting entitled At the Piano",James Whistler
"Joanna Hiffernan was the model in his painting The White Girl, which shows his
concern with the beautiful arrangement of colors",James Whistler
He became bankrupt after suing art critic John Ruskin for criticism of his work
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,James Whistler
His best-known work was sneezed on by the fictional character Mr,James Whistler
Bean and is entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black,James Whistler
"FTP, name this American artist most famous for a painting of his mother.",James
Whistler
"This artist once completed a series with gouache and uncolored paper while
bedridden, and those images are presented in a book interspersed with handwritten
text",Henri Matisse
"That series features many images related to the circus or to the theater,
including The Sword Swallower, Cirque, The Clown, and Pierrot's Funeral",Henri
Matisse
"The most iconic image this artist created for that series shows a black, stylized
man against a deep blue sky with geometric yellow stars, entitled Icarus",Henri
Matisse
"Along with the 1947 series Jazz, this French artist painted a colorful canvas with
a woman herding goats with a flute, many nude people lying down, and a scene that
would be recreated in The Danse",Henri Matisse
"FTP, name this French artist of The Joy of Life, the leader of the Fauves.",Henri
Matisse
"The wife of the artist, Suzanne Leenhoff, modelled for this painting, as did
Victorine Meurent",The Luncheon on the Grass (also accept Djeuner sur l'herbe)
"Originally entitled The Bath, it was showcased in the 1863 Salon of the
Refused",The Luncheon on the Grass (also accept Djeuner sur l'herbe)
"This painting includes a round loaf of bread, a basket of fruit, and clothing of a
woman.in the lower right",The Luncheon on the Grass (also accept Djeuner sur
l'herbe)
The clothing belongs to the naked woman who looks at the viewer and sits near two
dressed men,The Luncheon on the Grass (also accept Djeuner sur l'herbe)
"FTP, name this Edouard Manet painting depicting a picnic.",The Luncheon on the
Grass (also accept Djeuner sur l'herbe)
"One version of it features marble panels that are uniform and calm except for one,
which reflects the turmoil in the figure sitting below that panel",The Last Supper
"In another version, light shines through a circular window, while an empty bread
plate rests prominently on the floor",The Last Supper
"Still another version has the table set at an angle to the plane of the picture
with many of the figures surrounded by halos, but unlike other versions, servants,
dogs, and cats are also included",The Last Supper
"FTP, name this subject of paintings by Castagno and Tintoretto and a woodcut by
Durer, whose most famous version features lunettes with the Sforza coat-of-arms
above the main painting of Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles, a work by Leonardo
da Vinci.",The Last Supper
"The slave girl 'Pink' is depicted crouching in front of the main figure in this
man's Henry Ward Beecher, and he designed the angelic choir in the St Savior Chapel
and the statuary of the St Columba Chapel in New York's Church of St",(John) Gutzon
de la Mothe Borglum
John the Divine,(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
"His Mares of Diomedes was the first American sculpture to be placed in the
Metropolitan Museum, but he is best known for his works of Americana such as his
Sheridan statue in Chicago and the Abraham Lincoln statue in the Capitol rotunda",
(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
"Best known for a work which he fought over with a local businessman, John Boland,
and which was eventually finished by his son, Lincoln, FTP, name this American
sculptor of Danish ancestry who designed the original Stone Mountain and the faces
of four Ame",(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Rushmore.,(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
A three dimensional sculpted version of this painting was recently completed by
Mikhail Dronov and Alexander Taratynov in honor of the artist's 400th birthday,The
Night Watch [accept 'Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lietuenant
Willem van Ruytenburch' before it's read]
"A man in the back waves a gold and blue striped flag, while the left foreground
features a dwarf next to a man in a bright red outfit loading a gun",The Night
Watch [accept 'Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lietuenant Willem
van Ruytenburch' before it's read]
"Behind him and to his left stands a brightly clad young girl wearing the symbols
of the Arquebusiers, and a shield with 18 of their names on it sits above the gate
in the background",The Night Watch [accept 'Militia Company of Captain Frans
Banning Cocq and Lietuenant Willem van Ruytenburch' before it's read]
The most notable features of this painting include a foreshortened gun in the left
hand of Willem van Ruytenburch and the foreshortened left arm of the painting's
commissioner,The Night Watch [accept 'Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
and Lietuenant Willem van Ruytenburch' before it's read]
"Misnamed because of many coats of dark varnish, FTP name this painting of the
Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, the most famous work of
Rembrandt.",The Night Watch [accept 'Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
and Lietuenant Willem van Ruytenburch' before it's read]
"He was influenced by the Utrecht School and Carel Fabritius, of whose works he
owned several and under whom he may also have studied",Jan Vermeer
"Among his less famous works are Woman with a Balance, whose wide interpretations
include the soul's peril before worldly temptation, female virtue or grace, or the
divine truth of revealed religion, while he is also known for several paintings
featuring w",Jan Vermeer
"Only recently firmly believed to be the actual painter of one of the works best
associated with him, FTP name this artist of Girl with a Pearl Earring.",Jan
Vermeer
"Along with Rembrandt's Sea of Galilee, this painting is critiqued in Eric Avery's
Haitian Interdiction print",Watson and the Shark
"This work's artist never visited the site depicted and gleaned most of the details
from the engravings of Peter Canot, including its depiction of Morro Castle at the
upper right",Watson and the Shark
"The title character, a future Lord Mayor of London, lies below two men in white
shirts who reach out toward him",Watson and the Shark
"Modern theorists make much of the impassive stance of the African-American man in
the center of this work, who limply holds a rope, while his white companion
furiously thrusts a spear at one of the denizens of Havana harbor",Watson and the
Shark
"FTP, identify this painting featuring a boat's crew attempting to rescue the title
figure from a bloodthirsty animal, the most famous work of John Singleton
Copley.",Watson and the Shark
Gernit Rietveld's red/blue armchair and Schroder House are some of the most noted
designs of this movement,De Stijl (prompt on Neoplasticism)
"However, the controversial introduction of the diagonal in a certain member's work
alienated the movement's best known artist, who afterwards stopped contributing to
the journal in which he had argued for 'equilibration' between opposites realized
through",De Stijl (prompt on Neoplasticism)
"Founded by Theo van Doesburg , this FTP, what modern art movements characterized
by bold black lines and blocks of primary color, most commonly associated with Piet
Mondrian.",De Stijl (prompt on Neoplasticism)
"His earliest works included landscapes such as Going West, produced during his
tutelage under Albert Pinkham Ryder, and later works such as Frogman echoed the
exploration of Jungian archetypes that influenced earlier works like Guardians of
the Secret",Jackson Pollock
This early work was also influenced by Orozco and Rivera,Jackson Pollock
"After Mural, a work that included elements of Thomas Hart Benton's techniques, he
turned in the late 1940s to Galaxy and Eyes in the Heat, early examples of his
'poured' painting technique",Jackson Pollock
Art historians have argued that his work led to the viewer's association not with
the subject but with the artist,Jackson Pollock
"Full Fathom Five is one of the best-known works of, FTP, this founder of the
school of abstract expressionism.",Jackson Pollock
On the bottom left of this painting a black-haired man holds his hands up in fright
while turned away from the scene in the center,'The Gross Clinic'
"Two shadowy figures watch the title character from a large threshold on the right,
while a man on the left looks down at a piece of paper on which he is writing",'The
Gross Clinic'
A man with large sideburns works to the right of the painting's central focus while
on the left the grey-haired title character stands in a black waistcoat holding a
scalpel,'The Gross Clinic'
"FTP name this painting in which medical students view a surgical demonstration by
the titular Philadelphia doctor, a work of Thomas Eakins.",'The Gross Clinic'
"In reproductions of this work, the image of a woman screaming towards the sky is
often excluded",Guernica
"In 1974, this painting was defaced with red spray paint and the words KILL LIES
ALL",Guernica
"Commissioned for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, this black and white work depicts
a man trying to steal a baby from its mother, Lady Liberty carrying the lamp of
democracy, a flower growing from a shattered vase, and a horse drowning in
chaos",Guernica
"FTP, name anti-war Pablo Picasso painting named for a bombed Basque
city.",Guernica
"This person depicts a wide-eyed, peasant-topped girl under a cloudy sky with left
shoulder exposed, crosses to her left and tombstones to her right, in Orphan Girl
at the Cemetery",Ferdinand-Eugne-Victor Delacroix
"A depiction of Louis IX on a white horse appears at center-left in this artist's
unfinished The Battle of Tailleburg, while a chicken, hare, and lizard appear on
the beach along with the titular crustacean in Still Life with Lobsters",Ferdinand-
Eugne-Victor Delacroix
"Though later works like The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople hardly
reflect the fact, this artist began as a neoclassicist as can be seen in the The
Barque of Dante",Ferdinand-Eugne-Victor Delacroix
"FTP, name this painter of Women of Algiers in Their Apartments, The Massacre at
Chios, The Death of Sardanapalus, and Liberty Leading the People; one of the
foremost French romantics.",Ferdinand-Eugne-Victor Delacroix
One of his paintings shows a woman holding a withering pink flower next to a small
dog,Francisco de Goya
Another shows a boy in red standing between two funny looking chubby adults in the
Palace of Aranjuez,Francisco de Goya
"He married the sister of Francisco Bayeu, who secured him the commission to
decorate Church of the Virgin in Zaragoza",Francisco de Goya
"Influenced by Tiepolo, his Marquesa de Pontejos is in the style of
Gainsborough",Francisco de Goya
"Deaf for much of his career, he made prints like Los Caprichos, and followed
Velazquez's model in caricaturing The Family of Charles IV",Francisco de Goya
"Most famous for depicting a man in white executed by a firing squad, FTP, name
this Spanish painter of Saturn Devouring his Children and The Third of May,
1808.",Francisco de Goya
"His self portaits include one 'between clock and bed' and another as 'the
wanderer.' A girl stands in front of a boat in his The Voice, and the title figure
is naked and convulsing in his Madonna; those works join with his Ashes, Jealousy,
and Melancholy ",Edvard Munch
"He depicted the death of his sister from tuberculosis in The Sick Child, while the
reactions of family members to a similar event are the subject of his Death in the
Sick Room",Edvard Munch
"He considered most of his paintings to be a part of his series The Frieze of Life,
including a work inspired during a walk along the Ljabrochaussen, which shows the
influence of Krakatoa in the red sky above the bald and elongated central figure
who is c",Edvard Munch
"FTP, name this Norwegian painter of The Scream.",Edvard Munch
"This artist penned the influential text An Analysis of Beauty, which includes his
argument for the perfect ogee-curve",William Hogarth
"One of his self-portraits includes his dog Trump, and his other works include Good
Samaritan and The Fool of Bethesda",William Hogarth
"In his time, he was a sought-after portrait painter, producing notable portraits
of Capt",William Hogarth
Thomas Coram and David Garrick,William Hogarth
He created sets which included characters such as Moll Hackabout and Dr,William
Hogarth
"Misaubin, and some of his most famous pieces are Beer Street and Gin
Lane",William Hogarth
"FTP, name this British artist best known for the series A Harlot's Progress and A
Rake's Progress?",William Hogarth
"This 1948 painting is set in Cushing, Maine, where the artist spent his
summers",Christina's World
"Near the top right of this painting, two ruts are in the ground, formed by an
abandoned cart",Christina's World
"Located at the Museum of Modern Art, this work depicts a woman picking flowers
from a garden",Christina's World
That woman has a paralyzed lower body and is wearing a pink dress,Christina's World
"FTP, name this Andrew Wyeth painting.",Christina's World
"The original version of one of his most famous works gave one title figure large,
awkward feet and knees, and was rejected",Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
His early works included The Music Party and the realistic Boy with a Basket of
Fruit,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
"The success of The Cardsharps, one of his first independent works, attracted the
patronage of Cardinal Del Monte, for whom he painted The Lute Player",Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio
His most famous cycle of paintings is displayed in the Contarelli Chapel of San
Luigi dei Francesi,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
"His Death of the Virgin scandalously featured bared legs and a swollen belly, and
his other religious works included The Deposition of Christ and a three-part cycle
on Matthew the Evangelist, including St",Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Matthew's Vocation,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
"FTP, identify this mannerist painter of Supper at Emmaus.",Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio
Donatello's version of this scene was originally placed between his Bearded Prophet
and Prophet with Scroll on the campanile of the Duomo,The Sacrifice of Isaac or
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac or Isaac's Sacrifice or Abraham and Isaac
Raphael's fresco of this event on the ceiling of the Stanza d'Eliodoro shows two
angels and a fire in the background,The Sacrifice of Isaac or Abraham's Sacrifice
of Isaac or Isaac's Sacrifice or Abraham and Isaac
"Another treatment quoted the Spinario and depicted the figure of a draped servant
boy pulling a thorn from his foot, which was shown below a man grasping a loved
one's neck",The Sacrifice of Isaac or Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac or Isaac's
Sacrifice or Abraham and Isaac
"That version, a bronze relief, was the last sculpted work of Brunelleschi, who was
upstaged by a cheaper design with hollow bronze figures by Ghiberti",The Sacrifice
of Isaac or Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac or Isaac's Sacrifice or Abraham and Isaac
"The subject matter for the competition panels for the east doors of the Florentine
Baptistry was, FTP, what Biblical scene in which Abraham prepared to kill his
son?",The Sacrifice of Isaac or Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac or Isaac's Sacrifice
or Abraham and Isaac
An updated version of this piece was the artist's last painting and was given a
name which commemorated the end of World War II,Broadway Boogie-Woogie
"The predominance of yellow in the original canvas was inspired by cabs zooming
around a certain city, and this work was preceded by depictions of Trafalgar Square
and the Place de la Concorde which prefigure it",Broadway Boogie-Woogie
"Although the color black has been completely eliminated from this work, it did not
betray the principles its artist had espoused in his manifesto, Neo-Plasticism,
more than 20 years earlier",Broadway Boogie-Woogie
"Primarily composed of tiny alternating rectangles of different colors, FTP,
identify this De Stijl masterpiece, a depiction of New York street life set to a
jazzy rhythm which is the most famous work of Piet Mondrian.",Broadway Boogie-
Woogie
"The smoke rising from the burning buildings in the left background fills much of
the canvas with inky darkness, while the composition of the figures that surround
the primary scene was inspired by Rubens' Medici cycle",The Barque of Dante
"This work, its artist's first major achievement, caused Thiers to proclaim that
'No canvas better reveals the future of a great painter.' One bearded man in the
bottom right bites the head of another as pale bodies writhe about the title
character's party",The Barque of Dante
"Phlegyas can be seen from behind as he guides the titular vessel to safety in,
FTP, this 1822 work that depicts a boat transporting Vergil and the author of the
Inferno, a painting by Eugene Delacroix.",The Barque of Dante
The background features a castle on the left side and a shepherd tending his flock
on the upper right,Sacred and Profane Love
A pair of rabbits hides underneath the trees that frame the primary figures,Sacred
and Profane Love
Two of the figures are divided by a marble relief that references the violence
perpetrated on the Bagarotto family,Sacred and Profane Love
"Created as a wedding gift for Nicolo Aurelio's future bride, its youngest subject
looks down and dips his right hand into the clear water at the center of the
painting, while another figure wears a flowing orange robe and holds a lamp to the
sky as she le",Sacred and Profane Love
"FTP, name this 1514 work housed in the Borghese Gallery that contrasts the images
of two women who personify the opposition between different types of affection, a
painting by Titian.",Sacred and Profane Love
"His public shows and 'transparencies' were widely popular, though he suffered
severe burns after his thousand-candle representation, Peace in the Clouds, set off
700 rockets",Charles Wilson Peale
"He studied in London where his first work of note, the allegorical Portrait of
William Pitt, was produced",Charles Wilson Peale
"Notorious for secretly sketching Benjamin Franklin necking with a woman, his life-
size depiction of two boys, The Staircase Group, began the trend of illusionist
painting in America",Charles Wilson Peale
"An entrepreneur as well as a painter, he opened a namesake museum in Philadelphia
and documented the unearthing of its greatest exhibit in Exhuming the
Mastodon",Charles Wilson Peale
"FTP, name this painter of the Early Republic, perhaps best remembered for siring
numerous sons, naming them for great artists, and painting the portrait Washington
at the Battle of Princeton.",Charles Wilson Peale
"Often compared to a related mezzotint which shows a brooding figure seated on a
low horizon, a copse of trees can be seen in the left side of the canvas, while the
lower portion, depicting a ridge, is dominated by shades of black",The Colossus or
El Coloso (prompt on 'The Giant' which was the original Spanish name and is
occasionally used in Spain)
"Only a donkey in the foreground remains undisturbed, as if trying to understand
the hysteria that surrounds him",The Colossus or El Coloso (prompt on 'The Giant'
which was the original Spanish name and is occasionally used in Spain)
"The use of heavy impasto for the scattering caravan contrasts with the misty,
cloudy look that dominates three-fourths of this work, which was probably based on
Juan Arriaza's poem about a certain figure 'caught by the fiery light of the
setting sun' risi",The Colossus or El Coloso (prompt on 'The Giant' which was the
original Spanish name and is occasionally used in Spain)
"Presumably an allegory depicting the impact of the Napoleonic war on the painter's
homeland, FTP, identify this 1812 work featuring an enormous bearded man, a
painting by Francisco Goya.",The Colossus or El Coloso (prompt on 'The Giant' which
was the original Spanish name and is occasionally used in Spain)
A bearded man in a blue robe puts his hand on the chest of a reclining young woman
in this man's Raising of Jairus' Daughter,Ilya Repin
Some distant mountains are lit by the sun while the title character sits in the
shade to the left of three other men in his Job and his Friends,Ilya Repin
"He showed a man with outstretched arms and a woman clutching her hat in 1903's
What a Freedom!, and his other works include St",Ilya Repin
Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death and depictions of an author 'in his
study' and 'as a ploughman in the field.' His other portraits include ones of
Dmitri Mendeleev and Pavel Tretyakov,Ilya Repin
"FTP, name this painter of Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son and The Volga
Boatmen.",Ilya Repin
"One version of it was published as an accompaniment to Erasmus Darwin's The
Botanic Garden, while another inspired Charles Nodier to write the story
Smarra",The Nightmare
"Created 20 years before its artist began his Lectures on Painting at the Royal
Academy, one of its subjects likely depicts his former lover, Anna Landolt",The
Nightmare
"The original version now housed in the Detroit Institute of Arts features a side
table and the edge of a vanity mirror on the right side of the canvas, while a
curtain provides the background",The Nightmare
One of the figures depicted in this work was used to model the title character's
appearance in Nosferatu,The Nightmare
"That squat, impish creature looks out at the viewer and sits hunched on the chest
of a woman who appears to be in a state of sensual pleasure",The Nightmare
"FTP, name this 1782 painting featuring a creepy horse and a bad night's sleep by
Henry Fuseli.",The Nightmare
One work with this name is set in what appears to be a hallway near a stone
staircase and features the meeting of figures in medieval costume,The Kiss
"In that work the man wears a cape and a feathered cap, while the woman is in a
blue dress",The Kiss
"Another work of this name is notable for the light, nondescript faces and clothes
that blend into the blue-brown background",The Kiss
These works by Francesco Hayez and Edvard Munch are not as well-known as a 1908
work which features a background inspired by the Ravenna mosaics,The Kiss
"In that painting a flowering field is spread out at the feet of a dark-haired
male, whose neck is nearly perpendicular to his body, while the female kneels
against him",The Kiss
"Both wear gold robes, though the male's has rectangular, solid-color decorations
while the female's has circular ones",The Kiss
"FTP, Gustav Klimt painted the most famous version of what works named for an
affectionate activity?",The Kiss
X-ray analysis reveals that this work once contained the image of a putto unrolling
a scroll in front of the central figure,Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
"Five years later the artist produced a second copy of it, which is held in the
Dulwich Gallery",Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
"A bulky necklace of pearls contrasts with a golden-brown dress and hangs over the
chest of the title figure, who was also once depicted by Henry Briggs in a double
portrait with Fanny Kemble",Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
"A feminine figure with head bowed and dagger in hand on the left and a gaping-
mouthed figure clutching a chalice on the right represent pity and terror; they
stand behind the title character, who is perched upon a throne among dark clouds
and rendered in ",Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
"FTP, name this Joshua Reynolds painting of an actress as one of the nine Greek
goddesses of the arts.",Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
One version of this work features a group of people in the upper left carrying
banners with such phrases as 'It is glad tiding of great joy' and 'Good will to all
men everywhere.' Influenced by an Edward Westall illustration that commonly
appeared in Ame,The Peaceable Kingdom
"Originally painted to provide support for the artist's Quaker preaching, common
figures in the foreground include various children leading a tranquil menagerie
including a lion, a lamb, and a leopard",The Peaceable Kingdom
"Chapter 11 of Isaiah served as the inspiration of, FTP, what series of paintings
depicting the United States as an Edenic paradise which were created by Edward
Hicks?",The Peaceable Kingdom
"The 1911 study for this work included a table with a vase near the window, which
was not included in the finished product",Self Portrait with Seven Fingers
"That product was painted at a studio in La Ruche where the artist lived in
communal squalor with Soutine, Lger, and others",Self Portrait with Seven Fingers
The top of the work is dominated by shades of red which contrast with the planked
floor of the room depicted,Self Portrait with Seven Fingers
At the top right a simple farm house is depicted in a bubble on the wall; in the
top left a window is opened to a view of the Eiffel Tower,Self Portrait with Seven
Fingers
In the center a tuxedo-clad artist is depicted as he works on a canvas features a
floating woman in a white dress trying to milk a cow,Self Portrait with Seven
Fingers
"FTP, name this anatomically suspect painting in which Marc Chagall depicts
himself.",Self Portrait with Seven Fingers
In 1997 Edwin Hall wrote a book about this work which discussed the inclusion of
St,The Arnolfini Wedding (or The Arnolfini Marriage)
"Margaret emerging from the belly of a dragon, which can be seen carved above the
back of a chair, to argue that Erwin Panofsky's influential interpretations are too
simplistic",The Arnolfini Wedding (or The Arnolfini Marriage)
"Commissioned by its subject, a counselor to the Duke of Burgundy who made his
money as a silk merchant, the year and the artist's signature can be seen above the
mirror whose reflection depicts the artist himself",The Arnolfini Wedding (or The
Arnolfini Marriage)
That artist would go on to paint other famous portraits like The Madonna with the
Chancellor Rolin,The Arnolfini Wedding (or The Arnolfini Marriage)
"Filled with details like a lit candle, a little dog, and a pair of discarded
clogs, FTP, identify this work that depicts a man dressed in dark heavy wool and a
big hat holding the hand of his betrothed, a painting by Jan van Eyck.",The
Arnolfini Wedding (or The Arnolfini Marriage)
"The figures in the background are predominantly portrayed in brown and blue in
order to distinguish them from the more brightly colored central group, which is
surrounded by shades of red",Washington Crossing the Delaware
Two horses can be seen in the rear as the sun creeps up illuminating the
scene,Washington Crossing the Delaware
Its artist used the Rhine as a model and copied the title figure's dress from an
exhibition he had seen on a visit to America,Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Featuring several actual personages including Prince Whipple, a black patriot, and
James Monroe, it depicts various men in fur hats struggling with ice floes that
threaten to hit the foregrounded boat",Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Depicting an event that took place on Christmas Eve of 1776, FTP, identify this
painting of the first president leading his army over a certain river, a work by
Emmanuel Leutze.",Washington Crossing the Delaware
"While studying philosophy at Harvard he visited Alfred North Whitehead's lectures
at Radcliffe, which were to influence his artistic philosophy starting with At Five
in the Afternoon",Robert Motherwell
"He used large calligraphy for the painting Africa and dabbled in the style that
would make him famous in 'Indian Summer, #2,' fully adapting that technique for the
Open series",Robert Motherwell
"That same color-field method would inspire his wife to paint This Morning's
Weather and Mountains and Sea, and characterized his most famous work, a cycle he
described as the 'black of death contrasted with the dazzle of a Matisse-like
sunlight.' FTP, nam",Robert Motherwell
"On this work's left, a cat carries a mouse in its mouth and a flock of birds
extends from its upper left corner loop through a towering cave-like structure",The
Garden of Earthly Delights
Its center features numerous berry trees and for a time it was known as 'The
Picture with the Strawberry-Tree Fruits.' Songbirds on the left look on as horses
and cats are ridden in a circle around a central pool,The Garden of Earthly
Delights
Members of both sexes bathe communally in two pools in the center and left of this
work's central panel and the left and right panels of this work depict the Garden
of Eden and Hell,The Garden of Earthly Delights
"FTP, name this 1504 triptych by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts the worldly sinful
pleasures of human life.",The Garden of Earthly Delights
"Paintings by this man feature a coyly smiling woman penning a titular Love Letter,
a peasant boy and two Cupid-like infants hoisting a rosy-cheeked girl in The See-
Saw , and a work featuring similar characters, with the girl blindfolded,
Blindman's Bluff",Jean-Honor Fragonard
"A stone statue of a cherub is to the left of the central figure of this man's most
famous work, and that figure is illuminated by a shaft of light coming through the
trees, kicking off one of her shoes and glancing knowingly at a concealed
suitor",Jean-Honor Fragonard
"FTP, name this French artist who depicted a woman in a pink dress being pushed by
a man unaware that another is looking up her skirt in The Swing.",Jean-Honor
Fragonard
"While in Paris, this man painted pedestrians crossing Les Ponts des Arts and
evoked an earlier painting with his depiction of a tower of the Louvre's Pavillon
de Flore",Edward Hopper
"A painting by this man depicts a white-faced woman in green sitting across a table
from her doppelganger at the titular restaurant, Chop Suey",Edward Hopper
"Another of his paintings depicts the long shadows of a curbside fire hydrant and
barber's pole in front of closed red and green storefronts, Early Sunday
Morning",Edward Hopper
Another of his paintings features a sign for five-cent cigars above two hat-wearing
men and a woman in a red dress patronizing the counter of a diner,Edward Hopper
"FTP, name this American painter of Nighthawks.",Edward Hopper
A barely visible plowman on the right of the painting and a group of waders just to
the left of center persist through the first of the title phenomena,"Rain, Steam,
and Speed: The Great Western Railway"
The most distinct figures in this work are paddling a small boat on the left side
of the painting just to the right of a traditional stone-arch bridge,"Rain, Steam,
and Speed: The Great Western Railway"
"Such rustic images are contrasted with the dark bridge at this painting's center,
on which a nearly indistinguishable rabbit frantically dashes away from an oncoming
vehicle","Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway"
"FTP, name this work that features an onrushing train of the Great Western Railway,
a painting by J.M.W","Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway"
Turner.,"Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway"
"Raymond Geselbracht contrasts this painting with the artist's bedroom scene
Chambered Nautilus, and its central figure appeared seated and scowling in another
painting called 'Anna.' A still-life by the same artist features a central blue
door and is name",Christina's World
Seven crooked and unevenly spaced posts demarcate a fence that sits in front of a
shed and the two-gabled Olson house in this work's upper right corner,Christina's
World
"A barn is depicted in the upper middle of this painting set in Cushing, Maine that
is rife with brownish grass",Christina's World
"FTP, name this painting depicting a paralyzed girl in a pink dress looking towards
her home, a work of Andrew Wyeth.",Christina's World
"The artist described this work as a metaphor for ideas that were a 'solitary
paranoiac-critical camembert.' Several brick-like shapes adorn a work that features
a giant fish and claims to be the 'Disintegration' of this painting, and a white
figure with a",The Persistence of Memory or La persistencia de memoria
"In the upper left, a broad, flat rectangle rests next to the seashore, while ants
swarm a metallic object in the lower left",The Persistence of Memory or La
persistencia de memoria
"The cliffs of Cadaques are depicted in the upper right of this work, and three
distinctive images appear draped over a tree branch, the side of a rectangle, and
on a white object",The Persistence of Memory or La persistencia de memoria
"FTP, name this painting that features three melting clocks, a work of Salvador
Dali.",The Persistence of Memory or La persistencia de memoria
"A reimagination of this painting depicts a fruit-covered table, a forward-facing
nude woman, and the title figure laid out on a sheet, and was done by Edvard
Munch",The Death of Marat
"A work depicting the same scene shows a shelf containing three books, a large map
on the back wall, and a woman in a black-and-white-striped dress, and was painted
by Paul-Jacque-Aime Baudry",The Death of Marat
"In front of a green cloth, this painting depicts a wooden box, which serves as a
table for an inkwell",The Death of Marat
"The title figure holds a quill in his right hand and a note in his left, and he
lolls to his right while wearing a white sheet like a turban",The Death of Marat
"FTP, name this painting depicting a stabbed French revolutionary in his bathtub, a
work by Jacques-Louis David.",The Death of Marat
The painter of this work was inspired to paint it after finishing a Georgiano
painting that depicts a thunderhead above a village on a hill in the upper right
corner above the title figure,Venus of Urbino
"Beneath a column and a potted plant, two servants in a tapestried corner in the
background rummage for garments in a cassone, a marriage chest",Venus of Urbino
"The title figure clutches a bunch of flowers in her braceleted right hand and
rests beneath a black velvet curtain next to a curled-up dog, and she lies on a red
sofa covered by a white sheet with her other hand covering her pubic area",Venus of
Urbino
"FTP, name this painting that depicts a reclining goddess of love, a work by
Titian.",Venus of Urbino
"One of this man's paintings depicts a girl wearing a blue dress and red hat who
enigmatically glances to the right, and is titled The Terrace",Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
One of his paintings depicts a basket-toting red-haired woman in front of a crowd
toting the title Umbrellas,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Portraits like Jeanne Samary and Madame Charpentier and Her Children provided his
later income,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"A child wearing a red bow is the subject of his Girl With a Watering Can, while
another work depicts some bare-armed dudes in straw hats, women in fancy dresses,
and men in top hats eating and commiserating under an awning",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"FTP, name this French painter of Le Moulin de la Galette and Luncheon of the
Boating Party.",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"In Walter de la Mare's short story A Revenant, a professor who considers Poe's
poetry 'flawless mastery of method' sees this 'curiously detached' painting
flashing through his head",The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"The title figure of this painting looks to the canvas's left and wears a wide-
brimmed black hat, and an enormous tome by Andreas Vesalius is open at the lower
right",The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"Aris Knidt is the focal point of this painting, and he lies in its center as seven
bearded gentlemen in black with poofy white collars look on",The Anatomy Lesson of
Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
Knidt had earlier been hanged for armed robbery,The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor
Nicolaes Tulp
"FTP, name this portrait by Rembrandt, commissioned by the Amsterdam Guild of
Surgeons, that shows the titular physician dissecting a cadaver's hand.",The
Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"Ernest Chesneau said that this figure's left hand 'in the form of a toad, provokes
hilarity,' and T.J",Olympia
Clark noted that her hand 'enraged and exalted the critics as nothing else did.'
Dark green curtains hang in the right background and are drawn above and behind the
main figure,Olympia
"Victorine Meurent posed for this painting, whose main figure wears a black ribbon
around her neck, tan shoes, a bracelet, and a flower behind her ear",Olympia
"The main figure reclines upon rumpled bedclothes, and a black cat stands at
right",Olympia
"To the left of the cat, a black servant brings flowers, presumably from the
central figure's next client",Olympia
"FTP, name this 1863 painting of a reclining nude by Edouard Manet.",Olympia
"This painting's prequel depicts a crowd revolting against turban-wearing men with
curved swords, The Charge of the Mamelukes","The Third of May, 1808: The Execution
of the Defenders of Madrid [accept anything with the correct date and year]"
A six-chimneyed building with a tall spire lies in the background and the central
scene is Principe Pio hill,"The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders
of Madrid [accept anything with the correct date and year]"
"A figure in white kneels and prays next to a man donning red and black who covers
his head with his hands, and a figure in green stares with clenched fists at a dead
body at his feet","The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid
[accept anything with the correct date and year]"
Its most poignant figure lifts his hands in the air and stares helplessly at a line
of blue-uniformed French soldiers pointing rifles at a crowd of Spaniards,"The
Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid [accept anything with
the correct date and year]"
"FTP, name this Goya work depicting a massacre on a certain date.","The Third of
May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid [accept anything with the
correct date and year]"
"On this work's far left, a sword-toting figure donning a red cloak points a staff
upwards to banish tiny clouds from the central scene",Primavera [or Allegory of
Spring; accept Spring before it's mentioned]
"The three Graces are dancing a rondel on this work's left-center, and to the
right, the nymph Chloris is chased by the west wind",Primavera [or Allegory of
Spring; accept Spring before it's mentioned]
"The central figure is atypically depicted with clothes on, and Cupid hovers among
the fruit trees above that central figure while Flora spreads flowers in the
clearing in which this painting is set",Primavera [or Allegory of Spring; accept
Spring before it's mentioned]
"FTP, name this work featuring Venus that takes it name from the Italian for
'spring;' a painting by Sandro Botticelli.",Primavera [or Allegory of Spring;
accept Spring before it's mentioned]
One of them depicts soldiers aiming at a group on horseback while two flying
figures point towards an anvil-shaped rock and is titled Asmodea,The Black
Paintings or las pinturas negras
"Others depict two old people eating, a mostly submerged dog, and two elderly
monks",The Black Paintings or las pinturas negras
"Fantastic Vision and Fight with Cudgels are two of the most uncharacteristic, and
one of the most famous depicts a shadowy, horned figure surrounded by a group of
women, The Witches Sabbath",The Black Paintings or las pinturas negras
"This collections appears on the walls of the 'Deaf Man's Villa.' FTP, identify
this series of paintings that contains Saturn Devouring his Sons, a set of
Francisco Goya works named for their uniform use of a certain dark color.",The
Black Paintings or las pinturas negras
A turning point in the execution of this work is marked by a lack of painted a
secco detailing,The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (accept equivalents; prompt on
partial answers)
"This work features a section in which a small-headed blonde figure winds his way
up a tree, expending his hand to a seated woman",The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
(accept equivalents; prompt on partial answers)
"To the right of that scene, a figure in red uses a stick to send away a distraught
man with his hands raised and a hunched woman",The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
(accept equivalents; prompt on partial answers)
"An adjacent work by the same artist features a self-portrait of the artist in
flayed skin and a bunch of souls getting cast down into heaven, The Last
Judgment",The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (accept equivalents; prompt on partial
answers)
"FTP, name this large fresco that features panels like The Creation of Eve and one
in which God is almost touching Adam's finger, The Creation of Adam.",The ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel (accept equivalents; prompt on partial answers)
"One of his works shows a dove's silhouette on the sky above the beach, while
another shows a winged man next to a lion and is called Homesickness",Rene Francois
Ghislain Magritte
Another of his paintings depicts a canvas that matches up with the view from a
window in Euclidean Promenades,Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
"He replaced the central figure of David's Madame Recamier with a coffin, and he
depicted raining men in Golconde",Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
"Another of his works has a contradictory inscription and depicts a pipe, while in
another a train emerges from a fireplace",Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
"FTP, name this painter who painted The Treachery of Images and Time Transfixed,
also known for a work showing dude in a bowler hat with an apple in front of his
face, Son of Man.",Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
"His apprenticeship featured plein-air works such as Morning, while History shows
an older man and a young boy sitting under the shade of an oak tree",Edvard Munch
"The Day After depicts a woman sleeping next to abandoned liquor bottles, while his
Madonna offers herself to the viewer as she stands next to an embryo",Edvard Munch
"His self portraits include one 'between a clock and a bed' and one 'in hell.' It
was in Berlin that he began a 22 painting cycle that he would title The Frieze of
Life, as well as complete his most celebrated pictures including Puberty and
Vampire",Edvard Munch
His most famous work depicts an orange and red sky in the background as a bald man
on a bridge holds his head and emits the titular shout,Edvard Munch
"FTP, name this Norwegian artist of The Scream.",Edvard Munch
"This artist's The Siesta features his mortally ill wife Beatrice, while Maud
Franklin was depicted in a fur coat and later as Effie Deans in a series of
portraits",James M. Whistler
"He studied under Charles-Gabriel Gleyre while living in Paris, and his 'French
set' marked a revival in the field of etching",James M. Whistler
"Among his patrons was Charles Freer, whose museum houses the Peacock Room which
this man designed to display his The Princess from the Land of Porcelain",James M.
Whistler
"He summed up his views on aesthetics in the mock-ecclesiastical 'Ten O'Clock
Lecture,' and Frederick Leyland suggested the name of his series entitled
'Nocturnes.' FTP, name this artist who painted Joanna Hiffernan as The White Girl
and his mother in Arra",James M. Whistler
1.,James M. Whistler
His lost paintings include a fresco of giants in Padua and the Life of St,Paolo
Uccello or Paolo di Dono
Benedict,Paolo Uccello or Paolo di Dono
"One of his earliest extant works is a fresco depicting the mercenary Sir John
Hawkwood, while his later The Profanation of the Host may have been painted in
Urbino along with the now damaged Hunt in the Forest",Paolo Uccello or Paolo di
Dono
He may have included a depiction of Alberti in his fresco cycle The Story of
Noah,Paolo Uccello or Paolo di Dono
"His most famous work is composed of three separate panels, featuring numerous
lances as well as the unhorsing of the Sienese commander Bernardino della
Carda",Paolo Uccello or Paolo di Dono
"FTP, name this painter from Florence, whose nickname means bird and whose most
famous work is The Battle of San Romano.",Paolo Uccello or Paolo di Dono
"On the left side a dark haired nude kisses an androgynous face, while on the
bottom right a young boy seems to be biting his prone mother",Massacre at Chios or
Massacre of Chios or Le Massacre de Scio or Scnes des massacres de Scio
Smoke rises from some buildings in the background and a naked woman with a snake
wrapped around her left arm seems to be dancing next to a person covering their
head,Massacre at Chios or Massacre of Chios or Le Massacre de Scio or Scnes des
massacres de Scio
"Almost 14 feet long, its center features a darker skinned man lying on his side in
a loincloth",Massacre at Chios or Massacre of Chios or Le Massacre de Scio or
Scnes des massacres de Scio
"It was the artist's second submission to the Salon and like its predecessor,
Barque of Dante, it uses unblended colors to great effect",Massacre at Chios or
Massacre of Chios or Le Massacre de Scio or Scnes des massacres de Scio
"FTP, a Turkish soldier on a rearing horse dominates the right side of the canvas,
which was painted to stir up sympathy for the 20,000 Greeks who had been killed on
the namesake island, in what work by Eugene Delacroix?",Massacre at Chios or
Massacre of Chios or Le Massacre de Scio or Scnes des massacres de Scio
"Now housed at Hertford House, London, it was originally known as Portrait of a
Man, but got its now-standard name after Richard Seymour-Conway purchased it at
auction in 1865",The Laughing Cavalier
"The title figure's sleeve has ten buttons and he sports a black cumberbund and
cravat, both of which match his hat, which is slightly askew",The Laughing Cavalier
It was painted three years before its artist completed his Banquet of the St,The
Laughing Cavalier
"Hadrian Civic Guard and from the writing in the upper right, we know that its
subject is 26 years old, though he doesn't seem to be affecting the titular
expression",The Laughing Cavalier
"FTP, identify this best-known work of Franz Hals.",The Laughing Cavalier
"Among the more notable of his studio assistants were James Northcote and Giussepe
Marchi, who toiled with him for more than three decades",Joshua Reynolds
"He painted social scenes like Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen and historical
works, as in the large The Infant Hercules he finished at St",Joshua Reynolds
Petersburg,Joshua Reynolds
"While his frequent trips abroad would result in the publication of A Journey to
Flanders and Holland, it was his 15 part series of lectures that best captured his
philosophy of painting",Joshua Reynolds
"He could be simple, as when he depicted Nelly O' Brien with a dog in her lap or
Samuel Johnson in profile, but he is best remembered for a much more dramatic
portrait of a famous actress in costume",Joshua Reynolds
"FTP, name this author of the Discourses on Painting, the British artist who
created Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse.",Joshua Reynolds
One of the two putti in this work seems to be jabbing St,Madonna of the Harpies
Francis in the stomach with his wing,Madonna of the Harpies
The other looks down at the foot of St,Madonna of the Harpies
"John, whose depiction was modeled on a statue by Sansovino that this work's artist
admired",Madonna of the Harpies
Ferdinand de Medici wanted to acquire this work so badly that he offered the nuns
of San Francesco dei Macci a copy by Pertrucci as well a complete restoration of
their church in exchange for it,Madonna of the Harpies
"It is now housed in the Uffizi, where patrons can still see the four
aforementioned figures flanking the title woman who stands on a pedestal decorated
with reliefs of mythological monsters",Madonna of the Harpies
"FTP, identify this 1517 work, the masterpiece of Andrea del Sarto.",Madonna of the
Harpies
"His collaboration with the poets Carmen Sylva and Richard Dehmel, among others,
was published posthumously as Stella Peregrina",Franz Marc
"While his early work inspired by Van Gogh resulted in such nature studies as Larch
Sapling, his later works, including Playing Forms and Fighting Forms, are non-
representational",Franz Marc
"He contributed the essay 'Wild Germany' to an artistic almanac released in 1912,
and his large compositions include the canvases Mandrill and Fate of Animals",Franz
Marc
These paintings marked the zenith of his mature approach which depicted
prismatically shattered animal forms,Franz Marc
"FTP, identify this artist, whose painting of two equines named the movement he
founded with Wasily Kandinsky, The Blue Rider.",Franz Marc
One section of this work features a cloudlike white palace and consists of a
landscape that partly hides a mountain range on the right,The Voyage of Life
"The first painting of this series is dominated by a cave representing 'the
mysterious Past,' while the fourth depicts a dove illuminated by golden rays of
light",The Voyage of Life
"All paintings but the last contain an hourglass attached to the prow of a golden
boat, which is steered by an angel due to the infancy of the central figure",The
Voyage of Life
"Unlike its painter's earlier historical series The Course of Empire, it centers on
that solitary figure's allegorical journey on a river before reaching the ocean and
ascending to heaven",The Voyage of Life
"Consisting of 'Childhood,' 'Youth,' 'Manhood,' and 'Old Age,' FTP, identify this
series of paintings by Thomas Cole.",The Voyage of Life
"In Nikolai Ge's version, the central figure wears brown and reclines on a bed",The
Last Supper
"Dirk Bouts' version is the center panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament,
and includes four servants in the background",The Last Supper
"The figures are barefoot in Jacopo Bassano's version, while Andrea del Castagno's
version features an isolated figure sitting in the foreground on one side of a long
white table",The Last Supper
"The central figure has a brilliant halo in Tintoretto's version, which is set on a
diagonal, while another version portrays Judas' face in shadow",The Last Supper
"FTP, name this scene from the New Testament most famously painted by Leonardo da
Vinci, which depicts the final meal eaten before the betrayal of Jesus.",The Last
Supper
"In one work by this artist a large white cat sits in the lap of a man clad in a
blue sweater in front of some bay windows, while another work by this man shows
Nick Wilder in front of an apartment complex",David Hockney
"His experiments with Polaroid photo collages yielded works like You make the
picture, Zion Canyon, Utah, and his other portraits include one 'surrounded by
artistic devices.' The Metropolitan Museum contains his Mount Fuji and Flowers, and
he also created",David Hockney
"FTP, name this painter of Mr",David Hockney
and Mrs,David Hockney
"Clark and Percy, a contributor to British pop art in the 1960s who paints front
lawns, men taking showers, and lots of swimming pools as seen in works like A
Bigger Splash.",David Hockney
"His early works such as The Remains of a Poet drew on his experiences as a clerk,
while he turned to literary inspiration for Hamlet Following the Ghost of his
Father",Aubrey Beardsley
"He illustrated his own novella Under the Hill, which was a version of the
Tannhauser story",Aubrey Beardsley
Also controversial were the eight illustrations he created for an edition of
Aristophanes' Lysistrata,Aubrey Beardsley
"Other illustrations included a series done for Le Morte d'Arthur, but he is better
known for his work with such magazines as The Savoy and The Yellow Book",Aubrey
Beardsley
"Noted for his black-and-white ink work, FTP, name this Art Nouveau artist most
famous for his illustrations of Oscar Wilde's Salom.",Aubrey Beardsley
This artwork is depicted in the top center of the fourth work in William Hogarth's
Marriage A-la-Mode series,Jupiter and Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept
'Zeus and Io')
"Originally commissioned by the Duke of Mantua, it is currently housed at Vienna's
Museum of Art History",Jupiter and Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept 'Zeus
and Io')
The extreme lower portion of the work depicts the rocky shore of a small
stream,Jupiter and Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept 'Zeus and Io')
"On that shore sits a large vase, overgrown by vines and earth",Jupiter and Io
(accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept 'Zeus and Io')
"Atop the overgrowth, the central figure lies on a large white sheet",Jupiter and
Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept 'Zeus and Io')
"On the left, a tree is enveloped by a dark gray cloud from which emerges a paw-
like form that caresses the central figure as a face emerges to kiss her",Jupiter
and Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do not accept 'Zeus and Io')
"FTP, name this work by Correggio depicting the rape of an Argive princess who was
subsequently transformed into a heifer?.",Jupiter and Io (accept Io and Jupiter; do
not accept 'Zeus and Io')
One of his works depicts Father Magloire in a blue shirt and sandals walking down a
sandy road,Gustave Caillebotte
"He depicted a series of kayaks near the location of his family property at Yerres,
though his later work centered on Paris, where he created a number of paintings of
snowy rooftops",Gustave Caillebotte
"Near his death he focused primarily on his garden, painting Dahlias, the Garden at
Petit-Gennevilliers, while his early work includes painting urban toil as in The
Housepainters and The Floor-Scrapers",Gustave Caillebotte
"His best known piece, which is at the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts a number
of his impressionist friends and numerous folks carrying umbrellas",Gustave
Caillebotte
"FTP, name this artist of Paris Street, Rainy Day.",Gustave Caillebotte
"At one point in this work, a character goes to Shell-heap Island to visit the
grave of Joanna, who lived in isolation after her fianc deserted her",The Country
of the Pointed Firs
"Its author wrote four additions to this work, including 'The Queen's Twin,' 'The
Foreigner,' and another which introduces Esther Hight",The Country of the Pointed
Firs
"One of the more famous sections concerns a journey to the North Pole by the
reclusive Captain Littlepage, which is followed by the narrator's visit to Green
Island, where she meets Mrs",The Country of the Pointed Firs
Blackett,The Country of the Pointed Firs
"As the volume opens, the narrator leaves Boston for the coastal town of Dunnett
Landing, where she befriends the widowed herbalist Almira Todd",The Country of the
Pointed Firs
"FTP, name this series of sketches published in 1896 by Sarah Orne Jewett.",The
Country of the Pointed Firs
"One figure that can be discerned in the lower left of this work wears a black and
green top hat, while a mostly red figure at the front and center carries a black
sword and wears a yellow pointy hat",Christ's Entry into Brussels (or Entry of
Christ into Brussels in 1889)
It depicts social reformer Emile Littre as a bishop,Christ's Entry into Brussels
(or Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889)
"On the right, a clown in green and red stands on top of a green platform",Christ's
Entry into Brussels (or Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889)
"They overlook a throng of people, some of whom hold signs, including one saying
'Doctrinaire fanfares always succeed.' Originally rejected by The Twenty, a group
its creator helped found, a prominent banner at the top reads 'Vive La Sociale,'
under which ",Christ's Entry into Brussels (or Entry of Christ into Brussels in
1889)
"FTP, name this work depicting Jesus coming into the titular Belgian city, a work
of James Ensor.",Christ's Entry into Brussels (or Entry of Christ into Brussels in
1889)
He adapted Joseph Blackburn's portrait d'apparat method for his works depicting a
fat-looking woman with a blue book in Mrs,John Singleton Copley
"James Russell, Katherine Graves, an old elegant lady with a hint of a mustache in
Mrs",John Singleton Copley
"Thomas Boylston, and a red-coated Samuel Adams",John Singleton Copley
"Influenced by John Smibert, his later historical works include The Death of the
Earl of Chatham and The Death of Major Peirson",John Singleton Copley
"His The Boy with a Squirrel got him noticed, and he also painted a famous portrait
of Paul Revere at his silver shop",John Singleton Copley
"FTP, name this American artist who depicted a dangerous incident occurring in
Havana harbor in his Watson and the Shark.",John Singleton Copley
This artist depicted Judith against a serene mountainous landscape in flowing red
dress with a tree rising over her left shoulder,Giorgione or Giorgio Barbarelli (or
Giorgio da Castelfranco before mentioned)
"Little remains of the frescoes he painted for the exterior of the Fondaco dei
Tedeschi or the German Warehouse, which is now the Post Office in Venice",Giorgione
or Giorgio Barbarelli (or Giorgio da Castelfranco before mentioned)
"Other works attributed to him include a canvas dubbed The Three Philosophers
perhaps completed by del Piombo, a Madonna in his home town of Castelfranco, and
the Sleeping Venus",Giorgione or Giorgio Barbarelli (or Giorgio da Castelfranco
before mentioned)
His best known work features a huddled woman in white sitting on a rock across from
an upright soldier in red posed against a threatening sky,Giorgione or Giorgio
Barbarelli (or Giorgio da Castelfranco before mentioned)
"FTP, name this Italian painter of The Tempest.",Giorgione or Giorgio Barbarelli
(or Giorgio da Castelfranco before mentioned)
It is often cited as the secular analogue to the Lamentation at the Cappella di
Eleonora,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (accept Allegory of Love or The Triumph of
Venus)"
"The old woman on the left is holding her head, while another figure has a young
girl's face and offers a honeycomb","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (accept Allegory
of Love or The Triumph of Venus)"
"Painted as a gift for Francis I, a white dove can be seen on one side, while two
masks lie strewn on the lower right","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (accept
Allegory of Love or The Triumph of Venus)"
One of the title figures has a bald head and uses his long arm to draw back a blue
curtain at the top of the painting,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (accept Allegory
of Love or The Triumph of Venus)"
Another title figure is a smiling nude boy who clutches a handful of rose
petals,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (accept Allegory of Love or The Triumph of
Venus)"
"Meanwhile, the two central titular figures are portrayed embracing","Venus, Cupid,
Folly, and Time (accept Allegory of Love or The Triumph of Venus)"
"FTP, name this Mannerist masterpiece by Agnolo Bronzino.","Venus, Cupid, Folly,
and Time (accept Allegory of Love or The Triumph of Venus)"
The artist of these pieces stated that he was inspired by memories of his childhood
and particularly a friend who sang a playful song near the water of a brook,Woman
series
"Meyer Schapiro persuaded that artist to continue working, and one of these works
may borrow from the artist's own 'Self-Portrait with Imaginary Brother.' First
exhibited at the Sidney Janis gallery, these pieces were followed by a group on
urban landscap",Woman series
One of them depicts a bicycle while another is described as a landscape; its artist
briefly halted their production but resumed upon spotting a cigarette advertisement
in a magazine,Woman series
"FTP, name these six paintings of abstract expressionism, a numbered series by
Willem de Kooning.",Woman series
"In this painting, the tiny bird and flower pattern lining the bottom of the left
figure's outfit blends seamlessly with numerous rows of three red blotches",The Two
Fridas or Las Dos Fridas
"MacKinley Helm spent time interviewing the artist during the production of this
work, in which the tiny egg-shaped object held in the left hand of the rightmost
figure is actually a miniature portrait of the artist's lover",The Two Fridas or
Las Dos Fridas
"Set on a green woven bench against the backdrop of a cloudy gray and black sky, it
was painted during the artist's divorce proceedings, and shows a pair of surgical
scissors severing the artery that connects the exposed hearts of the titular
figures, a wo",The Two Fridas or Las Dos Fridas
"FTP, identify this portrait representing both of the contrasting backgrounds of
its artist, Miss Kahlo.",The Two Fridas or Las Dos Fridas
Subjects of this man's early works include a barren streetcorner marked by a
leafless tree and a run-down industrial plant with ruts leading up to it,Paul
Signac
The Gennevilliers Road and Gas Tanks at Clichy were painted after this artist ended
his training with Jean-Baptiste Bin,Paul Signac
"Later in life he would introduce the idea of musical tempo into his work, as
exhibited in his Presto, while his brief pure color period can be seen in the
bright orange hillside that provides the setting for his Women at the Well",Paul
Signac
"Among his best-known paintings are those of a pine tree and the harbor at that
location, St",Paul Signac
Tropez,Paul Signac
"Later works include the wildly psychedelic portrait of his friend Felix Feneon,
which represented a departure from his roots in Divisionism",Paul Signac
"The author of From Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism, this is, for 10 points, what
artist who together with Georges Seurat developed pointillism.",Paul Signac
This piece is framed at the top by a semicircular arch under a central gable with a
relief of the torso of a robed man touching his hands to his chest,Four Crowned
Martyrs or Four Crowned Saints or Quattro Santi Coronati
The marble relief below this sculpture group shows the construction of a spiral
column on the left and a nude cherub on the right in a workshop scene depicting its
main subjects in action,Four Crowned Martyrs or Four Crowned Saints or Quattro
Santi Coronati
"This sculpture group shows a set of Romanesque-figured men in togas somberly
facing each other inside a semicircular niche, and was commissioned by a guild of
stone and woodworkers in homage to a group of artists executed for refusing to
build a statue of",Four Crowned Martyrs or Four Crowned Saints or Quattro Santi
Coronati
"Located along with works by Ghiberti and Donatello in Florence's Or San Michele,
this is, FTP, what sculpture group depicting a quartet of doomed Christian
sculptors, the masterpiece of Nanni di Banco?",Four Crowned Martyrs or Four Crowned
Saints or Quattro Santi Coronati
"A later self-portrait by this painting's artist in which he is wearing a blue
sweater features it in the background, though most of the people depicted in the
original painting are not present",The Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
"A man and two children can be seen climbing over a short wall that runs across
this painting, and a winding path leads down to a row of four houses",The Yellow
Christ or Le Christ Jaune
"A set of brown cliffs can be seen in background on the left, though on the right
they are obscured by a large hill",The Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
Reddish-brown trees dot the majority of the hilly landscape behind the title
figure,The Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
"In the foreground sits a woman wearing a grey wimple, and next to her sit a woman
in bright blue and another in black and white, all facing the title character",The
Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
That character is modeled after an anonymous painting created for a chapel in
Tremalo,The Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
For ten points name this painting in which the crucifixion is depicted in a certain
color by Paul Gaugin.,The Yellow Christ or Le Christ Jaune
"One character at the center of this painting is an entirely red dwarf who hunches
against a column with a dark parrot on his arm, while two soldiers are
conspicuously milling about in German dress",The Feast in the House of Levi or
Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
A black and white dog sits in the front center on a raised platform; the platform
is accessible by gradually ascending the stairs in the lower corners,The Feast in
the House of Levi or Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
"The background is dominated by an arcade of three massive arches, beyond which
city buildings rise, including a white tower at center",The Feast in the House of
Levi or Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
"Commissioned for the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santi Giovanni e
Paolo, it now sits in the Academy in Venice",The Feast in the House of Levi or
Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
"It was renamed in the wake of heresy charges and completed a decade after its
artist's other masterpiece, The Marriage at Cana",The Feast in the House of Levi or
Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
"FTP, name this painting which depicts the Last Supper, but was named by its artist
Veronese to reflect the festive banquet taking place at the title place.",The Feast
in the House of Levi or Convito in casa di Levi or La Cena in casa di Levi
This man's writings include the unfinished novel M,Giorgio de Chirico
Dudron's Adventure,Giorgio de Chirico
"This artist's fruit paintings include Transformed Dream, while a bunch of
brightly-colored toys dominate his Evil Genius of a King",Giorgio de Chirico
"Nude men wading through pools is the subject of his set of prints entitled
Mysterious Bathers, while paintings in a more classical style include the Horses by
the Sea paintings",Giorgio de Chirico
"Experiments with lithography culminated in The Grand Metaphysician, while Still-
Life with Silverware and Self-Portrait in Black Costume exemplify his 'neo-baroque'
period",Giorgio de Chirico
"He produced over twenty versions of his painting of three mannequins on a wooden
pedestal, Disquieting Muses, but better-known are his 'arcade paintings' including
one featuring a girl rolling a large hoop in the shadowy title locale",Giorgio de
Chirico
For 10 points name this surrealist artist of Mystery and Melancholy of a
Street.,Giorgio de Chirico
"The otherwise empty right side of this painting is highlighted by a projection of
wheat crops in the lower right corner, three trees above them, and a distant image
of sheep grazing in an enclosed pen amidst the background of a cloudy sky over the
fields ",Mr. and Mrs. Andrews or Robert Andrews and his Wife
"An unfinished patch was left in the female subject's lap, and like her floppy sun
hat and tiny pink slippers, contrasts with her enormously oversized pastel blue
dress",Mr. and Mrs. Andrews or Robert Andrews and his Wife
"That space was probably meant to be filled with the image of a pheasant killed by
the man to her left, who wears a tri-cornered hat and stands leaning against the
bench she sits on, a hunting rifle tucked underneath his arm",Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
or Robert Andrews and his Wife
"FTP, identify this portrait honoring the marriage of an 18th Century Suffolk
couple, painted by Thomas Gainsborough.",Mr. and Mrs. Andrews or Robert Andrews and
his Wife
"On the right end of this painting, a saw and a split log with a stick and an ax
resting on it lie on the floor, beneath the bench where a bearded man in brown
constructs a mousetrap, symbolizing the role of the cross as a trap against
Satan",Merode Altarpiece
"An open door and the brick walls of a castle with a guard perched in front form
the backdrop of the left end, where a man in black and a woman in a red garment and
white veil kneel in awe",Merode Altarpiece
"Between these depictions of Joseph as a carpenter and this painting's donors, a
vase, a candle, and an open book rest on the table in the center panel of this
work, which shows an angel approaching an oblivious Virgin Mary, who wears a
flowing red dress a",Merode Altarpiece
"FTP, identify this three part altarpiece showing an annunciation scene, a work by
Robert Campin, the Master of Flemalle.",Merode Altarpiece
He painted a version of Monet's Luncheon On the Grass with a deliberate misspelling
in its French title which featured a brown fish and an egg-plant laid on a white
cloth,Max Ernst
"One work by this artist depicts an airplane with human arms flying over an open
field as a wounded soldier is being carried away, while another work depicts a
human like figure who has a tilted cylindrical head with green hair and spins on a
top in a barr",Max Ernst
"In addition to Murdering Airplane and Ubu Imperator, he made several works
featuring the birdman Loplop which appear in his collage novels such as La Femme
100 ttes and Une Semaine de bont, but he is better known for Pieta or Revolution
by Night, and a ",Max Ernst
"For 10 points, identify this German surrealist who made famous such techniques as
grattage and frottage.",Max Ernst
Scenes of a castle siege and knights on a white horse decorate the woven red
tapestry folded over in front of the title character's lap,The Lady of Shalott
"Three white candles, only of one which is lit, a lantern, and a miniature statue
of Christ on the cross appear to the right of the title character, who was also
depicted in a 1915 painting sitting at a loom, wearing a long red dress, and being
'Half-Sick ",The Lady of Shalott
"FTP, identify this John William Waterhouse painting of a woman who lived alone on
an island near Camelot and was also the title character of an Alfred, Lord Tennyson
poem.",The Lady of Shalott
"In one of his paintings, a white-haired man in a red cape leans over his harp
asleep as gray-and-white figures of warriors appear in the clouds above him,
representing his dream",Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"In another of his paintings, a royal figure from Toledo kneels as he extends his
hat back with his left arm and leans over to kiss a rapier on a pillow",Jean-
Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"In addition to painting The Dream of Ossian, this painter depicted the composer
Cherubini with the muse of lyric poetry",Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"He painted a nude woman stretching one arm over her head as she pours out a water
jug in The Source, while this painter of Portrait of Countess D'Haussonville also
painted The Valpincon Bather",Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Perhaps his most famous portrait shows a blue-dressed woman with a red bow in her
hair appearing to scratch her chin,Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"FTP, identify this painter of the Apotheosis of Homer, who painted too many
vertebrae on the woman in La Grande Odalisque.",Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"This artist depicts an old woman peering out from a vase of flowers on a ledge in
his Bouquet of Margueritas, while his mythological scenes include 'Oedipus Taken
from the Tree' and 'Offering to Pan.' He depicted a much-loved family meeting place
in The C",Jean Francois Millet
"One of his more famous paintings was originally commissioned by Thomas Appleton,
though he later refused it and the artist added a steeple to the canvas; Salvador
Dal authored a manuscript on the 'tragic myth' of that painting",Jean Francois
Millet
"His most famous work features three people bent over in different-colored bonnets,
while other characteristic works include The Angelus and The Potato Planters",Jean
Francois Millet
"FTP, name this Barbizon school naturalist best known for The Gleaners.",Jean
Francois Millet
Juan de Arfe is sometimes referred to as the Spanish version of this
artist,Benvenuto Cellini
One work attributed to him at the National Gallery of Art in Washington depicts the
creation of the Hippocrene fountain,Benvenuto Cellini
"He borrowed imagery from a lost fresco of Rosso Fiorentino to create a bronze
lunette which depicts a woman reclining among hounds who drapes her arm around a
stag, the Nymph of Fontainebleau",Benvenuto Cellini
"His best known work includes a group of four seahorses and features one character
placing his hand upon a ship, while his legs intertwine with the goddess Ceres who
rests her hand upon an ionic temple",Benvenuto Cellini
The Loggia dei Lanzi houses his 'Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa' and he is also
known for being repeatedly convicted of sodomy and shooting the Prince of
Orange,Benvenuto Cellini
"FTP, name this artist who gave to Francis I the gift of an enamel, ivory, and gold
Saltcellar.",Benvenuto Cellini
This painting is bookended on each side by maroon chairs with tassles and gold
studs,The Art of Painting [or The Allegory of Painting; or The Allegory of the Art
of Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
"The image on the wall in this painting is, as in many other works by its artist,
labeled with the word 'Descriptio,' its creators being known as 'World
Describers",The Art of Painting [or The Allegory of Painting; or The Allegory of
the Art of Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
The lack of candles in the golden chandelier adorned with a double-headed eagle in
this work is likely a reference to the suppression of the painter's faith,The Art
of Painting [or The Allegory of Painting; or The Allegory of the Art of Painting;
or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
"A large tapestry serves as a repoussoir, held back by the chair on the left",The
Art of Painting [or The Allegory of Painting; or The Allegory of the Art of
Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
Black and white tile belies this painting's meager setting and led to its
misidentification as a work of Peter de Hooch,The Art of Painting [or The Allegory
of Painting; or The Allegory of the Art of Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
"One figure, wearing a poofy black and white slashed doublet, has his back to the
viewer and rests his right arm on a maulstick, while the other figure wears holds a
book and a trumpet in the guise of Clio",The Art of Painting [or The Allegory of
Painting; or The Allegory of the Art of Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
"For 10 points, name this work that symbolically depicts an artist painting a
posing subject, by Jan Vermeer.",The Art of Painting [or The Allegory of Painting;
or The Allegory of the Art of Painting; or Die Allegorie der Malerei]
"In response to the death of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso painted a set of fifteen
variations of this painting",Women of Algiers in their Apartment
"An ornately drawn picture of a flower vase highlights the center of the ivory wall
in the background, which is offset by a slightly ajar set of double doors to the
right and the slanted mirror above",Women of Algiers in their Apartment
"An unworn red slipper rests in front of the jeweled necklace wearing figure
lounging on a set of pillows in the lower left corner, the only one of the title
characters directly facing the viewer",Women of Algiers in their Apartment
"To the right, a standing black servant woman looks back at the other two title
characters, who are enjoying a private moment with a hookah",Women of Algiers in
their Apartment
"FTP, identify this orientalist painting of ladies in a North African harem, a work
of Eugene Delacroix.",Women of Algiers in their Apartment
This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an
identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy,Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
The background features only a small clump of green foliage in the center,Fur
Traders Descending the Missouri
"The grizzled character on the right wears a stocking cap and a red shirt while
smoking a pipe, while the other character in a blue shirt appears more amicable and
sprawls lazily across the center of the canvas",Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
"On the left, we see a shadowy black cat which appears to be a pet since it is on a
tether; the central character holds a pouch and a dead duck",Fur Traders Descending
the Missouri
"The two characters depicted are father and son, though the son is half-white",Fur
Traders Descending the Missouri
"Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1932, FTP, name this classic of
American genre painting, in which George Caleb Bingham depicts two men peacefully
floating down a certain river.",Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
One of these works shows the fur clothing a polish nobleman,"Rembrandt's Self-
Portraits (accept equivalents, i.e., depictions of himself, drawings of himself,
etc.) prompt on portraits or pictures of Rembrandt"
"Another one depicts an oriental prince behind a dog posing with a dark red feather
in his turban, while another finds the central figure attired after Titian's
Ariosto","Rembrandt's Self-Portraits (accept equivalents, i.e., depictions of
himself, drawings of himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or pictures of Rembrandt"
Two enormous semi-circles can be seen behind a white haired figure in the version
painted at Kenwood,"Rembrandt's Self-Portraits (accept equivalents, i.e.,
depictions of himself, drawings of himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or pictures
of Rembrandt"
There are also numerous poster card size versions that show a man in 'studio
attire' and one depicting the scene of the prodigal son in a tavern,"Rembrandt's
Self-Portraits (accept equivalents, i.e., depictions of himself, drawings of
himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or pictures of Rembrandt"
"In a more famous example, the central figure, draped in red, raises a glass to his
wife Saskia, that work was painted one year before its subject's more famous The
Blinding of Samson was completed","Rembrandt's Self-Portraits (accept equivalents,
i.e., depictions of himself, drawings of himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or
pictures of Rembrandt"
"For ten points, identify this series of drawings and paintings by a certain Dutch
who also painted Night Watch.","Rembrandt's Self-Portraits (accept equivalents,
i.e., depictions of himself, drawings of himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or
pictures of Rembrandt"
This man's works such as Israel and the Law and Frieze of Prophets were painted for
the Triumph of Religion series at the Boston Public Library,John Singer Sargent
"He painted portraits of Frederick Law Olmstead and Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, in
addition to depicting Evelyn, Mabel, and Mildred Vickers in The Misses
Vickers",John Singer Sargent
"He also depicted soldiers holding rifles walking in a file with bandages over
their eyes in Gassed, while a better known work shows two girls lighting Chinese
lanterns and is called Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose",John Singer Sargent
"Better known for a scandalous depiction of Virginie Gautreau, for 10 points,
identify this American artist of Madame X.",John Singer Sargent
One of the figures at the left of this painting stares at the title figure while
clutching a large vase,Madonna of the Long Neck [accept Madonna with the Long Neck;
prompt on Madonna dal Collo Longo]
The central figure's bare foot pokes out from behind some blue satin in front of a
green pillow stacked atop a red pillow in the bottom center of this work,Madonna of
the Long Neck [accept Madonna with the Long Neck; prompt on Madonna dal Collo
Longo]
"A bare-chested, toga-clad man unrolls a scroll in the bottom right, and he stands
next to a single white column",Madonna of the Long Neck [accept Madonna with the
Long Neck; prompt on Madonna dal Collo Longo]
"The central female rests her hand on her breast in front of her brown braided
ponytail, and is looking down at an enormous baby that is sprawled out across her
lap",Madonna of the Long Neck [accept Madonna with the Long Neck; prompt on Madonna
dal Collo Longo]
"For 10 points, name this work by Parmigianino that depicts the infant Christ held
by a lengthily-trunked Mary.",Madonna of the Long Neck [accept Madonna with the
Long Neck; prompt on Madonna dal Collo Longo]
A man in armor stands in a boat kissing a naked woman in his Deliverance of
Arsinoe,Tintoretto [or Jacopo Robusti]
"Angels radiate out in circular rows in his largest painting, Paradise, which was
executed with help from his son Domenico, and a figure sucks at a woman's breast,
causing stars to fly out, in his Origin of the Milky Way",Tintoretto [or Jacopo
Robusti]
"He painted the ceiling of Scuola di San Rocco, and St",Tintoretto [or Jacopo
Robusti]
Mark descends from the sky in an orange cape in his Miracle of the Slave,Tintoretto
[or Jacopo Robusti]
Another of his works is housed in the San Giorgio Maggiore and depicts angels
circling a chandelier and depicts the title act on a diagonal axis,Tintoretto [or
Jacopo Robusti]
"For 10 points, name this late Renaissance painter of The Last Supper whose name
means 'little dyer.'",Tintoretto [or Jacopo Robusti]
This artist created the Fountain of the Bees for the Barberini family and sculpted
busts like Damned Soul and Blessed Soul,Gianlorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo
Bernini]
"His works in the Galleria Borghese include one that depicts the three title
figures fleeing from Troy, and one that depicts a woman turning into a
tree",Gianlorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"In addition to Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius and Apollo and Daphne, he designed
the oval church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale",Gianlorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni
Lorenzo Bernini]
He sculpted a work in the Piazza Navona which includes representations of the Nile
and the Ganges and one which shows an angel pointing a spear at the title
figure,Gianlorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"For 10 points, name this Italian sculptor of The Fountain of the Four Rivers and
The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa.",Gianlorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"In one of his works, three nude women can be seen in room with his most famous
work in the background of the painting, and his series of 'concert caf' paintings
such as At the Concert Europeen notably use the Cont crayon",Georges-Pierre Seurat
"He also depicted performers doing the can-can in his Le Chahut, and another
painting sees a boy standing in the water with his hands near his mouth as another
boy rests his legs in the water",Georges-Pierre Seurat
"In addition to Bathers at Asnieres, he is best known for a work depicting several
people relaxing near a waterway as a woman with a large behind has a monkey on a
leash",Georges-Pierre Seurat
"For 10 points, name this pointillist painter of Sunday Afternoon on La Grande
Jatte.",Georges-Pierre Seurat
"It has been nicknamed 'the forest,' because each beam in its construction came
from a different tree",the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris ['Paris' is not
necessary after it is said]
"A later addition to it was performed by Bellu, who created a second spire on an
octagonal base supported by four transept pillars",the Cathedral of Notre Dame de
Paris ['Paris' is not necessary after it is said]
"One of its windows, designed by Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montreuil, has
corner pieces that represent the descent into Hell and the resurrection of
Christ",the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris ['Paris' is not necessary after it is
said]
"Unlike that South Rose Window, its transept and famous spire were rebuilt in the
1800s in an effort led by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc",the Cathedral of Notre Dame de
Paris ['Paris' is not necessary after it is said]
"Originally constructed under the orders of Maurice de Sully and found on the Ile
de la Cite, for 10 points, name this Gothic cathedral located in Paris.",the
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris ['Paris' is not necessary after it is said]
"His last work, based on Rne Thom's catastrophe theory, depicts three integral
signs and is titled The Swallow's Tail",Salvador Dali [or Salvador Domingo Felipe
Jacinto Dal i Domnech]
An optical illusion transforms the first of the titular animals seated on a lake
into larger mammals in his Swans Reflecting Elephants,Salvador Dali [or Salvador
Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech]
One of his paintings depicts an elephant in the background and two tigers over a
naked woman in the foreground,Salvador Dali [or Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto
Dal i Domnech]
This creator of Lobster Telephone also painted The Hallucinogenic Toreador and a
'disintegration' of his most famous work which depicted the Cadaques and three
melting clocks,Salvador Dali [or Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech]
"For 10 points, name this surrealist artist of The Persistence of Memory.",Salvador
Dali [or Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech]
"The Manningtree altarpiece features this artist's The Risen Christ, and in another
work the titular animal action is performed by jumping over an obstacle as people
look on from a barge",John Constable
"In addition to Leaping Horse, he painted several works about life near his
hometown of East Bergholt, while another series depicts the title structure at
Leadenhall 'from the River,' and 'from the meadows' with an overarching
rainbow",John Constable
His most famous work shows the title object near Flatford Mill on the River Stour
and depicts Willy Lott's cottage,John Constable
"The painter of Salisbury Cathedral, for 10 points, name this English landscape
artist whose best-known painting is The Hay Wain.",John Constable
"One of this man's works contains a naked man holding a bucket showering himself on
a plain, while another features a man in a red uniform holding a cherry tree while
a boy holds an axe",Grant Wood
"In addition to Sultry Night and Parson Weems' Fable, he depicted a white church in
the middle of a dark town as a man on horseback hurries to the left in one
painting, and another work shows the title figures standing in front of a copy of
Washington Cros",Grant Wood
"For 10 points, name this painter of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Daughters
of Revolution, an American regionalist best known for a portrait of his dentist and
his sister in American Gothic.",Grant Wood
"He never finished the chalice that Clement VII had commissioned, though he did
create a button for that Pope's cape",Benevenuto Cellini
"He created a medallion depicting Atlas Supporting the Sphere, and he also sculpted
a statue of Mars for Fontainebleau and a statue of Ganymede Riding the
Eagle",Benevenuto Cellini
"Personifications of the winds ring the base of another of his works, which also
features reclining gold models of Neptune and Ceres, while the first title figure
of his most famous work holds the sword with which he decapitated the other title
figure",Benevenuto Cellini
"For 10 points, identify this murderous Mannerist goldsmith who sculpted Francis
I's Salt Cellar and Perseus with the Head of Medusa.",Benevenuto Cellini
Edgar Samuel cited its artist's portrait of George Gisze to suggest that its artist
may have used a blown glass tube while painting it,The French Ambassadors
One figure wears the Order of St,The French Ambassadors
"Michael and holds a dagger, while another clutches a glove in his right hand as
his arm rests on a book which indicates that his age is 25",The French Ambassadors
"The curtain in the background is green, and the pattern of the tiles at the bottom
of this painting is taken from the Westminster Abbey",The French Ambassadors
Its center includes shelves with several musical and scientific instruments and it
also features a distorted skull at the bottom,The French Ambassadors
"For 10 points, identify this painting featuring a diplomat and a bishop from
France by Hans Holbein the Younger.",The French Ambassadors
Inkwells and some scrolls can be seen lying to the left of a figure in this
painting as a man dressed in orange has his right palm on the title figure's knee
as he stares at the title character,The Death of Socrates
A lyre can be seen behind the extended right leg of the title figure as well as a
chain that lies partially on the floor,The Death of Socrates
"A figure in blue and brown stands in an archway leaning against the wall at its
left, and in the center a man in red turns his head away from the title figure
whose left hand points upward as he grabs a cup containing poison",The Death of
Socrates
"For 10 points, name this painting by Jacques-Louis David, which shows the final
moments of a philosopher about to consume hemlock.",The Death of Socrates
A Jean Louis Forain work with the same name depicts a chair behind the subject,A
Bar at the Folies-Bergere [or Un Bar aux Foiles-Bergere]
"To the left of this painting, a woman in a white coat can be seen with orange
gloves, and the subject of this painting is a woman generally considered to be
named Suzon",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere [or Un Bar aux Foiles-Bergere]
"Two indistinct chandeliers hang from the ceiling, and a pair of green boots
dangles from the ceiling in the upper corner",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere [or Un
Bar aux Foiles-Bergere]
A man with a moustache can be seen at the top right of this work and the subject
rests her hand on a counter where one can find a bowl of oranges and several
bottles of alcohol as the subject stares directly at the viewer,A Bar at the
Folies-Bergere [or Un Bar aux Foiles-Bergere]
"For 10 points, identify this depiction of a Parisian nightclub, a work by Eduoard
Manet.",A Bar at the Folies-Bergere [or Un Bar aux Foiles-Bergere]
A man dressed in green leans forward while clenching his fists and the tower of a
cathedral can be seen towards the left background,"The Third of May, 1808: The
Execution of the Defenders of Madrid"
"A companion piece to this painting depicts a man dressed in brown attempting to
stab an Arab soldier on horseback, and is subtitled The Charge of the
Mamelukes","The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid"
"The men at right all wear black hats, unlike the most prominent figure who kneels
against a foreboding pile of blood","The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the
Defenders of Madrid"
"Set against the background of Principe Pio hill, a man in a white shirt raises his
arms in surrender as a firing squad points at him","The Third of May, 1808: The
Execution of the Defenders of Madrid"
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting 'The Execution of the Defenders of
Madrid' on the namesake day, painted by Francisco Goya.","The Third of May, 1808:
The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid"
"In one of his works, a bow, quiver, and sword hang above the white robed title
figure while five figures look on as Jesus performs the titular Raising of
Lazarus",Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [accept either underlined answer]
"He painted his wife as the model of a woman who drank her husband Masolus of
Carnia's ashes, Artemisia, and he painted a man with his right hand placed on the
title figure's breast in The Jewish Bride",Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [accept
either underlined answer]
He also painted the author of Metaphysics with his hand on the head of a statue as
well as the marching company of Franz Banning Cocq,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
[accept either underlined answer]
"For 10 points, name this artist of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer and
The Nightwatch who also painted a dissection in The Anatomy Lesson of Dr",Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn [accept either underlined answer]
Tulp.,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [accept either underlined answer]
Veronese changed the title of his Last Supper to Feast in the House of Levi after
he was told to replace one of these with Mary Magdalene,dogs
"Two flowers, two pens, and some sheet music lay by another one of these at the
bottom left of the portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher",dogs
"The periodic motion of a woman's feet and one of these can be found in a painting
by Giacomo Balla titled the Dynamism of one of these, and another one of this
animal is curled up at the foot of the bed as a woman rummages through a chest in
the backgroun",dogs
"For 10 points, a series of sixteen paintings by C",dogs
M,dogs
Coolidge depicts what animals playing poker?,dogs
This man painted a work in two panels which shows the title figures intently
discussing about the texts in their hands and is called The Four Apostles,Albrecht
Durer
A lion rests on the floor in the foreground as the title figure stare intently at
his work sitting at a desk in his St,Albrecht Durer
Jerome in His Study,Albrecht Durer
"One work depicts an angel sitting on a wheel near a ladder and dog by the feet of
a woman, and also contains an hourglass, a sphere, and a Latin square, while
another work a decrepit figure holds a trident at the bottom left as the titular
quartet trample",Albrecht Durer
"For 10 points, identify this German artist of several woodcuts such as Melancolia
I and Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.",Albrecht Durer
One of his works depicts a woman with a cage of doves exiting the title place as
Jesus smacks a money-changer,El Greco [or Domenikos Theotokopolous]
"In another of his works, a red-tunic'd Jesus looks towards the sky as several
people mock him",El Greco [or Domenikos Theotokopolous]
"In addition to The Purification of the Temple and Disrobing of Christ, one of his
paintings shows John the Baptist extending his arms as cherubs bring white clothes
to several naked figures, and inspired Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon",El Greco
[or Domenikos Theotokopolous]
"In addition to Opening of the Fifth Seal, he painted a dark sky a green hillside
on whose top sits the Alcazar, in his painting View of Toledo",El Greco [or
Domenikos Theotokopolous]
"For 10 points, identify this Spanish artist of The Burial of Count Orgaz,
originally from Crete.",El Greco [or Domenikos Theotokopolous]
Its artist also depicted his father listening to a musician playing a violin in an
After Dinner party at the titular location,"Burial at Ornans [or A Painting of
Human Figures, the History of a Burial at Ornans; or Un Enterrement Ornans;
accept Interment at Ornans; or Funeral at Ornans; or other synonyms for 'burial']"
"A skull lies by the feet of one of the two oddly dressed figures at this
painting's center, whose clothes are from the French Revolution","Burial at Ornans
[or A Painting of Human Figures, the History of a Burial at Ornans; or Un
Enterrement Ornans; accept Interment at Ornans; or Funeral at Ornans; or other
synonyms for 'burial']"
"One figure kneels on his right knee and stares at a choirboy, and another figure
staring at the viewer holds a crucifix","Burial at Ornans [or A Painting of Human
Figures, the History of a Burial at Ornans; or Un Enterrement Ornans; accept
Interment at Ornans; or Funeral at Ornans; or other synonyms for 'burial']"
"Two clergymen in the center are dressed in red, and a dog stands to the center
right as several people walking in an S-shaped line are depicted dressed in
mourning","Burial at Ornans [or A Painting of Human Figures, the History of a
Burial at Ornans; or Un Enterrement Ornans; accept Interment at Ornans; or
Funeral at Ornans; or other synonyms for 'burial']"
"For 10 points, identify this gigantic painting depicting a funeral, a work of
Gustave Courbet","Burial at Ornans [or A Painting of Human Figures, the History of
a Burial at Ornans; or Un Enterrement Ornans; accept Interment at Ornans; or
Funeral at Ornans; or other synonyms for 'burial']"
"This man painted a portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, while another of his
works depicts St",Jan van Eyck
George taking off a metal helmet as another man kneels by the Madonna and Child,Jan
van Eyck
"Another work shows an angel with a crown flying over Virgin Mary, who is seated
facing a Burgundian aristocrat",Jan van Eyck
"In addition to The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin this artist of Self Portrait with
Red Turban worked with his brother on an altarpiece which depicts the Adoration of
the Lamb, but is best known for depicting a man in a black dress and a woman in
green holdin",Jan van Eyck
"For 10 points, identify this artist of The Arnolfini Marriage.",Jan van Eyck
"Triangular patterns can be seen on the hat of one figure in this painting who
wears a set of beads with a cross, and diagonal lines connect the eyes of the two
most prominent figures of this painting, one of whom feeds the other a flower",I
and the Village
"A face peeks out of an orthodox church in the background of this work whose top
right contains five houses, two of which are upside down",I and the Village
"A woman can be seen milking a goat, and in another portion, a man with a scythe
walks to the right as an upside down woman points the way",I and the Village
"Depicting the artist's hometown in Vitebsk, Belarus, for 10 points, name this
painting by Marc Chagall.",I and the Village
One of his paintings features a woman in black on the left with her two daughters
and a man sitting in a chair facing the trio,Hillaire Germaine Edgar Degas
"In addition to a Portrait of Bellili Family, he also painted Semiramis Building
Babylon and Place de la Concorde",Hillaire Germaine Edgar Degas
"This man also depicted some Jewish bankers in his At the Stock Exchange, and some
members of his family can be seen trading the titular commodity in his New Orleans
Cotton Exchange, but he is better known for depicting a woman sitting beside a man
smoking",Hillaire Germaine Edgar Degas
"For 10 points, identify this impressionist painter of L' Absinthe and several
sculptures and paintings of ballet dancers.",Hillaire Germaine Edgar Degas
"Marsden Hartley wrote an essay entitled 'The Importance of Being' this, and John
Heartfield and was a founding members of one branch of this movement",Dadaism
"Another man active in this movement gave his works the name 'Merz,' and became
acquainted with it through the periodical 'The Storm.' In addition to Kurt
Schwitters, participants in this movement included a man who created the satirical
works entitled The",Dadaism
"Its practitioners in Cologne included Jean Arp and Max Ernst, while the magazine
'391,' started in Barcelona by Francis Picabia, also propagated its ideals",Dadaism
"Founded in Hugo Ball's Cabaret Voltaire by a number of expatriate artists that
include Tristan Tzara, for ten points, identify this absurdist artistic movement
whose best known representative is probably Marcel Duchamp, and which takes its
name from the F",Dadaism
"One figure on the right side of this group is given a narcissistic pose and is
sometimes referred to as I am Beautiful, while that figure appears elsewhere and is
known as The Falling Man",The Gates of Hell [Or La Porte de L'Enfer]
An aged whore in this group is given the title She Who Was Once the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful Wife,The Gates of Hell [Or La Porte de L'Enfer]
"and three originally separate scuptures from this group were fused together,
placed on top, and called The Three Shades",The Gates of Hell [Or La Porte de
L'Enfer]
"The Count Ugolino is shown in this group, while a better known statue in this
group depicts Paolo and Francesca Rmini performing the title act",The Gates of Hell
[Or La Porte de L'Enfer]
"For 10 points, name this work whose various parts represent the Divine Comedy, a
massive entryway which include the sculptures 'The Kiss' and 'The Thinker'.",The
Gates of Hell [Or La Porte de L'Enfer]
"On the left side of his 'Triumph of Virtue,' the mother of virtue is imprisoned in
a tree with twigs growing from her nipples, and his first work, the Santa Sofia
Altarpiece, is now lost",Andrea Mantegna
"His work with Ansuino for the Ovetari Chapel of the Eremitani Church was largely
destroyed by the Allied bombings of Padua, including a famous grisaille fresco with
an extremely low vantage point",Andrea Mantegna
That work shows the titular figure on the left beneath a large arch commanding a
lame man to walk,Andrea Mantegna
Also utilizing his creative perspective are his frescos for the Gonzaga family and
a depiction of Jesus on a slab,Andrea Mantegna
"The son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini, for 10 points, who was this artist of St",Andrea
Mantegna
"James Led to His Execution, the Camera Degli Sposi, and the Dead Christ?",Andrea
Mantegna
"His self-portraits include one 'with Burning Cigarette,' one 'Beneath Woman's
Mask,' one 'Between Clock and Bed,' two 'During the Eye Disease,' and one 'with
Skeleton Arm.' His namesake museum in the Tyen district of his hometown, designed
by Fougner and",Edvard Munch
"In addition to Madonna and Vampire, he included Death in the Sickroom in his
painting cycle the Frieze of Life",Edvard Munch
FTP name this man who painted a swirling red sky and two indistinct figures on a
bridge approaching a figure with a distorted face in The Scream.,Edvard Munch
This artist shares both his first and last name with a classical landscape painter
responsible for such works as Landscape with a Flash of Lightning,Jean-Francois
Millet
"A student of Langlois and Paul Delaroche, this artist's early work included
classical paintings such as Oedipus Unbound, which he painted over the canvas of
his St",Jean-Francois Millet
Jerome,Jean-Francois Millet
"A man carrying a bag under one arm and a pitchfork in another is depicted
alongside a woman in his The Walk to Work, while his late works include landscapes
like November and The Church of Greville",Jean-Francois Millet
"In 1859, Baudelaire unfavorably reviewed this man's The Cowgirl, and his more
famous paintings include a depiction of two peasants praying in the middle of their
workday as well as one of three women hunched and sorting through straw",Jean-
Francois Millet
"For ten points, identify this sometime member of the Barbizon school best known
for such paintings as The Angelus and The Gleaners.",Jean-Francois Millet
"This artist depicted himself in a blue jacket and red tie surrounded by ghostly
figures in the self-portrait Demons Teasing Me, while he also showed a cosmic
figure in red blasting an earthly figure with golden light in The Annihilation of
the Rebel Angel",James Sidney Ensor
"This man depicted large medicine bottles in the foreground of a painting of his
dead mother, The Artist's Mother in Death, and he also depicted several people with
distorted faces standing around a corpse in The Vile Vivisectors",James Sidney
Ensor
"Several of his paintings depict masks, including Masks Fighting Over a Hanged man,
while other paintings depict skeletons, such as those Trying to Warm
Themsleves",James Sidney Ensor
"For ten points, identify this Flemish painter, who depicted a large banner reading
'Vive La Sociale' in the titular city of Christ's Entry Into Brussels.",James
Sidney Ensor
"In the left background of this painting, two men in breeches contrast with another
man wearing Quaker dress, while wispy clouds are seen in the sky over a clump of
willow trees",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
"Its artist's familiarity in painting the Biglen brothers and work with Jean-Leon
Gerome may have assisted in this painting, which sees the mansion Sweetbriar serves
as a contrast with the eighteenth century building at the right center",Max Schmitt
in a Single Scull
"The Girard Avenue Bridge and the Connecting Railroad Bridge can both be seen in
the background, while the title character sits in the Josie while three parallel
wakes trail behind him",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
"While the artist himself can be seen resting on his oars, the title character is
in the foreground of, FTP, which Thomas Eakins painting set on the Schuylkill
River?",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
"In one of this man's paintings, a man falls into a ditch, tripping the man behind
him, who will cause the four behind him to fall in turn since they are all holding
onto a long stick, being unable to see",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"In addition to The Parable of the Blind, he depicted an army at center marching
ominously into a snowy village as the cavalry rides around spearing infants in The
Massacre of the Innocents",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"Peasants dance gaily while a bird perches on a wooden frame in his The Magpie on
the Gallows, while he drew a man with a knife twice the size of his body cutting
into a bloated corpse in Large Fish Eat Small Fish, which is itself included in a
larger pain",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"Well known for several depictions of the Tower of Babel, for 10 points, identify
this Flemish artist of Hunters in the Snow and Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus.",Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"In one of this man's paintings, the giant title character sits on top of a
mountain in the background while nymphs collect water from a spring in the
foreground; in another, a yellow-clad Philistine covers his mouth while a nearby
baby sits by his dying m",Nicolas Poussin
"Besides Landscape with Polyphemus and the Plague of Ashdod, this artist painted a
double series including Baptism, Penance, and Extreme Unction, the Seven
Sacraments",Nicolas Poussin
"In a more famous paiting by this man, four shepherds cluster around a tomb bearing
the text by which that painting is known, while another of his paintings shows men
in orange capes performing the titular action",Nicolas Poussin
His most famous work shows the Four Seasons cavorting next to a statue of
Janus,Nicolas Poussin
"For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century French painter of the Et in Arcadia
Ego, Rape of the Sabine Women and A Dance to the Music of Time.",Nicolas Poussin
"Clive Bell advanced his idea of the 'significant form' in a book whose title
refers to art 'Since' this painter, who also is the subject of a 'study of his
development' written by Roger Fry",Paul Cezanne
"Maurice Denis painted artists admiring one of this man's works in his Hommage to
this painter, who used the technique of applying paint in thick slabs to create a
series of portraits of his Uncle Dominic",Paul Cezanne
"Early landscapes by this artist include a depiction of the House of the Hanged
Man, and in a characteristic work, he painted a conch shell to the left of a teacup
and the titular object entitled The Black Clock",Paul Cezanne
"This artist paid tribute to Manet in his painting A Modern Olympia, and Picasso's
Demoiselles d'Avignon was inspired by this man's Bathers series",Paul Cezanne
"Famous for his still-lifes and for paintings like The Card Players, for ten
points, identify this French post-Impressionist whose landscapes of Provence
prominently feature Mt",Paul Cezanne
St,Paul Cezanne
Victoire.,Paul Cezanne
His Crucifixion of St,Masaccio [or Tommaso Cassai]
Peter has a foreshortened halo and two executioners looming into the foreground as
Roman soldiers in the background avert their gaze,Masaccio [or Tommaso Cassai]
A wavy pattern reminiscent of Roman sarcophagi can be seen behind two small angels
with lutes at the feet of the Virgin Mary in his Madonna with Child and
Angels,Masaccio [or Tommaso Cassai]
"Both of these works are part of his Pisa Altarpiece, as is his Adoration of the
Magi that features indistinct mountains in the background, a technique known as
aerial perspective",Masaccio [or Tommaso Cassai]
"A red-clad cherub looms over the titular figures in his The Expulsion from the
Garden of Eden, while a more famous work is a synoptic sequence which depicts the
titular object being extracted from the mouth of a fish",Masaccio [or Tommaso
Cassai]
"For 10 points, name this early Italian painter of The Tribute Money, whose most
famous work is the Trinity fresco.",Masaccio [or Tommaso Cassai]
"Directly under the people depicted in this painting, a large tree branch has
broken off and is falling onto some large rocks",Kindred Spirits
Writing on a tree on the left gives the image that the names of the people depicted
in this painting were carved into that tree,Kindred Spirits
"This painting incorrectly portrays Kaaterskill Falls and the Clove of the
Catskills in roughly the same place, and both of the men portrayed in this painting
are standing on a large rock outcropping",Kindred Spirits
"One of the title characters holds a hat and walking stick in front of him, while
the other points with his stick toward a bird which obscures a blue mountain and
holds in his left hand a red book of some sort, possibly a portfolio",Kindred
Spirits
"For 10 points, name this painting of William Cullen Bryant and Thomas Cole, a work
by Asher Durand.",Kindred Spirits
His visit to North Africa alongside August Macke inspired early watercolors such as
Southern Tunisian Gardens and Red and White Domes,Paul Klee
"Equally colorful were this artist's Fish Magic and Golden Fish, standing in stark
contrast to his bizarre early lithograph Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to
Be of Higher Rank",Paul Klee
"During the 1930's this author of The Pedagogical Sketchbooks produced a number of
Pointillist 'magic square' paintings, most notably Ad Parnassum, while the extreme
primitivism of drawings such as Angelus Novus prompted the Nazis to declare his
work 'dege",Paul Klee
"Better known is his painting on burlap in which the German word 'tod' forms the
features of the central skull, while his most famous piece sees a pink 'stain'
encroaching upon the stick-like rotating title contraption",Paul Klee
"Briefly associated with Der Blue Reiter, For ten points, identify this Swiss
painter of Death and Fire as well as Twittering Machine.",Paul Klee
"One figure in this painting is floating in the air and dangling a pair of keys
from his hand, while across from him, a naked cherub is being tossed aside on a
wave of rent air",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz;
or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
A painting depicting the crucifixion is sitting on the ground next to a young boy
staring directly at the viewer,The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the
Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"A man plays a harp on the left of this painting, while figures on the top right
have their attention directed toward a white-shrouded Jesus",The Burial of Count
Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"The soul of the title figure is seen in the center of this painting and is being
assisted in its ascent by an angel, while directly below that, a series of men
wearing black and white lace around their neck gather around the black armored
title figure, wh",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz;
or El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"For 10 points, name this painting that depicts the interment of a noble, a work by
El Greco.",The Burial of Count Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; or El
Entierro del Conde de Orgaz]
"This person's love of Goya can be seen in La Reina Mora, El Tango, and The Spanish
Dancing Girl",Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
"This artist's emphasis on social reality is evident in portraits of poor children
like Dutch Joe and Willie Gee, though his disciples sang 'I am a genius, I am a
genius man' to mock that tendency",Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
Perhaps this artist's most distinctive work depicts a long woman in a short green
tank top a sheer black skirt from which her right leg protrudes holding veils her
the ringed fingers,Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
"That work currently in Amherst's Mead Gallery, but was barred from the National
Academy of Design",Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
"In addition to the aforementioned Straussian Salome, this painter also crafted
Cumulus Clouds, East River; Snow in New York; and his aesthetic theories are
presented in his book The Art Spirit",Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
"For 10 points, name this leader of The Eight and prominent member of the Ashcan
School.",Robert Earl Henri [or Robert Henry Cozad]
One of this artist's protgs became famous for his erotic self-portraits and most
notably painted a 1915 version of Death and the Maiden,Gustav Klimt
"This artist depicted two naked embracing pregnant women in frieze that he titled
after the composer of the Moonlight Sonata, the Beethoven Frieze",Gustav Klimt
"This artist created a set of works entitled Medicine, Philosophy, and
Jurisprudence for the University of Vienna, but he may be better known for a
protrait of Adele Bloch or several paintings which include one of a green-vested,
bare-breasted woman, the J",Gustav Klimt
He is best known for a painting partially inspired by the St,Gustav Klimt
"Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna, which also features an embracing couple",Gustav
Klimt
"For 10 points, name this major influence on Egon Schiele and painter of The
Kiss.",Gustav Klimt
"This painting was originally supposed to serve as the companion piece to Giovanni
Rost's Innocence tapestry, and in Studies in Iconology, Erwin Panofsky has argued
that it represents a critique of Luxury","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory
of Venus and Cupid"
One obscured figure in this painting appears to have a right hand attached to her
left arm and a left hand attached to her right arm; she also has a lion's leg and a
serpent's tail coming out of her body,"Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of
Venus and Cupid"
"At the lower left of is a dove, above it is a woman tearing away her hair in
agony, and above her is a mask-like face without eyeballs","Venus, Cupid, Folly,
and Time or Allegory of Venus and Cupid"
"More masks lie at the lower right of this painting, near the feet of a character
that holds the golden apple","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or Allegory of Venus
and Cupid"
"One character has rose petals in his hands, and these characters in the foreground
are characterized by sensuous, silk-like skin","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time or
Allegory of Venus and Cupid"
"A bald, bearded man grasps the blue curtain in the background","Venus, Cupid,
Folly, and Time or Allegory of Venus and Cupid"
"For 10 points, incestuous kissing and breast-groping are two of the few things
going on in what allegorical painting by Bronzino?","Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
or Allegory of Venus and Cupid"
"This painting inspired the first major work of American artist Larry Rivers, and
it is the subject of Michael Fried's essay concerning 'The Structure of Beholding
in' this work","Burial at Ornans or Tableau de figures humaines, historique d'un
enterrement a Ornans"
"This work's artist depicted his sisters Zoe, Juliette, and Zelie in the right half
of this work, whose frieze-like quality prompted Mary Cassatt to exclaim 'Why, it's
Greek!' upon seeing it","Burial at Ornans or Tableau de figures humaines,
historique d'un enterrement a Ornans"
"In addition to two boys, both wearing skullcaps, two figures robed in red can be
seen in the center left of this painting, whose title locale was also the setting
for an earlier work by the same artist depicting the titular workers","Burial at
Ornans or Tableau de figures humaines, historique d'un enterrement a Ornans"
"The crowd gathered for the depicted event is arranged in an S-curve across this
monumental painting, and only a cross projecting into the upper half of the
painting breaks this work's division between the sky and the titular event
occurring below","Burial at Ornans or Tableau de figures humaines, historique d'un
enterrement a Ornans"
"For ten points, identify this painting depicting a country funeral by Gustave
Courbet.","Burial at Ornans or Tableau de figures humaines, historique d'un
enterrement a Ornans"
This artist depicted a man in a gray suit standing in front of a drip painting in
Abstract and Concrete,Norman Rockwell
"This painter portrayed men playing a violin, clarinet, and cello in a back room
behind the window of the title establishment in Shuffleton's Barber Shop",Norman
Rockwell
"Late in life, this artist painted a series of paintings attacking racism,
including Southern Justice and The Problem We All Live With, as well as the mural
The Golden Rule for the United Nations",Norman Rockwell
This artist depicted himself smoking a pipe and staring into a mirror while
painting an idealized version of his face in his Triple Self-Portrait,Norman
Rockwell
"For 10 points, name this painter of The Four Freedoms, who created many covers for
the Saturday Evening Post.",Norman Rockwell
One of this artist's paintings portrays Hur and Aaron holding up a scowling Moses'
arms during a battle against the Amalekites,John Everett Millais
"In addition to Victory, O Lord!, this painter depicted a young man pulling off a
white armband while embracing his lover in A Huguenot on St",John Everett Millais
Bartholomew's Day,John Everett Millais
A child looks back at a double rainbow while perched on the lap of the title
accordion player in this painter's Blind Girl,John Everett Millais
"His created a painting of the Holy Family lambasted for its realism by Charles
Dickens, and a painting in which Elizabeth Siddal modeled a drowned Shakespearean
character",John Everett Millais
"For 10 points, name this pre-Raphaelite painter of Christ in the House of His
Parents and Ophelia.",John Everett Millais
This painter depicted a saint fallen from a white horse with a spotted bridle in
his version of The Conversion of St,Parmigianino [or Parmigiano; or Girolamo
Francesco Maria Mazzola]
Paul,Parmigianino [or Parmigiano; or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]
"portrayed a bearded man sporting a diagonal square hat in his Portrait of a Man,
and created a fresco of Three Foolish Virgins Flanked by Adam and Eve",Parmigianino
[or Parmigiano; or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]
A saint covers his eyes while imagining a muscular Christ pulling a cross in his
1527 painting The Vision of Saint Jerome,Parmigianino [or Parmigiano; or Girolamo
Francesco Maria Mazzola]
He painted a man unfurling a scroll next to a single Doric column in a painting
which features an elongated baby sitting in the lap of a woman with the title
feature,Parmigianino [or Parmigiano; or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]
"For 10 points, name this Italian Mannerist painter of Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror and Madonna with the Long Neck.",Parmigianino [or Parmigiano; or Girolamo
Francesco Maria Mazzola]
"In one of this artist's paintings, a seven, an ace, and a face card fall out of a
man's hand, below a couple kissing in a window under a broom",Pieter Brueghel the
Elder
This painter depicted a bagpipe player sitting at a table and watching a dancing
couple in The Kermess,Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"He portrayed a large number of kids amusing themselves playing leapfrog and
rolling hoops in his panoramic painting Children's Games, and painted skeletons
destroying mankind in The Triumph of Death",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"In another of his paintings, puddings and pies are carried to a roomfull of people
at the title celebration",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"For 10 points, name this Flemish artist of Peasant Wedding, Landscape With the
Fall of Icarus, and Hunters in the Snow.",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"A novel by Susan Vreeland is named for this painting, which depicts Charles
Ephrussi wearing a top hat",The Luncheon of the Boating Party
"In the upper-right corner of this painting, Paul Lhote and Eugene Pierre
Lestringez flirt with Jeanne Samary",The Luncheon of the Boating Party
"It depicts Alphonsine Fournaise leaning on a rail and looking wistfully into the
distance, while its lower left portrays its painter's future wife, Aline Charigot,
playing with a little dog",The Luncheon of the Boating Party
"Also including Gustave Caillebotte wearing a straw hat, this painting is set along
the River Seine at the Maison Fournaise near Chatou, France",The Luncheon of the
Boating Party
"For 10 points, name this impressionistic painting of the artist's friends enjoying
a banquet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.",The Luncheon of the Boating Party
"One member of this group painted Daniel Wynkoop, Jr",Ashcan School [accept The
Eight before mentioned]
standing in front of a bowl of apples in Sulky Boy,Ashcan School [accept The Eight
before mentioned]
"Another member of this group painted three women drying their hair atop a roof in
the aptly titled painting Sunday, Women Drying their Hair",Ashcan School [accept
The Eight before mentioned]
"This group included the painters of Strong Man, Clown, and Dancer and In the
Steerage, and was mentored by the author of The Art Spirit",Ashcan School [accept
The Eight before mentioned]
"Exemplified by George Luks, Everett Shinn, and William Glackens, this movement
included many members of 'The Eight.' For 10 points, name this artistic movement
led by Robert Henri and John Sloan, which was named by Art Young for their
paintings of lower-c",Ashcan School [accept The Eight before mentioned]
"This artist worked with Margaret Jarman Hagood in North Carolina, and notably
attended a seminar by Clarence H",Dorothea Lange
White at Columbia,Dorothea Lange
"A collection of works by this artist is found in An American Exodus, which
includes text by Paul Taylor",Dorothea Lange
A man who is leaning on a wooden railing and clutching a tin mug is depicted in
this artist's work White Angel Breadline,Dorothea Lange
"One of this artist's works is set in Nipomo, California in 1936, and depicts
Florence Owens Thompson, surrounded by three children",Dorothea Lange
"For 10 points, name this photographer whose portraits of rural workers during the
Great Depression include Migrant Mother.",Dorothea Lange
This artist depicted smokestacks rising behind the right shoulder of the title
author in his Portrait of Pierre Loti,Henri Rousseau
"His self-portraits include a 'portrait-landscape' in which he dwarfs a Parisian
street, as well as The Artist with a Lamp",Henri Rousseau
"He portrayed monkeys playing with a backscratcher and a bottle in The Merry
Jesters, while the first exhibition of the Fauves included his painting The Hungry
Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope",Henri Rousseau
"He painted a musician playing a flute to the right of a nude woman reclining among
flowers in a lush jungle in The Dream, as well as a canvas in which an instrument
and a lion appear beside a resting dark-skinned woman",Henri Rousseau
"For 10 points, name this French painter of The Sleeping Gypsy.",Henri Rousseau
This artist depicted a 'half-figure in a yellow shirt' looking at a distant red
object in Complex Presentiment,Kasimir Severinovich Malevich
"This artist painted a group of 'trans-rational' canvases, which contain symbols
like an ace of clubs, the number zero, a saw, and a fish",Kasimir Severinovich
Malevich
"This artist of The Aviator participated in only exhibition done by the group
Donkey's Tail, and described his style in The Nonobjective World",Kasimir
Severinovich Malevich
"This member of Jack of Diamonds pioneered an artistic movement in paintings such
as Black Square and White on White, which consist of assorted simple geometric
shapes",Kasimir Severinovich Malevich
"For 10 points, name this Russian painter, the founder of Suprematism.",Kasimir
Severinovich Malevich
"Peter-Klaus Schuster claimed that its left and right sides represent fortune and
virtue in a book that labels this work its artist's 'Denkbild.' In this work, a
coastal city can be seen in the distance through the rungs of a ladder, next to a
small winged",Melencolia I
"A ring of keys hangs from the belt of its central figure, who holds a compass and
sits near a huge sphere and a curled-up dog",Melencolia I
"More prominent features include a large hourglass, a rainbow over a comet, a giant
irregular polyhedron, and a magic square",Melencolia I
"For 10 points, name this engraving filled with symbols of alchemy, a work by
Albrecht Durer about the saddest temperament.",Melencolia I
Minor figures in this painting include a Chinese man refusing to listen to a
missionary and a boy kneeling on the ground sketching on a piece of paper,The
Artist's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral
life [or The Painter's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my
artistic and moral life]
"Its left side includes a skull resting on a newspaper as well as a large floppy
hat, a cloak and dagger, and a guitar",The Artist's Studio: A real allegory summing
up seven years of my artistic and moral life [or The Painter's Studio: A real
allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life]
"Its right side depicts friends of the painter like Champfleury, Bruyas, Proudhon,
and Baudelaire.",The Artist's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my
artistic and moral life [or The Painter's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven
years of my artistic and moral life]
"Several members of this artistic school were lured away from Tramway V, while the
move toward cubism by one member seen in The Violin created tension surrounding the
0.10 exhibition",Suprematism
"One member of this school, which grew in part out of the Donkey's Tail, advocated
a so-called fusion of painting and architecture he dubbed 'Proun' and rambled
insanely in the Judaism-inspired text Four Billy Goats",Suprematism
"The cultural influence of the 'beautiful corner' on this movement was discussed by
its founder in The Non-Objective World, while another member created the
politically-driven Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge",Suprematism
"Including Popova and El Lissitzky, its founder worked on the set design for
Victory over the Sun and works like a giant black dot and a 'self-portrait' of red
rectangles",Suprematism
"FTP, identify this artistic school responsible for White on White, a blank canvas
by Russian founder Kazimir Malevich.",Suprematism
The artist Carel van Mander used this painting to argue against Pliny's statement
that 'painters who have to paint a hundred faces ..,Ghent Altarpiece [prompt on
'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
"are unable to compete with nature.' This painting depicts eight crowned women
singing from a songbook, as well as St",Ghent Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of
the Mystic Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
Cecilia playing an organ,Ghent Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb'
or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
This painting portrays Elizabeth Boorluut worshiping a grisaille statue of St,Ghent
Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
"John the Evangelist, and features God wearing a huge three-tiered crown",Ghent
Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
"Its inner panels show a dove radiating light over the central figure, who is
dripping blood into a chalice",Ghent Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of the Mystic
Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
"For 10 points, name this altarpiece centering on the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,
created by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.",Ghent Altarpiece [prompt on 'Adoration of the
Mystic Lamb' or 'Het Lam Gods' before said]
"This artist depicted a red-frocked oarsman, an armored man, and two naked women in
a boat in The Deliverance of Arsinoe",Jacopo Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or
Jacopo Comin]
"This painter depicted the concentric rings of Heaven in a work for the Sala dei
Maggior Consiglio which remains one of the world's largest canvases, his
Paradise",Jacopo Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or Jacopo Comin]
"He executed a series of works in which Saint Mark is found 'in Alexandria' and
'Freeing a Slave,' and painted Jupiter shoving the infant Hercules into Juno's
armpit, causing the creation of stars in The Origin of the Milky Way",Jacopo
Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or Jacopo Comin]
"Jesus' halo pierces the dark canvas of his depiction of the Last Supper, which is
set on a diagonal",Jacopo Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or Jacopo Comin]
"For 10 points, identify this Italian Mannerist whose name means 'little
dyer.'",Jacopo Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or Jacopo Comin]
"This artist was commissioned by the Comte de Blacas to create many works,
including one that depicts the male title figure riding a hippogriff, and another
in which Francis I is shown bending over the title artist",Jean Auguste Dominique
Ingres
"Besides Roger Freeing Angelica and The Death of Leonardo da Vinci, this artist
incorporated a figure from his painting The Valpincon Bather into a scene of nude
women in a harem, The Turkish Bath",Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
"This artist's title figures include an author being crowned with a laurel wreath
by Nike, and a woman on a blue couch holding a peacock feather fan, which does not
cover her two additional vertebrae",Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
"For 10 points, name this French painter of The Apotheosis of Homer and La Grande
Odalisque.",Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
"One painting of this name includes an image of Heracles in the garden of the
Hesperides, and depicts the central figure surrounded by twisting threads",The Lady
of Shalott [prompt on 'Elaine']
"In a painting by Sidney Meteyard, a crystal ball appears behind this figure, who
is clad in blue",The Lady of Shalott [prompt on 'Elaine']
"John La Farge painted the dead body of this figure, who stands in front of a
cracked mirror in a painting by William Holman Hunt",The Lady of Shalott [prompt on
'Elaine']
"In another painting, this woman holds a chain and sits on a tapestry dipping into
the water, and wears a white dress which contrasts with her red hair",The Lady of
Shalott [prompt on 'Elaine']
"For 10 points, name this figure depicted by John William Waterhouse and many other
Pre-Raphaelites, a woman whose love for Lancelot causes her to die of grief on a
barge.",The Lady of Shalott [prompt on 'Elaine']
The central figure of this work is depicted in the background of Alexander Moffat's
painting Poets' Pub,Liberty Leading the People [or La liberte guidant le peuple; or
Liberty on the Barricades]
"Contemporary critics mocked the underarm hair and dirty appearance of this
painting's central figure, who wears a Phrygian cap",Liberty Leading the People [or
La liberte guidant le peuple; or Liberty on the Barricades]
"It is similar to Schnetz's painting Combat de l'Hotel de Ville, and depicts the
towers of Notre Dame in the distance, while its foreground portrays a fallen
National Guardsman",Liberty Leading the People [or La liberte guidant le peuple; or
Liberty on the Barricades]
It includes a man in a top hat carrying a gun and a boy brandishing two
pistols,Liberty Leading the People [or La liberte guidant le peuple; or Liberty on
the Barricades]
"The title character is barefoot and bare-breasted, and is based on
Marianne",Liberty Leading the People [or La liberte guidant le peuple; or Liberty
on the Barricades]
"For 10 points, name this painting whose title character holds up a flag over a
barricade during the July Revolution, by Eugene Delacroix.",Liberty Leading the
People [or La liberte guidant le peuple; or Liberty on the Barricades]
Jane Aiken called this work 'the first extant painting full informed by' Leon
Battista Alberti's 'new humanist ideal of painting.' The kneeling figures on the
left and right of this work are thought to be members of the Lenzi family,Holy
Trinity with the Virgin and Saint John and donors
It was rediscovered in the 1860s after Giorgio Vasari covered it with an altar,Holy
Trinity with the Virgin and Saint John and donors
"This work's lower portion depicts an open tomb with a skeleton and the
inscription, 'I was what you are and what I am you shall be.' In the center of this
work, perspective is provided by a barrel vault, which features a dove floating
above the halo of Ch",Holy Trinity with the Virgin and Saint John and donors
"Located in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, for 10 points, name this
fresco by Masaccio.",Holy Trinity with the Virgin and Saint John and donors
"In the distance of this work, a church with a blue steeple stands out against the
cloudy sky",Cezanne's Large Bathers
The center features a figure escorting his pony or horse towards the forest on the
horizon,Cezanne's Large Bathers
Groups of trees on either side extend off of the canvas and create a triangular
frame for the main scene,Cezanne's Large Bathers
"In the foreground, one of the figures featured in this painting lies facedown
looking towards the background, while three of the title figures extend their arms
towards what appears to be smoke",Cezanne's Large Bathers
"The subject of Aruna D'Souza's study of 'Biography and the Erotics of Paint,' on
the right of the canvas two of the titular figures seem to heading towards the
patch of blue in the center",Cezanne's Large Bathers
"Completed sometime between 1898 and 1906, at the same time its creator was working
on his depictions of Mt",Cezanne's Large Bathers
"Sainte Victoire, it is now located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art",Cezanne's
Large Bathers
"For 10 points, identify this work that features thirteen female nudes luxuriating
by a body of water, a work by Cezanne.",Cezanne's Large Bathers
Reclining figures in this work are modeled after allegorical nude figures in the
Medici Chapel,Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]
"A study on Michelangelo's statue of Samson and the Philistines provided the basis
for a red-clad soldier with his back to the viewer, and a woman in orange holding a
baby on the far left of this work may be based on drawings of Sistine Chapel
sybils",Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]
"In the right background of this painting, two figures stand in the doorway of a
temple decorated with caryatids and two reclining female figures, and two dark-
skinned men lean over a balcony in the left background",Miracle of St. Mark Freeing
the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]
"A man in blue on his knees holds a stake over the central figure, and a man in a
turban holds up a broken chisel and turns to the right of this painting",Miracle of
St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]
"Broken ropes, stakes, and axes lie around a prostrate and naked title figure,
while a notably foreshortened orange-cloaked figure clasps a book while hovering
above",Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]
"For 10 points, identify this painting of the titular saint intervening in an
execution, a work by Tintoretto.",Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept
Miracle of the Slave]
"Its artist interviewed some of the principals in preparation for this painting,
which features a cloudy, dark sky on the upper right side of the canvas",The Death
of General Wolfe
On the left a man in a Green coat and a sash made out of beads bends towards the
central group,The Death of General Wolfe
"Another figure's embroidered hat lies in front of him as he clenches his fists,
while another man clutches a large flag",The Death of General Wolfe
"Completed two years after its artist's more conventional depiction of Agrippina
Landing at Brundisium, the artist defended his decision to depict 'the modern garb
of war.'This, however, did not exclude its artist from taking historical license,
for neithe",The Death of General Wolfe
"For 10 points, identify this 1770 painting that depicted a certain British
commander being killed at the Battle of Quebec, a work by Benjamin West.",The Death
of General Wolfe
One of the men in this work holds a list in his left hand and sits beside another
gentleman who is standing in front of a broadsheet that bears the artist's
signature and the date of its composition,The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes
Tulp
"Painted during the artist's time at Uylenburgh's workshop, it depicts an event
that took place on January 31 of the same year that another figure in this work was
punished for committing armed robbery",The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
Its namesake was well known in his time for publishing a work describing the then
unknown symptoms of Beri-Beri,The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"That subject is surrounded by a group of black-clad onlookers, wears a large
floppy hat, and holds a pair of forceps over the flayed arm of a man stretched out
on a table",The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"For 10 points, identify this 1632 work commissioned by the Amsterdam Guild of
Surgeons, a work by Rembrandt.",The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp
"In Marcus Stone's depiction of this figure, the neck of a lute can be seen on the
side of the canvas, while in Arthur Hughes', this personage sits on the trunk of a
tree.A prominent symbolist depicted this figure with red hair and eyes closed in a
paintin",Ophelia
"Like the aforementioned Odilon Redon, Eugene Delacroix also offered a series of
depictions, including one where this character kneels with bare arms while
desperately grasping at a cloak",Ophelia
"Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting of this figure depicts a moment after the 'first
madness,' while another artist used a sketch of Elizabeth Siddal lying on her back,
to create the most famous depiction of this doomed fictional character.For 10
points, wh",Ophelia
"In one work, this artist depicted a huge nude with a flayed left arm contorted in
pain, while in another of his works, a hooded woman buries her face in her
hands",David Alfaro Siqueiros
"In addition to War and The Sob, he painted a work that sees a group of figures
with distorted faces hold up a bleeding, bound black man and another work in which
a red-cloaked figure sits on a pile of debris as its head emerges from a
disembodied gray hea",David Alfaro Siqueiros
Those works by this man are Cain in the United States and Echo of a Scream,David
Alfaro Siqueiros
He also painted a work in which several bodies burn as large groups of people
trudge across the wall of the Parque de Lama and a series depicting the overthrow
of Diaz,David Alfaro Siqueiros
"For 10 points, identify this artist of The March of Humanity and From Porfiriato
to the Revolution, who led a renaissance in Mexican mural-painting with Diego
Rivera and Jose Orozco.",David Alfaro Siqueiros
"His landscapes include The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weatherand The Torrent,
which depicts a stream in the Jura mountains",Gustave Courbet
"He painted a young woman nodding off at the wheel in The Sleeping Spinner, while
Meyer Schapiro suggested that he was influenced by images d'Epinal, prints
circulated in the countryside, in an essay on this man and 'popular imagery.' That
influence can be",Gustave Courbet
"An extrovert, he depicted himself in numerous works such as Self-portrait with a
dog and Self-portrait as a desparate man",Gustave Courbet
He created a painting of two naked women cavorting in Sleep and he called his
close-up of Jo Hiffernan's genitals The Origin of the World,Gustave Courbet
"Two young girls play next to a man sitting on a step in a portrait of his friend
Proudhon, who also appears along with Champfleury, George Sand, and himself, in a
huge painting subtitled An Allegory of the Last Seven Years of My Artistic
Life",Gustave Courbet
"For 10 points, name this painter of The Artist's Studio and The
Stonebreakers.",Gustave Courbet
"This artist's earlier pieces, such as the marble Torso, emulated Fernand Leger,
while this artist's last sitter was the photographer Elie Lotar",Alberto Giacometti
"One of this artist's works depicts a woman sitting on a chair with her calves
hidden from view, while the title feature of another one of this artist's subjects
protrudes far outside the outline of a cage",Alberto Giacometti
"In addition to Invisible Object and The Nose, this artist designed a notable set
for a production of Waiting for Godot and completed numerous abstract portraits of
his wife Caroline",Alberto Giacometti
"Recently his animal sculpture Le Chat, one of eight bronze cats the artist
sculpted in the early 1950s, was set to be auctioned off by Sotheby's",Alberto
Giacometti
"Another of his bronzes, subtitled Composition with Seven Figures and a Head,
depicts a group of women as trees",Alberto Giacometti
"That work, The Forest, as well as an earlier piece featuring four men walking, the
City Square, depict this sculptor's characteristic elongation of the human
figure",Alberto Giacometti
"For 10 points, identify this Swiss creator of Palace at 4AM and Woman With her
Throat Cut.",Alberto Giacometti
"A bird can be seen floating among the hills in the distances, while mist rises in
the back of the left side of the canvas",Kindred Spirits
"The foreground features some broken pine trees, indicating that a storm has
recently passed",Kindred Spirits
"A stream of water that begins somewhere beyond the horizon snakes its way to the
foreground, where it tumbles among some rocks at the bottom of two cliffs",Kindred
Spirits
"Commissioned by a dry goods merchant named Jonathan Sturges, it was donated to one
of the figures it depicts, after that man gave a funeral elegy at the National
Academy on May 4, 1848",Kindred Spirits
Three large trees dominate the left foreground and partially obscure a rocky
outcropping where two figures are standing and talking,Kindred Spirits
"Taking its name from Keats' 'Sonnet to Solitude,' for 10 points, identify this
work that imagines an idyllic outing in the Catskill Mountains involving the
painter of the Course of Empire series and the author of 'Thanatopsis,' a
masterpiece of the Hudson",Kindred Spirits
"This artist painted a work in which Mary offers her breast to a distracted baby
Jesus, the Madonna del Latte",Antonio Allegri da Correggio
He depicted a tense and trembling Mary Magdalene kneeling before Christ in a golden
dress in his Noli Me Tangere and included a golden lion's head at the bottom of his
Madonna of St,Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Jerome,Antonio Allegri da Correggio
"His frescoed ceilings and walls with scenes of the hunt were meant to recreate a
bower sacred to Diana for the Abbess' salon in the Camera di San Paolo, and he
painted twelve apostles sitting around the base of a dome and staring at a
foreshortened Christ",Antonio Allegri da Correggio
"His greatest works were to be given as gifts to Charles V and were commissioned by
Frederico Gonzaga; they depicted such scenes as the Abduction of Ganymede, Leda and
the Swan, and Danae receiving the 'golden rain.' For 10 points, identify this
painter of",Antonio Allegri da Correggio
One painting by this artist depicts a sculpture of a satyr on the right and two
women gazing at a man with a guitar whose back is turned to us,Jean-Antoine Watteau
"A black servant at a wine tub and a dog sniffing itself appear in the bottom-right
of another painting by this artist, in which four blue-and-white columns frame a
central figure tuning a lute",Jean-Antoine Watteau
One of the final works by this painter of The Party of Four and The Music Party
shows people packing paintings into wooden boxes on the left and is named after the
art dealer friend for whom he painted it,Jean-Antoine Watteau
"In addition to Gersaint's Shop Sign, he frequently created works featuring
commedia dell'arte characters, including several paintings featuring the character
'Gilles' as Pierrot",Jean-Antoine Watteau
"Best known for his pastoral depictions of couples cavorting on the island of
Venus, for 10 points, identify this French artist of ftes galantes such as the
Embarkation for Cythera.",Jean-Antoine Watteau
"This artist's later work included a series of seven allegorical female figures,
including Temperance Triumphing Over Vice and Charity, all of which were drawn in
brown ink on gray paper",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo Caliari]
"This artist's Lamentation depicts a foreshortened, seated Christ being held by a
man in red",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo Caliari]
"In another work by this man, a putti tries to steady a large gray horse as a fully
clothed Mars tries to resist a nude Venus' advances",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo
Caliari]
"Even though he worked with Palladio on a commission by the Barbaro family to
fresco the Villa Maser, his greatest commissions were executed in Venice and
include Age and Youth, for the ducal palace, and a pair of large banquet
scenes",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo Caliari]
"One of those scenes depicts Christ in Galilee at a wedding, while the other was
produced for the monastery of Santi Giovanni, but resulted in a charge of
heresy",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo Caliari]
"For 10 points, identify this painter of Marriage at Cana and Feast in the House of
Levi.",Paolo Veronese [accept Paolo Caliari]
One of his works depicts a Cross of the Order of St,Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
Michael and a small plaster statue of Pigalle scattered among objects on a
table,Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
"That piece, Attributes of the Arts, was painted a few years before this artist's
failing vision caused him to turn primarily to working in pastels",Jean Baptiste
Simeon Chardin
"Though he had no students of his own, his influence on subsequent painters, such
as Lucian Freud, who made multiple copies of his The Schoolmistress, may be
attributed to his use of short parallel strokes that built up layers of pigment.His
earliest succe",Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
"For 10 points, identify this French artist renowned for his still lifes and genre
works, including 1734's Young Man Blowing Bubbles.",Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
"A deep red drape extends down from the top of the canvas, while gray and white
silk sheets dominate the bottom",The Rokeby Venus [also accept Toilet of Venus or
Venus at her Mirror]
"Given its peculiar name after John Morrit brought it to the namesake town in
Yorkshire, it was commissioned by the Marquis of Eliche",The Rokeby Venus [also
accept Toilet of Venus or Venus at her Mirror]
"Eschewing the usual blond hair associated with previous versions of the subject,
this 1650 work is the artist's only surviving nude",The Rokeby Venus [also accept
Toilet of Venus or Venus at her Mirror]
"Intertwining pink silk ribbons threaten to cover the blurry reflection of the
title figure, whose mirror is held up by a small winged boy",The Rokeby Venus [also
accept Toilet of Venus or Venus at her Mirror]
"For 10 points identify this work that features the goddess of love lying on her
bed, her back turned to the viewer, a work by Diego Velazquez.",The Rokeby Venus
[also accept Toilet of Venus or Venus at her Mirror]
"The original design included a statue of the Risen Christ, but this was later
replaced by an orb and a cross",Baldachinno
"Its decorative details include lizards, vines, and a smattering of bees, in honor
of its patron",Baldachinno
"Open tie rods connect two pairs of putti who lean over its front edge; one pair
holds a book, while the other a set of keys",Baldachinno
"Originally conceived of by Carlo Maderno, its columns allow sight of another work
by the same artist, the Cathedra Petri, a great gilt bronze chair",Baldachinno
"Rising at the cross section of the Latin Cross, more than 100 feet above the main
altar, its dark, twisted, columns were derived from a set believed to have come
from the Temple of Solomon",Baldachinno
"Commissioned by Urban VIII in 1623, for 10 points, identify this grand baroque
canopy in St",Baldachinno
"Peter's Basilica, a work designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini.",Baldachinno
Lesser known works associated with this movement include 'Oriental' by Stanton
Macdonald-Wright and Patrick Henry* Bruce's reconfigurations of still lifes,Orphism
(*accept 'Synchromism' up to this point)
The magazine linked with this movement was called Montjoie! and its development was
precipitated by the formation of the Puteaux Group,Orphism (*accept 'Synchromism'
up to this point)
One of its proponents referred to it as 'Simultaneity' and his early works include
a series of images depicting a certain monument as seen through refracted
light,Orphism (*accept 'Synchromism' up to this point)
"That series of Eiffel Tower paintings was followed by such works as A Window and
Circular Forms: Sun and Moon, which are examples of this art movement's underlying
theory that 'color alone is form and subject.' Given its name by a 1912 Guillaume
Appolinai",Orphism (*accept 'Synchromism' up to this point)
Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Mrs,Et in Arcadia Ego
Bouverie and Mrs,Et in Arcadia Ego
Crewe was inspired by the main theme of several paintings with this title,Et in
Arcadia Ego
"One painting with this title depicts two figures identical to men watching from a
forest in its artist'sApollo Flaying Marsyas, who look at a fly and a mouse next to
a skull",Et in Arcadia Ego
"Besides that painting by Guercino, another painting of this name depicts Alpheus
spilling an urn full of water",Et in Arcadia Ego
"According to Erwin Panofsky'sMeaning and the Visual Arts, the central subject of a
more famous painting of this name is not a mere death's-head, but mortality
itself",Et in Arcadia Ego
"In that painting of this name, a woman in a yellow cloak stands in a pastoral
landscape next to three men attempting to make out an inscription on a
sarcophagus",Et in Arcadia Ego
"For 10 points, identify the shared name of two paintings by Nicholas Poussin which
depict shepherds discovering a grave.",Et in Arcadia Ego
"This artist painted numerous nude images of Betalo Rubino, but also painted her in
costume as a Dancer of Dehli",Robert Henri or Robert Henry Cozad
This man adopted Hardesty Maratta's twelve basic color system later in his career;
this switch brightened his subsequent portraits appreciably when compared to such
earlier works as his Gypsy series and Laughing Boy,Robert Henri or Robert Henry
Cozad
"His admiration for Degas was evident in such works as Dancer in a Yellow Shawl and
his portrait of Madame Voclezca as Richard Strauss' Salome.His theories were
eventually collected in The Art Spirit, some years after this student of Thomas
Anshutz moved f",Robert Henri or Robert Henry Cozad
"It was his decision to spurn the National Academy of Design that led him to
organize a breakthrough show at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908, that exhibition
featured such like minded artists as William Glackens and George Luks",Robert Henri
or Robert Henry Cozad
"For 10 points, identify this American painter, perhaps best known as the leader of
'The Eight.'",Robert Henri or Robert Henry Cozad
"He painted historical works in Venice under Carlo Maratta, and his own assistants
included Edward Byng and John Jacob Bakker",Sir Godfrey Kneller
"His sitters included the missionary Shen Fu Tsung, whose depiction as The Chinese
Convert was owned by James II, as well as 14 naval commanders whose portraits were
completed for Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark",Sir Godfrey Kneller
His glamorous portraits of the Royal Ladies in Waiting are now known as the Hampton
Court Beauties,Sir Godfrey Kneller
"This rival of Peter Lely's, who succeeded him as Charles II's Painter to the
Crown, eventually bought a house at Whitton where he became Alexander Pope's
neighbor; fitting, since he would go on to paint the leading literary figures of
his day, including P",Sir Godfrey Kneller
"For 10 points, identify this Lubeck born painter, best known for his portraits of
the Kit-Kat club.",Sir Godfrey Kneller
"An estate surrounded by woods can be seen in the background of this work, which
was commissioned by Taddeo Contarini and also features a fig tree in the
foreground",The Three Philosophers
"Previous names for this painting include 'figures' and, more in line with the
current name, 'geometers and mathematicians.'One of its subjects wears an ornate
gold necklace, red robe, and a turban, while another, seemingly the oldest, holds a
parchment wh",The Three Philosophers
"Although the rocky path on the left is well lit, much of the canvas is taken up by
dark cave that beckons the youngest of the title figures, who is seated and holds
compass and a slate in his hands",The Three Philosophers
"Owned by the same family that purchased its artist's previous work, The Tempest,
for 10 points, identify this 1506 work by Giorgione featuring the titular number of
thinkers.",The Three Philosophers
This artist's most notable work can be found in a building designed by Camillo
Pastrucci called the Palazzo Massimo,Myron of Eleutherae
"Charles Townley brought a copy of one of this artist's works to London, and that
piece now bears his name",Myron of Eleutherae
"Adolf Furtwangler argued that the depiction of certain locks of hair, so
reminiscent of the Cassel Apollo, marks a particular head of Perseus in this man's
work.An armless nude putting one foot forward and now housed at the Lateran Museum
is known as his ",Myron of Eleutherae
"According to Pliny, he was taught by Ageladas of Argos and created such works for
the Acropolis as Athena and Marsyas, as well as a figure so lifelike it was said to
have attracted a bull",Myron of Eleutherae
"In addition to his bronze cow, he depicted contemporary athletes including the
runner Ladas",Myron of Eleutherae
His most famous work depicted a man bent over and about to release a namesake
projectile,Myron of Eleutherae
"For 10 points, identify this ancient sculptor of the Discobolos.",Myron of
Eleutherae
"The mansion Sweetbriar can be seen on the brow of the hill on the right in this
painting, whose creation was motivated by what the artist referred to as 'the
prettiest problem in perspective' and was the product of numerous studies",Max
Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"It depicts the mellow sun of an autumn afternoon bathing the Girard Avenue
railroad bridge in the background in light, and its artist included himself in the
painting, pulling away from the center",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The
Champion Single Sculls
"A group of trees, as well as a band of people in a truss, create reflections off
to the left side of the canvas",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion
Single Sculls
"Three years after its artist completed this work he produced a similar work
depicting a man in a red bandanna named John Biglin, who, rather than simply
sitting on the surface of the Schuylkill, was actually in the process of moving the
oars",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"For 10 points, identify this 1871 painting of the titular rower, a work by Thomas
Eakins.",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
Its subject may have been inspired by Michelangelo's last paintings in the
Vatican,The Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus
"Originally commissioned to complement an altarpiece by Annibale Carraci in the
Santa Maria del Popolo by the Papal Treasurer, Tiberio Cerasi, this work displays a
plumed helmet on the bottom of the canvas",The Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to
Damascus
"The helmet and a spread out red cloak belong to the title figure, whose eyes are
closed and arms are outstretched",The Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus
"Depicting a moment recounted in the Acts of the Apostles, it features an old man
with an enormous varicose vein trying to restrain a large animal, whose bulk
dominates much of the painting",The Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus
"Notable for its use of foreshortening, for 10 points, identify this 1601 depiction
of the moment a saint is nearly trampled by a horse and finds god, a painting by
Caravaggio",The Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus
Grisaille sections of this work show Cain and Abel making sacrifices and Cain
beating Abel to death,Ghent Altarpiece [or Het Lam Gods; or The Lamb of God; accept
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb before mentioned]
"Jef Vanderveken replaced a portion of this work which was stolen in 1934, known as
The Just Judges",Ghent Altarpiece [or Het Lam Gods; or The Lamb of God; accept
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb before mentioned]
"When this work's wings are closed, four panels depicting the Annunciation of Mary
can be seen",Ghent Altarpiece [or Het Lam Gods; or The Lamb of God; accept
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb before mentioned]
"The Jewish prophets and the apostles kneel around a bejeweled fountain while the
central creature bleeds into a chalice in this work's main scene, the Adoration of
the Mystic Lamb",Ghent Altarpiece [or Het Lam Gods; or The Lamb of God; accept
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb before mentioned]
"For 10 points, name this altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.",Ghent Altarpiece
[or Het Lam Gods; or The Lamb of God; accept Adoration of the Mystic Lamb before
mentioned]
"One member of this group painted landscapes like Mount Desert Island,
Maine",Hudson River School
"Aside from Jervis McEntee, members of this group included Worthington Whittredge
and Sanford Robinson Gifford, as well as the painter of The Heart of the
Andes",Hudson River School
"One member of this group created a work depicting William Cullen Bryant in the
Catskills standing next to this group's most famous member, the painter of The
Course of Empire and The Voyage of Life",Hudson River School
"For 10 points, name this American art movement which included such painters as
Frederic Church, Asher Durand and Thomas Cole.",Hudson River School
"A propaganda brochure in its defense asks, 'Did [it] fall out of the sky?' and,
'Is [it] a gymnastic apparatus?' Its end was precipitated by the Monday
demonstrations, and parts of it now reside in the Vatican Gardens and the Sanctuary
of Fatima in Portug",Berlin Wall
Its East Side Gallery featured Dmitri Vrubel's painting of an infamous kiss from
Brezhnev,Berlin Wall
"Wooden crosses near Checkpoint Charlie commemorate its victims, the most famous
being Peter Fechter, who was shot in its 'death strip.' In response to a mass
emigration, Erich Honecker began its construction in 1961 and it was dismantled 28
years later",Berlin Wall
"A physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain, for 10 points, name this structure
which Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down.",Berlin Wall
Joachim von Sandrart noted that the two leftmost figures in this painting are
derived from a Holbein woodcut depicting two card players, The Calling of Saint
Matthew
"The window at the top of this painting is covered in oilskin, and its figures are
lit by an unseen source at the top right", The Calling of Saint Matthew
This painting hangs in the Contarelli chapel along with two other paintings by the
same artist depicting the title character's inspiration and martyrdom, The Calling
of Saint Matthew
Only three of the figures sitting at Levi's money table take notice of the barefoot
figure at right, The Calling of Saint Matthew
"For 10 points, name this Caravaggio painting in which Jesus gestures towards a
certain tax-collector.", The Calling of Saint Matthew
This artist depicted Jesus holding the title fruit while in his mother's arms in
Madonna of the Pomegranate,Alessandro Botticelli
Another circular depiction of Jesus by this artist is Madonna of the
Magnificat,Alessandro Botticelli
He painted himself into his Adoration of the Magi but moved away from Christian
themes in a work which is bordered on one side by a red-cloaked man about to pick
an orange from a tree,Alessandro Botticelli
Another work shows a nymph in the process of throwing a cloak over the nudity of
the titular figure standing on a shell,Alessandro Botticelli
"For 10 points, name this creator of Primavera and The Birth of Venus.",Alessandro
Botticelli
"Male and Female, one of this artist's earliest works, may have been influenced by
David Alfaro Siquieros, while his 1943 work The She-Wolf may have been influenced
by Jungian psychology",Paul Jackson Pollock
One of his most famous works was done on an eight-foot by four-foot piece of
fiberboard and prominently features layered yellow and brown streaks of paint,Paul
Jackson Pollock
His 1952 painting Blue Poles and the aforementioned No,Paul Jackson Pollock
5 both illustrate his technique of dripping paint directly onto his paintings,Paul
Jackson Pollock
"For 10 points, name this abstract expressionist who pioneered the technique of
action painting.",Paul Jackson Pollock
A group of relaxing nude women have tea on the seashore in a painting by this man
titled after a line in a Baudelaire poem,"Henri Matisse [accept Luxe, Calme et
Volupt before 'this man']"
Another of his works is centered on a grandfather clock without hands and sees its
title color often broken only by white lines,"Henri Matisse [accept Luxe, Calme et
Volupt before 'this man']"
"This artist of Luxe, Calme et Volupt and L'Atelier Rouge painted a portrait of
his wife in which the titular 'Green Stripe' bisects her face","Henri Matisse
[accept Luxe, Calme et Volupt before 'this man']"
"A woman lays out dessert on a table in one of his paintings, while a painting
commissioned by Sergei Shchukin borrowed a depiction of a group of figures holding
hands and cavorting around from one of his earlier paintings","Henri Matisse
[accept Luxe, Calme et Volupt before 'this man']"
"For 10 points, identify this artist of Harmony in Red, La Danse, and Le Bonheur de
Vivre, a leading Fauvist.","Henri Matisse [accept Luxe, Calme et Volupt before
'this man']"
This painter depicted himself as a character from a Walter Scott novel in his Self-
Portrait at Ravenswood,Ferdinand Victor Eugne Delacroix
"A woman holds out her arms imploringly in his Greece Expiring on the Ruins
ofMissolonghi, and he depicted a scene from the Inferno in The Barque of
Dante",Ferdinand Victor Eugne Delacroix
He portrayed an Assyrian king's demise is The Death of Sardanapalus and the
slaughter of Greeks by Ottoman troops in The Massacre at Chios,Ferdinand Victor
Eugne Delacroix
He is best known for a work in which the titular woman holds a musket in one hand
and the French flag in the other,Ferdinand Victor Eugne Delacroix
"For 10 points, name this French Romanticist creator of Liberty Leading the
People.",Ferdinand Victor Eugne Delacroix
This sculptor depicted Nancy Cunard in a work often titled Sophisticated Young
Lady,Constantin Brncui
"This sculptor of the jagged and triangular Le Coq and the oval-eyed Miss Pogany
created an ensemble including Table of Silence in Targu Jiu, which also contains
his 29 meter Endless Column",Constantin Brncui
"This sculptor of the phallic Princess X created a geometrically-simple relief
version of The Kiss, but is best known for a marble and bronze series of figures
whose heads and beaks are reduced to ovals",Constantin Brncui
"For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor of the sleek Bird in Space.",Constantin
Brncui
The hexagon-impressed tiles on the arches in this painting are modeled on the
ceiling of the Vatican Palace,The School of Athens [or La Scuola di Atene]
"A putto over the top of this painting bears the injunction causarum cognitio,?
or become knowledgeable of the causes.? The upper left and upper right of this
painting include statues of Apollo and Athena, holding a lyre and a shield,
respectivel",The School of Athens [or La Scuola di Atene]
"Hypatia is depicted in a white robe in the lower left, while in the lower right a
group of students gathers around Archimedes",The School of Athens [or La Scuola di
Atene]
"The Timaeus and the Nicomachean Ethics are held by the two central figures, Plato
and Aristotle",The School of Athens [or La Scuola di Atene]
"For 10 points, name this fresco by Raphael.",The School of Athens [or La Scuola di
Atene]
"He worked on the restoration of Titian's Emperor Vitellius and Emperor Galba,
while several of his own works were adapted into sculptures by Bernini",Sir Anthony
Van Dyck [or Antoon Van Dijck]
"His Iconography series consists of portraits of several of his contemporaries.
His self-portraits include one with a broken column and one with a sunflower, and
he also painted several portraits of Queen Henrietta Maria",Sir Anthony Van Dyck
[or Antoon Van Dijck]
"Another work depicts his patron's upper body in three positions, while his most
famous work depicts the same figure in hunting dress",Sir Anthony Van Dyck [or
Antoon Van Dijck]
"For 10 points, name this student of Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish portraitist who
was court painter to Charles I of England.",Sir Anthony Van Dyck [or Antoon Van
Dijck]
This character retires to the town of Redriff with his wife Mary Burton after
meeting the Portuguese captain Don Pedro,Lemuel Gulliver
He is told of rebels from the land of Lindalino who built four massive towers
topped with magnets,Lemuel Gulliver
"This character finds out that Alexander the Great died of alcoholism after
summoning Alexander, Caesar, Brutus and other luminaries in Glubbdubdrib",Lemuel
Gulliver
This surgeon on the Antelope describes the Academy of the floating island of
Laputa after single handedly capturing the entire navy of Blefuscu,Lemuel Gulliver
"For 10 points, name this character who describes journeys through Brobdinag and
Lilliput in his namesake travels, a creation of Jonathan Swift.",Lemuel Gulliver
"One series created by this artist depicts a woman with a gambling addiction, a
woman with obsessive envy, and a man suffering from delusions of military
rank",Thodore Gricault
That series of ten paintings of the insane includes a self-portrait called Portrait
of a Kleptomaniac,Thodore Gricault
"This painter also created a work in which a Napoleonic soldier brandishes a sword
atop a rearing horse, The Charging Chasseur",Thodore Gricault
"Another of his works includes a figure waving a flag in the top right, and depicts
the suffering of the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania",Thodore
Gricault
"For 10 points, name this French Romantic who painted The Raft of the
Medusa.",Thodore Gricault
"This ruler created the Chambre Ardente to persecute heretics, a cause which was
furthered by his Edict of Chateaubriant",Henry II of France
After his defeat in the Battle of St,Henry II of France
"Quentin, this ruler married his sister Margaret to Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and
his daughter Elisabeth to the King of Spain in the Peace of Chateau-Cambresis, and
he had earlier married his son to Mary Queen of Scots",Henry II of France
"This man's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, controlled court life during his reign,
although he was married to Catherine de' Medici",Henry II of France
"For 10 points, name this Valois King of France who died from a wound suffered
while jousting, the father of Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.",Henry II of
France
"In the bottom right of this work, a partridge is perched on a branch",Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus
"In the background, several ships can be seen sailing near a port which is
surrounded by cliffs and lies across from what appears to be a volcano",Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus
"Near the center of this painting, a man leaning on a stick looks skyward rather
than monitoring the sheep surrounding him",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"Other figures include a fisherman and a plowman, both of whom ignore the titular
event, as does the ship passing the title character",Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus
"For 10 points, identify this painting depicting the drowning of the son of
Daedalus, by Bruegel the elder.",Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
"Alexander Calder's Ordinary is located outside of this structure, which lies
across from the Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill-designed Lever House",Seagram
Building
The shear trusses and shear walls of this building extend to the 29th and 17th
floors of it respectively,Seagram Building
"This building has three specified positions for window blinds, which its architect
included to maintain uniformity",Seagram Building
Mark Rothko was going to create displeasing art for the Four Seasons Restaurant in
this International Style building,Seagram Building
"For 10 points, name this structure designed by Johnson and Mies van der
Rohe.",Seagram Building
"Although completely surrounded, this ruler's use of wagons and firearms at the
Battle of Khanwa resulted in his victory over Rana Sanga, a leader of Mewar, and he
initially rose to prominence as the ruler of Fergana",Babur [or Zahir ud-Din
Muhammad bin Omar Sheikh]
"Muhammad Shaybani took Samarkand from this man, only for him to regain it shortly
after, and in the meantime this ruler captured Kabul",Babur [or Zahir ud-Din
Muhammad bin Omar Sheikh]
"This ruler defeated Ibrahim Lodhi at the First Battle of Panipat, which marked the
beginning of an empire that would last three centuries until its replacement by the
British Raj in India",Babur [or Zahir ud-Din Muhammad bin Omar Sheikh]
"For 10 points, name this father of Humayun and grandfather of Akbar, the founder
of the Mughal Dynasty.",Babur [or Zahir ud-Din Muhammad bin Omar Sheikh]
"This artist's Christ Taken Captive and Christ in Limbo are part a series of his
that had a 'Little' counterpart, his 'Great Passion.' Joachim and Anna Meeting at
the Golden Gate and The Annunciation are part of his 'Life of the Virgin' series,
and the fir",Albrecht Drer
"This creator of Knight, Death, and the Devil included a skull on a window ledge
and lion sleeping on a rug for one work, and another contains polyhedrons, magic
squares, and a depressed angel",Albrecht Drer
"For 10 points, name this German woodcut master, creator of St",Albrecht Drer
"Jerome in his Study, and Melencolia I.",Albrecht Drer
"In homage to Watson and Crick, this man painted Galacidalacidesoxiribonucleicacid,
part of his nuclear mysticism? period that also included such works as
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)",Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech
He depicted several Venus de Milos wearing different colored skirts in The
Hallucinogenic Toreador,Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech
"He created a work titled after the disintegration of? his most famous work, in
addition to an optical illusion involving the title pachyderms, Swans Reflecting
Elephants",Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech
"For 10 points, name this Catalan surrealist who painted some melting watches in
The Persistence of Memory.",Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech
"Gerrit Lundens' copy of this painting in London's National Gallery reveals its
pre-cropped state, in which the large arch in the background was closer to the
center",The Night Watch [or De Nachtwacht; accept The Company of Frans Banning Cocq
and Willem van Ruytenburch before mentioned]
"A partially out-of-frame man beats a drum on the extreme right of this painting,
while in the background a man in armor holds an orange and blue flag",The Night
Watch [or De Nachtwacht; accept The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van
Ruytenburch before mentioned]
"The two main figures are a man dressed in yellow and carrying an ensheathed sword,
and a man in a red sash, while many of the background figures are holding
pikes",The Night Watch [or De Nachtwacht; accept The Company of Frans Banning Cocq
and Willem van Ruytenburch before mentioned]
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting the company of Frans Banning Cocq, a
work by Rembrandt.",The Night Watch [or De Nachtwacht; accept The Company of Frans
Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch before mentioned]
"One of this artist's works was commissioned by Edward Coates, who later replaced
it with a work entitled The Pathetic Song to avoid the controversy caused by the
original work's portrayal of six nude men",Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
"That work, The Swimming Hole, was created fourteen years after this artist's Max
Schmitt in a Single Scull",Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
"In his most famous painting, a woman recoils in disgust as the titular figure
demonstrates a surgery at the Jefferson Medical College",Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
That painting is often paired with this artist's The Agnew Clinic,Thomas
Cowperthwait Eakins
"For 10 points, name this American painter of The Gross Clinic.",Thomas
Cowperthwait Eakins
"One composer from this country composed the Peacock Variations and Dances of
Galanta, and another composer from this nation composed Atmosphres and Lux
Aeterna, two pieces included in 2001: A Space Odyssey",Republic of Hungary
"The former of those composers based an orchestral suite on his opera about a
hussar who defeats Napoleon, Hry Jnos",Republic of Hungary
"One composer from this country wrote a Concerto for Orchestra and Mikrokosmos, and
Brahms composed a set of tunes based on dances from this nation",Republic of
Hungary
The primary Romantic composer from this country wrote the Transcendental Etudes and
Rhapsodies from here,Republic of Hungary
"For 10 points, name this country, home of Bla Bartk and Franz Liszt.",Republic
of Hungary
"This artist's final paintings included garishly-colored works like Model by the
Wicker Chair, while his many self-portraits include The Night Wanderer and a
woodcut with a skeleton arm running along the bottom",Edvard Munch
"The majority of his paintings, which include numerous depictions of 'vampiric'
women, were intended for inclusion in a series entitled The Frieze of Life",Edvard
Munch
"His more famous works include a green-walled depiction of his sister's death from
tuberculosis, entitled Death in the Sickroom, as well as a work set along a dock at
Ljabrochaussen with a swirling, blood-red sky",Edvard Munch
"For 10 points, name this Norwegian Expressionist painter of The Scream.",Edvard
Munch
This artist's works include portraits of the writer Joachim Gasquet and the
journalist Gustave Geffroy,Paul Czanne
"He painted a takeoff on Manet in which a white female is disrobed by a black male
while a seated man watches,",Paul Czanne
"In one work by this author, a line of horsemen in the far distance ride along a
ground formed from layers of various colors",Kazimir Malevich
This artist of Red Cavalry Riding depicted a man holding an ace of clubs who is
partially obscured by a white fish in his The Aviator,Kazimir Malevich
"This man showed the title figure's foot simultaneously depressing a pedal to three
separate depths in his The Knife Grinder, exemplary of the period during which he
exhibited with the group Jack of Diamonds",Kazimir Malevich
This author of The Nonobjective World collaborated with Vladimir Mayakovsky on the
manifesto for a group that emphasized the importance of feeling in art and thus
concentrated on simple geometric shapes,Kazimir Malevich
"For 10 points, name this painter of Black Square and the White on White series,
the Russian founder of Suprematism.",Kazimir Malevich
"In one of this man's paintings, one character oddly uses her left hand to grasp
the red-cloaked character's chin while her right hand sits at his knee",Jean
Auguste Dominique Ingres
"Alabaster statues of soldiers lie strewn in the clouds above the red-caped title
figure in one work by this painter, who also depicted a nude woman with her head
tilted back as a hero arrives on a hippogriff in another painting",Jean Auguste
Dominique Ingres
"This painter of Jupiter and Thetis, The Dream of Ossian, and Roger Freeing
Angelica may be better known for depicting a character about to be crowned by Nike
with Moliere and Herodotus among those around him",Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
He also painted a work featuring a concubine with elongated proportions,Jean
Auguste Dominique Ingres
"For 10 points, name this French Neoclassicist painter of The Apotheosis of Homer
and La Grande Odalisque.",Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
One of this artist's most famous works was later rendered on the sides of subway
cars by Fab Five Freddy,Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
This artist also appeared in a series of ads for his collaboration with Jean-Michel
Basquiat that featured both dressed in boxing gear,Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
This artist chose photos from the AP wire that were too grotesque to be printed for
his Death in America series,Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
"At the American Supermarket show, he displayed both real and fake boxes of Brillo
soap pads",Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
One of this man's films depicts DeVeren Bookwalter receiving fellatio for 35
straight minutes,Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
"This director of Sleep and Blow Job included Billy Name and Edie Sedgwick among
his namesake Superstars, who generally hung out at his Factory",Andy Warhol [or
Andrew Warhola]
"For 10 points, name this Pop artist best known for screen prints of Marilyn Monroe
and Campbell's Soup Cans.",Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
One of this man's early works shows what appears to be a windmill amidst various
blotches,Pieter Cornelis Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
"Two of his works with the same title, painted just a year apart, show this man's
progression away from Cubism",Pieter Cornelis Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
"Several late works by this painter of Moulin au Soleil Rouge and two versions of
Still Life with Ginger Pot were named for places, including Place de la Concorde
and New York I",Pieter Cornelis Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
"Though he had a vehement disagreement with another artist about diagonals, many of
this man's most famous works are geometric compositions inside lozenges",Pieter
Cornelis Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
His most iconic painting features colors intended to evoke the traffic lights of
the namesake street,Pieter Cornelis Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
"For 10 points, name this Dutch artist of Broadway Boogie Woogie and Composition in
Red, Yellow, and Blue, the most famous practitioner of De Stijl.",Pieter Cornelis
Piet? Mondrian [or Mondriaan]
A nude man and woman help another woman up in front of a dark landscape in this
artist's Departure of Summer,Man Ray [accept Emmanuel Radnitzky]
"Another of his works, which features a building in the background and a plant with
a single eye in the foreground, was called The Misunderstood",Man Ray [accept
Emmanuel Radnitzky]
"His works in other media included a metronome with a picture of an eye attached to
an arm that was destroyed by the Jarivistes, and a cloth-wrapped sewing machine
tied to a wooden base",Man Ray [accept Emmanuel Radnitzky]
This creator of Object to be Destroyed and The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse painted f-
holes onto a photograph of his companion Kiki de Montparnasse in a work called Le
Violon d'Ingres,Man Ray [accept Emmanuel Radnitzky]
He also took photos of his cross-dressing friend Marcel Duchamp as the Rrose
Selavy,Man Ray [accept Emmanuel Radnitzky]
"For 10 points, name this American Dada photographer and artist.",Man Ray [accept
Emmanuel Radnitzky]
"One of this man's works contains sections on the Ascent of the Blessed and Fall of
the Damned, while another of his paintings sees a woman balance a book on her head
while a flower is extracted from the head of another figure",Hieronymous Bosch
[other acceptable first names include Jeroen and Jerome; other acceptable last
names include van Anthoniszoon and van Aken]
This painter of Visions of the Hereafter and The Cure of Folly depicted a man and a
woman flying on a fish in the background while a saint meditates in the foreground
in one work,Hieronymous Bosch [other acceptable first names include Jeroen and
Jerome; other acceptable last names include van Anthoniszoon and van Aken]
"Another work by this man depicts revelers eating and drinking, unaware that the
tree-masted boat that they're in is sinking",Hieronymous Bosch [other acceptable
first names include Jeroen and Jerome; other acceptable last names include van
Anthoniszoon and van Aken]
"For 10 points, identify this painter of Ship of Fools and The Temptation of St
Anthony who also created a triptych that when closed depicts creation when closed,
and when open shows Hell in one section and Paradise in another, The Garden of
Earthly Deligh",Hieronymous Bosch [other acceptable first names include Jeroen and
Jerome; other acceptable last names include van Anthoniszoon and van Aken]
One work created by a member of this movement depicts several men in blue examining
the titular creatures,Die Brcke [or The Bridge]
"This movement spawned Horse Fair, and one of its practitioners painted two nude
figures in a lake and one in the trees surrounding the lake in his Bathers",Die
Brcke [or The Bridge]
Other works by that member of this group are part of the series Die Zigeuner
Mappe,Die Brcke [or The Bridge]
"This movement's founder painted a work that depicts a nude woman on a blue
background holding the titular Japanese Umbrella.? Another painting from this
movement, which included Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller, depicts two bare breasted
women performi",Die Brcke [or The Bridge]
"For 10 points, name this German expressionist movement that included such artists
as Ernst Kirchner and Emil Nolde.",Die Brcke [or The Bridge]
One of his works shows a dog curled up near the head of a white bedspread,Andrew
Wyeth [don't accept N.C. Wyeth?]
"In another work by this man, lace curtains blow back from an open window that
looks out onto tire tracks leading to the coast",Andrew Wyeth [don't accept N.C.
Wyeth?]
"Several portraits by this painter of Master Bedroom and Wind from the Sea feature
a nude pigtailed model looking away from the viewer; one of those works shows that
model kneeling on a bed, while another shows her sitting on a stool as light
streams in th",Andrew Wyeth [don't accept N.C. Wyeth?]
On Her Knees and Lovers are two of the hundreds of studies he made of his neighbor
Helga Testorf,Andrew Wyeth [don't accept N.C. Wyeth?]
"His best-known work is set at the Olson House in Cushing, Maine and shows a
disabled girl in a pink dress crawling across a field",Andrew Wyeth [don't accept
N.C. Wyeth?]
"For 10 points, identify this American painter of Christina's World.",Andrew Wyeth
[don't accept N.C. Wyeth?]
This artist depicted his girlfriend sitting on a bench on the beach near Dieppe in
the painting By the Seashore,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This artist's paintings of Suzanne Valadon include Girl Braiding Her Hair and Dance
at Bougival,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"A white-faced woman in a black-and-white striped dress gazes at the viewer while
the man next to her looks off at an angle through opera glasses in his La Loge,
also known as The Theater Box",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Another of his paintings shows Gustave Caillebotte sitting backwards in a chair
while this man's future wife Aline Charigot plays with a dog at a table in a
balcony of the Maison Fournaise,Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"For 10 points, name this Impressionist who depicted a Sunday evening at a
restaurant in Montmartre in Bal du Moulin de la Gallette and also painted Luncheon
of the Boating Party.",Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A 2008 laser restoration of this sculpture found that gold leaf was once used to
highlight it,Donatello's David [prompt on David before Donatello;? accept David
alone after Donatello?]
"Currently, this piece is housed with versions of Madonna and Child by Luca Della
Robbia and Lorenzo Ghiberti in a gallery at the Bargello",Donatello's David [prompt
on David before Donatello;? accept David alone after Donatello?]
"The helmet of one character in this work features a depiction of the Triumph of
Cupid, which lends credence to the interpretation that it is representative of the
primacy of sodomy in the culture in which it was created",Donatello's David [prompt
on David before Donatello;? accept David alone after Donatello?]
That theory is also supported by the feather running up the inside of its central
figure's leg,Donatello's David [prompt on David before Donatello;? accept David
alone after Donatello?]
"The title figure's toes are intertwined in the hair of his enemy, on whose
decapitated head he stands",Donatello's David [prompt on David before Donatello;?
accept David alone after Donatello?]
"For 10 points, identify this first freestanding bronze nude since antiquity, a
work by Donatello depicting the slayer of Goliath.",Donatello's David [prompt on
David before Donatello;? accept David alone after Donatello?]
"In one of this man's paintings, an armored St",Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da
Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
Nicasius carries the ensign of the Knights of Rhodes and faces the viewer in front
of a red wall,Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; prompt on
Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
A robed St,Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco
until it is mentioned]
"Francis stands on the other side of that painting by this man, which centers on
Mary holding the infant Jesus atop a huge throne",Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli
da Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
"Another of his paintings depicts a man holding a compass and a slate seated on a
rock next to two standing men, a turbaned Arab and an elderly figure",Giorgione [or
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
A third work by this painter shows a man with a pike standing across a stream from
a nursing woman; the cream-colored city in the background of that work contrasts
with the dark clouds gathering overhead,Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da
Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
His Sleeping Venus was finished by his student Titian,Giorgione [or Giorgio
Barbarelli da Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
"For 10 points, name this painter of the Castelfranco Madonna, The Three
Philosophers, and The Tempest.",Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco;
prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]
"In one of this man's works, a man on the right sitting cross-legged turns his head
to watch a woman playing the piano",James Ensor
"In another work, he depicted a woman opening a door and greeting a man sitting at
a table while wearing a mask with a long nose",James Ensor
This artist of Russian Music painted a work in which a line of figures react with
disgust at the sight of doctors experimenting on a monkey,James Ensor
"In another of his paintings, skeletons duel with mops and brooms under the title
character, who holds a sign saying CIVET.? This artist of The Scandalized Masks,
The Vile Vivisectors, and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man depicted a crowd of
peopl",James Ensor
"For 10 points, name this Belgian painter of Christ's Entry into Brussels.",James
Ensor
The artist's friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by
flowers in his Barbarian Tales,Paul Gauguin
A naked black woman lies on her stomach on a green bed in one painting by this
painter,Paul Gauguin
He drew a tree branch to set off the main action taking place on a vermillion
background in another work,Paul Gauguin
This painter of Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
also painted a religious figure surrounded by Breton women,Paul Gauguin
He depicted an old woman with a white bird at her feet representing the final stage
of life in another painting,Paul Gauguin
"For 10 points, name this French painter who painted The Yellow Christ and Where Do
We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? while living out his life on
Tahiti.",Paul Gauguin
This artist chronicled the formation of Lake Berryessa and the abandoning of the
town of Monticello in a work co-created with Pirkle Jones called Death of a
Valley,Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept Pirkle Jones until his name
is read]
Paul Taylor provided the text for a collaboration with this artist called An
American Exodus,Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept Pirkle Jones until
his name is read]
"A man looks up angrily from his truck's steering wheel in this artist's Ditched,
Stalled, and Stranded",Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept Pirkle
Jones until his name is read]
Another work by this artist shows a man in a white hat leaning on a wooden fence
with a cup between his arms,Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept Pirkle
Jones until his name is read]
"In the most famous work by this photographer of White Angel Breadline, two
children bury their faces into the shoulders of Florence Owens Thompson, who looks
worriedly off into the distance",Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept
Pirkle Jones until his name is read]
"For 10 points, identify this photographer whose Depression-era portraits of
workers include Migrant Mother.",Dorothea Lange [accept Dorothea Nutzhorn; accept
Pirkle Jones until his name is read]
"His full name appears only once in his works, on a sign hanging from a tree branch
in his painting Adam and Eve",Albrecht Drer
"While visiting Italy, this artist created the Feast of Rose Garlands, which served
as the altarpiece for the San Bartolomeo Chapel",Albrecht Drer
This artist created a self-portrait in which he holds a hand to his fur collar
while a golden inscription to his right notes that he has portrayed himself in
colors aged twenty-eight years.? Another of his works features a sleeping dog and
a supine l,Albrecht Drer
He also depicted a ponderous angel sitting near a truncated rhombohedron and a
magic square,Albrecht Drer
"For 10 points, name this artist of St",Albrecht Drer
"Jerome in His Study and Melencolia I, whose other woodcuts include The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",Albrecht Drer
"This artist depicted himself sleeping below grazing animals, fir trees, and a
lilac sky in a painting inspired by his honeymoon",Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
A fish holds a candle up to a red easel in the background of another of this man's
works,Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
This artist depicted the Eiffel Tower in the back window of a canvas that contains
a self-portrait at an easel,Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
This artist of The Poet Reclining and La Marie created a 70-foot mosaic for
Chicago called The Four Seasons,Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
A green-clad man carries a sack below a burning synagogue in a work by this man
whose central figure wears a prayer shawl,Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
His most famous work shows the Tree of Life being held by a green-skinned man who
looks past a small row of houses at a sheep,Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
"For 10 points, name this Vitebsk-born Jewish painter of White Crucifixion and I
and the Village.",Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]
Vincent van Gogh complimented the tones of bare earth? found in the feet of one
person depicted in this work,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De
Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
The asymmetrical groupings of figures in this painting were inspired by the
artist's desire not to replicate a similar work by Thomas de Keyzer,The Anatomy
Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
One figure's shoulder casts a shadow that forms a mask over the central figure's
eyes,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De Anatomische Les van Dr.
Nicolaes Tulp]
Another figure in this work holds a list in his left hand and stands in front of a
scroll displaying the artist's name,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De
Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
"The lower right foreground of this work depicts a huge open book, likely a work of
Vesalius",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De Anatomische Les van Dr.
Nicolaes Tulp]
"In this painting, seven figures with ruffed collars observe the forearm muscles of
the criminal Aris Kindt being held up with a forceps",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.
Nicholas Tulp [or De Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
"For 10 points, name this painting in which an Amsterdam surgeon performs a public
dissection, a work of Rembrandt.",The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp [or De
Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
This artist painted Venus and Apollo observing Achilles commemorating the death of
his friend in The Funeral of Patroclus,Jacques-Louis David
Another of his works shows the titular scientist sitting at a red table covered in
chemistry equipment while his wife leans over him,Jacques-Louis David
The subject of another of his paintings lays on an Empire-style sofa and looks over
her shoulder,Jacques-Louis David
This artist of portraits of Antoine Lavoisier and Madame Recamier painted a work in
which three men extend their hands towards a fourth man holding three
swords,Jacques-Louis David
Another of his works shows the title character reaching for a cup of
hemlock,Jacques-Louis David
"For 10 points, name this artist of Oath of the Horatii and Death of Socrates, who
depicted a revolutionary in his bathtub holding a note in The Death of
Marat.",Jacques-Louis David
One of this artist's paintings focuses on a multicolored shield as the Emperor
Titus rears on a majestic white horse,Nicholas Poussin
This artist of The Destruction of Jerusalem painted Ruth kneeling before Boaz in
one of a quartet of paintings that also includes a depiction of The Spies with the
Grapes of the Promised Land,Nicholas Poussin
"He depicted Judas sneaking out of the Last Supper in Eucharist, which joins works
like Extreme Unction and Baptism in another series",Nicholas Poussin
"This artist of The Four Seasons and The Seven Sacraments painted a work in which
group of chariots riding above clouds as Wealth, Poverty, Labor, and Pleasure join
hands in the center",Nicholas Poussin
Another of his paintings shows four peasants examining a tomb,Nicholas Poussin
"For 10 points, name this classical French artist of A Dance to the Music of Time
and Et in Arcadia Ego.",Nicholas Poussin
"While in Rome, this artist depicted a muscular title character who brandishes
white-hot iron in one hand while Apollo enters the central scene",Diego Velazquez
This artist depicted the voluminous black hair of a man wearing a green coat in one
of his portraits,Diego Velazquez
A drunken outdoor feast culminates in the drunken crowning one of the revelers in
this artist's work that shows the triumph of Bacchus,Diego Velazquez
This artist of a portrait of Juan de Pareja and Los Borrachos showed the titular
goddess's face reflected towards the viewer in his Rokeby Venus,Diego Velazquez
"He also depicted Ambrosio Spinola receiving the keys of a city in a painting also
sometimes called The Lances.? For 10 points, name this artist who depicted the
Surrender of Breda and also painted a dwarf and a large dog next to the Infanta
Margarita",Diego Velazquez
An art movement from this country produced the masterpiece Red Furniture by Robert
Falk,Russia
Black birds fly around a pyramid of skulls in a painting from this country titled
The Apotheosis of War,Russia
One painter from this country showed a woman in black standing out of her chair
while a returning soldier is admitted to the room,Russia
Unexpected Visitors was painted by an artist who created another work depicting a
group writing a reply to Sultan Mehmet IV,Russia
"A modernist movement here was the Jack of Diamonds, while another artist from this
country painted the titular 'Black Square' on a white background",Russia
"For 10 points, name this country home to Ilya Repin and the Suprematism movement
led by Kazimir Malevich.",Russia
This artist only completed the preparatory sketches for the epic Opening of the
Doors of the Spanish Inquisition,Theodore Gericault
This artist showed a cart stopped next to a gray building emitting white smoke in
The Lime Kiln,Theodore Gericault
"He painted an unusual still-life of severed limbs called Anatomical Pieces, and he
featured horses in his paintings Derby at Epsom and Horse Frightened By
Lightning",Theodore Gericault
A horse rearing away from an unseen attacker appears in his The Charging
Chasseur,Theodore Gericault
"He studied bodies in the morgue of the Hospital Beaujon for his most famous work,
which sees a man waving a red handkerchief on the top right and a bloody hatchet
implies cannibalism",Theodore Gericault
"For 10 points, name this French Romantic painter of The Raft of the
Medusa.",Theodore Gericault
"An injured soldier holds a newspaper while his daughters play with a lion, bear,
turkey, and rooster in this artist's Peace Concluded, and he illustrated several
works of Anthony Trollope. A man leans forward on a green chair, pointing his
white leg at ",John Everett Millais
"One figure in this work looks away from a scroll she holds in her left hand, which
is based on the artist's earlier Doni Madonna",ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
[accept logical equivalents]
In one section of this work men place the entrails of a slaughtered ram into the
furnace of an altar to prepare for a sacrifice,ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
[accept logical equivalents]
Many people are shown trying to jump into a capsizing rowboat during a flood in a
section of this work titled The Deluge,ceiling of the Sistine Chapel [accept
logical equivalents]
"In this work, twenty nude figures wearing garlands of fig leaves called the
'Ignudi' sit on plinths above thrones occupied by prophets and sibyls",ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel [accept logical equivalents]
"This work's program concludes with The Drunkenness of Noah, while in its best-
known painting, God's finger is about to touch the finger of Adam",ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel [accept logical equivalents]
"For 10 points, name this large fresco painted by Michelangelo whose central
program show nine scenes from Genesis.",ceiling of the Sistine Chapel [accept
logical equivalents]
"In the background of this painting, a priest, grave digger, and prostitute stand
together in a group the artist called 'the exploiters, people who make a living
from death', while the presence of a rabbi on the far left has been left
unexplained",The Artist's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My
Artistic and Moral Life [accept L'Atelier du Peintre]
"In the center of this painting, a contorted male nude figure standing above a
skull was inspired by Jusepe de Ribera",The Artist's Studio: A Real Allegory
Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life [accept L'Atelier du Peintre]
A black feathered hat lies next to a guitar and dagger representing the inadequacy
of academic art,The Artist's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My
Artistic and Moral Life [accept L'Atelier du Peintre]
The central figure looks away from a semi-nude female standing next to him who
represents the Platonic ideal of beauty,The Artist's Studio: A Real Allegory
Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life [accept L'Atelier du Peintre]
"On the right side of this painting, George Sand and Charles Baudelaire are among
the figures looking at the painter in the center of the canvas, who works on a
landscape in the title location",The Artist's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up
Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life [accept L'Atelier du Peintre]
"Subtitled, 'a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life,'
for 10 points, name this self-portrait by Gustave Courbet.",The Artist's Studio: A
Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life [accept
L'Atelier du Peintre]
A couple standing under a tree on the right side of this work are described as
'recording near the tree of science their note of anguish caused by science
itself',Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? [or D'ou Venons
Nous? Que Sommes Nous? Ou Allons Nous]
The artist wrote a letter to Charles Morice asserting that a bird holding a lizard
in its mouth on the far left side of this painting represents the 'futility of vain
words',Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? [or D'ou Venons
Nous? Que Sommes Nous? Ou Allons Nous]
"In the center, a figure is picking an apple from a branch at the top of the
canvas, while in the background a woman stands listening to a blue Buddha
idol",Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? [or D'ou Venons Nous?
Que Sommes Nous? Ou Allons Nous]
Reading from right to left this painting depicts the progression of Tahitian
women,Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? [or D'ou Venons Nous?
Que Sommes Nous? Ou Allons Nous]
"For 10 points, name this painting dramatizing the cycle of life with a questioning
title, created by Paul Gauguin.",Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going? [or D'ou Venons Nous? Que Sommes Nous? Ou Allons Nous]
"This painter showed a woman looking at the apparition of a head appearing above a
lion-clothed man, who steps over a crown and putto in the Allegory of Wisdom and
Strength",Paolo Veronese [or Paolo Caliari]
He included The Triumph of Mordecai and The Banishment of Vashti in his History of
Esther series,Paolo Veronese [or Paolo Caliari]
"Dogs line the foreground of another work in which a man bowing a viola d'amore
stands in front of a star-haloed Jesus, who has just created the wine being poured
on the right",Paolo Veronese [or Paolo Caliari]
"This artist painted a similarly crowded scene for the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e
Paolo, but was forced to have its title changed from 'The Last Supper' by the
Inquisition",Paolo Veronese [or Paolo Caliari]
"For 10 points, name this Italian painter who created Wedding at Cana and Feast in
the House of Levi.",Paolo Veronese [or Paolo Caliari]
This artist showed three tall trees on the left side of his painting of a river
valley with the title mountain in the background of his Franconia Notch,Asher Brown
Durand
He depicted a city across a harbor from a forest in his Progress (The Advance of
Civilization),Asher Brown Durand
A Benjamin Field poem called Moonlight was the basis for this man's painting of the
Hudson behind the title Trysting Tree,Asher Brown Durand
"Early in his life, he established his reputation with the engraving for Trumbull's
Declaration of Independence",Asher Brown Durand
Another painting by this man shows Kaaterskill Falls and the Clove of the Catskills
as two men stand on a ledge on the left,Asher Brown Durand
"For 10 points, name this Hudson River School painter who depicted William Cullen
Bryant and Thomas Cole in his Kindred Spirits.",Asher Brown Durand
Two figures on the left of this paining are derived from a Holbein print of
gamblers unaware of Death,The Calling of St. Matthew
"A sword is hanging from the belt of a figure sitting at a table who faces
backward, while the figures on the left wear contemporary garb and the two men on
the right wear cloaks",The Calling of St. Matthew
"This painting features three sources of light including an oilskin-covered window,
as well as a bearded figure whose left hand is pointing at his own chest while his
right hand is on a coin",The Calling of St. Matthew
This painting is found alongside two works about the inspiration? and
martyrdom? of the title figure in the Contarelli Chapel,The Calling of St.
Matthew
"Depicting a man formerly known as Levi, for 10 points, name this painting in which
Jesus summons a tax collector, by Caravaggio.",The Calling of St. Matthew
"This artist showed Alekto dragging Mars out of the Temple of Janus as he stomps on
a book representing the arts in The Consequences of War, which is paired with The
Allegory on the Blessings of Peace",Peter Paul Rubens
He featured a fountain with water spouting out of the breasts of a statue of Diana
on the right side of a painting that shows him dancing with Helene Fourment,Peter
Paul Rubens
"He painted Saturn lifting Veritas up to heaven in The Triumph of Truth, which is
the last work in a series including The Disembarkation at Marseilles and Louis XIII
Comes of Age",Peter Paul Rubens
This artist of The Garden of Love painted a cycle based on the life of Marie de
Medici,Peter Paul Rubens
"For 10 points, name this Flemish painter of The Descent from the Cross known for
his voluptuous nudes.",Peter Paul Rubens
"In one of this artist's paintings, an old man is seen on the left drawing
something with a stick while smoke rises from a temple",Thomas Cole
Another paintings shows a red-clothed man fervently praying as he stands in a boat
about to go through rapids,Thomas Cole
"Along with The Architect's Dream, he painted a canvas in which a decapitated
statue with a shield can be seen in the upper right while pillaging occurs
below",Thomas Cole
"This artist painted a series featuring a man who ages while accompanied by his
guardian angel called The Voyage of Life, while another series includes works
subtitled 'The Arcadian' and 'The Savage State'",Thomas Cole
"For 10 points, name this artist from the Hudson River School who painted The
Course of Empire series and The Oxbow.",Thomas Cole
The Aberdeen Head is considered to be a precursor to one of this artist's best
known works,Praxiteles
A legend claims that a stain on the thigh of one work came from a boy who tried to
have sex with the statue because it was so lifelike,Praxiteles
"He showed a figure leaning on a tree trunk while resting his right forearm on his
head in the Lycian Apollo, and he made another statue modeled from the famous
courtesan Phryne",Praxiteles
This sculptor depicted a boy preparing to strike a reptile climbing a tree in
Apollo Sauroktonos and showed a woman modestly covering her genitals in Cnidian
Aphrodite,Praxiteles
His best-known work shows a god carrying a baby in his left arm,Praxiteles
"For 10 points, name this Attic sculptor who made Hermes and the Infant
Dionysius.",Praxiteles
"This artist depicted statues of Moses and the Sybil in his dark Pieta, which
features a tablet under a stone lion's head that shows the artist and his son
Orazio praying to be spared from a plague",Titian [accept Tiziano Vecelli]
"He painted a knight leading a captured Moor and Turk to the Virgin Mary, who sits
atop a stairway in the Pesaro Madonna",Titian [accept Tiziano Vecelli]
This artist showed a man wrapped in snakes inspired by The Laocoon in the
procession of a god whose chariot is pulled by cheetahs in Bacchus and
Ariadne,Titian [accept Tiziano Vecelli]
In another work a kneeling servant rummages through a chest in the background while
the title figure holds roses in her right hand as she reclines nude,Titian [accept
Tiziano Vecelli]
"For 10 points, name this Venetian artist who painted Sacred and Profane Love and
Venus of Urbino.",Titian [accept Tiziano Vecelli]
A broken jug sits in front of a pregnant woman symbolizing her lost virginity in
one of this artist's two depictions of The Harvest Wagon,Thomas Gainsborough
This painter showed a Spitz dog accompanying a couple in a piece nicknamed 'The
Morning Walk',Thomas Gainsborough
"One of his works was painted on the Auberies' estate and features a woman whose
lap was left unfinished, which was originally planned to hold a pheasant",Thomas
Gainsborough
"That painting features a dog sniffing a man holding a rifle, who stands next to
Frances Carter sitting on a metal bench under an oak tree",Thomas Gainsborough
This artist's best-known work is displayed in the Huntingon and is modeled on
Jonathan Buttall,Thomas Gainsborough
"For 10 points, name this English artist who painted Mr",Thomas Gainsborough
and Mrs,Thomas Gainsborough
Andrews and The Blue Boy.,Thomas Gainsborough
Valentine Greene's 1779 mezzotint of this work helped increase both this work and
its artists' popularity,Watson and the Shark
"The painter originally drafted this work with a youth in center instead of a
balding man, and Morro Castle can be seen in the top right corner",Watson and the
Shark
"One of the titular figures' right foot cannot be seen due to the composition,
suggesting that it is missing, and his right hand is reaching for a length of rope
hanging from the side of a boat",Watson and the Shark
"In the center, two men in white reach for that figure, while a man on the right
holds a harpoon and is attacking the title animal in this work's lower right
corner",Watson and the Shark
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting an animal attacking a human in Havana
Bay by John Singleton Copley.",Watson and the Shark
This artist featured a background of blue and yellow splotches on a green wall in
one of a self-portrait 'with paintbrushes',Umberto Boccioni
Another one of his paintings is dominated by the word 'CAFF' which appears just
above several flashes of bright yellow and another painting prominently features
the number '6943' in between industrial images including a locomotive and a radio
tower,Umberto Boccioni
"This artist included The Farewells in his States of Mind series, but he may be
better known for sculpture that depicts an armless figure moving
dynamically",Umberto Boccioni
"For 10 points, identify this Futurist artist who created Riot in the Galleria and
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.",Umberto Boccioni
"This artist showed a woman wearing armor under her green cloak, decorated with a
plaque of Victory and flying over Athens, in Pallas Athene",Il Parmigianino [or
Francesco Mazzola]
He depicted a child Hercules handing a globe to a ruler in his Allegorical Portrait
of Charles V and he showed a voluptuous baby Jesus leaning on an orb while holding
a rose in left hand in Madonna della Rosa,Il Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola]
This artist painted a man sleeping in the right side while John the Baptist points
upward at the Virgin and child in his The Vision of St,Il Parmigianino [or
Francesco Mazzola]
Jerome,Il Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola]
"On the right hand corner of his best-known painting a prophet holds a scroll under
a giant Doric column, while six angels surround an elongated baby who appears to be
falling off the lap of his mother",Il Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola]
"For 10 points, name this Mannerist artist who painted Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror and Madonna with the Long Neck.",Il Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola]
Erica Hirshler wrote a 'biography' of this painting tracking how two of the people
depicted ending up being put into an asylum,The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
"The lighting of this painting was borrowed from the artist's earlier Venetian
Studies, and was also influenced by copies the artist made of Las Meninas",The
Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Two antiques created by Hirabayashi depicted in the painting are now displayed
alongside it in the MFA,The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
"Two of the central figures stand in the shadow, and one of them leans against a
giant Japanese vase, while the youngest sits on a rug and clutches a doll",The
Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
"Finished two years before Madame X, for 10 points, name this painting depicting
the siblings Florence, Jane, Mary Louisa and Julia in their family's Paris
apartment, a work by John Singer Sargent.",The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Possible models for the left-most figure in this painting include Andrea del
Verrocchio's David or Giuliano de Medici,Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before
last four words of tossup; prompt afterwards]
That figure in red wears a curved sword on his sash and prods his caduceus into a
cloud,Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt
afterwards]
"Roses trail out of the mouth of a figure on the right of this painting, who
struggles with a figure with blue robes and blue-gray skin",Primavera [or Allegory
of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt afterwards]
"Those are this painting's depictions of Mercury, Chloris, and Zephyrus",Primavera
[or Allegory of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt afterwards]
"At the top of the painting, Cupid takes aim towards the Graces, who dance center
left",Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt
afterwards]
"In the very center of this painting, Venus stands where the orange trees
arch",Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before last four words of tossup; prompt
afterwards]
"For 10 points, name this painting by Sandro Botticelli, an allegorical
representation of spring.",Primavera [or Allegory of Spring before last four words
of tossup; prompt afterwards]
This artist painted a woman with a sword in a burning landscape where a dark river
flows into a giant mouth,Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"In another work by him, skeletons with trumpets and spears kill people in a
desolate landscape alongside a cart full of skulls",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
"In addition to Dulle Griet and The Triumph of Death, he painted a man holding a
kabob and riding a barrel while being pushed towards a sickly man with an oar in
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
This man also painted a work in which a man and his donkey plow a field on a hill
while a ship sails away from a small splash in the background,Pieter Brueghel the
Elder
"For 10 points, name this artist of The Peasant Wedding and Landscape with the Fall
of Icarus.",Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Portraits by this artist include one of Lord Henry and Lady Mary Guilford,Hans
Holbein the Younger
He painted Anne Lovell with a squirrel and a starling,Hans Holbein the Younger
A Virgin Mary in a navy blue dress with orange sash holds an infant Jesus in a work
this artist painted for Jakob Meyer,Hans Holbein the Younger
"Besides the Darmstadt Madonna, another of his works depicts a green curtain in
front of a table containing items like a lute and a globe",Hans Holbein the Younger
That painting also contains an anamorphic image of a skull on the floor next to the
two title figures,Hans Holbein the Younger
"For 10 points, name this court painter of Henry VIII famous for his portraits of
Erasmus and Thomas More and for The Ambassadors.",Hans Holbein the Younger
One figure in this painting looks to his right at a vase held by a figure on the
left of the canvas,The Madonna of the Long Neck [or The Madonna with the Long Neck;
or Madonna and Child with Angels and St. Jerome; or La Madonna del Collo Lungo]
"Brown curtains appear at the top; and on the right, in the distance, a man wearing
a toga looks away from the scroll held in his outstretched arms",The Madonna of the
Long Neck [or The Madonna with the Long Neck; or Madonna and Child with Angels and
St. Jerome; or La Madonna del Collo Lungo]
"Next to that man, a column is partially blocked by the title figure's flowing blue
robes",The Madonna of the Long Neck [or The Madonna with the Long Neck; or Madonna
and Child with Angels and St. Jerome; or La Madonna del Collo Lungo]
"The title figure of this painting rests her bare foot on a pair of pillows at the
bottom, and her elongated fingers graze the top of her white dress",The Madonna of
the Long Neck [or The Madonna with the Long Neck; or Madonna and Child with Angels
and St. Jerome; or La Madonna del Collo Lungo]
"For 10 points, a very large infant Jesus lies on the lap of the title figure in
what mannerist masterpiece of Parmigianino, whose title references a noticeable
physical feature of the Virgin Mary?",The Madonna of the Long Neck [or The Madonna
with the Long Neck; or Madonna and Child with Angels and St. Jerome; or La Madonna
del Collo Lungo]
This painter's landscapes include two of Antwerp that feature the Steen
Castle,Peter Paul Rubens
Modern knowledge of the composition of Da Vinci's lost The Battle of Anghiari comes
from a drawing by him,Peter Paul Rubens
The title figure is seen being crowned in Saint-Denis and disembarking at
Marseilles in his Marie de Medici cycle,Peter Paul Rubens
"His second wife, Hlne Fourment, was thought to have posed for works such as The
Three Graces and one in which the title figure scratches his chin while deciding
between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, The Judgment of Paris",Peter Paul Rubens
"For 10 points, name this Flemish artist of a famous Descent from the Cross
triptych, known for his full-bodied female nudes.",Peter Paul Rubens
Paintings inspired by this work include Roger Brown's Puerto Rican
Wedding,Nighthawks
"At the right of this painting, a narrow yellow door stands shut",Nighthawks
A white-clad figure in this painting is bending down as he looks at a woman in a
red dress,Nighthawks
"A sign running along the top of this painting advertises cigars selling for 'only
5 cents.' In addition to the aforementioned woman, other people in this painting
include two dark-suited men in fedoras, each of whom leans on the counter next to
cups of co",Nighthawks
"For 10 points, name this painting that depicts a diner in the hours of darkness
and was painted by Edward Hopper.",Nighthawks
The Allegory of the Christian Knight forms the center panel of this painter's
Modena Triptych,El Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"In one of his paintings, a man in green prepares to remove Jesus's red tunic",El
Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"In another of his paintings, a blue-robed St",El Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos
Theotokpoulos]
John outstretches his arms while angels distribute robes to naked people,El Greco
[or The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"In another, this man's son, as well as St",El Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos
Theotokpoulos]
"Stephen, and St",El Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"Augustine, surround the interment of the titular armor-clad nobleman",El Greco [or
The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"For 10 points, name this painter of The Disrobing of Christ, The Opening of the
Fifth Seal, and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, whose common Spanish name alludes
to his birth on Crete.",El Greco [or The Greek; or Domnikos Theotokpoulos]
"One of this man's paintings depicts silhouettes created by rows of Venus de Milos
which form the image of a man wearing a green tie, amidst a bullfighting
scene",Salvador Dali
"In another of his paintings, a kneeling figure from Greek myth is morphed into a
hand holding an egg from which a flower protrudes",Salvador Dali
"In another work by this creator of The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The
Metamorphosis of Narcissus, the image in the water of some title creatures' necks
appears to be the other title creatures' trunks",Salvador Dali
One of his paintings features ants crawling on melting watches,Salvador Dali
"For 10 points, name this Surrealist Spanish artist of Swans Reflecting Elephants
and The Persistence of Memory.",Salvador Dali
A woman in blue-green rides a chestnut horse in the title position of this
painter's Side-Saddle,Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
"He served as illustrator for Georges Clemenceau's book, At the Foot of
Sinai",Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
"Two women lie in bed, locked in embrace, in his depiction of The Kiss",Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec
A stern ringmaster whips a gray horse ridden by a red-haired woman in his At the
Circus Fernando,Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
He painted the title nightclub owner dressed in a black jacket and hat and red
scarf in his paintings of Aristide Bruant,Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
"For 10 points, name this French Post-Impressionist known for his paintings of Jane
Avril and La Goulue dancing at the Moulin Rouge and for his short stature.",Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec
This artist's unfinished sculptures include the Boboli Captives and the Taddei
Madonna,Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"His statues of Night, Day, Dawn, and Dusk are inside a part of a building that
contains his Laurentian Library, the Church of San Lorenzo",Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
And he depicted the title biblical figure with a large beard and horns in his
Moses,Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"In another project that included The Deluge, he drew his self-portrait on the
flayed skin of Saint Bartholomew",Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"For 10 points, name this man who was ordered to build the dome of St",Michelangelo
di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"Peter's Basilica and the tomb of Pope Julius II, the painter of The Last Judgment
and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.",Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"British troops carry the title commander under a Union Jack in this painter's
Battle of Jersey scene, Death of Major Peirson",John Singleton Copley
"A wife, dressed in blue, leans over to look at her husband's sketch of a sculpture
in his Mr",John Singleton Copley
and Mrs,John Singleton Copley
Izard,John Singleton Copley
"This artist is better known for a painting that shows the title figure stroking
his chin with his right hand, while holding a silver teapot in his left, and
another in which two men lean over to rescue one title character while a standing
man tries to har",John Singleton Copley
"For 10 points, name this 18th century American painter of a portrait of Paul
Revere and Watson and the Shark.",John Singleton Copley
"Dandelions and plantago are among the weeds growing in this artist's watercolor,
Great Piece of Turf",Albrecht Durer
An Albuquerque voyage commissioned by King Manuel I led this artist to draw an
anatomically inaccurate depiction of a rhinoceros,Albrecht Durer
"In one work by this artist, a skull lies on a window ledge while a lion and dog
sleep in front of the main figure as he compiles the Vulgate",Albrecht Durer
Another work by this man shows a human skull barely visible on an irregularly sided
polyhedron which lies to the left of a depressed angel,Albrecht Durer
"For 10 points, Saint Jerome in his Study and Melancholia I are by what German
woodcut artist of the Apocalypse series?",Albrecht Durer
One part of this work shows a man leaning backwards as he holds up a woman and is
entitled I am Beautiful,The Gates of Hell [accept La Porte de l'Enfer]
Another section of this work depicts a nobleman from Pisa who was forced to stay
alive by eating his children,The Gates of Hell [accept La Porte de l'Enfer]
This artwork includes a depiction of Ugolino and His Children and shows an embrace
between Paolo and Francesca,The Gates of Hell [accept La Porte de l'Enfer]
Another section of this work was originally titled The Poet and shows a seated man
with his chin on his right hand,The Gates of Hell [accept La Porte de l'Enfer]
"For 10 points, name this group of sculptural works depicting scenes from Dante's
Inferno that includes The Kiss and The Thinker and was sculpted by Auguste
Rodin.",The Gates of Hell [accept La Porte de l'Enfer]
A woman with a blue parasol and a child walk through a field of the title red
flowers in this painter's Poppies,Oscar Claude Monet
"He painted the effects of sunlight in the fog on the title structure in his Houses
of Parliament series, and showed the many different shapes of the smoke issuing
from trains in his Gare Saint-Lazare series",Oscar Claude Monet
"He depicted the harbor at Le Havre in a painting that lent its name to his
artistic movement, and painted a series depicting certain objects in the water near
a Japanese bridge at his Giverny home",Oscar Claude Monet
"For 10 points, identify this French painter of Impression: Sunrise and many water
lilies.",Oscar Claude Monet
"At the dead center of this painting stands a child in white with a hat, clutching
the pink skirt of its mother",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte -
1884 [or Un Dimanche Aprs-midi l'le de la Grande Jatte - 1884; accept 'Isle'
instead of 'Island'; accept A Sunday on la Grande Jatte]
"Another child, in orange, appears to be skipping or running off to the right",A
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 [or Un Dimanche Aprs-midi
l'le de la Grande Jatte - 1884; accept 'Isle' instead of 'Island'; accept A
Sunday on la Grande Jatte]
"In the background of this painting stand a man in orange, blowing a bugle, and two
soldiers facing away from both children, towards where four men are rowing a
boat",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 [or Un Dimanche
Aprs-midi l'le de la Grande Jatte - 1884; accept 'Isle' instead of 'Island';
accept A Sunday on la Grande Jatte]
"A black dog sniffs the ground near a man in a sleeveless red shirt and black cap,
who smokes a pipe in the left foreground",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
Grande Jatte - 1884 [or Un Dimanche Aprs-midi l'le de la Grande Jatte - 1884;
accept 'Isle' instead of 'Island'; accept A Sunday on la Grande Jatte]
A woman at the right of this painting holds a monkey on a leash,A Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 [or Un Dimanche Aprs-midi l'le de la
Grande Jatte - 1884; accept 'Isle' instead of 'Island'; accept A Sunday on la
Grande Jatte]
"For 10 points, parasol-wielding Parisians proliferate what pointillist masterpiece
of Georges Seurat?",A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 [or
Un Dimanche Aprs-midi l'le de la Grande Jatte - 1884; accept 'Isle' instead of
'Island'; accept A Sunday on la Grande Jatte]
"This architect's final building, completed after his death, is the Martin Luther
King Jr",Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Library in D.C,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Cullinan Hall is one of two additions this architect made to the Caroline Weiss Law
Building in Houston,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
He designed both the building and sculpture gardens for the Neue Nationalgalerie in
Berlin,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
His German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition contained the first of
his Barcelona chairs,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
"Another of his works was purposely built in the floodplain of the Fox River, the
Farnsworth House",Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
"For 10 points, 'less is more' was the maxim of this International Style architect
and final director of the Bauhaus.",Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Jesus stands on the shore as his disciples cast nets from a boat in this artist's
Christ at the Sea of Galilee,Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
"Peacocks watch on the lower right as stars shoot out from the breast of Juno,
where Hercules is suckling, in another of his painting",Tintoretto [or Jacopo
Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
A descending figure in an orange cape intercedes to save a Christian from impending
execution in a painting from his St,Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
Mark series,Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
"Besides Origin of the Milky Way and Miracle of the Slave, he is most famous for a
painting where angels surround a table that stretches diagonally away from the
viewer",Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
"For 10 points, name this Venetian Renaissance painter of a celebrated Last Supper,
with a name meaning little dyer.",Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
This artist painted one of the title nomads attending to a brown horse at right as
the title blue-robed poet reclines off left in Ovid Among the Scythians,Eugne
Delacroix
A hand sticks out from the rubble at the foot of a despairing woman in his
allegorical Greece Expiring on the Ruins of the Messolonghi,Eugne Delacroix
"A turbaned figure on a rearing horse overlooks a field of dying people in his
Massacre at Chios, while the title king watches calmly as one his slaves' throat is
slit in his The Death of Sardanapalus",Eugne Delacroix
A little boy waves a pistol in the air as the title bare-breasted figure waves a
French flag in this painter's most famous work,Eugne Delacroix
"For 10 points, name this painter of Liberty Leading the People.",Eugne Delacroix
A series of different colored squares form the shell of the title animal in this
artist's The Snail,Henri Matisse
"Ships sit in the pink waters of the harbor in one of several paintings he did of
Collioure, The Open Window",Henri Matisse
"In one of his paintings, a maid is arranging fruit on a platter on a table whose
tablecloth bears the same color as the wallpaper",Henri Matisse
"In another painting by him, the nudes reclining and playing on a yellow lawn
include a group dancing in a ring, a trope he would revisit in his painting The
Dance",Henri Matisse
He used a technique he called 'drawing with scissors' for his Blue Nudes
series,Henri Matisse
"For 10 points, name this French Fauvist of The Joy of Life and Harmony in
Red.",Henri Matisse
A nude Andromeda on the left with her back to the viewer watches an armor-clad
Perseus perform the title action in his Perseus Slaying the Sea Monster,Edward
Coley Burne-Jones
"He was also fond of painting series as in his The Heart Desires and The Soul
Attains, two parts of his Pygmalion and Galatea cycle, and his large four-part
group about Sleeping Beauty, the Briar Rose paintings",Edward Coley Burne-Jones
A male nude in his Phyllis and Demophoon caused scandal but the three male nudes in
his canvas Wheel of Fortune resulted in little outcry,Edward Coley Burne-Jones
"His artistic diversity is reflected in the numerous stained glass windows and book
illustrations, such as those for an 1896 edition of Chaucer, which he did for the
workshop of his friend William Morris",Edward Coley Burne-Jones
"An abiding interest in Arthurian myth, typified by his painting The Beguiling of
Merlin, also characterized, for 10 points, what Pre-Raphaelite artist and painter
of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid?",Edward Coley Burne-Jones
"Among the unfinished members of this group is the one of Casa Colonna, which sits
in the Berlin Gallery","Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that
mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is
also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just
Raphael)"
"Preliminary drawings of many of them can be seen in the so-called 'Pink
Sketchbook,' including the Bridgewater and Mackintosh ones","Madonnas by Raphael
Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and
Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas,
Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just Raphael)"
"The Araceli and Foligno ones were modeled on each other, whereas a more unique one
features two putti petting the titular creature","Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da
Urbino (accept answers that mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with
Child as long as Raphael is also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but
do NOT prompt on just Raphael)"
The most famous sees St,"Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that
mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is
also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just
Raphael)"
Barbara and an awed St,"Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that
mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is
also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just
Raphael)"
Sixtus on the right and left as well as two putti looking up curiously amidst the
clouds at the bottom,"Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that
mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is
also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just
Raphael)"
"Some were once mistakenly attributed to their creator's teacher, Giulio
Romano","Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that mention Virgins,
Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is also mentioned;
prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just Raphael)"
"For 10 points, name this group of works that include the one of the Meadow, the
Sistine one, and the one of the Goldfinch, a collection of paintings by the artist
of School of Athens.","Madonnas by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (accept answers that
mention Virgins, Virgin and Child, and Virgins with Child as long as Raphael is
also mentioned; prompt on Madonnas, Virgins, etc. but do NOT prompt on just
Raphael)"
One of them places the central figure on the right of the canvas with a row of
houses near his left foot and a black goat in the center carrying a mother and
child,Chagall's depictions of Crucifixion (accept equivalents as long as Chagall
and Crucifixion are mentioned)
Another places the primary figure on the left with a blue face and black and gold
loin cloth with a red goat-like creature in the center,Chagall's depictions of
Crucifixion (accept equivalents as long as Chagall and Crucifixion are mentioned)
"A fourth was sold three months ago and is titled Apocalypse in Lilac,
Capriccio",Chagall's depictions of Crucifixion (accept equivalents as long as
Chagall and Crucifixion are mentioned)
"The most famous depicts the central figure with a boat approaching on the left and
a burning house to the right, with Communists and Nazis on the left and right edges
respectively",Chagall's depictions of Crucifixion (accept equivalents as long as
Chagall and Crucifixion are mentioned)
"The main three prominently feature candles near the central figure, two of them
depict torahs, and two of them feature prominently placed ladders",Chagall's
depictions of Crucifixion (accept equivalents as long as Chagall and Crucifixion
are mentioned)
"For 10 points, name this group of canvases that include the 'mystical,' yellow',
and 'white' varieties, which depict the same historical event, and which were
painted by the artist of 'I and the Village'.",Chagall's depictions of Crucifixion
(accept equivalents as long as Chagall and Crucifixion are mentioned)
Artist Walter Verdin created the installation Sliding Time based on this painting
for a 2009 exhibition honoring its artist,Descent From the Cross or Deposition of
Christ (accept equivalents)
There is a direct line between the eyes of the figure in the embroidered gold cloak
at the center right and the eyes of a skull at the bottom left,Descent From the
Cross or Deposition of Christ (accept equivalents)
"The woman on the far left wears a white headdress and tears are clearly visible on
her face, while the woman in the bottom center left is shown in a vibrant blue
dress and has just fainted",Descent From the Cross or Deposition of Christ (accept
equivalents)
The central figure is rendered in the shape of a crossbow in honor of the Leuven
guild that commissioned this painting,Descent From the Cross or Deposition of
Christ (accept equivalents)
"Among the identifiable figures are Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome, and Nicodemus, and
in total there are ten figures placed in a very cramped space",Descent From the
Cross or Deposition of Christ (accept equivalents)
"For 10 points, name this circa 1435 painting, the masterpiece of Rogier van der
Weyden.",Descent From the Cross or Deposition of Christ (accept equivalents)
The creator of this artwork partly drew on a concurrent portrait of its subject by
Marie Benoist,"Pauline Borghese as the Venus Victrix (accept either name, as well
as Pauline Bonaparte)"
It came to be housed in a building designed by Giovanni Marchetti and in a room
containing a ceiling fresco on the same subject by Domenico de Angelis,"Pauline
Borghese as the Venus Victrix (accept either name, as well as Pauline Bonaparte)"
"A brief scandal erupted in 2007 when its artist was accused of taking plaster
casts of his sitter's breasts, which proved false, though he did design the crank
in its wooden base that allowed it to be rotated","Pauline Borghese as the Venus
Victrix (accept either name, as well as Pauline Bonaparte)"
"The subject has a bracelet around her right arm, which supports her head, and she
holds an apple in her left hand in reference to the 'Judgment of Paris.' She
reclines on a Roman sofa and is nude above the waist","Pauline Borghese as the
Venus Victrix (accept either name, as well as Pauline Bonaparte)"
"For 10 points, name this sculpture that sought to equate its subject with
Aphrodite, a work by Antonio Canova depicting the sister of Napoleon.","Pauline
Borghese as the Venus Victrix (accept either name, as well as Pauline Bonaparte)"
"Ana Maria Pacheco's 'Studies of' this figure are large scale drawings, whereas her
Dark Night of the Soul is a wood sculpture inspired by the Pollaiuolo brothers'
sculpture depicting his death",St. Sebastian or San Sebastiano
"In 1915 Egon Schiele painted a self-portrait of himself as this man, and Bellini
created a triptych on his life",St. Sebastian or San Sebastiano
"Il Sodoma's version of him is the painter's masterpiece, and he was also the
subject of six paintings by Anthony van Dyck, some of which replaced his face with
van Dyck's",St. Sebastian or San Sebastiano
"Ribera and de la Tour's depictions of him both feature him being tended to by
Irene, whereas Perugino, like many others, painted him 'bound to a column.' For 10
points, Andrea Mantegna's portrayals show the typical scene of arrows piercing the
body and ma",St. Sebastian or San Sebastiano
Much of what we know of his inspiration comes in a biography of his mentor written
by Epiphanius,Andrei Rublev
"Between 1905 and 1918 his most famous work underwent restoration, though the gold
background was lost and the lone tree had to be painted anew",Andrei Rublev
"In good condition is his Harrowing of Hell, though the top of Christ's head is
missing in his The Savior, one of his few works located in a museum",Andrei Rublev
"Rather, it is such sites as the Dormition Church and Dormition Cathedral that
house his frescoes, many of which he completed with the help of Theophanes the
Greek",Andrei Rublev
"Solo credit is given for his Old Testament Trinity, initially housed in the
cathedral of his master St",Andrei Rublev
Sergius,Andrei Rublev
"For 10 points, name this subject of an Andrei Tarkovsky film and 14th and 15th
century Russian icon painter.",Andrei Rublev
"Among the most exotic in this series was the one featuring a 'Potentate' and a
'Kris,' a kind of sword, and among the most humorous was the depiction of Zeuxis,
an ancient Greek painter",Rembrandt's Self-Portraits or Self-Portraits of Rembrandt
(accept equivalents)
One of them is an interpretation of St,Rembrandt's Self-Portraits or Self-Portraits
of Rembrandt (accept equivalents)
Paul and at least two feature a gorget [gore-JIT],Rembrandt's Self-Portraits or
Self-Portraits of Rembrandt (accept equivalents)
"Some of them were initially given the title of conterfeycel, but not the late ones
such as the penultimate, which utilized a doublet featured in the works of Dirk
Bouts and Rogier van der Weyden",Rembrandt's Self-Portraits or Self-Portraits of
Rembrandt (accept equivalents)
"They include thirty-two etchings and number at least ninety-nine but only two of
them feature Saskia, the artist's wife",Rembrandt's Self-Portraits or Self-
Portraits of Rembrandt (accept equivalents)
"Spanning a forty-year period between 1629 and 1669, For 10 points, name this
series of depictions of the artist of The Night Watch.",Rembrandt's Self-Portraits
or Self-Portraits of Rembrandt (accept equivalents)
"Before this group of paintings could begin their artist negotiated terms with
Claude Maugis settling for a total of 20,000 crowns",The Life of Marie de'Medici
"The first entry depicts the Fates at work with their accoutrements, minus
Atropos's scissors, while Zeus and Hera watch from above",The Life of Marie
de'Medici
"The most discordant painting in this cycle shows a gathering on Olympus and was
titled The Council of the Gods and Time uncovers Truth while a wreath is presented
above them in the final entry, The Triumph of Truth",The Life of Marie de'Medici
"The 'Destiny,' 'Birth,' and 'Education' of the central figure precede such
historical scenes as The Flight From Blois and The Disembarkation at Marseilles and
the happiness of the final reconciliation with the Dauphin",The Life of Marie
de'Medici
Numbering 24 paintings in all they were produced to decorate the Palais de
Luxembourg,The Life of Marie de'Medici
"For 10 points, identify this cycle of paintings by Rubens named for their subject,
the widow of Henry IV of France.",The Life of Marie de'Medici
"Marcel Duchamp poses for this man in the painting Sunday Afternoon in the Country
by Florine Stettheimer, though a much clearer portrait is seen in Fred Holland
Day's 1901 picture of him",Edward Steichen
"His Road to Victory and Power in the Pacific exhibitions helped memorialize the
Pacific campaign in World War II, and he won an Oscar for his propaganda
documentary for the navy entitled The Fighting Lady",Edward Steichen
"His work in other genres included a 1905 iconic atmospheric depiction of the
Flatiron Building, as well as a large-scale 1955 exhibition with an accompanying
book and introduction by his brother-in-law Carl Sandburg",Edward Steichen
"For 10 points, name this man who organized the Family of Man exhibit at MOMA, a
photographer who co-founded the Photo Secession movement with Alfred
Steiglitz.",Edward Steichen
"The two figures at the bottom of this painting are the only naked ones, and the
one of them on the left holds a bowl aloft",Ship of Fools
In total there are 12 people and the man furthest to the right leans over as he
vomits,Ship of Fools
"A minstrel sits on some tree branches at the right and a May tree, with an owl
poking out, is the major feature of the upper half as is the salmon-colored banner
with an Islamic crescent tied to the tree's trunk",Ship of Fools
A plate of cherries lies just below the nun who plays a lute and sings with a monk
at the center,Ship of Fools
Initially it was part of a larger piece where it sat above the artist's Allegory of
Gluttony,Ship of Fools
"Likely inspired by a contemporary satire by Sebastian Brant, For 10 points,
identify this depiction of a group about to embark on an aquatic voyage, a painting
by Hieronymous Bosch.",Ship of Fools
Lord Leighton depicted one wearing the feathers of a peacock and conversing with a
swan,Odalisques (or Odaliks)
"They featured in a series of 1858 photographs by Roger Fenton, and the Louvre is
home to James Pradier's sculpture of a 'Dancing' one.",Odalisques (or Odaliks)
"Red, black, and white lines and bars characterize Dali's 'Cybernetic' one, and
Robert Rauschenberg's was a freestanding 'combine' parodying the best-known
painting of one of them",Odalisques (or Odaliks)
"Ones with 'Upraised Arms,' in a 'Green Scarf,' and wearing 'Red Trousers' are the
most notable of several painted by Henri Matisse",Odalisques (or Odaliks)
The best-known is seen in a painting commissioned by Napoleon's sister and drawn
partly from Titian's Venus of Urbino,Odalisques (or Odaliks)
"For 10 points, name these figures also frequently painted by Boucher and
Delacroix, female Turkish slaves of which a 'Grande' one was painted by
Ingres.",Odalisques (or Odaliks)
"Its major portions were completed by a select group of the artist's pupils,
including Antonio Raggi and Claude Poussin",Fountain of the Four Rivers (or Fontana
dei Quattro Fiumi)
Its building was highly unpopular due to the new bread tax instituted to finance
its construction,Fountain of the Four Rivers (or Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)
"The artist himself was responsible for the images at the center, which were carved
in situ, and include a horse and a palm tree",Fountain of the Four Rivers (or
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)
"Another pupil, Baratta, was responsible for the bearded black man who sits on a
pile of coins and has his arm upraised, a gesture theorized to be an insult to the
design of the neighboring church of Sant'Agnese by Borromini",Fountain of the Four
Rivers (or Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)
"It is also populated by several types of animals, including a few lions and the
dove at the top representing the Pamphili family of its patron, Innocent
X",Fountain of the Four Rivers (or Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)
"For 10 points, name this structure in the Piazza Navona of Rome that was designed
by Bernini and includes personifications of the Rio de la Plata and the
Ganges.",Fountain of the Four Rivers (or Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)
"In their most famous work the 13th image is entitled The Anatomical Man but of the
two figures seen it is a woman, with the signs of the zodiac ascending up her naked
body, who faces the viewer",the Limbourg brothers
"That work ends with preliminary drawings for two more images, but the actual final
image is that of the Martyrdom of St",the Limbourg brothers
Andrew,the Limbourg brothers
"In the same work, their patron can be seen wearing a brilliant blue robe on the
right on the first folio",the Limbourg brothers
"Some of their sections were completed by the 'Master of Shadows' and in their time
they were known as the 'courtly,' 'pious,' and 'rustic' painters",the Limbourg
brothers
"Their major achievement remains the opening calendar, featuring one month painted
by Jean Colombe",the Limbourg brothers
"They worked at the behest of Jean, Duc de Berry, and their names were Johan,
Herman, and Paul",the Limbourg brothers
"For 10 points, name this group who created the major illuminated manuscript of the
15th-century, Tres Riches Heures.",the Limbourg brothers
"The artist drew on a sketch of the subject from seven years earlier for this
painting, whose fame at exhibition led the artist to send his Young Lady with a
Bird and Dog to the same exhibition the next year",Boy With a Squirrel (accept
early buzz of Henry Pelham)
"Atypical of the artist was the choice of painting in profile rather than head-on
and the dreamy quality of the subject, who was the artist's half-brother Henry
Pelham",Boy With a Squirrel (accept early buzz of Henry Pelham)
Of particular note are the luxurious red drapery in the background and the rich
mahogany table at which the subject sits,Boy With a Squirrel (accept early buzz of
Henry Pelham)
Upon the table are a glass of water and part of the gold chain which links the
subject with the other title figure,Boy With a Squirrel (accept early buzz of Henry
Pelham)
"Praised by Reynolds and West upon its London exhibition, it would be surpassed
four years later by the artist's portrait of Paul Revere",Boy With a Squirrel
(accept early buzz of Henry Pelham)
"For 10 points, name this painting by John Singleton Copley depicting an adolescent
and a rodent.",Boy With a Squirrel (accept early buzz of Henry Pelham)
"The central scene in this painting relied heavily on an emblem in Andrea Alciati's
Liber Eblemata, a popular book of the time, according to Jonathan Brown, an expert
on the artist",Surrender of Breda (or Surrender at Breda or The Lances or Las
Lanzas)
"Brown also recently confirmed the attribution of the artist's Portrait of a Man,
featuring a man who reappears at the far right of this canvas",Surrender of Breda
(or Surrender at Breda or The Lances or Las Lanzas)
It remains the most famous of 12 scenes painted for the Hall of Realms in a new
state palace at the time,Surrender of Breda (or Surrender at Breda or The Lances or
Las Lanzas)
"Two clusters of figures dominate the space, and among those on the left we see the
head of a horse peeking out over the shoulder of a man in bright white, which is
contrasted with the hind quarters of the same horse standing out on the
right",Surrender of Breda (or Surrender at Breda or The Lances or Las Lanzas)
"The center focuses on an exchange of keys between two men, Justin of Nassau and
the opposing general, Ambrogio Spinola",Surrender of Breda (or Surrender at Breda
or The Lances or Las Lanzas)
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting the 1625 Dutch capitulation at the
titular fortress, a work by Diego Velazquez.",Surrender of Breda (or Surrender at
Breda or The Lances or Las Lanzas)
A contemporaneous Croatian artist Giorgio Glovocic mentioned a third version of
this work painted on ivory but now lost,The Tower of Babel
"In an essay on this painting art historian Steven Mansbach argued that the most
prominent figure represents Philip II, coinciding with the interpretation of it as
a depiction of suffering caused by Spain",The Tower of Babel
"It portrays a rolling green landscape in the back, a city scene on the left, and a
harbor scene on the right, where slabs of red stone are being delivered",The Tower
of Babel
On the bottom left are many slabs of grey stone amidst which several stonemasons
kneel before the procession of King Nimrod,The Tower of Babel
Their work in progress was painted to parallel the Coliseum and takes on a spiral
shape and is the title structure,The Tower of Babel
"For 10 points, name this painting by Bruegel depicting a biblical structure that
man tried to build to reach as high as heaven.",The Tower of Babel
On the brow at the hill on the right of this painting was the real-life mansion
home of Samuel Breck,Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
Art historian Martin Berger argues that this painting's subject allowed the artist
to assert his masculinity and it was the first in a series of nearly 30 paintings
on the same subject the artist would complete over the next four years,Max Schmitt
in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"Many of them had identifiable landmarks, such as those in this painting - the
Girard Avenue Bridge and the Railroad Connection Bridge",Max Schmitt in a Single
Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"The artist depicts himself moving away in the background, and in the foreground is
the titular subject who was a practicing lawyer and childhood friend of the
artist",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"Commemorating an event of October 5, 1870 specifically the Schuylkill [skoo-kill]
River Navy Regatta, for 10 points, name this painting of the titular oarsman by
Thomas Eakins.",Max Schmitt in a Single Scull or The Champion Single Sculls
"He discussed the lack of good municipal art in urban areas in his essay 'Our Ugly
Cities,' and predicted that the airplane would 'wipe out the borders of the world'
after viewing an early Wright Brothers flight",Gutzon Borglum
"One of his works depicts a slave girl named Pink being freed by Henry Ward
Beecher, while his memorial to Sacco and Vanzetti features some of latter's last
words and is located in the Boston Public Library",Gutzon Borglum
He portrayed James R,Gutzon Borglum
"McConnell, a pilot killed in World War I, as a man with wings in The
Aviator",Gutzon Borglum
His Twelve Apostles adorns the Cathedral of St,Gutzon Borglum
"John the Divine in New York, and he depicted a stampede directed by Hercules in
the first sculpture accepted by the Met, his Mares of Diomedes",Gutzon Borglum
"For 10 points, identify this sculptor of the head of Lincoln in the US Capitol
Rotunda and a National Memorial featuring the heads of four presidents at Mount
Rushmore.",Gutzon Borglum
"An early painting of his shows a winged angel dominating the center with two large
blotches of red on the left and right, and another of his paintings depicts a large
group of people praying as a bird-like creature breaks through the roof",David
Alfaro Siqueiros
In addition to The Elements and The Devil in the Church he created a self-portrait
featuring grotesque fingernails and an outstretched arm,David Alfaro Siqueiros
"A gold-skinned young boy wearing a red sash and crying and sitting in field of
broken machinery is seen in his Echo of a Scream, but more renowned is a 1000-
square foot mural depicting a huge robotic bird, men wearing gas-masks, and a
machine that spits o",David Alfaro Siqueiros
He completed Portrait of the Bourgeoisie one year before participating in a plot to
assassinate Leon Trotsky,David Alfaro Siqueiros
"For 10 points, name this man, who belonged to the 'Big Three' of Mexican muralists
along with Diego Rivera and Jos Orozco.",David Alfaro Siqueiros
"In Lionel Gossman's essay about this group he confusingly terms them the
'Unwilling Moderns.' An early member of this group imitated an earlier Ingres
painting with his The Entry of Rudolf of Hapsburg into Basel, and typified this
group's style with his d",Nazarenes (or Nazarener or Brotherhood of St. Luke or
Lukesbund)
"Another member executed a series of frescoes showing Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso as
part of their communal decoration of the Villa Massimo",Nazarenes (or Nazarener or
Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukesbund)
"By then they had already taken up quarters at the monastery of San Isidro and
their founder, in Assisi's Portiuncula Chapel, painted his major fresco on the Rose
Miracle of St",Nazarenes (or Nazarener or Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukesbund)
Francis,Nazarenes (or Nazarener or Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukesbund)
"As seen in their founder's The Triumph of Religion in the Arts, they sought to
renew the style of the Renaissance through the Christian faith",Nazarenes (or
Nazarener or Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukesbund)
"For 10 points, name this group of German artists that included Peter Cornelius,
Franz Pforr, and Johann Overbeck.",Nazarenes (or Nazarener or Brotherhood of St.
Luke or Lukesbund)
Both Phillipe de Champaigne and Pieter Claesz were known for doing still lifes
focused on this particular object,skulls
A detail of one on Mt,skulls
Golgotha was done by Fra Angelico and a teenage boy with an orange-feathered cap is
seen in Frans Hals' portrait of a 'Youth' with one,skulls
"Francisco Zurbaran depicted St Francis looking at one of these objects, while
another one of these was depicted 'with calico roses'",skulls
"A recent sculpture of one of these was titled For the Love of God, and a 'Pyramid'
of them forms the scene and title of a Paul Cezanne painting",skulls
One appears at the bottom of a painting depicting Georges de Selve and Jean de
Dentville,skulls
"For 10 points, name this object which was covered with diamonds by Damien Hirst, a
distorted example of which appears in Holbein's The Ambassadors.",skulls
A mosaic of this event was found in Pompeii in the House of the Faun and modeled on
an earlier Greek painting by Philoxenus of Eretria,The Battle of Alexander at Issus
(or Alexanderschlacht)
"Jan Bruegel's depiction of the same subject was painted in 1602 and is in the
Louvre, but the most famous remains the one commissioned by Duke William IV",The
Battle of Alexander at Issus (or Alexanderschlacht)
Oddly there is a crescent moon at the top left and a sparkling sun at the upper
right,The Battle of Alexander at Issus (or Alexanderschlacht)
"More suspicious are the presence of a group of women on the left, the excessive
size of Cyprus, and the presence of mountain ranges in particular the large
mountain at the center of this painting",The Battle of Alexander at Issus (or
Alexanderschlacht)
"The historian Aventinus provided the numbers and information, later rewritten in
Latin, that appear in the tablet hanging from the sky at the top, as well as the
information on the banners of the two principal forces",The Battle of Alexander at
Issus (or Alexanderschlacht)
"For 10 points, this is what depiction of a victory of Alexander the Great over
Darius III in 333 BC by Albrecht Altdorfer?",The Battle of Alexander at Issus (or
Alexanderschlacht)
The artist placed his name on the base of a bench in the right foreground whereas
in the left background a man in a yellow cloak walks with a staff and leaves the
scene along with the figure in red with a raised hand to his right,The Death of
Socrates [or La Mort de Socrates]
To the left of the title figure a lamp sends out a plume of smoke and at the base
of the bench on the left are a scroll and an opened inkpot,The Death of Socrates
[or La Mort de Socrates]
Other features include the lyre on the bed in the center and the manacles on the
floor,The Death of Socrates [or La Mort de Socrates]
"Nine of the ten figures in the foreground are in various states of despair, with
the lone exception being the title character with his left arm raised and his right
reaching toward the kylix",The Death of Socrates [or La Mort de Socrates]
"For10 points, name this painting by David in which the title event will be
fulfilled by the goblet of hemlock in the center.",The Death of Socrates [or La
Mort de Socrates]
A depiction of this figure by Bartolommeo Bandinelli is housed in the Bargello and
is referred to as the Cleopatra one,Bacchus or Dionysus
"In the same building is Giambologna's bronze of this figure, which was inspired by
another sculpture of him in the same room",Bacchus or Dionysus
That sculpture shows this figure with a faun sitting on a rock beneath his right
hand and is one of the major works of Jacopo Sansovino,Bacchus or Dionysus
A huge depiction of him from the 2nd century AD which shows him with a panther was
once housed in the Villa Ludovisi,Bacchus or Dionysus
"Another depiction of this figure in the Bargello shows him holding a kylix in his
right hand and a tiger skin in his left; that sculpture, which notably features a
broken penis, was created in 1497 by Michelangelo",Bacchus or Dionysus
A better known sculpture shows this deity cradled in the left arm of another
god,Bacchus or Dionysus
"For 10 points, name this god who was depicted with Hermes as an infant in a
sculpture by Praxiteles.",Bacchus or Dionysus
"This artist imitated Paolo Uccello's Profanation of the Host for his mural 1934,
which also incorporates three drawings from this artist's earlier Nighttime,
Enigma, and Nostalgia series",Arshile Gorky (accept Vostanik Adoyan before it is
mentioned)
"A number of this artist's early works are tributes to his mother, who starved to
death before he left his native country; those works include How My Mother's
Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life",Arshile Gorky (accept Vostanik Adoyan before
it is mentioned)
"His son-in-law Matthew Spender, the son of poet Stephen Spender, wrote about him
in the book From a High Place; that book describes this man's friendship with
another artist whom he depicted in Portrait of Master Bill",Arshile Gorky (accept
Vostanik Adoyan before it is mentioned)
"In addition to that portrayal of Willem de Kooning, he created such abstract,
'biomorphic' works as One Year the Milkweed",Arshile Gorky (accept Vostanik Adoyan
before it is mentioned)
"For 10 points, name this painter who was born Vostanik Adoyan, an Armenian artist
who created The Liver Is the Cock's Comb.",Arshile Gorky (accept Vostanik Adoyan
before it is mentioned)
"He turned to printmaking late in his career, producing more than 260 lithographs
and etchings including the Elephant Skull and Sheep portfolios",Henry Moore
"His first major work had been the Hornton stone Mother and Child in the style of
Masaccio finished about 15 years before the first of his 'helmet sculptures' and 4
years before his first public commission, North Wind",Henry Moore
A series of his post-war creations can be found in the U.S,Henry Moore
"including his Family Group and King and Queen, but it was another series of works,
inspired by his viewing of a Mexican Chac Mool figure with which he was
identified",Henry Moore
"Those works led to him, along with countrywoman Barbara Hepworth, becoming a
leading proponent of Organic Abstractionism",Henry Moore
"For 10 points, name this British sculpture known for his series of Recumbent and
Reclining Figures.",Henry Moore
"Though known for his canvases he did create numerous lithographs, including Letter
From Overseas and Wreck of the 97",Thomas Hart Benton
"For his oils he built detailed maquettes, or clay models, but he only did so after
abandoning the Synchromist style of his former schoolmate Stanton Macdonald-
Wright",Thomas Hart Benton
Controversy surrounded the red nail polish and stark nudity of the titular woman in
his Susannah and the Elders and the leering old farmer in his Persephone,Thomas
Hart Benton
"It was for his cycles of paintings that he was celebrated, such as his war series
Year in Peril or his group of panels The Arts of Life in America",Thomas Hart
Benton
More popular were his group of Indiana Murals and his Social History of
Missouri,Thomas Hart Benton
"For 10 points, name this American Regionalist painter, a one-time teacher of
Jackson Pollock and namesake and great nephew of a 19th-century Missouri senator
nicknamed 'Old Bullion.'",Thomas Hart Benton
"The year after he died, a memorial exhibition of his works was organized by
Wilhelm Uhde [oo-duh], who also wrote the first biography of this artist",Henri
Rousseau (or Le Douanier Rousseau) [Douanier meaning customs inspector]
His technique always involved painting individual colors one by one and painting
from the top of the canvas to the bottom,Henri Rousseau (or Le Douanier Rousseau)
[Douanier meaning customs inspector]
"His portraits include those of Pierre Loti and Leon-Paul Fargue, as well as a
self-portrait with a lamp",Henri Rousseau (or Le Douanier Rousseau) [Douanier
meaning customs inspector]
"Whimsy and disproportion typify such canvases as Unpleasant Surprise, The Merry
Jesters, Boy on the Rocks and The Football Players",Henri Rousseau (or Le Douanier
Rousseau) [Douanier meaning customs inspector]
"Yet, it is the exoticism of such paintings as The Dream and The Snake Charmer that
set him apart",Henri Rousseau (or Le Douanier Rousseau) [Douanier meaning customs
inspector]
His nickname was given not for his art but for the many years he worked as a
customs inspector,Henri Rousseau (or Le Douanier Rousseau) [Douanier meaning
customs inspector]
"For 10 points, name this man who often painted jungle scenes featuring lions and
tigers, such as in his magnum opus The Sleeping Gypsy.",Henri Rousseau (or Le
Douanier Rousseau) [Douanier meaning customs inspector]
Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz recreated an experiment in perspective by this man in
a 2000 installation using a sheet and a mirror,Filippo Brunelleschi
"He had a large ship named Badalone built to transport many of his supplies, but
the ship sank on its first voyage nearly bankrupting him",Filippo Brunelleschi
Visual representations of him are scarce and include his portrait in Donatello's
Beardless Prophet and a presumed appearance in Masaccio's Resurrection of the Son
of Theophilus,Filippo Brunelleschi
"His own works include his first commission, the so-called Hospital of the
Innocents, and his last, the Pazzi Chapel",Filippo Brunelleschi
"However, his fame rested on solving a problem that had confounded Arnolfo di
Cambio 120 years earlier",Filippo Brunelleschi
"For 10 points, name this man who won the right to design the dome of the Florence
Cathedral seventeen years after finishing second to Ghiberti in the contest to
design the second doors of the Florentine Baptistery.",Filippo Brunelleschi
Henry Ossawa Tanner's 1923 version is done in blues and whites and adds a ghost-
like figure with a lantern accompanying the usual group,Flight Into Egypt (or
Flight to Egypt)
Jean Francois Millet's version is an etching as is Rembrandt's,Flight Into Egypt
(or Flight to Egypt)
"Oil on coppered silver and an oval frame characterize Adam Elsheimer's main
version, which shows the central female in a pink top and blue skirt",Flight Into
Egypt (or Flight to Egypt)
"Joachim Patinir, unlike in more famous versions, depicted the accompanying stories
dealing with corn and statues",Flight Into Egypt (or Flight to Egypt)
"Caravaggio added an angel to the usual three figures and, like Poussin, portrayed
them taking a rest",Flight Into Egypt (or Flight to Egypt)
The most famous version has the mule between the two adults and is considered the
masterwork of Annibale Caracci,Flight Into Egypt (or Flight to Egypt)
"For 10 points, name this Biblical scene of Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus
escaping to the titular place.",Flight Into Egypt (or Flight to Egypt)
"Its final chapter moves on from a discussion of the pendulum to claim that 'the
father of the arrow is thought' before discussing the 'formation of the black
arrow.' The penultimate chapter, the shortest, opens with a section on 'Earth,
Water and Air' and",Pedagogical Sketchbook (or Pdagogisches Skizzenbuch)
The second chapter discusses 'Dimension and Balance' as part of this book's
attempts to categorize as either kinetic-mobile or chromatic-caloric the forces
that create optical sensation,Pedagogical Sketchbook (or Pdagogisches Skizzenbuch)
"It opens by introducing the transformation of the static dot into linear dynamics
and was translated into English by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy [nawj], the wife of one of the
author's colleagues",Pedagogical Sketchbook (or Pdagogisches Skizzenbuch)
"Chock-full of numerous black and white diagrams and drawings it, upon its 1925
publication it became a student manual at the Bauhaus",Pedagogical Sketchbook (or
Pdagogisches Skizzenbuch)
"For 10 points, name this teaching guide for art created by Paul Klee.",Pedagogical
Sketchbook (or Pdagogisches Skizzenbuch)
"Gerard Seghers was a minor member of this group, having learned its style from his
teacher whose Mars Chastising Cupid was one of the earliest works by its
members",the Caravaggisti or the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as
they are specifically referred to only by these two terms)
"Other minor members included Andries Both and Batistello, who was one of the few
members who excelled at fresco painting and was the foremost of the Neapolitan
ones",the Caravaggisti or the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as they
are specifically referred to only by these two terms)
Major works by its noted Northern practitioners included Doubting Thomas and The
Matchmaker and those by its foremost French member include St,the Caravaggisti or
the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as they are specifically referred
to only by these two terms)
Joseph the Carpenter and The Penitent Magdalene,the Caravaggisti or the
Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as they are specifically referred to
only by these two terms)
Its only female member is known for Judith Beheading Holofernes,the Caravaggisti or
the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as they are specifically referred
to only by these two terms)
"Characterized by a heavy use of tenebrism and including such members as Gerrit van
Honthorst and Georges de La Tour, For 10 points, identify this group of painters
named for their devotion to the style of the Italian painter of The Calling of
St",the Caravaggisti or the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as they
are specifically referred to only by these two terms)
Matthew.,the Caravaggisti or the Caravaggists (do not accept any other answers as
they are specifically referred to only by these two terms)
Thomas Jefferson had a bust of this figure in Monticello on the first floor in the
Entrance Hall,Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
A notable sculpture of him was inspired by a Roman statue entitled Old Fisherman
depicting a dying Seneca,Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
That statue shows him with emaciated flesh and engorged veins and prompted an offer
from King Gustavus III of Sweden to pay for clothes as a result of the scandal over
this figure being sculpted nude,Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
"In response, another sculpture of this man was done clothing him in fine drapery
and based on several posing sessions he did upon his return to Paris in
1778",Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
That sculpture of him 'seated' initially proved more popular than the nude done by
Jean Pigalle,Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
"For 10 points, name this writer sculpted several times by Jean-Antoine
Houdon.",Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet)
"It was the first of a series painted for a sodality of which the artist's future
father-in-law, Marco Episcopi, was Grand Guardian, though it currently rests in an
art museum opposite Titian's Assumption","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle
of St. Mark Freeing the Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle,
e.g. St. Mark Freeing the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"Despite the large crowd, there is only one woman - on the left side in an orange
dress holding an infant","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle of St. Mark
Freeing the Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle, e.g. St.
Mark Freeing the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"There are two armored figures among the onlookers, though the titular figure,
supposedly a knight of Provence according to this painting's source material, lies
naked at the bottom","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle of St. Mark Freeing
the Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle, e.g. St. Mark
Freeing the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"Next to his head are a few broken axes and hammers, and also notable are the
numerous turbaned figures in the crowd, including the assumed executioner in the
center","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave
(accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle, e.g. St. Mark Freeing the
Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"Most noticeable are the halo, pink robe, and orange cape of the upside down figure
descending from the sky at the top","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle of St.
Mark Freeing the Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle, e.g.
St. Mark Freeing the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"For 10 points, name this painting of St","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle
of St. Mark Freeing the Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle,
e.g. St. Mark Freeing the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
"Mark rescuing one of his devoted followers, an early masterpiece of
Tintoretto's.","The Miracle of the Slave or The Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the
Slave (accept equivalents that don't have the word miracle, e.g. St. Mark Freeing
the Slave, before St. Mark is mentioned)"
This painting was reenacted in an Eve Sussman film that lasts eighty-nine
seconds,Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor; or The Ladies in Waiting]
"A man with a bent knee is depicted in a doorway in the background of this work,
which also shows a mirror reflecting the artist's patrons",Las Meninas [or The
Maids of Honor; or The Ladies in Waiting]
"A large canvas facing away from the viewer occupies the left part of this work,
which is set in the artist's studio in the Alcazar palace",Las Meninas [or The
Maids of Honor; or The Ladies in Waiting]
A large mastiff is seated by the foot of a dwarf in this work's bottom right,Las
Meninas [or The Maids of Honor; or The Ladies in Waiting]
"For 10 points, name this painting depicting the Infanta Margarita and family of
Philip IV of Spain, by Diego Velazquez.",Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor; or The
Ladies in Waiting]
This architect used reinforced concrete as the primary material for his Unity
Temple in Oak Park,Frank Lloyd Wright
He used oya stone in an Aztec-inspired design that survived a magnitude 8.3
earthquake,Frank Lloyd Wright
He emphasized horizontal lines and overhanging eaves in his Robie House,Frank Lloyd
Wright
This architect of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo created a helical spiral for the New
York Guggenheim Museum,Frank Lloyd Wright
This architect also designed the home of Edgar Kaufmann over a running creek,Frank
Lloyd Wright
"For 10 points, name this architect who established the Prairie Style and designed
Fallingwater.",Frank Lloyd Wright
"This artist painted a work in which soldiers battle in the foreground as a large,
black cloud menaces overhead, shrouding the sun and the mountains in the
background",J.M.W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord William Turner]
"In addition to Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, he created a work in which
boats of onlookers stream through the Parliament Bridge to watch Westminster Palace
burn",J.M.W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord William Turner]
He painted a ship tugged to her last berth to be broken up? in The Fighting
Temeraire,J.M.W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord William Turner]
"For 10 points, name this British Romanticist who showed a train barreling across a
bridge in his painting Rain, Steam, and Speed.",J.M.W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord
William Turner]
"The engraver Raffaello Morghen is best-known for his reproduction of this
painting, which is situated across from a piece by Giovanni Donato",The Last Supper
[or Il Cenacolo; or L'Ultima cena]
Figures on its left side include a bald man raising his hands and a man holding a
knife and whispering into another figure's ear,The Last Supper [or Il Cenacolo; or
L'Ultima cena]
"This work, located in the Santa Maria delle Grazie, was painted for its artist's
patron Ludovico Sforza",The Last Supper [or Il Cenacolo; or L'Ultima cena]
"The central figure sits with outstretched palms in this work, in which John is
depicted with effeminate features",The Last Supper [or Il Cenacolo; or L'Ultima
cena]
"For 10 points, name this fresco depicting Christ's final meal, painted by Leonardo
da Vinci.",The Last Supper [or Il Cenacolo; or L'Ultima cena]
One of this artist's works shows a blind Byzantine general holding out his hands
for charity,Jacques-Louis David
This artist of Belisarius Begging for Alms depicted a reclining woman in white in
his Madame Recamier,Jacques-Louis David
"In another work, he showed a bearded man pointing to the sky and grabbing for a
cup of hemlock",Jacques-Louis David
"Three brothers extend their arms towards a man holding three swords in another
painting by this artist, who also depicted a French Revolutionary lying dead in a
bathtub",Jacques-Louis David
"For 10 points, name this Neoclassical French painter of The Oath of the Horatii
and The Death of Marat.",Jacques-Louis David
This artist included the works Purple Jumping Man and Green Car Crash in his Death
and Disaster series,Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
"Valerie Solanas attacked this man, who also directed the five hour long film
Sleep",Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
"His use of silkscreens at his studio, known as The Factory,? helped him produce
different depictions of celebrities, such as Mao Zedong and Marilyn Monroe",Andy
Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
"For 10 points, name this leader of the Pop Art movement known for coining the
phrase fifteen minutes of fame? and for his depictions of everyday objects like
Campbell Soup cans.",Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola]
One of this artist's last works depicts the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni clutching
her breast,Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
This designer of Urban VIII's tomb also sculpted an ornate canopy that stands below
the central dome of St,Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
Peter's Basilica,Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"This artist created sculptures of four gods to represent the Plate, Nile, Danube,
and Ganges for a structure centered on a large obelisk, his Fountain of the Four
Rivers",Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
The Cornaro Chapel houses his statue of an angel holding a spear above a woman who
contorts her face in pleasure,Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"For 10 points, name this Italian sculptor of The Ecstasy of St",Gian Lorenzo
Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
Teresa.,Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]
"Raphael designed ten tapestries for this structure, including The Death of
Ananias",the Sistine Chapel [or Capella Sistina; prompt on Apostolic Palace; prompt
on Papal Palace]
The Cumean Sibyl appears in a series of paintings of twelve Old Testament prophets
in this structure,the Sistine Chapel [or Capella Sistina; prompt on Apostolic
Palace; prompt on Papal Palace]
"Daniele da Volterra painted loincloths on nude figures in one of this structure's
frescoes, which also includes a self-portrait in flayed skin",the Sistine Chapel
[or Capella Sistina; prompt on Apostolic Palace; prompt on Papal Palace]
"It contains The Last Judgment and frescoes of nine scenes from Genesis, including
a work in which God's outstretched hand touches that of the newly created Adam",the
Sistine Chapel [or Capella Sistina; prompt on Apostolic Palace; prompt on Papal
Palace]
"For 10 points, name this room, whose ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.",the
Sistine Chapel [or Capella Sistina; prompt on Apostolic Palace; prompt on Papal
Palace]
An early depiction of one of these creatures with the epithet golden? stood on a
rhomboid limestone column atop a wooden base,birds [or Bird in Space; or Birds in
Space; or general equivalents like avians but not specific birds]
"A work that glorified Marie Bonaparte's sexual obsession is similar to depictions
of these creatures, which were inspired by the works in the Maiasta series",birds
[or Bird in Space; or Birds in Space; or general equivalents like avians but not
specific birds]
One sculpture of these animals was taxed as a propeller blade when it was brought
through U.S,birds [or Bird in Space; or Birds in Space; or general equivalents like
avians but not specific birds]
customs,birds [or Bird in Space; or Birds in Space; or general equivalents like
avians but not specific birds]
The sculptures of these creatures were stripped of detail to depict the essence of
flight,birds [or Bird in Space; or Birds in Space; or general equivalents like
avians but not specific birds]
"For 10 points, name these animals that Constantine Brancusi sculpted in
space.?",birds [or Bird in Space; or Birds in Space; or general equivalents like
avians but not specific birds]
"This man's only extant wooden sculpture is a crucifix found at the Santo Spirito,
at whose hospital this artist studied corpses",Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni [accept either underlined name]
He sculpted the Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave for a room that also contains a
horned depiction of Moses,Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [accept either
underlined name]
Speculation that Solari was the actual sculptor inspired this man to carve his name
on a sash in one of his works,Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [accept
either underlined name]
This sculptor who worked on Julius II's tomb also made a seventeen-foot tall
depiction of a naked man with his left hand near his chin,Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni [accept either underlined name]
"For 10 points, name this Italian artist who sculpted several Piets and a marble
David.",Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [accept either underlined name]
"This artist showed a man leading a horse-drawn wagon in his Going West, which was
in his early, Native-Americaninspired style",Paul Jackson Pollock
Eight vertical lines streak across a colorful background in a painting by this
artist that was purchased for an exorbitant sum by the Australian government,Paul
Jackson Pollock
This artist of Blue Poles and Number 5 was inspired by The Tempest to paint Full
Fathom Five,Paul Jackson Pollock
"A purple hue hangs over black lines in his Lavender Mist, which is exemplary of
his action painting technique",Paul Jackson Pollock
"For 10 points, name this abstract expressionist known as the Dripper.?",Paul
Jackson Pollock
This artist painted a crushed snake on the floor in front of a woman looking up at
a glass sphere in his Allegory of Faith,Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer; or Johan
Vermeer]
He showed a woman standing in front of a painting of the Last Judgment in Woman
Holding a Balance,Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer; or Johan Vermeer]
"The shore of the Schie River dominates one work by this artist, who also painted a
woman in a blue-and-yellow turban looking over her left shoulder",Jan Vermeer [or
Johannes Vermeer; or Johan Vermeer]
The Hockney-Falco thesis alleges that he used a camera obscura to paint works like
The Music Lesson,Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer; or Johan Vermeer]
"For 10 points, name this Dutch painter of View of Delft and Girl with a Pearl
Earring.",Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer; or Johan Vermeer]
This painting was re-imagined to include the phrase Federal Reserve Note? in
Jean-Michel Basquiat's version of it as a dollar bill,the Mona Lisa [or La
Gioconda]
Andy Warhol's Thirty are Better than One features thirty copies of this
painting,the Mona Lisa [or La Gioconda]
The bases of two columns can be seen on this painting's left and right,the Mona
Lisa [or La Gioconda]
Marcel Duchamp added a mustache and goatee to this painting in his L.H.O.O.Q,the
Mona Lisa [or La Gioconda]
"Its subject appears to have no eyebrows, and sits with her hands folded in front
of a winding road and a distant landscape",the Mona Lisa [or La Gioconda]
"For 10 points, name this portrait with an enigmatic smile, painted by Leonardo da
Vinci.",the Mona Lisa [or La Gioconda]
"Two brothers from this country, Gabo and Pevsner, wrote the Realistic
Manifesto.? One artist from this country created a series of geometric paintings
called Prouns,? in addition to a work in which a red wedge stabs a white
circle",Russian Federation [or Soviet Union; or USSR]
"One artist from this country founded the Suprematism movement, which led to such
works as Black Square and White on White",Russian Federation [or Soviet Union; or
USSR]
"This country was the home of the author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art, the
cofounder of the Blue Rider group",Russian Federation [or Soviet Union; or USSR]
"For 10 points, name this country, home to Kasimir Malevich and Wassily
Kandinsky.",Russian Federation [or Soviet Union; or USSR]
"Characters include the newly ennobled Herr von Faninal, Count Octavian Rofrano,
Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, and the Princess von Werdenberg, or the Marschallin",Der
Rosenkavalier or The Cavalier of the Rose
"Set in the 1740s, with libretto by Hugo von Hormannsthal, it is the story of how
Baron Ochs loses the young Sophie Faninal to the much younger Octavian",Der
Rosenkavalier or The Cavalier of the Rose
"For 10 points, name this 1911 opera composed by Richard Strauss.",Der
Rosenkavalier or The Cavalier of the Rose
Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was originally a piano piece before
it was orchestrated by this person,Maurice Ravel
"Because of the tonal color, harmonies, and mood of much of his music, he is often
associated with the French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy",Maurice Ravel
"His impressionistic leanings can be heard in his orchestral suite Rhapsodie
espagnole, as well as his ballet Pavane for a Dead Infanta",Maurice Ravel
"FTP, name this French composer of the celebrated orchestral piece Bolero.",Maurice
Ravel
The action centers around a young soldier whose mother keeps a wineshop in the
village square,Cavalleria Rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"When he went away to serve in the army he was betrothed to Lola, but on his return
he found her married to Alfio, the teamster",Cavalleria Rusticana or Rustic
Chivalry
"The soldier, Turiddu, having thus lost Lola, consoled himself by making love to
another village girl, Santuzza",Cavalleria Rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"Before long he betrayed, then abandoned her, transferring his affections back to
Lola",Cavalleria Rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
Alfio kills Turiddu in a duel and Mamma Lucia and Santuzza faint,Cavalleria
Rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"This summarizes the action in, FTP, what 1890 opera by Pietro
Mascagni?",Cavalleria Rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"An outspoken defender of human rights, he hosted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for four
years",Mstislav Rostropovich
"With his wife, singer Galina Vishnevskaya, he left the Soviet Union in 1974 but
returned without a visa in 1991",Mstislav Rostropovich
During the failed Soviet coup he was hailed as a national hero,Mstislav
Rostropovich
"Better known as a musician, he was soloist in the premieres of two Shostakovich
concerti",Mstislav Rostropovich
He has been music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington since
1977,Mstislav Rostropovich
"For 10 points, name this legendary cellist.",Mstislav Rostropovich
"The fourth movement, an allegro spirituoso, starts with a Croatian folk dance and
a drone similar to that used in Aaron Copeland's 'Hoedown.' Its composer worked
for the Esterhazy family before moving to England",London Symphony; or Symphony 104
in D major
"For 10 points, name this work in D major, the final symphony of Franz Josef
Haydn.",London Symphony; or Symphony 104 in D major
"A movement of a work written as incidental music for a play in 1876, its composer
said that it should evoke images of 'cow manure and super-nationalism.' The
increasing tempo and volume within helps evoke the majesty of its royal subject,
the ruler of th",In the Hall of the Mountain King (Be nice and prompt on 'Peer
Gynt' before it's mentioned)
"It is both the tune that Peter Lorre whistles that gets him caught in M, and
serves as the background music for some of Dazzling Dunks and Basketball
Bloopers",In the Hall of the Mountain King (Be nice and prompt on 'Peer Gynt'
before it's mentioned)
"FTP, name this instantly recognizable work written for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, composed
by Edvard Grieg.",In the Hall of the Mountain King (Be nice and prompt on 'Peer
Gynt' before it's mentioned)
Posthumous releases from this composer include the collection of songs 'Orpheus
Britannicus' and the opera The Indian Queen,Henry Purcell
"He wrote a number of odes for Saint Cecelia's day, and incidental music for A
Midsummer Night's Dream, but his most famous composition was written for a girls'
school in 1689",Henry Purcell
"FTP, name this English composer who, with librettist Nahum Tate, wrote the opera
Dido and Aeneas.",Henry Purcell
"Along with Saint-Saens, he completed Guiraud's unfinished opera Fredegonde",Paul
Dukas
"After his cantata Velleda won the second Prix de Rome, he became music critic for
the Revue Hebdomadaire, and his works include a Symphony in C, Variations,
Interlude and Fugue on a Theme of Rameau, and La Peri (pay-ree), a ballet",Paul
Dukas
"FTP, identify this composer, who is best known for an opera, Ariane and Bluebeard,
and an orchestral scherzo made famous in Fantasia, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.",Paul
Dukas
Friedrich Kind ('kint') wrote the libretto for this 1821 opera,Der Freischtz or
The Freeshooter
A contest is held for the hand of the lovely Agathe ('Agga THAY'),Der Freischtz or
The Freeshooter
"The woodsman Max enters the contest, but he requires a little help from Caspar,
who is in league with the Devil",Der Freischtz or The Freeshooter
"The Black Hunstman gives him seven magic bullets, and the seventh, aimed at a
dove, would have killed Agathe, but bounces off her wreath and kills Caspar
instead",Der Freischtz or The Freeshooter
"FTP, name this opera by Karl Weber ('Vaybur').",Der Freischtz or The Freeshooter
"As a critic, he would say, 'Hats off, gentlemen, a genius' upon discovering
Chopin",Robert Schumann
"As a piano player, he would ruin his career by using a homemade machine to
strengthen his right hand",Robert Schumann
"As a piano composer, his suite Carnaval, Cute Scenes on Four Notes, has 21 short
pieces mostly based on three fragments",Robert Schumann
"For ten points, name this composer whose first symphony would be titled Spring and
whose third would be dubbed Rhenish.",Robert Schumann
"Its story is about a prostitute used by thieves to lure victims: first an old man,
then an adolescent, and finally the title character, who is robbed and survives
being smothered, stabbed, and hung, but finally dies after the girl gives herself
to him",The Miraculous Mandarin
The ensuing near-riot at its stage premiere in 1926 in Cologne would lead to mayor
Conrad Adenauer to reprimand its composer,The Miraculous Mandarin
"For ten points, name this pantomime by Bela Bartok.",The Miraculous Mandarin
"As a young man, he participated in friendly keyboard competition with Handel, and
the two remained lifelong friends",Domenico Scarlatti
"While in Lisbon, he taught the Infanta Maria Barbara, and was later choirmaster at
St",Domenico Scarlatti
Peter's in Rome,Domenico Scarlatti
"The American harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick catalogued many of his works, giving
them 'K.' numbers",Domenico Scarlatti
"FTP, identify this son of the operatic composer Alessandro, who wrote over 600
sonatas for the harpsichord.",Domenico Scarlatti
"In 1987, this man was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but it did not
end his career, only paused it",Jose Carreras
"As a child, he learned from such works as Verdi's Rigoletto and from recordings of
Enrico Caruso an Giuseppe Di Stefano",Jose Carreras
He made his operatic debut at age 11 singing in a Manuel de Falla work,Jose
Carreras
"FTP, name this tenor, probably most famous for his concerts and recordings with
Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.",Jose Carreras
The librettist was walking up and down the library in his new house when an
enormous Japanese executioner's sword he had hung on the wall suddenly fell to the
floor,The Mikado
The event gave him the idea for this opera,The Mikado
"Nanki-Poo is in love with Yum-Yum, the most desirable of the 'Three Little
Maids'",The Mikado
"He was supposed to marry Katisha, but submits to banishment instead",The Mikado
Yum-Yum is supposed to marry Ko-Ko,The Mikado
"But in the end, Katisha ends up with Ko-Ko and Nanki-Poo with Yum-Yum",The Mikado
FTP name this opera by Gilbert and Sullivan.,The Mikado
He introduced chords built in fourths instead of the usual major/minor triads to
produce an exotic effect in his piano sonatas and such works as Satanic
Poem,Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
"He also attempted to get interesting effects through the fusion of music and
philosophy in the programmatic Divine Poem, and both colors and scents in the
planned but unexecuted Mysterium",Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
"However, he did finish a piece calling for a color organ to produce a light show
on a screen",Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
"FTP, name this Russian composer of Prometheus: A Poem of Fire.",Aleksandr
Nikolayevich Scriabin
"It concludes: 'None can call himself fully contented who has not tasted love in [a
woman's] arms,' after lamenting that women, 'simple in speech and simple in mind,'
are highly changeable",La Donna e Mobile
"It comes just before the singer makes a pass at a gypsy while an earlier conquest
observes with her father, who has hired Sparafucile to kill the singer",La Donna e
Mobile
"FTP, identify this aria, sung by the Duke of Mantua before his ill-fated court
jester, Rigoletto.",La Donna e Mobile
"Enrico Caruso called his favorite aria this work's 'Vesti la giubba,' sung at the
end of act one and usually rendered in English as 'On with the play.' Silvio
proves unable to help his beloved Nedda, who is stabbed by her jealous husband,
ironically, whi",I Pagliacci
"For 10 points, name this opera, the story of Canio, which is the only work most
people recognize by Ruggerio Leoncavallo.",I Pagliacci
"After the first play through, the first violinist advised Schubert that the
composition was 'nothing at all..",Death and the Maiden or String Quartet in D
Minor or D810
"stick to your lieder.' Sharing its name with an Ariel Dorfman play, all of the
four movements are in the minor mode, from the opening descending motif to
variations upon a theme taken from one of Schubert's songs which lends its name to
the piece",Death and the Maiden or String Quartet in D Minor or D810
"FTP identify this 1824 string quartet, which shares its name with a painting by
Hans Baldung Grien showing a young woman looking in a mirror with a ghastly figure
behind her.",Death and the Maiden or String Quartet in D Minor or D810
"This composer held a series of odd jobs in the theater and gave private lessons to
support himself, nearly starving until he won the Prix de Rome in 1830",Hector
Berlioz
"He was later hired to teach music at the Paris Conservatory, ironic because he
himself had been denied admission to the Conservatory because of his late start as
a musician",Hector Berlioz
"For 10 points-name this French composer of Les Troyens, Roman Carnival, Beatrice
and Benedict, and Harold in Italy.",Hector Berlioz
"It was built at the Campo San Fantin based on the architect Gian Antonio Selva's
design and opened on May 16, 1792 with Giovanni Pasiello's I Giochi di
Agrigento",La Fenice
"Operas that received their premieres in this house include Einstein on the Beach,
The Rake's Progress, The Turn of the Screw, Rigoletto, and La Traviata",La Fenice
"On January 29, 1996, the building burned down and will surely arise again like the
phoenix it is",La Fenice
FTP identify the Venice opera house.,La Fenice
An ambitious producer named Frank has the idea of forming his own opera company
with the help of his friend Buff and quickly gains the services of the singers
Madame Herx and Mademoiselle Silberklang,The Impressario or Der Scahuspieldirektor
"The problem starts when each wants more money than the other, and Frank is on the
point of hanging it up when his backer Monsieu Vogelsgand persuades the two prima
donnas to work together for the good of the production",The Impressario or Der
Scahuspieldirektor
Such is the plot of what lighthearted satire of the vanity of opera singers by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?,The Impressario or Der Scahuspieldirektor
"After studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, he attracted notice in 1933 with
his overture to The School for Scandal",Samuel Barber
In 1935 his Symphony No,Samuel Barber
1 was performed in Rome and at the Salzburg Festival,Samuel Barber
"Other works include the Capricorn Concerto, Antony and Cleopatra, and Prayers of
Kierkegaard",Samuel Barber
FTP identify this American composer well known for his Adagio for Strings and the
opera Vanessa.,Samuel Barber
"Bedier theorized that they were accompanied by the vielle, and based on stories
told by monks and pilgrims",Chansons de Geste
"80 to 100 of them survive and are grouped into three cycles concerning Garin de
Monglane, Doon de Mayence, and the king",Chansons de Geste
"From the latin for deed, this literary genre consists of decasyllabic lines
grouped into laisses of varying lengths, each with a single assonance",Chansons de
Geste
"FTP name this 11th to 13th century genre, examples of which include Garin le
Loherain, Huon de Bordeaux, and the Song of Roland.",Chansons de Geste
"At a critical moment in this opera, trumpet calls announce the arrival of the
Prime Minister, who takes the stage to right all wrongs and arrest the villain
Pizarro",Fidelio (accept early buzz of 'Leonore')
"That tyrant Pizarro has been holding Florestan, the husband of the title
character, in a prison for some time",Fidelio (accept early buzz of 'Leonore')
"Thus, the title character changes her name, dresses as a boy, and gets a job with
Rocco, the kindly caretaker of the prison",Fidelio (accept early buzz of 'Leonore')
"Things get confusing when Rocco's daughter, Marcellina falls in love with the
apparently male title character, and Marcellina's admirer, Jacquino, becomes
jealous",Fidelio (accept early buzz of 'Leonore')
"FTP, identify this opera, which was first named Leonore, but revised and released
in 1814, the only opera written by Ludwig van Beethoven.",Fidelio (accept early
buzz of 'Leonore')
"Encouraged and financed by the actress Helena Modjeska, he studied in Vienna under
Theodor Leshetizky, who greatly improved this man's limited technique",Ignacy Jan
Paderewski
"In 1901 his opera Manru, dealing with life in the Tatra Mountains, was performed
at Dresden, and his Symphony in B Minor was performed in Boston in 1909",Ignacy Jan
Paderewski
"For a time he edited the works of Chopin and strongly urged Woodrow Wilson to
support Polish independence, which became #13 of the Fourteen Points",Ignacy Jan
Paderewski
"FTP, name this Polish pianist and composer, who actually served as prime minister
of the country in 1919.",Ignacy Jan Paderewski
"Ralph (rafe) Vaughan (von) Williams wrote one for the harmonica, and one for the
tuba, as well as more standard ones using a piano, viola, or one or two
violins",Concerto
"In more popular repertoire, Haydn wrote two for the cello, Beethoven wrote five
for the piano, and Vivaldi wrote over three hundred for the violin",Concerto
"For ten points, what musical genre did Bela Bartok revolutionize in 1943 when he
wrote the first one for an orchestra without a featured soloist?",Concerto
"Though this instrument does not seem to have great solo capabilities, it has been
used notably in several orchestral works",Bassoon
"In Mendelssohn's violin concerto it sustains a pitch from the first movement into
the second, and in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Dukas, it contributes its
distinctive wooden sound to the humorous accompaniment",Bassoon
"For ten points, what instrument's saxophone-like sound in its upper register
helped contribute to the riot at the premier of Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of
Spring, in which it plays the opening solo?",Bassoon
"The horns play his sad theme, and he is the principal attraction at a carnival in
a public square in Saint Petersburg",Petrouchka
He is in love with a ballerina who hates him and loves a handsomely attired
Moor,Petrouchka
"When he interrupts the Moors flirting, the Moor kills him, and the crowd erupts in
anger, quieted only when a policeman reminds everyone that the victim is, after
all, only a puppet",Petrouchka
"For ten points, identify this title character, first danced by Waslaw Nijinsky, in
a 1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky.",Petrouchka
"In Germany and Austria, two types of this instrument exist: The Salzburg, which is
flat along its fretted side and curved out on the opposite side, and the less
common Mittenwald, which is curved out on both sides",Zither
Both have 5 metal melody strings and 17 to 40 accompaniment strings,Zither
"Technically, this family also includes hammer dulcimer and psalteries, but it is
known best through the traditional music from the Appalachians",Zither
"FTP, name this instrument which uses the left hand to stop strings and calls for
the use of a plectrum.",Zither
"He succeeded as much by research as by his own talent, combining painstaking
ethnological research and a constant effort to keep up with the latest musical
developments",Bela Bartok
"His works include Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, several acclaimed
string quartets, and the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin",Bela Bartok
"FTP name this composer born in modern-day Romania but credited with creating a
truly Hungarian musical style, as in the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.",Bela
Bartok
"The last part of his fifth symphony was used in Visconti's film Death in Venice,
while his third symphony draws the words for its fourth movement, 'What Man Tells
Me,' from Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra",Gustav Mahler
"His second symphony, whose fourth movement contains lyrics from the song 'Primal
Light' from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Des NOB-in VUND-er-horn), is known as the
'Resurrection.' FTP, name this Bohemian best known for his symphony #8, or
'Symphony of a Thousa",Gustav Mahler
"His burlesque opera based on a 1903 play by Guillaume Apollinaire, entitled Les
Mamelles de Tiresias, tells of a woman who becomes a man when her breasts explode,
and her husband becomes a woman and gives birth to 40,000 babies",Francois Poulenc
He also wrote the incidental music to Babar the Elephant,Francois Poulenc
"His most famous opera is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, and is
considered on of the outstanding operas of the 20th century",Francois Poulenc
"For 10 points, who was this member of Les Six and composer of Les Dialogues des
Carmelites?",Francois Poulenc
"He served as organist at the Church of the Madelaine for 20 years, and Marcel
Proust studied his talents as a pianist, while Franz Liszt regarded him as the
finest organist in the world",(Charles-) Camille Saint-Sans (san-sahns)
"Composer of such works as Omphale's Spinning Wheel and The Yellow Princess, his
opera Samson and Delilah initially was rejected in Paris because it portrayed
biblical characters",(Charles-) Camille Saint-Sans (san-sahns)
"FTP, name this composer of Danse Macabre and Carnival of the Animals.",(Charles-)
Camille Saint-Sans (san-sahns)
"Of this work, Keochel number 297, the composer wrote, 'I have had to compose a
symphony for the opening of the Concert Spirituel",Paris symphony (accept Symphony
No. 31 on early buzz)
"It was performed on Corpus Christi day [1778] with great applause.' Because
audiences found the original andante movement too long, director Jean Le Gros asked
for a new version, and Mozart was happy to adapt his work to suit his French
hosts",Paris symphony (accept Symphony No. 31 on early buzz)
"FTP, identify this symphony in D, number 31, that remained highly popular in the
city for which it was nicknamed.",Paris symphony (accept Symphony No. 31 on early
buzz)
"This work quotes a Carinthian folk song, which may be a reference to its
composer's affair with Marie 'Mizzi' Schuehl",Concerto for Violin and Orchestra or
Violin Concerto (be sure Alban Berg is mentioned on early buzz)
"Commissioned by American performer Louis Krasner, its variations on a Bach chorale
are structured according to lengths of 10, 23, and 28 beats",Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra or Violin Concerto (be sure Alban Berg is mentioned on early buzz)
"Dedicated 'to the memory of an angel' and depicting the personality, illness, and
death of Manon Gropius, for ten points, name this last completed work by Alban
Berg.",Concerto for Violin and Orchestra or Violin Concerto (be sure Alban Berg is
mentioned on early buzz)
"Born Jeno Blau, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest in 1904, when he
was 5 years old",Eugene Ormandy
"After coming to America in 1921, he became concertmaster of New York's Capitol
Theater Orchestra, and went on to serve as music director of the Minneapolis
Symphony before becoming engaged, along with Stokowski, as associate conductor of
the orchestra wit",Eugene Ormandy
"FTP, name this conductor, who led the first American orchestra to appear in the
People's Republic of China when he took the Philadelphia Orchestra there.",Eugene
Ormandy
"He dedicated his great volume of Latin church music to Pope Paul V, hoping to get
his son Francesco into the Roman Seminary",Claudio Monteverdi
He ended his life as maestro di capella of St,Claudio Monteverdi
"Mark's in Venice, but he spent his prime years at the court of the Gonzagas in
Mantua, composing secular operas",Claudio Monteverdi
"One of these is tinged with the grief he felt for his ailing wife Claudia, and was
performed at the Carnival of 1607",Claudio Monteverdi
"FTP, name the composer of The Return of Ulysses, the Coronation of Poppaea, and
Orfeo.",Claudio Monteverdi
"A month after the death of its composer, La Scala's orchestra and chorus led
thousands of mourners in singing this opera's 'Va, Pensiero', the chorus of the
Hebrew slaves, which became a national anthem for Italian independence",Nabucco
"The story centers around the title character, the King of Babylon, who with the
slave girl Abigaille has defeated the Hebrews",Nabucco
FTP identify the opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.,Nabucco
"He first gained fame for the one-act Le Villi, and Giuliu Ricordi bought that
work's publication rights and signed this man to a contract",Giacomo Puccini
"After the failure of Edgar, he produced a successful opera based on a novel by the
Abb Prvost, Manon Lescaut",Giacomo Puccini
"His final work, based on a Carlo Giozzi play and completed by Franco Altano, was
the only Italian impressionist opera",Giacomo Puccini
"FTP, name this composer of that tale of the son of Tamerlane and a Chinese
princess, Turandot.",Giacomo Puccini
"Marcel sings 'Piff, paff' to the grotesque accompaniment of piccolo, bassoon,
cymbal, and drums",Les Huguenots (accept Gli Ugonotti or The Huguenots)
"Raoul de Nangis and Valentine share the duet 'O ciel! Ou courez-vous?' In all
there are seven major roles, and performances of the work are known as 'nights of
the seven stars.' An 1876 collaboration with librettists Eugene Scribe and Emile
Deschamps, i",Les Huguenots (accept Gli Ugonotti or The Huguenots)
"FTP identify this history of Marguerite de Valois, the masterpiece of Giacomo
Meyerbeer.",Les Huguenots (accept Gli Ugonotti or The Huguenots)
It was written as the composer nursed his twenty-year old nephew Karl back to
health following a suicide attempt,"String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135"
The opening movement is in sonata form,"String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135"
The slow movement is full of halting rhythms,"String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135"
The manuscript of the final movement is marked 'The Difficult Resolution.' A three
note motto intoned by viola and cello asks 'Muss es sein?' ('Must it be?') and the
violins provide the inverted response allegro 'Es muss sein!' ('It must
be!'),"String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135"
"FTP name this 1826 work, Beethoven's last complete composition.","String Quartet
in F Major, Opus 135"
"Blanik is a mountain in southern Bohemia which was considered the Valhalla of the
Hussite heroes, while Tabor was a stronghold of the Hussites",Ma Vlast (accept My
Fatherland)
"Arka was the leader of a band of Bohemian Amazons, while Vltava is the native name
for the Moldau River",Ma Vlast (accept My Fatherland)
"The four also name symphonic poems that together with Vy ehrad, or The High
Citadel, and Z Ceskych luho a haju, or From Bohemia's Woods and Fields, round out
this cycle of six",Ma Vlast (accept My Fatherland)
"Composed in the 1870's, for 10 points, what is this Smetana homage to his
homeland?",Ma Vlast (accept My Fatherland)
"This composer's parents considered music to be an improper career, but finally
allowed this person to enter the Paris Conservatore at the age of 12",Germaine
Tailleferre (tie-fair)
"Born in 1892 and taught by Koechlin and Ravel, this composer of Six Chansons
Francaise and Pastorale for Flute and Piano avoided the heavy harmonies and
repetitive forms of German music in favor of a light, elegant style",Germaine
Tailleferre (tie-fair)
"After a long career, she died in 1983, having composed such pieces as the Bird-
Seller ballet, The Master, based on the Ionesco work, and Games in the Open Air for
two pianos",Germaine Tailleferre (tie-fair)
"FTP, name this only female member of 'Les Six'.",Germaine Tailleferre (tie-fair)
'Everyone will tell you I am not a musician,Erik Satie
That is correct.' These are the words of a turn-of-the-century composer whose
eccentricities ranged from wearing 12 identical gray velvet suits to letting no one
into his apartment for 27 years,Erik Satie
"Many of the titles of this man's works are equally odd, including Desiccated
Embryos, Truly Flabby Prludes for a Dog, and Three Pieces in the Form of a
Pear",Erik Satie
The 1917 premiere of his ballet Parade caused a theater riot,Erik Satie
"For ten points, name this 'non-musician' whose protgs included 'The Six' of
French music, and whose most famous composition is Trois Gymnopdies.",Erik Satie
"As it opens the old trees and the young trees argue; the former are content to
stand still, while the latter are bored and long for excitement",Paul Bunyan
"They are interrupted by wild geese, who bring news of the impending birth of the
title character, who will 'bring them to another life.' The Ballad-Singer,
appearing throughout the opera, tells of the title character's unhappy marriage to
Carrie, and the ",Paul Bunyan
"We also see his hiring of Sam Sharkey and Ben Benny as cooks, and Hel Helson, the
best logger, as foreman",Paul Bunyan
"FTP, what is this Benjamin Britten opera, based on the titular American folk hero,
who has no singing parts, just like his pet blue ox?",Paul Bunyan
"He liked to concentrate on mischievous figures with his symphonic poems as
evidenced by Vodnik, or The Water Goblin, and Polednice, or The Noonday
Witch",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
"His friendship with Fritz Simrock was beneficial, for Simrock's firm gained him
worldwide attention with the publication of his Moravian Duets",Antonin (Leopold)
Dvorak
"Though he was especially proud of his choral works, only the Stabat Mater and Te
Deum continue to be regularly performed today",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
His best known work might have been influenced by his time spent in Iowa and
possibly based on Negro spirituals,Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
"FTP, identify this composer of Humoresque, Slavonic Dances, and Symphony
No",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
"9, or From the New World.",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
"The title locations are Redding Center, Connecticut; Stockbridge, Massachusetts;
and Boston",Three Places in New England or First Orchestral Suite
"Its final section is a setting of a poem by Robert Underwood Johnson about the
Housatonic River, while its opening section is an impression of Augustus Saint-
Gaudens' memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Boston Common",Three Places
in New England or First Orchestral Suite
"Its middle section, arguably the most famous, describes a child who falls asleep
at a picnic and dreams that he is a member of General Israel Putnam's revolutionary
war army",Three Places in New England or First Orchestral Suite
For 10 points identify this orchestral suite by Charles Ives.,Three Places in New
England or First Orchestral Suite
"In his time, he was nearly worshipped by his fellow composers-Liszt compared him
to Bach; and his improvisation sessions were so frenzied as to approach religious
ecstasy",Cesar Franck
"He never cursed, never engaged in name-calling games, never sought fame or
money",Cesar Franck
"As a result, he is largely forgotten in our time, although his influence in French
music in the 19th century was considerable, as he was the teacher of both Chausson
and d'Indy",Cesar Franck
"His compositions include The Tower of Babel oratorio, the opera Ghisle, and the
symphonic Les Eolides",Cesar Franck
"For 10 points, name this Belgian-born virtuoso on and major composer for the grand
organ, who was organist at the church of Sainte-Clotilde, Paris.",Cesar Franck
"This Austrian composer attended the premier of Parsifal, and after Wagner's death
said that he spoke to his idol in his dreams",Hugo Wolf
"Slight of build and usually penniless, one of his few jobs was editing the
critical magazine Salonblatt",Hugo Wolf
"His harsh denunciation of stars like Brahms in favor of progressives like Bruckner
led his major early pieces, Quartet in D Minor and the tone poem Penthesilia, to
attract great hostility",Hugo Wolf
"He proceeded to write a series of songs based on the works of Eichendorff, Mrike,
and Goethe",Hugo Wolf
"FTP, name the composer of the operas Manuel Venegas and Der Corregidor, as well as
the orchestral Italian Serenade.",Hugo Wolf
It is an ancient form of instrumental music,suite
Its origins lie in the Middle Ages when lutenists would meld several popular dances
into a cycle,suite
"By the Baroque Period, the specific dances had been replaced by their skeletal
structures, and the form attracted many major composers because of its variety in
tempi, mood, and meters",suite
"For 10 points, name this form, a famous series of which are the six that Bach
wrote for unaccompanied cello.",suite
They are often heard today in an arrangement for modern orchestra by Bernardino
Molinari,The Four Seasons or Le Quatro Staggioni
"They appear as the first works in the composer's Opus 8, collectively known as The
Trial of Harmony and Invention, and the composer wrote sonnets for each of them
which explain the program of the music",The Four Seasons or Le Quatro Staggioni
"FTP, identify this group of four concerti grossi, which depict birds singing, a
hunting scene, and a walk on ice, the most famous works of Antonio Vivaldi.",The
Four Seasons or Le Quatro Staggioni
"He went to his grave believing that his first symphony, The Bells of Zlonice, was
lost",Antonin Dvrk (DVOR-zhak)
"Originally, his symphonies were numbered one through five, but his symphonies were
renumbered once his earliest four symphonies were published after his
death",Antonin Dvrk (DVOR-zhak)
"FTP, name this Czech composer of the Dumky Trio and Airs from Moravia, whose most
famous work is his ninth symphony, From the New World.",Antonin Dvrk (DVOR-zhak)
"This type of orchestra uses colotomic structure and consists of two sets of
intruments, with one set tuned to a five-note scale and the other to a seven-note
scale",Gamelan
"It sometimes accompanies theatrical performances, and is characterized by
polyphony, with the main melody played either by a stringed instrument or a bamboo
flute, and its percussion instruments include xylophones, metallophones, and
gongs",Gamelan
"FTP, name this orchestra indigenous to Bali and Java.",Gamelan
"Though a long version called a buisine (bwee-zeen) was replaced by a shorter
version in about 1300, the modern version only came into use about 1815",trumpet
"Made with a cylindrical bore, the piccolo version was created in D for
compositions with high registers such as those of Handel and Bach",trumpet
The more typical B flat version has a range of about three octaves from the F sharp
below the treble staff,trumpet
"FTP, name this close relative of the coronet, the instrument of Miles Davis and
Wynton Marsalis.",trumpet
"He began a novel, Die Davidsbundler, in 1831 while studying piano under his future
father-in-law",Robert Schumann
"He later used the names of two of its characters, Florestan and Eusebius, to
describe his own split personality",Robert Schumann
"That mental illness led him to throw himself into the Rhine in 1854, and he died
two years later in a sanatorium near Bonn, where the only visitor he welcomed was
Brahms",Robert Schumann
"FTP, name this German composer of the Rhenish and Spring Symphonies, who was
married to Clara.",Robert Schumann
"It is based on 'Nach Unterdruckung der Burschenschaft', 'Der Landesvater', 'Fuchs
Lied', and 'Gaudeamus Igitur.' Composed during a vacation at Ischl in 1880, the
composer of this work became acquainted with the songs on which it is based when he
spent a m",the Academic Festival Overture
"FTP, name this work written for the occasion of the University of Breslau awarding
an honorary doctorate to the composer, Johannes Brahms.",the Academic Festival
Overture
"Tony Scherman's album notes track its genesis back to a 1990 tour and one
collaborator's constant refusal from the other collaborator, until finally giving
in for a May 1995 performance with the San Francisco Symphony",The Mozart Sessions
"Recorded at Masonic Grand Lodge in New York City, and Donald Benson Great Hall at
Bethel College, it includes a capella vocal and piano improvisations on the song
for Amadeus, and two concertos",The Mozart Sessions
"For ten points, name this album featuring the talent of the St",The Mozart
Sessions
"Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, and Chick Corea.",The Mozart Sessions
"At the premiere of his last ballet, Relache, the curtain bore a sign stating that
'[Blank] is the greatest musician in the world; whoever disagrees with this notion
will please leave the hall.' The musicians Sauguet (so-GAY), Desormire (daze-orm-
YARE) an",Erik Satie
"FTP, name this man, upon whose ideas Les Six were founded, and who is best known
for such pieces as Dessicated Embryos and the Gymnopdies (zheem-no-pay-DEE).",Erik
Satie
"One of this piece's quirks is that audiences often forget etiquette and applaud
after its third movement, a powerful march",Pathtique Symphony or Tchaikovsky's
Symphony No. 6 (accept just 'Symphony No. 6' after Tchaikovsky's name has been
given
The mood is set by an introduction in a dark register of the bassoon with a drone
bass and sighing strings,Pathtique Symphony or Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
(accept just 'Symphony No. 6' after Tchaikovsky's name has been given
"The second movement, in uneven 5/4 time, might not be as memorable as the brass
chorale interruption in the first movement, which features a melody from the
Russian Requiem",Pathtique Symphony or Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (accept just
'Symphony No. 6' after Tchaikovsky's name has been given
It was named by the composer's brother as a reference to a sonata of the same name
by Beethoven,Pathtique Symphony or Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (accept just
'Symphony No. 6' after Tchaikovsky's name has been given
"FTP, identify this symphony of Pyotr Tchaikovsky.",Pathtique Symphony or
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (accept just 'Symphony No. 6' after Tchaikovsky's name
has been given
"In 1852 she married Otto Goldschmidt, who conducted the Bach choir in
London",Jenny Lind
"At age eighteen she made her debut in Der Freischutz, as Agathe, the leading
soprano role, and that Stockholm Opera performance led to immediate success",Jenny
Lind
"FTP, identify this singer who toured the United States from 1850 to 1852, when she
was managed by P.T",Jenny Lind
"Barnum, and who was nicknamed the 'Swedish Nightingale.'",Jenny Lind
"The 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, and 11th sections of this work are 'promenades' which link
its other sections",Pictures at an Exhibition (or Kartinki s vistavki)
"'Cum mortuis in lingua mortua' is the second part of its 'Catacombs' section,
which, along with sections entitled 'Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks', 'The Gnome',
'The Market Place at Limoges', and 'The Bohatyr Gate of Kiev', serve as musical
'reproductions",Pictures at an Exhibition (or Kartinki s vistavki)
"FTP, name this composition by Modest Mussorgsky.",Pictures at an Exhibition (or
Kartinki s vistavki)
"This opera was an enormous success when it premered in Berlin in 1816, but was
performed only fourteen times before the theater in which it was staged was
destroyed by fire",Undine
"It tells of a mysterious girl born in a palace of crystal on the bed of the ocean,
who is raised by a fisherman and his wife in place of their own daughter, who had
been lost as a baby",Undine
"After marrying the handsome knight Uldibrand, Bertolda captivates Uldibrand's
heart",Undine
"Before Bertolda can marry Uldibrand, he has a change of heart and goes to embrace
the heroine, but when he touches her, he turns into ice and dies, after which his
grave is fed forever by the heroine's tears",Undine
"FTP, name this opera, the masterpiece of E.T.A",Undine
Hoffmann.,Undine
"Schonberg wrote two of them, Ode to Napoleon and A Survivor from Warsaw, and
William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast is another example of this type of
composition",the cantata
"The form was created by Giacomo Carissimi, and became a favorite of Schutz and
Buxtehude, while Handel wrote a number of the secular variety, including
Alexander's Feast and Acis and Galatea",the cantata
"FTP, identify this musical form, which is a scaled-down version of the oratorio,
hundreds of which were written by Johann Sebastian Bach.",the cantata
"He was trained in his early years by his father, but when it became clear that he
was a prodigy of Mozartean dimensions, a group of noblemen paid for his family to
go to Vienna, where he studied piano with the famed technician Czerny and
composition with ",Franz Liszt
"Later in life, he claimed that he played for Beethoven, who rewarded him with a
kiss, but this is probably untrue as Beethoven was stone-deaf by that time",Franz
Liszt
"At 13, his one-act opera Don Sanche was performed to some acclaim, but he withdrew
the score and never tried the stage again",Franz Liszt
"Thus was the early life, FTP, of what Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist,
known for his Faust symphony and for the symphonic poem Les Preludes.",Franz Liszt
"Inspired by a conversation its composer shared with his grandmother, the composer
remarked of it, 'Not a day goes by without my using that piece in my life and
work.' It premiered in 1952, performed by David Tudor in Woodstock, New York, and
it is divided",4' 33' (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds)
Its composer considered it only a partial success since even when he performed it
in an anechoic chamber he could still hear his heart beating,4' 33' (Four Minutes
and Thirty-Three Seconds)
FTP identify this minimalist work for piano by John Cage.,4' 33' (Four Minutes and
Thirty-Three Seconds)
"Its famous arias include 'Sgombra e la sacra selva' and 'Guerra, guerra!' Taken
from a book by Giuseppe Romani, it ends with Pollio joining the title character in
death after he refuses to renounce Adalgisa, a priestess of the temple of
Irminsul",Norma
"FTP, identify this opera, which premiered in 1831, set during the Roman occupation
of Gaul and centering on a high priestess of the Druids, a work of Vincenzo
Bellini.",Norma
The theme was first embodied in murals and a poem in Paris's Church of the Holy
Innocents before the crowning of King Charles VII,Dance of Death or Danse Macabre
or Totentanz
"In 1485, the painter Guyot Marchant published a version in woodcuts and verse
which circulated throughout Europe",Dance of Death or Danse Macabre or Totentanz
"Musical versions appear in the work of Liszt and Saint-Saens, and a set of forty
drawings on the subject was executed by Hans Holbein the Younger",Dance of Death or
Danse Macabre or Totentanz
FTP name this theme based on the popular belief that the dead rose as skeletons
from their graves to tempt the living into a fatal dance.,Dance of Death or Danse
Macabre or Totentanz
"He is buried in Paris's Pre Lachaise (pair la-shezz) cemetery between the graves
of Cherubini and Bellini, though his heart was sent back to his home country at his
request",Frdric Chopin
"His first published work was a set of variations on Mozart's aira La ci darem la
mano, and his other orchestral works include the Krakowiak, piano concerti in F and
E minor, and the Fantasia on Polish Airs",Frdric Chopin
"FTP, identify this Romantic composer, best known for his numerous piano works,
including etudes, nocturnes, polonaises, and the 'Funeral March' piano
sonata.",Frdric Chopin
"His lesser known works include Chao-Kang, a ballet, incidental music for the play
The Moldavian Gypsy, and the Trio Pathtique",Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
"He took a trip to Spain in 1844 which resulted in two orchestral works, Jota
Aragonesa and A Night in Madrid, but he is better remembered for his two operas,
the first of which was originally known as Ivan Susanin",Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
"FTP, identify this man regarded as the first of the nationalistic school of
Russian composers, known for his operas Russlan and Ludmilla and A Life for the
Czar.",Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
"The Fughetta section of this musical work alludes to JS Bach's Clavierubung, its
22nd variation is based upon 'Notte e giorno faticar' from Don Giovanni, and its
33rd and final variation makes reference to the 'Arietta' movement of the
composer's own 32nd",Diabelli variations
"Written in C major, the most important musical reference is the frequently
pariodied waltz theme which serves as the basis for this set of variations,
inspired when a Viennese music publisher circulated a waltz of his own invention to
50 composers, each o",Diabelli variations
"FTP, name this set of variations by Ludwig van Beethoven.",Diabelli variations
"He sailed on the Almaz in 1862, which visited New York City, Baltimore, and
Washington D.C",Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
"at the height of the Civil War, after graduating from the Russian naval
academy",Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
"Upon return, he finished his first symphony, which he had started under the
guidance of Mily Balakirev",Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
"Aquatic scenes appear in many of the operas of, FTP, what most productive of 'The
Five' whose operatic works include Snow Maiden, The Tsar's Bride, and Tale of Tsar
Saltan?",Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
"After writing a wind quintet for his friends which mirrored their personalities,
he wrote five concertos, one for each of them, including a clarinet concerto for
Aag Oxenfold",Carl Nielsen
This composer used 'progressive tonality' so that only the first of his symphonies
was written 'in' a certain key,Carl Nielsen
"His second symphony, giving each movement a different humour, is called The Four
Temperaments",Carl Nielsen
"For ten points, name this composer famous for his fourth symphony, called the
Inextinguishable.",Carl Nielsen
This composition draws its name from a joke which the wife of Emperor Francis II
found offensive,Creation Mass or Schpfungsmesse
"From an oratorio, it quotes music associated with the text, 'The dewdropping morn,
Oh, how she quickens all!' to go with the words 'Qui tollis peccata mundi,'
changing tempo abruptly for the words 'Miserere Nobis' within the Gloria",Creation
Mass or Schpfungsmesse
"For ten points, name this work by Joseph Haydn, quoting the music of Adam and
Eve.",Creation Mass or Schpfungsmesse
"In 1879, he composed The Song of the Flea, a setting of part of Goethe's
Faust",Modest Mussorgsky
"His early works include The Nursery and The Marriage, and the 'Dance of the
Persian Slaves' is featured in his opera Khovanshchina",Modest Mussorgsky
"Another opera, Sorochintsy Fair, was completed by Lyadov after his death in
1881",Modest Mussorgsky
"For 10 points, name this member of the Russian Five, best known for such works as
Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures from an Exhibition.",Modest
Mussorgsky
"It was based on the novel I, Son of the Working People, by its librettist Valentin
Katayev",Semyon Kotyo
Its composer studied Ukrainian folk songs to add color and authenticity to this
tale of the Ukrainian who led his fellow villagers to fight the invading Germans in
1918,Semyon Kotyo
"FTP, name this nationalistic 1939 opera name for its main character, by Sergei
Prokofiev.",Semyon Kotyo
"After hearing parts of this score, which includes 'The Neighbors' and 'The
Grapes,' Sergey Diaghilev commissioned the composer to expand it into a full-scale
work, which caused its title to be changed from El Corregidor y la Molinara",The
Three-Cornered Hat (accept early buzz of El Sombrero de tres picos)
"Like another one of the composer's works, El Amor Brujo, it is drawn from a farce
written by Alarcon",The Three-Cornered Hat (accept early buzz of El Sombrero de
tres picos)
"The primary characters are the miller and his wife, and their two dances highlight
this ballet",The Three-Cornered Hat (accept early buzz of El Sombrero de tres
picos)
"FTP, identify this work by Manuel de Falla also known as El Sombrero de tres
picos.",The Three-Cornered Hat (accept early buzz of El Sombrero de tres picos)
"Winning the Prix de Rome for his cantata David Rizzio, this man generated mediocre
reviews with his first major work, La Grand'tante",Jules Emile Frederic Massenet
"That apathetic response caused him to serve a stint in the National Guard during
the Franco-Prussian War, but he returned successfully with the oratorio Marie
Magdalene and the incidental music for Les Erinyes, which includes the famous song
'Elegie.' It ",Jules Emile Frederic Massenet
"FTP, identify this French composer, best known for his operas Thais and
Manon.",Jules Emile Frederic Massenet
"The title character of this opera is a young girl who is in love with the local
mill owner Stiva Burjiya, whose child she carries, and who spurns Stiva's brother
Laca, who loves her and believes Stiva only loves her for her beauty",Jenufa
"In a fit of exasperation, Laca cuts her cheek with a knife to prove that Stiva
will no longer love her if her beauty is gone, which later turns out to be the
case, though she eventually forgives Laca and they find happiness together",Jenufa
"This is, for 10 points, a very brief sketch of what opera by Leos Janacek?",Jenufa
"Memorable pieces of music in this opera include 'Tacea la notte,' 'Il balen del
suo sorriso,' 'Ai nostri monti,' and the Soldiers' chorus",Il Trovatore or the
Troubadour
"Set in 15th century Spain, it tells of Count di Luna's love for Duchess Leonora,
who in turn is in love with the title character, the disguised Manrico",Il
Trovatore or the Troubadour
"Manrico's adoptive mother, the gypsy Azucena, seeks to gain vengeance on the di
Luna family for the death of her mother by involving Manrico in a plot to kill the
Count, resulting in Manrico's beheading, after which it is revealed that he was the
Count's ",Il Trovatore or the Troubadour
"FTP, name this 1853 opera featuring the Anvil Chorus, composed by Giuseppe
Verdi.",Il Trovatore or the Troubadour
"This composition was originally intended to be a tetralogy of symphonic poems, but
its initial success encouraged its composer to continue the cycle with Tbor and
Blank",M Vlast or My Country
"The third movement tells of rka, a heroine who seeks revenge for the infidelity
of her lover, Ctirad, while the first is named for the great rock that overlooks
the river portrayed in the second movement",M Vlast or My Country
"FTP, Identify the 1882 work whose movements include From Bohemia's Woods and
Fields and The Moldau, written by Bedrich Smetana.",M Vlast or My Country
"She gave her first complete piano recital in 1830, at age 11, and married against
her father's wishes 10 years later",Clara Schumann or Clara Wieck (prompt on
'Schumann')
"Most of her compositions were dated June 8, her husband's birthday, though she
gave him Am Strand as a Christmas gift before their collaboration on the
Liebesfruehling",Clara Schumann or Clara Wieck (prompt on 'Schumann')
"FTP, name this musician, who became close to Johannes Brahms after her husband
Robert went insane.",Clara Schumann or Clara Wieck (prompt on 'Schumann')
"Shortly before the composition of this piece, the composer was diagnosed with
having a valvular malformation of the heart, and his eldest daughter 'Putzi' had
earlier died of scarlet fever",The Song of the Earth or Das Lied von der Erde
"Unlike a normal symphony, it contains six movements including The Farewell, Drunk
in Spring, and Autumn Loneliness, all of which contain voice parts",The Song of the
Earth or Das Lied von der Erde
"Its composer was prompted to write it after his discovery of Hans Bethge's The
Chinese Flute, a collection of poems adapted from the original Chinese",The Song of
the Earth or Das Lied von der Erde
"FTP name this piece, which Gustav Mahler did not call a symphony because it would
have been his ninth.",The Song of the Earth or Das Lied von der Erde
"Some of this composer's notable works include a Petite Symphony for nine
instruments, and his Messe solennelle de Ste",Charles Francois Gounod
Ccile,Charles Francois Gounod
"After winning the Prix de Rome in 1837, he produced his first opera, Sapho, in
1851, followed by The Bloody Nun",Charles Francois Gounod
"After his most famous opera premiered in 1859, he followed with Philemon and
Baucis and an 1867 version of Romeo and Juliet",Charles Francois Gounod
"FTP, identify this composer of Funeral March of a Marionette and Faust.",Charles
Francois Gounod
"After an early opera, Irmelin, this composer's first published work was 1893's
Legend for violin and orchestra",Frederick Theodore Albert Delius
"After he became blind in 1924, he dictated works like A Song of Summer and Songs
of Farewell to his amanuensis Eric Fenby",Frederick Theodore Albert Delius
"Earlier works include Koanga, Brigg Fair, and the Florida Suite, based on his
earlier experiences as an orange planter",Frederick Theodore Albert Delius
"FTP, identify this distinctive composer of Sea Drift and A Village Romeo and
Juliet.",Frederick Theodore Albert Delius
"With libretto by Theophile Gautier on a theme by Heinrich Heine and music by
Adolphe Adam, this ballet was assured a success",Giselle
"And, indeed, the story of the maiden who dies of a broken heart because of her
true love's duplicity at a harvest festival and then saves him from the Wilis was a
great success for the 1841 Paris Opera",Giselle
"For ten points, name this Romantic ballet, for which Carlotta Grisi created the
title role.",Giselle
"The curse of Count Monterone resonates throughout this opera, both opening and
closing the action",Rigoletto
"In between, the title character pays Sparafucile to kill the Duke of Mantua, but
the assassin instead decides to kill the first person that walks in the
door",Rigoletto
"Unfortunately for the conspirator who planned the assassination, his own daughter
- Gilda - trots on through and is slain",Rigoletto
"FTP, name her father, a court jester, and you've named this Giuseppe Verdi
classic.",Rigoletto
It was advertised as 'An Experiment in Modern Music' by promoter/conductor Paul
Whiteman for its premiere at Aeolian Hall in New York City,Rhapsody in Blue
The 1924 composition begins with perhaps the most famous clarinet solo in classical
music,Rhapsody in Blue
"FTP, the composer's brother Ira named what famous George Gershwin piece?",Rhapsody
in Blue
"After his first opera was well received, he was offered a contract to compose
three operas at eight-month intervals",Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
"He turned out the first of the three, the poorly received King for a Day, during a
period in which he lost both of his children and then his wife",Giuseppe Fortunino
Francesco Verdi
"After a time of depression, he wrote his first major success, which included the
'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.' FTP, identify this composer of Nabucco, The Force of
Destiny, and Aida.",Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
This man's orchestral works include the Othello Suite and the Battle of Stalingrad
Suite,Aram Khatchaturian
"Unable to speak Russian or read music when he entered the Russian Conservatory, he
went on to write the ballet Spartacus, while Lezghinka and the Dance of the Rose
Maidens can be found in Gayaneh, which also includes his most famous work",Aram
Khatchaturian
"FTP, who is this Armenian composer of Saber Dance?",Aram Khatchaturian
Failed romances helped inspire this composer's song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen and the cantata Das Klagende Lied,Gustav Mahler
"Director of the Imperial Opera of Vienna from 1897-1907, his death fixation helped
shape his Kindertotenlieder,or 'Songs on the Death of Children', and a year after
his cancer diagnosis he wrote Song of the Earth",Gustav Mahler
"FTP, name this Austrian-Jewish composer best-known for the Titan Symphony, the
Resurrection Symphony, and the Symphony of a Thousand.",Gustav Mahler
"This composer of the 'Alto Rhapsody' and 'Love-Song Waltzes' expressed his
artistic credo in the words, 'If we can not compose as beautifully as Mozart and
Haydn, let us at least try to compose as purely.' A meticulous worker, he did not
complete the fir",Johannes Brahms
"Composer of 'Variations on a Theme of Haydn' and the 'Four Serious Songs', he is
better-known for the 'Tragic' and 'Academic Festival' Overtures",Johannes Brahms
"FTP, name this composer of 'A German Requiem' and a famous 'lullaby'.",Johannes
Brahms
"The principal theme of this musical work is used in second movement of Verdi's
Manzoni Requiem, in Berlioz's Symphanie Fantasique, and in the third movement of
Mozart's Requiem",Dies Irae (prompt on Day of Wrath)
"Probably composed by Thomas of Celano, it is based on the Vulgate version of Joel
2:31, and is used in the mass for the dead and on All Souls' Day",Dies Irae (prompt
on Day of Wrath)
A medieval hymn on the Last Judgement,Dies Irae (prompt on Day of Wrath)
"FTP, name this famous hymn whose name is Latin for 'Day of Wrath.'",Dies Irae
(prompt on Day of Wrath)
"Set during the reign of the Tsar Berendey, the opera features the wealthy youth
Misgir, whose love of the title character cannot console her after she is
repeatedly rejected by the shepherd Lehl, who in turn loves Misgir's betrothed
Kupava",The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)
"Longing both to love and be loved, the title character prays to her mother, the
Fairy Spring, to be able to return the affection of Misgir, a request that is
granted, but when she is about to marry him her heart is melted by a ray from the
sun god Yarilo ",The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)
"Such are the events in, FTP, what opera about the daughter of Spring and Winter
whose words and music were composed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov?",The Snow Maiden
(Snegurochka)
"Throughout this musical work, the same theme is taken up by different combinations
of instruments, constantly increasing the sonority of the piece until the full
force of the orchestra makes a final, thunderous statement of the theme just before
its concl",Bolero
"Its single theme is in two sections, the first heard in the flute and clarinet,
the second in the bassoon and clarinet",Bolero
"During a slow, 17-minute long crescendo, a side drum punctuates the Spanish dance
rhythm for which it is named",Bolero
"FTP, what is this most-famous piece by Maurice Ravel?",Bolero
"While most of these musical pieces follow the same pattern, the first features a
minuet as a fourth movement, while the third features only two movements separated
by two slow chords, and is written for strings alone, while the fifth features the
harpsich",Brandenburg Concertos
"The most famous of these pieces is the second, which is written in the Italian
concerto grosso style and features trumpet, flute, oboe, and violin",Brandenburg
Concertos
"Named for a margrave, FTP, what are these six concertos by J.S",Brandenburg
Concertos
Bach?,Brandenburg Concertos
"After working as the band director at his home county's mental asylum, this
composer gained notice with early works like Sevilliana, the Imperial March, Scenes
from the Saga of King Olaf, and Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, while works
created during ",Edward Elgar
"Many critics consider his finest work to be the cantata The Dream of Gerontius,
which followed shortly after his first major success, the Enigma Variations",Edward
Elgar
"FTP, who was this British composer best known for five marches entitled Pomp and
Circumstance?",Edward Elgar
"Questa o quella is a notworthy aria in this opera, one of the few post-1830's
operas to feature the baritone as the chief protagonist",Rigoletto
"The action is driven by a curse placed by Monterone on the protagonist, who is
soon approached by the assassin Sparafucile, who is soon paid to kill the libertine
Duke of Mantua",Rigoletto
"However, Maddalena falls for the duke and has Sparafucile spare him, after which
he mistakenly kills Gilda, the protagonist's daughter",Rigoletto
"Featuring the aria La donne e mobile, FTP, what is this opera about a court jester
by Verdi?",Rigoletto
"Shortly before his death this composer wrote a third opera, entitled The Bigamist,
while his songs include The Toasting Cup, The Gulf of Finland, 'Where is our
rose?', and 'I recall a wonderful moment'",Mikhail Glinka
"Several trips to Spain influenced his First and Second Spanish Overtures, but he
is better known for works related to his native land, including his opera Ruslan
and Ludmilla and a work originally titled Ivan Susanin",Mikhail Glinka
"FTP, who is this father of Russian classical music best-known for his first opera,
A Life For the Tsar?",Mikhail Glinka
One of this composer's highly influential works was his String Octet in E-flat
Major,Felix Mendelssohn
Also an important conductor whose performance of the St,Felix Mendelssohn
"Matthew Passion rejuvenated the reputation of Bach, this composer of the 'Elijah'
oratorio was inspired by the waves on the Scottish coast, leading to the 'Hebrides'
overture",Felix Mendelssohn
"FTP, who was this composer of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Overture and the
'Italian' Symphony?",Felix Mendelssohn
"His songs include words by Housman, Hopkins, Yeats, and Stephens, and he set to
music James Joyce's Chamber Music",Samuel Barber
"His operas include A Hand of Bridge and Antony and Cleopatra and he composed the
Capricorn Concerto for flute, oboe, trumpet, and strings",Samuel Barber
"Known for the vocal piece Dover Beach, his best known opera is Vanessa",Samuel
Barber
"For 10 points, name this American composer best-known for Adagio for
Strings.",Samuel Barber
"One of the first cultivators of the Cuban variety was Jos Pepe Snchez, who in
1885 produced one entitled Tristezas",Bolero
"Distinctive features are the 'paseo,' 'bien parado,' and various battements, and
it is characterized by a triplet on the second half of the first beat",Bolero
"Typically in a three-four time signature, FTP, name this Spanish and Latin-
American dance most famously produced by Ravel.",Bolero
"The composer of this piece had projected an additional slow movement, a larghetto
in D major, of which only sixteen measures survive",Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A
Little Night Music
The second movement features a dialogue between the first violins and the low
strings to the accompaniment of sixteenth notes in the middle instruments,Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"In the first movement, the string quartet plays an arpeggiation of the tonic triad
which is answered by the arpeggiation of the dominant seventh chord",Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"The composer halted his work on Don Giovanni to write this piece, K",Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
525,Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"FTP, identify this serenade by Mozart that shares its name with a Stephen Sondheim
musical.",Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"Famous arias in this opera include 'Let her among you without fault' and 'Steady!
There you are! Nearly home!', while its orchestral sections are often performed
separately under the title of 'sea interludes.' Based on a libretto by Montagu
Slater, its pr",Peter Grimes
"FTP, identify this most frequently performed English opera, composed by Benjamin
Britten.",Peter Grimes
"This composer of the one-act opera 'Overnight' showed an early interest in music,
but had to wait for the 'S' volume of an encyclopedia his family was buying on an
installment plan before he could learn how to compose a sonata",Arnold Schoenberg
"Influenced by Richard Strauss, his Gurrelieder was one of the high points of post-
romanticism",Arnold Schoenberg
"Departing from that style, he is famous today for works like 'Moses and Aaron' and
'Transfigured Night'",Arnold Schoenberg
"FTP, name this German composer of 'Pierrot Lunaire' who developed the 12-tone
method of Composition.",Arnold Schoenberg
"In the Thioreskssaga, he was the grandson of the King of Spain, wielded the sword
Garm, and rode the fearless horse Grani, an offspring of Sleipnir",Siegfried
After killing Fafnir he captured the Andvaranant and was married before falling
under the spell of Grimhild,Siegfried
"Forgetting his wife, he married Gundrun, and was eventually slain by Gundrun's
brother Guttorm",Siegfried
FTP identify this husband of Brunhilde and hero of the Ring Cycle.,Siegfried
"The parts of this work include nine canons and, in the penultimate section, a
quodlibet",Goldberg Variations
"It begins and ends with an aria, 'Sarabande,' which is found in the 1725 notebook
of the composer's wife Anna Magdalena",Goldberg Variations
"Originally published as the fourth volume of Clavier-Ubung, its current name dates
from a biography by Johann Forkel, who revealed that it was composed to alleviate
the insomnia of its patron, Count Keyserling",Goldberg Variations
"Consisting of 32 sections and famously performed in 1955 by Glenn Gould, FTP, name
this 1741 harpsichord work by Johann Sebastian Bach.",Goldberg Variations
"This opera's lesser characters include the toy vendor, Parpignol, and Benoit",La
Boheme
"Following the Act II waltz 'Quando m'en vo' soletta,' another lesser character,
Alcindoro, is jilted and left with a large caf bill",La Boheme
"Its beginning includes the entrance of Schaunard with food and drink, his
subsequent exit, and the famous tenor aria, 'Che gelida manina.' Another aria,
'Testa adorata,' actually comes from a lesser-known version of this opera by
Leoncavallo",La Boheme
"FTP, name this Puccini opera that centers on the love of Marcello and Musetta and
Rodolpho and Mimi and inspired the musical Rent.",La Boheme
He liked to concentrate on mischievous figures with his symphonic poems as
evidenced by The Water Goblin and The Noonday Witch,Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-
ZHAK]
"At the end of his life, he turned to operas, like Rusalka, but he had first gained
fame by getting a contract from Brahms' publisher, Fritz Simrock, who successfully
published this man's Moravian Duets",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-ZHAK]
"Among his other successes were the American Quintet, the Dumky Trio, and his
Slavonic Dances",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-ZHAK]
His best known work arose from the Iowa melodies and African-American spirituals he
picked up in the U.S,Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-ZHAK]
in the early 1890s,Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-ZHAK]
"FTP, name this Czech whose fame rests in his Symphony No",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak
[dvor-ZHAK]
"9, From the New World.",Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak [dvor-ZHAK]
It opens in the church of St,Die Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The Mastersingers of
Nuremberg
Katherine with the chorale 'Da zur dir der Heiland' bringing the services to a
close,Die Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
"In the second act, its villain Beckmesser, mistaking Magdalena for the heroine,
serenades her only to be soundly thrashed by Magdalena's admirer, David",Die
Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
"Before this opera begins we hear the orchestral prelude, which contains five major
themes from it including the 'Prize Song,' which follows the 'Dance of the
Apprentices' in the opera proper",Die Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The
Mastersingers of Nuremberg
"All ends happily, with Eva going to the winner of the song contest, Walther von
Stolzing, who now becomes one of the title characters, like Hans Sachs",Die
Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
"FTP, name this comedic opera by Richard Wagner set in the mid-16th-century in
Nuremberg.",Die Mestersinger von Nurenberg or The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
The composer claimed that much of it was modeled after Totentanz by Liszt,Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
"The main instrument in the 19th part is marked quasi pizzicato, modeled on the
technique of its subject",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"The minuet in the 12th section is the first appearance of a woman, following a
long stretch concentrating on the evil spirit",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"Written for solo piano and orchestra, it tells of troubles with the church, a love
affair, and the selling of one's soul to the devil; all composed 96 years after its
subject's death in 1840",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"FTP, name this series of 24 variations composed by Rachmaninov in honor of a
famous Italian violin virtuoso.",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"Its 'song of the roasted swan' provides a grotesque solo for countertenor, and
another notable aria is 'In trutina.' 'Behold the good and long-awaited spring,'
'On the unsteady scales of my heart,' 'I am the abbot,' 'When we are in the
tavern,' and 'I be",Carmina Burana
"Beginning with the movement 'O Fortuna' and based on some 13th-century German and
Latin texts, FTP, name this 26-movement cantata by Carl Orff.",Carmina Burana
"While staying in Darstadt, he almost completely gave up music, only writing some
concertos and the operetta Abu Hassan",Carl Maria von Weber
His Konzertstuck for piano and orchestra is still played but not as popular as his
piano solo Invitation to the Dance,Carl Maria von Weber
"This composer's musical career began with his Opus 1, Sechs Fughetten, which he
wrote while being trained by Michael Haydn, brother of Joseph",Carl Maria von Weber
"His fame rests on three operas, and one anecdote relates how he learned English
for his commission for one of them, Oberon, which followed 1823's Euryanthe",Carl
Maria von Weber
"FTP, name this German best known for his opera Der Freischutz.",Carl Maria von
Weber
He gave his first pianoforte recital in 1846 at the age of 11,Camille Saint-Saens
Six years later he befriended Liszt and dedicated his Third Symphony to the
Hungarian,Camille Saint-Saens
He would go on to be the teacher of Gabriel Faure and write the coronation march
for Edward VII in 1902,Camille Saint-Saens
"Among his piano works are Variations of a Theme of Beethoven and Caprice heroique,
while orchestral works include Phaeton and Omphale's Spinning Wheel",Camille Saint-
Saens
"FTP, name this composer of Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah, and Carnival of the
Animals.",Camille Saint-Saens
"The text is taken from a poem by German writer Matthias Claudius, and the work
begins with one of the composer's signature rhythmic devices - a quarter note
followed by triplet eighths",Death and the Maiden or Der Tod und Das Madchen
"The opening piano introduction sets the stage for a dialogue in which a young
girl, wary of the 'wild' appearance of a new acquaintance, asks to be left alone
but is gradually comforted by his assurances that all he wants to do is hold
her",Death and the Maiden or Der Tod und Das Madchen
"The final word, 'sleep,' plunges down to a low D as this song comes to an
end",Death and the Maiden or Der Tod und Das Madchen
"Not surprisingly, the composer used its music in his 1824 String Quartet in D
minor of the same name, which happened to inspire a novel by Ariel Dorfman",Death
and the Maiden or Der Tod und Das Madchen
"FTP, name this composition by Franz Schubert.",Death and the Maiden or Der Tod und
Das Madchen
His posthumous Violin Concerto includes the opening notes of a hymn melody used by
J.S,Alban Berg
Bach in his Cantata no,Alban Berg
60,Alban Berg
"His first major success on his own, Five Orchestral Songs, was quickly followed by
his Three Pieces for Orchestra",Alban Berg
"In 1926 he finished his most controversial work, the Lyric Suite for string
quartet, but that was counteracted by his two biggest successes, based on plays by
Frank Wedekind and Georg Buchner",Alban Berg
"FTP, name composer in the atonal style, a student of Arnold Schonberg best-known
for the two operas Lulu and Wozzeck.",Alban Berg
"Sensing his impending death, the only tenor in this opera bids his mother farewell
with the aria 'Addio alla madre,' which comes not long after the drinking song,
'Viva il vino.' Mamma Lucia first learns of her son's affair from the aria, 'Voi
lo sapete,",Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"Following Lucia's exit, Santuzza argues with her lover and the subject of his new
love, Lola",Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
Passions over these women ultimately results in a duel in which Alfio kills
Turiddu,Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"Based on a story by Verga, FTP, name this epitome of verismo opera by Pietro
Mascagni.",Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
"It opens with Normanno informing his lord of an intruder on the grounds and the
confirmation of that by the guards with the song 'Come [KO-may] vinti.' Just
before the pleas of the chaplain Raimondo and the kindly attendant Alisa in Act II,
we hear the f",Lucia di Lamermoor
"The plot centers on a deception by Arturo Bucklaw, who has convinced the heroine
that her love, Edgardo, has deserted her because her brother, Lord Ashton, will not
look favorably on their match",Lucia di Lamermoor
"Based on a Sir Walter Scott novel, FTP, name this tragic Donizetti opera about the
titular woman.",Lucia di Lamermoor
"Ludovic Halevy wrote most of the libretto for this four-act opera, though he had
to share the billing with Meilhac [MY-lak]",Carmen
"The composer was criticized for borrowing from popular melodies, particularly the
one he expropriated from Sebastian Radier for the famous Habanera",Carmen
"Le Remendado is a tenor and Le Dancaire is a baritone, but of course most
celebrated is the titular soprano, made famous by Celestine Galli-Marie",Carmen
"The plot concerns the love for the heroine by both Escamillo and Don Jose, who
kills her",Carmen
"Based on a work by Prosper Merimee, FTP, name this most famous opera of George
Bizet.",Carmen
"The first movement begins with an airy Adagio, in which woodwind writing is
overtaken by a chromatic, tonally ambiguous figure on the strings",Surprise
Symphony or Drumstroke Symphony or Mit dem Paukenschlag (accept 'Haydn's Symphony
No. 94' before it is mentioned)
"This is followed by an exuberant Vivace assai in 6/8 time, which contrasts with
the broad, threatening Landler in the Minuet near the end",Surprise Symphony or
Drumstroke Symphony or Mit dem Paukenschlag (accept 'Haydn's Symphony No. 94'
before it is mentioned)
The Andante is typical of the composer in that he uses fifteen bars of a string
theme that he would copy in his oratorio The Seasons,Surprise Symphony or
Drumstroke Symphony or Mit dem Paukenschlag (accept 'Haydn's Symphony No. 94'
before it is mentioned)
"However, the best known part is the double-forte thwack with timpani near the
middle",Surprise Symphony or Drumstroke Symphony or Mit dem Paukenschlag (accept
'Haydn's Symphony No. 94' before it is mentioned)
"FTP, give the nickname of this 94th symphony of Franz Joseph Haydn, named for the
sudden interruption of quiet during the second movement.",Surprise Symphony or
Drumstroke Symphony or Mit dem Paukenschlag (accept 'Haydn's Symphony No. 94'
before it is mentioned)
"It is strikingly similar to Martin y Soler's opera L'abore di Diana, not
surprising as the librettist was working on both operas at the same time",Cosi Fan
Tutte (accept early So Do They All)
"It opens in a Naples caf and soon moves to a villa, where the duet, 'Ah guarda,
sorella,' is sung",Cosi Fan Tutte (accept early So Do They All)
"The doctor in Act I and the notary in Act II are none other than Despina, the
maid, in disguise; though she is unaware of the nature of the charade",Cosi Fan
Tutte (accept early So Do They All)
"That charade is engineered by the cynical Don Alfonso, who convinces two young men
to assume the guise of Albanian nobleman to conduct a certain test",Cosi Fan Tutte
(accept early So Do They All)
"It centers on a wager of 100 sequins that Guglielmo's and Ferrando's fiancees, the
sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi, will prove unfaithful when put to the test",Cosi
Fan Tutte (accept early So Do They All)
"FTP, name this Mozart opera that translates as 'So Do They All.'",Cosi Fan Tutte
(accept early So Do They All)
"The main theme of this opera's orchestral prelude is the hero's first-act love
song, 'La rivedro.' It is during an attack by Samuel and Tommaso that the central
deception is revealed",A Masked Ball or Un ballo in maschera
This happens after a series of revelations at the hut of the suspected witch
Ulrica,A Masked Ball or Un ballo in maschera
"Finally, Renato discovers that his wife, Amelia, loves his best friend, Ricardo,
and hatches a murderous plot",A Masked Ball or Un ballo in maschera
Its setting was shifted from the original locale of Sweden during the period of
Gustavus III's assassination at the title event,A Masked Ball or Un ballo in
maschera
"FTP, name this opera set in Boston and composed by Giuseppe Verdi.",A Masked Ball
or Un ballo in maschera
In the conclusion six harps are used to accompany the cries of some betrayed
servants,Das Rheingold or The Rhinegold
"Scene 1 opens with a 136-measure prelude based on an E-flat chord that grows and
expands; and in the transition to Scene 3 the orchestra falls silent, leaving a
forging rhythm to ring out on eighteen tuned anvils",Das Rheingold or The Rhinegold
Scene 4 includes Erda's warning and the 'Entrance of the gods into Valhalla' near
the end,Das Rheingold or The Rhinegold
"FTP, name this opera that introduces us to Alberich and Wotan, the first of
Wagner's Ring Cycle which is named for a river treasure.",Das Rheingold or The
Rhinegold
He subsisted by playing the organ in a synagogue until he won attention with early
operas like The Protagonist and The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken,Kurt Weill
"He came to America to work on his Old Testament opera The Eternal Road, and
collaborated on One Touch of Venus with Ogden Nash and on a musical version of
Huckleberry Finn with Maxwell Anderson",Kurt Weill
"FTP, name this German who is better known for his collaboration with Bertolt
Brecht on The Three-Penny Opera.",Kurt Weill
Its first movement opens with an ominous theme played by the brass,Divine Poem or
Scriabin's Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
The strings soon enter with a minor motif that shifts in a major theme before all
tonality disappears,Divine Poem or Scriabin's Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
"Its second movement begins with quiet, sweet music for winds and strings and
builds into an uninterrupted transition to the third and final movement, which
alludes to the work's title",Divine Poem or Scriabin's Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
"The section titles of 'Luttes' and 'Voluptes' were later added, FTP, to what first
major orchestral composition of Alexander Scriabin, preceding both Prometheus and
the Poem of Ecstasy?",Divine Poem or Scriabin's Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
"It is filled with delicate musical touches, perhaps most evident in the section
entitled 'Total Satisfaction.' In its final piece, 'The Poet Speaks,' we are
returned to the same key of G major that starts this work",Scenes from Childhood or
Kinderscenen
"It begins with 'From Strange Lands and People,' though the seventh piece,
'Dreaming' is the most famous",Scenes from Childhood or Kinderscenen
"Almost all of the thirteen sections are miniature ternary, A-B-A, forms in this
collection of compositions for keyboard",Scenes from Childhood or Kinderscenen
"FTP, name this group of works by Robert Schumann, intended to evoke memories of
youth.",Scenes from Childhood or Kinderscenen
"Features of this piece of music, such as the use of the xylophone, the harp,
softly played snare drum, and violins whose strings are plucked pizzicato-style in
the beginning are not always obvious in hearing",Bolero
"Its main theme, consisting of two parts, is repeated throughout as it spreads from
the woodwinds to the whole orchestra, and its steady gain in volume and tempo has
often led to its use as background music for lovemaking, the use to which a Marvin
Hamlisc",Bolero
"FTP, name this 1928 composition, the most famous of Maurice Ravel.",Bolero
"Principal themes in the overture to this opera include a melody first given by
four horns, then amplified by woodwinds accompanied by plucked strings; a light
tune for strings; and a jaunty episode for woodwinds",Semiramide
"Two notable ensemble numbers are 'Ebbene, a te ferisci' and the Act I finale,
'Quel mesto gemito,' while its two most notable arias are 'Ah! Quell giorno' and
the title character's 'Bel raggio.' The title character murders her husband,
Ninus, and later f",Semiramide
"Its two major orchestral preludes occur in the beginnings of Acts II and III and
are respectively titled 'Sunday Morning' and 'Moonlight.' These are slightly
different than 'Dawn,' the entr'acte that begins this opera's first act",Peter
Grimes
"The title character's vocal performances include 'Now the Great Bear and the
Pleiades' and ''What harbor shelters peace,' both of which are sung before his
murder of an apprentice ruins hope of a rich life and a marriage to Ellen
Orford",Peter Grimes
"The action takes place in The Borough, a village where the title fisherman dwells
in, FTP, what opera by Benjamin Britten?",Peter Grimes
"After a brief introduction, often interpreted as an expression of 'once upon a
time,' the composer states the theme early on with a bravura passage for French
horn",Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks or Till Eulenspiegels lustiche Streiche
"Contrived as a response to criticism for the composer's opera Guntram, this
single-movement work for orchestra is characterized by abrupt shifts in scoring
between instruments",Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks or Till Eulenspiegels
lustiche Streiche
"It is in the form of a large-scale rondo and the various rondo episodes include
the title character railing at preachers, making fun of intellectuals, and finally
being sentenced to death",Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks or Till Eulenspiegels
lustiche Streiche
"FTP, name this tone poem by Richard Strauss, centering on a medieval German
pranskter.",Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks or Till Eulenspiegels lustiche
Streiche
"It opens with a fine horn call, which changes into a galloping first
movement",Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major (don't need name after it is
mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
The second movement is in a slower tempo and contains a walking tread in the low
strings and an oboe over the leading rhythm,Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major
(don't need name after it is mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
"There is a large scherzo, set of by a trio, while the finale includes a stamping
theme with many repeated notes",Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major (don't need
name after it is mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
It was discovered by Robert Schumann in its composer's posthumous papers and was
initially labeled No,Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major (don't need name after it
is mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
7 because only six of its composers symphonies were known,Schubert's Symphony No. 9
in C Major (don't need name after it is mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
"FTP, name this last numbered symphony of Franz Schubert's.",Schubert's Symphony
No. 9 in C Major (don't need name after it is mentioned) or 'Great' Symphony
The first of its three movements unfolds in 6/8 meter and includes a notable violin
solo sixty bars in and a brief horn gesture after the change to 6/8,La Mer (prompt
on 'The Sea')
"This first section ends with a forte-fortissimo brass attack, which dies away to
piano",La Mer (prompt on 'The Sea')
"The final part contains a rhythmic gesture first introduced pianissimo by the
cellos and bases, but it is solo flute and harp harmonics from the second movement
that might prove familiar, as identical orchestration was used at the end of
Prelude to the Af",La Mer (prompt on 'The Sea')
"That part, The Play of the Waves, is just one of the sections of, FTP, what work
by Claude Debussy that translates as 'The Sea.'",La Mer (prompt on 'The Sea')
"Gabriel Faure's version ditched all parts that called for drums and bass, while
Berlioz's called for four brass choirs among other things",requiem
"Hindemith wrote one for President Roosevelt based on Walt Whitman's 'When Lilacs
Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' and Benjamin Britten's version contains nine poems
by Wilfred Owen interspersed with the original text",requiem
"Mozart's was uncompleted at his death, and Brahms set verses of the German Bible
to music in his version",requiem
"The Dies Irae [DEE-es EYE-ray] is now optional in, FTP, what type of choral work
that is a proper Mass for the souls of the dead?",requiem
"His latest release is The Marciac Suite, dedicated to a rural French jazz
festival",Wynton Marsalis (prompt on just last name)
"His classical recordings include the baroque compilation, In Gabriel's Garden as
well as the Octoroon Balls for a string quartet and the ballets, Sweet Release and
Ghost Story",Wynton Marsalis (prompt on just last name)
He studied at Juilliard before joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1980 and is
currently the artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program,Wynton
Marsalis (prompt on just last name)
"In 1997 he became the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music
for his oratorio on slavery, Blood in the Fields",Wynton Marsalis (prompt on just
last name)
"FTP, name this master of the trumpet, son of Ellis and brother to
Branford.",Wynton Marsalis (prompt on just last name)
"The opening theme is reprised in 'Con mortuis in lingua mortis,' which is the only
part not drawn from the same source as the others",Pictures at an Exhibition
Other sections include 'The Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells' and 'Il vecchio
castello.' More famous are the musical depictions of the rich and poor 'Two Polish
Jews;' the quarreling French market women in 'The Marketplace at Limoges;' and the
ox-draw,Pictures at an Exhibition
"Culminating in 'The Great Gate of Kiev,' it was inspired by a showing of water
colors and drawings by Victor Hartmann",Pictures at an Exhibition
"FTP, name this piano suite of Mussorgsky's, famously orchestrated by
Ravel.",Pictures at an Exhibition
"He preferred writing for string orchestra, as exemplified by his elegiac melodies
entitled 'Heart Wounds' and 'The Last Spring.' He studied at the Leipzig
conservatory and soon after wrote his first piano concerto, which has been
frequently criticized as",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"Major works of his include his series of Slatter dances, the Landsighting piece,
the Haugtussa cycle, and the Holberg suite",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"FTP, name this composer, most famous for his Peer Gynt suite, which was inspired
by a fellow Norwegian.",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"Although the specific details of its inspiration remain unknown, this four-
movement piece was originally five-movements with the additional one being a second
minuet before its Slow Rondo, but the artist eliminated it, and it is now
lost",Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"Written as a 20-minute singular piece in Sonata-allegro form, it is designated by
number 525 in the Kchel catalog",Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"Written in 1787 while the composer was working on Don Giovanni, it inspired a
musical by Stephen Sondheim",Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"FTP, give the common name of this piece, Mozart's Serenade in G, No 13.",Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik or A Little Night Music
"It was first performed on May 14, 1832, in London, with Thomas Attwood
conducting",Hebrides Overture (accept Fingal's Cave before it is mentioned)
"The opening theme, led by lower strings and bassoons, came to the composer on a
trip he made with Karl Klingemann, who described the titular location with the
words, 'its many pillars making it like the inside of an immense pipe organ, black,
loud.' Its ",Hebrides Overture (accept Fingal's Cave before it is mentioned)
"FTP, name this Mendelssohn overture that was inspired by a visit to Fingal's Cave
on a Scottish island.",Hebrides Overture (accept Fingal's Cave before it is
mentioned)
"His Concerted Music for Harpsichord, for two violins and harpsichord, was among
the earliest works to give the keyboard an independent part",Jean-Philippe Rameau
"He was an important music theorist and published the Treatise on Harmony, which
later secured him a position as a composer for the financier La Poupliniere",Jean-
Philippe Rameau
"The Pices de Clavecin pour Concerts is his most famous chamber work, though he
was better known for his court appointment at Versailles as a composer of
operas",Jean-Philippe Rameau
"A participant in the War of the Buffoons, he criticized Pergolesi in favor of
exciting music as seen in his works, Les Paladins, Castor and Pollux, and
Hippolytus and Aricia",Jean-Philippe Rameau
"FTP, name this French Baroque operatic composer of the early 18th-century",Jean-
Philippe Rameau
"He made his professional debut in New Orleans with the band of 'Kid' Ory, but five
years later went to Chicago to join the Creole Jazz Band of his teacher, Joe
Oliver",Louis Armstrong
"As an actor, he starred in High Society, Cabin the the Sky, and The Five
Pennies",Louis Armstrong
"Despite the title of his autobiography, Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans, he spent
most of his professional career in the North",Louis Armstrong
"He is most famous for his musical compositions, which include 'Wild Man Blues.'
FTP, name this jazz trumpeter of 'I've Got a Heart Full of Rhythm.'",Louis
Armstrong
"This work features the arias 'cielo e mar' and 'suicidio,' and begins with a
mother being accused of witchcraft",La Gioconda
La Ciecia is ultimately saved by Laura Adorno whose tryst with the prince puts her
in danger,La Gioconda
Its climax comes after the title character puts aside her own love and brings Laura
and Enzo Grimaldi together by offering herself to the evil Barnabaand then impaling
herself,La Gioconda
FTP identify this 1867 masterpiece of Amilcare Ponchielli possibly best known for
its ballet interlude 'The Dance of the Hours.',La Gioconda
"Schindler described the composer's state as Erdenentrucktheit, translated as
'oblivion of everything earthly,' while he was composing this work, which was
created for Archduke Rudolph's installation as Archbishop of Olmutz","Missa
Solemnis or Mass for soloists, chorus, and orchestra in D Major"
"The work contains a break in style from the first part to the second as the Kyrie
and Gloria are written in the more classical style of 'true church music,' whereas
the Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei have more dramatic elements, which are not part
of tradi","Missa Solemnis or Mass for soloists, chorus, and orchestra in D Major"
"FTP, name this sacred mass by Beethoven","Missa Solemnis or Mass for soloists,
chorus, and orchestra in D Major"
His many compositions for piano include the Shepherd's Boy and March of the
Dwarfs,Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"More inclined to write short works such as the Two Elegiac Melodies, he allowed
few performances of his only symphony",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"Among his more successful works are the overture In Autumn, the choral work
Mountain Thrall, and his Lyric Pieces for piano",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"However, he only became a national icon following his incidental music to a
certain play",Edvard Hagerup Grieg
FTP name this composer who created arrangements of 'Solvejg's Song' and 'In the
Hall of the Mountain King' from his music for Peer Gynt.,Edvard Hagerup Grieg
"At the age of 16 he started studying under the trio of Gaetano Greco, Francesco
Feo, and Francesco Durante",Giovanni Pergolesi
His reputation for genius gained him a commission from the fraternity of San Luigi
di Palazzo for a Stabat Mater to replace one by Alessandro Scarlatti,Giovanni
Pergolesi
"His first major work, the sacred drama La conversione di San Guglielmo
d'Aquitania, began a string of successes that included the operas La Salustia,
Adrian in Syria, and L'Olimpiade",Giovanni Pergolesi
"FTP, name this 18th-century Italian, who composed the first important opera buffa
with his La Serva Padrona.",Giovanni Pergolesi
"Its unique text was due in large part to the contribution of a 14-year old
autistic boy, Christopher Knowles",Einstein on the Beach
"It is performed in four acts and five interludes, called 'knee plays' because of
their connective function",Einstein on the Beach
"Much of the time a violinist wanders between proscenium and pit, and all of the
performers are dressed in short-sleeved white shirts and suspenders in this five-
hour minimalist work",Einstein on the Beach
"FTP, name this 1976 opera by Phillip Glass.",Einstein on the Beach
"His last two major works, Jean de Nivelle and Kassya, were finished by Massenet
after his death",Leo Delibes
"His church music and songs are rarely performed, with the exception of 'The Girls
of Cadiz.' His first major work, a collaboration with Ludwig Minkus, was the
ballet La Source, which was quickly followed by the comic opera Le Roi l'a dit, and
another ope",Leo Delibes
"FTP, name this French composer of the opera Lakme and the ballets Sylvia and
Coppelia.",Leo Delibes
"We first meet this character when he sings the aria 'Dunque io son,' (doon-kay ee-
oh sohn) telling of his poor cousin named Lindoro",Figaro
In a later section he sings of how nothing is more stimulating in the world than
gold and proceeds to use his guile to arrange the marriage of Rosina,Figaro
"In another opera he pretends to be Cherubino, as part of a plan he hatches because
he cannot repay Marcellina, who turns out to be his mother",Figaro
Eventually this valet of Count Almaviva is united with his beloved Susanna,Figaro
"FTP, identify this character, a former barber, whose wedding is the subject of a
Mozart opera.",Figaro
"Although he earned his living at an early age by playing the violin in cafes and
dance bands, he went on to become leader of the Frankfurt Orchestra",Paul Hindemith
"An opponent of the 12 tone school, he wrote what he called utility music, and
collaborated with Weill on the music for a radio cantata by Bertolt Brecht, The
Lindbergh Flight",Paul Hindemith
"His works include both a Violin and a Cello Concerto and the song cycles The Young
Maid and The Life of Mary, but he is best known for an opera based on the life of
the painter Mathias Grunewald",Paul Hindemith
FTP identify this German composer of Mathis der Maler.,Paul Hindemith
"He incorporated Eastern ideas, free-jazz tendencies and boundless energy in such
pieces as My Favorite Things, Sun Ship and Meditations",John Coltrane
"His first jazz recordings were with Dizzy Gillespie's band; he joined the original
Miles Davis Quintet in 1955, but was booted because of heroin addiction two years
later",John Coltrane
"He then quit heroin, had a religious awakening and rejoined Miles Davis in early
1958",John Coltrane
"He would leave, however, to form his own quartet",John Coltrane
For 10 points-name this tenor saxophonist whose masterwork was 1964's A Love
Supreme.,John Coltrane
This work had a 'Blumin' or 'Bouquet' movement removed and discarded by its
composer from between its first two movements,'Titan' Symphony (Accept early '1st
Symphony in D Major by Gustav Mahler' or equivalents)
"It is divided into two sections: 'From the Days of Youth' and 'The Human Comedy,'
which includes use of the nursery rhyme 'Frre Jacques.' Named after a novel by
Jean Paul, for ten points, name this first symphony written by Gustav
Mahler.",'Titan' Symphony (Accept early '1st Symphony in D Major by Gustav Mahler'
or equivalents)
"When Brahms was asked for his autograph by the daughter of this work's composer,
he wrote out a few bars of it and wrote, 'Sadly, not by Johannes Brahms.' Written
in 1867 in response to a commission by the Vienna Men's Chorus Association, it was
originall",By the Beautiful Blue Danube waltz or An der schoenen blauen Donau or
Op. 314 (prompt on Strauss before 'its composer' is read)
"A fifth number was later added, words were provided by Josef Weyl, and the more
familiar orchestral version appeared in the same year",By the Beautiful Blue Danube
waltz or An der schoenen blauen Donau or Op. 314 (prompt on Strauss before 'its
composer' is read)
"FTP, name this work featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey and countless commercials,
probably the most famous waltz of Johann Strauss, Jr.",By the Beautiful Blue Danube
waltz or An der schoenen blauen Donau or Op. 314 (prompt on Strauss before 'its
composer' is read)
"The section entitled 'Dorabella' simulates the hesitancy of speech of a lady named
Miss Penny, while 'B.G.N.' contains a famous cello solo",the Enigma Variations
(prompt on Variations on an Original Theme)
The 11th part was inspired by a swimming bulldog; the 5th paid tribute to the son
of Matthew Arnold; and the 14th depicted the composer himself,the Enigma Variations
(prompt on Variations on an Original Theme)
"Some have proposed Auld Lang Syne as the 'hidden' theme indicated to be in it by
the composer, who achieved his first success with the work",the Enigma Variations
(prompt on Variations on an Original Theme)
"FTP, what is this set of variations on an original theme of Edward Elgar, named
for their inscrutable nature?",the Enigma Variations (prompt on Variations on an
Original Theme)
"Its creator described it as 'very loud and noisy,' and admitted that he was only
interested in the lucrative commission",The 1812 Overture in E-Flat Major
"Composed for the consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior for the 1882
Moscow Exhibition, it debuted on August 20th to immediate accolades, and was
eventually made the composer's Opus number 49",The 1812 Overture in E-Flat Major
"Using the Marseillaise and the Tsarist national anthem to depict two armies, it
uses bells, cannons, and a fireworks finale to commemorate the 70th anniversary of
the Battle of Borodino",The 1812 Overture in E-Flat Major
"FTP, name this famous Tchaikovsky overture named for the year Borodino was
fought.",The 1812 Overture in E-Flat Major
Act II of this opera includes the strophic aria 'Voi che sapete!' in which a page
expresses his love for Barbarina in song,The Marriage of Figaro or Le nozze di
Figaro
The act begins with the cavatina 'Porgi Amor' in which Rosina prays that her
husband will love her again,The Marriage of Figaro or Le nozze di Figaro
"Almaviva wants to partake in relations with Susanna, but is foiled when Rosina
takes her place in, FTP, what Mozart opera based on a Beaumarchais play about the
title character's nuptial affairs?",The Marriage of Figaro or Le nozze di Figaro
"Once the deputy organist to Kerll at the Imperial Chapel, he originally studied
under Heinrich Schwemmer",Johann Pachelbel [do not accept 'Taco Bell']
"His son Hieronymus became an accomplished musican in his own right, but this
composer's better known student was Johann Christoph Bach",Johann Pachelbel [do
not accept 'Taco Bell']
"Court organist at both Stuttgart and Nuremberg, some of his better known works
include the motet Praise the Lord, the Hexachordum Apollonis arias and the Six
Suites for Two Violins",Johann Pachelbel [do not accept 'Taco Bell']
"Also known for his Magnificat Fugues, FTP, name this Lutheran baroque composer of
Canon in D.",Johann Pachelbel [do not accept 'Taco Bell']
"The violin represents the moonlight, while the woman's speech is rendered on the
violin and the man's on the cello",Verklarte Nachte or Transfigured Night
"Set in a cold grove, it depicts the woman's confession that she is bearing another
man's child and his response that they will raise it together",Verklarte Nachte or
Transfigured Night
"Originally scored as a string sextet, it is based on a poem by Richard
Dehmel",Verklarte Nachte or Transfigured Night
"FTP, what is this pioneering atonal work, the opus 4 of Arnold
Schoenberg?",Verklarte Nachte or Transfigured Night
"Taught by his musicologist father, this performer gave his first public concert in
Paris at the age of 6",Yo-yo Ma
"Studing under Leonard Rose at Julliard, he is known for his many groundbreaking
recording with the pianist Emanuel Ax, and received the prestigious Avery Fisher
Prize in 1978, although in recent years he has professed a desire to give up his
most famous i",Yo-yo Ma
"Known for his wide reportoire and combination of technical virtuosity and lyrical
expression, FTP, who is this famous cellist?",Yo-yo Ma
"His efforts in opera were almost completely unsuccessful, chiefly due to the
asinine libretti seen in efforts like Alfonso and Estrella, The Twin Brothers, and
Fierribras",Franz Schubert
"The inventor of the 'Moments Musicaux', his chamber works include the Grand Duo
Piano Sonata in C Major, a series of Impromptus, and Fantasy in F Major, but he is
better known for works in another genre that include 'Gretchen at the Spinning
Wheel', 'Hark",Franz Schubert
"FTP, name the prolific composer of lieder probably best known for his 8th
symphony, which was left unfinished.",Franz Schubert
"Soon into his musical career, he turned to Zen Buddhism and the I Ching for
guidance, which led to his advocacy of indeterminism",John Milton Cage
"Associated with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, he wrote the books M,
Notations, A Year from Monday and Silence",John Milton Cage
"His major musical compilations include Roratorio, Bacchanale for prepared piano,
and Imaginary Landscape No",John Milton Cage
4 for 12 radios,John Milton Cage
"A student of Arnold Schoenberg, FTP, name this avant-garde composer who is most
famous for 4'33'.",John Milton Cage
"A premonition of the title character's death is found in her 'Card Song', while
another major moment of the opera is the duet 'Seguidilla'",Carmen
"The male lead's fate is sealed when he draws his sword on Captain Zuniga, leading
him to flee to the mountains and join the smuggling gang led by Lillas
Pastia",Carmen
"Shortly after singing his 'Flower Song' he abandons his sweetheart Micaela, but
his beloved soon cuckolds him for the bullfighter Escamillo, who sings the famous
'Toreador Song'",Carmen
"FTP, what is this opera about a gypsy woman, the masterpiece of Georges
Bizet?",Carmen
"The time when this composer heard a flute player repeat a four note theme for two
and a half hours inspired his orchestral suite 'Beni Mora', while the works of
Keats were the basis for his 'First Choral Symphony'",Gustav Holst
"A symphony trombonist, he developed an austere style in works like 'Egdon Heath'
and the opera 'At the Boar's Head', and gained acclaim for the 'St Paul's Suite'
and the operas 'The Perfect Fool' and 'Savitri', the latter of which stemmed from
an interest",Gustav Holst
"FTP, who is this British composer probably best known for a seven-part orchestral
suite entitled 'The Planets'?",Gustav Holst
"This composer first won fame with the publication of his opus 3 'L'estro
armonico', a collection of concertos for one, two or four violins, while in the
realm of sacred music he composed the celebrated orotorio 'Juditha
triumphans'",Antonio Vivaldi
"Composer of an opera based on 'Orlando furioso', he offered musical training at
the Pio Ospedale della Pieta, a orphanage for girls in Venice, while gaining the
moniker 'the red priest' due to his red hair",Antonio Vivaldi
"FTP, who was this Italian composer now best-known for the concertos in 'The Four
Seasons'?",Antonio Vivaldi
"He wrote a work for 23 solo strings entitled 'Metamorphosen', while in the field
of vocal music he produced works like 'Allerseelen', 'Traum durch die Dammerung',
and the 'Four Last Songs'",Richard Strauss
"A master of tonality, his most important works came in the genres of opera and
tone poems, as seen in tone poems like 'Don Quixote' and 'Till Eulenspiegel's Merry
Pranks' and operas like 'Elektra', 'Der Rosenkavalier', and 'Salome'",Richard
Strauss
"FTP, who is this German composer of 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'?",Richard Strauss
"This musical work features a number of noteworthy dances, including 'Trepak', the
'Arab Dance', the 'Chinese Dance', and the 'Dance of the Flutes', and concludes
with the 'Waltz of the Flowers'",The Nutcracker (accept Nutcracker Suite until *)
"Featuring the first-ever orchestral use of the celesta, this * ballet opens with
the 'Miniature Overture', then goes on to tells of the title figure's battle with
an army of mice, after which he takes a girl to Jam Mountain, leading to the famous
'Dance o",The Nutcracker (accept Nutcracker Suite until *)
"FTP, what is this ballet by Tchaikovsky?",The Nutcracker (accept Nutcracker Suite
until *)
"He composed the scores for the ballets Dybbuk and Facsimile, while his
controversial Mass was composed specifically for the opening of the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts",Leonard Bernstein
"Initially studying under Walter Piston and Fritz Reiner, he was soon mentored by
Serge Koussevitsky",Leonard Bernstein
"Making a spectacular debut as conductor with the New York Philharmonic as a last-
minute substitute for Bruno Walter, he went on to success both as a conductor and
composer of musicals like Candide and Fancy Free",Leonard Bernstein
"FTP, who was this composer of West Side Story?",Leonard Bernstein
"Francois-Antoine Habeneck first conducted the premier of this musical work, for
which the composer recycled his Marche des Gardes from his ill-fated opera Les
Francs Juges and placed it in the penultimate movement",Symphonie Fantastique
"The solo cornet is the highlight of the second movement, entitled A Ball, while
the final movement portrays an orgiastic festival and is called Dream of a Witches'
Sabbath",Symphonie Fantastique
"The first movement is Reveries and Passions, though it is the fourth movement,
March to the Scaffold, that best develops this symphony's ide fixe",Symphonie
Fantastique
"Dedicated to Harriet Smithson, FTP, identify this most famous work of Hector
Berlioz.",Symphonie Fantastique
"Starting out with the Queen City Cornet band, his first published works were songs
like Please Say you Will",Scott Joplin
"John Stark published one third of his works including Cascades which was performed
at the St.Louis World's Fair, and The Strenuous Life which celebrated the life of
Teddy Roosevelt",Scott Joplin
"Roosevelt would reappear, along with Booker T Washington, in the opera Guest Of
Honor , but it is for a certain style of piano music rarely exceeding 68 bars with
names like: Roseleaf , Sunflower , and Maple Leaf , that he is best known",Scott
Joplin
FTP identify this composer of rags like The Entertainer and the opera
Treemonisha .,Scott Joplin
"Following the suggestion of the composer's friend Axel Carpelan, this work was
given its present name",Finlandia
"Originally concocted as the sixth part of the musical melodrama, Music for Press
Ceremony, it would be performed until the title of Impromptu for almost twenty
years",Finlandia
"Based on a text by Zachria Topelius, this symphonic poem was composed in response
to a Russian censorship rule of 1899",Finlandia
"FTP, name this patriotic work, the most famous of Jean Sibelius.",Finlandia
This musical piece was the inspiration for Hugo Alfvn's Uppsala Rhapsody,Academic
Festival Overture
"Its introduction begins with strings playing in C, and goes on to introduce two
songs, one using violins and bassoons and the other primarily trumpets",Academic
Festival Overture
"The recapitulation hammers to a loud close, setting up the Coda and the third, and
best-known of the student-songs in the piece, 'Gaudeamus Igitur.' FTP, what 1880
Brahms work was composed for his reception of an honorary doctorate from the
University of ",Academic Festival Overture
"First staged in Western Europe by Diaghilev in 1921, it's premiere was at the
Mariinsky Theater in St",The Sleeping Beauty
Petersburg three decades earlier,The Sleeping Beauty
"Choreographed by Marius Petipa, Carabosse curses the heroine to die at the age of
16",The Sleeping Beauty
The Lilac Fairy changes her sentence to a hundred years slumber,The Sleeping Beauty
"After that time is up, the Lilac Fairy leads Prince Florimund to the princess, and
his kiss restores her to life",The Sleeping Beauty
"FTP, name this Tchaikovsky opera about Aurora.",The Sleeping Beauty
"The libretto was compiled by a postal clerk, Christian Friedrich Henrici",The
Passion According to St. Matthew or St. Matthew's Passion or Passio Domini Nostri
Jesu Christi secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum
"Well known portions include the alto solo, 'Grief and Pain' and the tenor aria
with chorus, 'O Grief, There Throbs the Racked and Bleeding Heart.' Perhaps the
most famous section is the closing chorus, 'In Deepest Grief We Sit Here Weeping',
though also ",The Passion According to St. Matthew or St. Matthew's Passion or
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum
"Famously revived in 1829 by Felix Mendelssohn, FTP, name this grand religious
composition by J.S",The Passion According to St. Matthew or St. Matthew's Passion
or Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum
Bach.,The Passion According to St. Matthew or St. Matthew's Passion or Passio
Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum
"Though there were originally 23 pieces, after revision: only two settings of four
numbers each were orchestrated",Incidental Music to Peer Gynt or Peer Gynt Suite
"The third section is scored for strings but features a lone triangle, capturing
the North African setting and sensuality of its title: Anitra's Dance",Incidental
Music to Peer Gynt or Peer Gynt Suite
Perhaps the finest music in this piece is contained in the introduction also known
as Morning Song or Morning Mood,Incidental Music to Peer Gynt or Peer Gynt Suite
"But the most famous movement, actually act 2 scene 5 of the play, features the
hero riding on the back of a pig to a place where he is taunted and tormented by
trolls",Incidental Music to Peer Gynt or Peer Gynt Suite
"FTP identify this suite which ends with 'In the Hall of the Mountain King,' a work
by Edvard Grieg.",Incidental Music to Peer Gynt or Peer Gynt Suite
"The cantata The Lovers was completed late in his career, Hermit Songs was first
sung by Leontyne Price, while his work Knoxville was inspired by James
Agee",Samuel Barber
"He premiered a setting of Dover Beach on NBC in 1935 and spent some time in the
early 1950s composing ballets including, Souvenirs and Medea's Meditation , but he
found greater acclaim for choral works like Prayers of Kierkegaard and the opera
Vanessa",Samuel Barber
"FTP identify this composer of 2 symphonies, famed for The Rose Tree , the
Capricorn Concerto and the Adagio for Strings .",Samuel Barber
"Early works, which he would later disparage, include Your Black Eyes and The
Loves of Ines",Manuel de Falla
"His relationship with Dukas led to an elegiac piece called For the Tomb of Dukas ,
and introduced his work to the rest of Europe",Manuel de Falla
"After adapting Othello to music, he joined the Teatro de Arte where he met
Lorca",Manuel de Falla
"But, with the coming of the Civil War, works like Love, the Magician and The
Short Life were not considered nationalist enough, leading to his study of Catalan
and work on his final piece L' Atlantida , left unfinished at his death in Buenos
Aires",Manuel de Falla
FTP identify this Madrid-born composer whose best known works include Nights in the
Gardens of Spain and The 3 Cornered Hat .,Manuel de Falla
The last of their schools survived until 1875 in the town of
Memmingen,"meistersinger(s) (note do not accept minnesingers, these were courtly
predecessors)"
"Their strict code of conduct was known as the Tabulatur, and they performed works
configured in a structural pattern known as the bar form","meistersinger(s) (note
do not accept minnesingers, these were courtly predecessors)"
"Though founded by an aristocrat called Frauenlob, their ranks were primarily
composed of tradesmen and the middle-class","meistersinger(s) (note do not accept
minnesingers, these were courtly predecessors)"
Their high point emerged after Hans Folz called for an expansion of subject matter
which led to more secular hymns sung by such men as Sixtus Beckmesser and Hans
Sachs,"meistersinger(s) (note do not accept minnesingers, these were courtly
predecessors)"
FTP identify this 11th to 16th century group of German musicians immortalized by
Wagner in an opera that places them in Nurnberg.,"meistersinger(s) (note do not
accept minnesingers, these were courtly predecessors)"
"In this opera, the composer and the librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi aimed at a
noble classical simplicity and avoided 'the abuses of excessive ornamentation and
other elements that pander to the vanity of the singers' as the composer later
explained in h",Orpheus and Eurydice (or Orfeo ed Euridice)
"It includes the celebration of funeral rites by the nymphs and shepherds, and more
famously, the Dance of the Furies and the Dance of the Blessed Spirits during the
descent through Hades",Orpheus and Eurydice (or Orfeo ed Euridice)
"FTP, what is this three act opera first performed in 1762 and composed by
Christoph Gluck.",Orpheus and Eurydice (or Orfeo ed Euridice)
"This painting is believed to have been partly based on the idyllic writings of
Theocritus, Virgil, and Sannazaro",Pastoral Symphony (or Fete Champetre or Concert
Champetre)
It is now hanging in the Louvre and it likely inspired Manet's famous 1863 painting
'Luncheon on the Grass',Pastoral Symphony (or Fete Champetre or Concert Champetre)
"Seated in the middle are two clothed men, one of whom is playing a lute",Pastoral
Symphony (or Fete Champetre or Concert Champetre)
"In front of the men are two nude nymphs, one of whom has her back to us and is
holding a flute while the other is pouring water from a pitcher, but the two men
seem oblivious to their presence",Pastoral Symphony (or Fete Champetre or Concert
Champetre)
"FTP, what is this 1510 painting attributable to Giorgione or Titian which shares
its title with a 1919 Gide novel and a famous composition of Beethoven.",Pastoral
Symphony (or Fete Champetre or Concert Champetre)
"Some of its original material was destroyed by a fire in the process of rewriting,
and its reworking contained an aria scripted for Captain Dapertutto from Le voyage
dans la lune, 'Scintille diamant' Its prologue and epilogue take place in a
Nuremberg tav",Les contes d'Hoffmann (accept The Tales of Hoffmann)
"A poet is persuaded to sing the 'Legend of Kleinzach,' and he continues with the
chronicle of his tragic affairs with the mechanical doll Olympia, a woman whose
fatal chest complaint prevents her from singing, and a courtesan, Giulietta",Les
contes d'Hoffmann (accept The Tales of Hoffmann)
"Drawing its material from the stories of its namesake author, FTP, name this opera
seria by Jacques Offenbach.",Les contes d'Hoffmann (accept The Tales of Hoffmann)
The finale is a sophisticated rondo whose fearsomely difficult 'violin writing must
have needed lots of rehearsing to point up the music's muscle and wit.' This work
begins with a very slow introduction that moves eerily through distant
keys,Surprise Symphony (Accept 'no.9 in G major' before it is mentioned)
The ensuing allegro is in a cheerful and rocking rhythm,Surprise Symphony (Accept
'no.9 in G major' before it is mentioned)
"The work derived its nickname from the loud explosion in the middle of the slow
movement's theme, written specifically by the composer to wake up the audiences who
tended to nod off during slow movements",Surprise Symphony (Accept 'no.9 in G
major' before it is mentioned)
"FTP, name this musical work, no",Surprise Symphony (Accept 'no.9 in G major'
before it is mentioned)
"94 in G major, by Franz Haydn.",Surprise Symphony (Accept 'no.9 in G major' before
it is mentioned)
"The hero of this opera manages to find some unusual allies in the form of the Good
Magician Finn, who warns him of the power of a sorceress working against him, his
former rival Ratlaf, who ceases to compete with him when finds true love with his
slave-gi",Ruslan and Lyudmila (Ruslan i Lyudmila)
"Ranged against him are the bumbling Varangian Farlaf, the sorceress Naina, and
Chernomor, who has captured and put to sleep the daughter of Svetozar, his future
bride",Ruslan and Lyudmila (Ruslan i Lyudmila)
"Such are the adventures of the main character of, FTP, what Pushkin-inspired
opera, perhaps the best known of Mikhail Glinka?",Ruslan and Lyudmila (Ruslan i
Lyudmila)
"His efforts in opera were almost completely unsuccessful, chiefly due to the
asinine libretti such as those used for Alfonso and Estrella, The Twin Brothers,
and Fierribras",Franz Schubert
"The inventor of the form 'Moments Musicaux', his chamber works include the Grand
Duo Piano Sonata in C Major, a series of Impromptus, and Fantasy in F Major, but he
is better knwon for works in another genre that include 'Gretchen at the Spinning
Wheel', ",Franz Schubert
"FTP name this composer, one of whose lieder, 'Die Forelle', formed the basis for
the Piano Quintet in A Major named for it, The Trout.",Franz Schubert
Among those portrayed are Winifred Norbury whose laugh and the atmosphere of her
eighteenth century house are caricatured,Enigma Variations or Variations on an
Original Theme
"Arthur Troyte Griffith, a Malvern architect, plays the piano and William Meath
Baker, a 'country squire, gentleman and scholar', informs his guests of the day's
arrangements",Enigma Variations or Variations on an Original Theme
"George Sinclair's bulldog Dan paddling in the River Wye after falling in appears,
though a discussion over Beethoven's slow movements with A J Jaeger, called Nimrod,
is probably the most famous",Enigma Variations or Variations on an Original Theme
"For 10 points, name this 1899 work in which Elgar created images based on his
friends.",Enigma Variations or Variations on an Original Theme
"It is a one movement piece for two violins, two violas, and two cellos written in
1899",Transfigured Night or Verklrte Nacht
It was inspired by a poem written by the German poet Richard Dehmel and takes its
style from the 'love music' of Wagner and Richard Strauss,Transfigured Night or
Verklrte Nacht
"Later it was arranged for full string orchestra and became the music for the
ballet, Pillar of Fire",Transfigured Night or Verklrte Nacht
"FTP- what is this work which describes the happiness of two lovers who overcome
personal tragedy to change a black winter night into something of great beauty, an
early chamber work of Arnold Schoenberg?",Transfigured Night or Verklrte Nacht
"It starts with a trumpet solo in B-flat major that changes meter from 5 to 6, the
tune of which is repeated in three later sections, all called 'Promenade.' First
orchestrated by Tushmalov, it was later orchestrated by Stokowski, Ashkenazy, and
in its bes",Pictures at an exhibition or Kartinki s vistavki
"Sections include 'Gnomus,' 'Bydlo,' 'Ballad of the Chicks in their Shells,' and
'The Great Gate of Kiev,' all titles of paintings by the composer's friend Victor
Hartmann",Pictures at an exhibition or Kartinki s vistavki
"FTP, name this set of piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky.",Pictures at an
exhibition or Kartinki s vistavki
"The only direct quotation in Hodie, a Christmas cantata by Vaughan Williams, is of
this work's third movement, at the words 'Et incarnatus est.' In the fourth
movement, the solo quartet is joined by a solo violin representing the Host","Missa
Solemnis, Op. 123"
"A bass solo in very low register at the start of the finale is said to represent
the composer himself, while the second half of the finale is labeled 'a prayer for
inner and outer peace.' FTP, identify this 1823 choral work, the final sacred work
of Ludwi","Missa Solemnis, Op. 123"
He collaborated with Jean Cocteau to create The Ox on the Roof and The Newlyweds of
the Eiffel Tower,Darius Milhaud
"A frequent user of polytonality, his operas include La Mre Coupable and
Christophe Colombe, but he is more associated will ballets such as La Mort d'un
tyran",Darius Milhaud
"FTP, name this member of Les Six who composed Suite provenale and La cration du
monde.",Darius Milhaud
This note is the submediant of C major and mediant of f-sharp minor,A
It is also the leading tone in b-flat minor and the supertonic in G major,A
"It is a fifth above D, and is written on the middle line of tenor clef, the top
line of the bass clef, and the space below the middle line of the treble clef",A
"FTP, name this note, to which orchestras generally tune, set by international
convention at 440 hertz.",A
His music was banned by Nazi Germany since he was a public advocate of aiding
Jewish refugees,Ralph Vaughn Williams
His musical education continued with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in
Paris,Ralph Vaughn Williams
"His output includes nine symphonies, incidental music for Aristophanes' The Wasps,
and Fantasia on Greensleves, the latter being one of his many incorporations of
English folk music in his compositions",Ralph Vaughn Williams
"FTP, name this composer who, despite being an atheist, used strong religious
themes in revising the English Hymnal and composing Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas
Tallis.",Ralph Vaughn Williams
"Among the tunes this piece utilizes are We Have Built a Stately House in C minor,
which Mahler later borrowed for his Third Symphony; and the lyrical The Father of
Our Land played in E major",Academic Festival Overture
"First performed in 1881 at the University of Breslau, this work employed its
composer's largest orchestration ever",Academic Festival Overture
"Bassoons introduce the comic movement Fox Song, a favorite among the college
freshmen, though its most famous piece might be the Latin drinking song Gaudeamus
Igitur",Academic Festival Overture
"FTP, identify this scholastic overture that celebrated an honorary degree given to
Johannes Brahms.",Academic Festival Overture
He won a prize offered by Offenbach for the one-act operetta Le Docteur Miracle and
received second at the 1856 Prix de Rome when no first prize was awarded,Georges
Bizet
"Studying under Marmontel and Halvy, his early works include the symphony Vasco da
Gama and the opera Don Procopio, though his Roma Symphony aroused little
interest",Georges Bizet
"In 1871 he composed Jeux d'enfants for children, which later became his Petite
Suite",Georges Bizet
"He gained recognition for his opera The Pearl Fishers, but is best known for a
work based on his abandoned Don Rodrigue",Georges Bizet
"FTP, identify this French composer of Carmen.",Georges Bizet
"Arias from this opera include Act II's Le Rve (En fermant les yeux) and O
Rosalinde from Act III, sung by the title character's cousin",Manon
"The title character dies in the final act while on the road to exile at Le Havre,
falling in the arms of her former lover",Manon
"After escaping from De Brtigny, a touching scene in the cathedral of St",Manon
"Sulpice sees the title character reunited with her lover Des Grieux, who finds her
at the opera's end with her cousin Lescaut",Manon
"FTP, identify this opera based on a novel by Abb Prevost, perhaps the most famous
work by composer Jules Massenet.",Manon
This composer's body of works is currently assembled in the Karstdt
catalogue,Dietrich Buxtehude
"His first musical post was as organist at Helsingborg, though in 1667 he succeeded
Franz Tunder at the Marienkirche in Lbeck",Dietrich Buxtehude
"During this time he composed the most famous of his 114 sacred vocal works,
including Jesu meine Freud und Lust and Accredite gentes, accurate populi",Dietrich
Buxtehude
"The works of this composer were performed during his Abendmusik concerts, one of
which prompted a famous journey by another composer",Dietrich Buxtehude
"FTP, identify this early German composer who J",Dietrich Buxtehude
S,Dietrich Buxtehude
Bach traveled over 200 miles to see.,Dietrich Buxtehude
"On December 10, 1879, the temperature in Paris dropped to -25.6 degrees
Celsius",Les Patineurs or The Skaters
"During that severe winter, carriages were forced to operate on runners and the
Seine froze over completely, providing the imagery for this composition that was
published two years later",Les Patineurs or The Skaters
"Its introduction suggests a wintry theme, gradually building to an evocation of
daring leaps and falls, completed with the arrival of a sleigh to the scene",Les
Patineurs or The Skaters
"FTP, identify this most famous waltz of Emile Waldteufel.",Les Patineurs or The
Skaters
Trumpets and drums depict an army marching to the Capitol in the fourth
movement,The Pines of Rome or Pini di Roma
"Its third movement contains both a clarinet solo and a piano cadenza, which both
serve to represent a nightingale's song near the Janiculum",The Pines of Rome or
Pini di Roma
"The first movement, an Allegretto vivace in 2/8 time, represents children playing
by the Villa Borghese near the title objects",The Pines of Rome or Pini di Roma
"The most famous movement of this piece, however, is the second movement in which
muted horns represent the title objects near a catacomb",The Pines of Rome or Pini
di Roma
"FTP, identify this orchestral work by Ottorino Respighi about the trees of a
certain city.",The Pines of Rome or Pini di Roma
"Its composer did not refer to it as an opera but as a 'lgende dramatique,' since
most of the action takes place within the music and not on the stage",The Damnation
of Faust or La Damnation de Faust
"It includes the orchestral pieces 'Dance of the Sylphs' and 'Rkczy March,' as
well as musical adaptations of songs from the play on which it was based",The
Damnation of Faust or La Damnation de Faust
"These include 'Song of the Rats,' sung by Brander; 'Ballad of the King of Thule,'
sung by Margarita; and 'Song of the Flea,' sung by Mephistopheles",The Damnation of
Faust or La Damnation de Faust
"FTP, identify this Berlioz adaptation of a play by Goethe.",The Damnation of Faust
or La Damnation de Faust
This child prodigy supposedly ran away from home at the age of 13 and earned money
for the return trip as an itinerant pianist,Isaac Manuel Francisco Albniz
"He later studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Franz Liszt, and later with
Spanish nationalist composer Felipe Pedrell",Isaac Manuel Francisco Albniz
"Collaboration with the English banker Francis Money-Coutts produced three operas,
including his most famous nonpiano work Pepita Jimenez",Isaac Manuel Francisco
Albniz
"He is perhaps more famous, however, for his Suites Anciennes and Rapsodia
Espanola",Isaac Manuel Francisco Albniz
"FTP, identify this Catalonian composer of the piano suite Iberia.",Isaac Manuel
Francisco Albniz
"At the time of his death his wardrobe was found to consist mostly of identical
handkerchiefs and velvet coats, and many umbrellas",Erik Satie
"He once said that he wrote 'furniture music,' which was meant to be in the
background",Erik Satie
"Some of this eccentric composer's works include the duet Trois Morceaux en forme
de Poire and the ballet Relche, with film sequences included",Erik Satie
"His other works include The Dreamy Fish, Drivelling Preludes (For a Dog), and
Desiccated Embryos",Erik Satie
"He helped to shape the style of modern ballet, and worked closely with Cocteau and
Picasso",Erik Satie
"FTP, identify this mentor of Les Six whose compositions include Vexations and
Parade.",Erik Satie
"The tenth, written in E major, attempts to imitate the sound of a cimbalom through
use of fast arpeggios and tremolos",Hungarian Rhapsodies
"The fourth was written in D minor and designated Lento A Capriccio, while the
first of them was written in F minor and designated Lento Quasi Marcia
Funebre",Hungarian Rhapsodies
The Horowitz transcription of its last disregards much of the lassan
section,Hungarian Rhapsodies
"Entitled Rakoczy March, this fifteenth section is not as famous as the second in D
minor, which most may recognize from cartoons",Hungarian Rhapsodies
"FTP, identify this series of fifteen sketches based on Gypsy music by Franz
Liszt.",Hungarian Rhapsodies
The 1914 staging of this opera had a set designed by Natalia Gonchorova that
contrasted with the production designed by Ivan Bilibin,The Golden Cockerel or
Zolotoy Petushok or Le Coq d'Or
With a libretto by V.I,The Golden Cockerel or Zolotoy Petushok or Le Coq d'Or
"Belsky, the most often performed part is 'Hymn to the Sun.' In the epilogue, the
eunuch Astrologer returns to life to assure the audience that he and the Queen are
the only mortals",The Golden Cockerel or Zolotoy Petushok or Le Coq d'Or
"The body count includes the death of the Tsar's two sons, as well as the
Astrologer, who requests the hand of the Queen of Shemakha",The Golden Cockerel or
Zolotoy Petushok or Le Coq d'Or
"Based on a Pushkin story, FTP, name this Rimsky-Korsakov opera in which revenge is
taken against Tsar Dodon by the titular bird.",The Golden Cockerel or Zolotoy
Petushok or Le Coq d'Or
"After his first success, the opera Macbeth, Romain Rolland persuaded him to give
up his job as an accountant and take up composition full-time",Ernest Bloch
Moving from Geneva to the U.S,Ernest Bloch
"he became director of the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1920-1925, a period
when he premiered the rhapsodies America and Helvetia, the Concerto Grosso and the
Baal Shem Suite",Ernest Bloch
"His Sacred Service and A Voice in the Wilderness were all successes, but it is for
his early explicitly Jewish period that he is best known",Ernest Bloch
"FTP, name this composer of Three Jewish Poems, Schelomo, and the Israel
Symphony.",Ernest Bloch
"Composed while its creator was on vacation with Alexander von Zemlinsky, the music
of this work was later used for the ballet Pillar of Fire",Transfigured Night or
Verklrte Nacht
"Opening with a slow, atmospheric introduction depicting a walk through the
darkness of a grove, its two major sections depict a woman's confession of sin and
the forgiveness by her lover",Transfigured Night or Verklrte Nacht
"A sextet scored for two violins, two violas, and two cellos, it was arranged for
orchestra in 1917, 18 years after its initial composition",Transfigured Night or
Verklrte Nacht
"Inspired by a poem of Richard Dehmel, FTP, identify this early work by Arnold
Schoenberg.",Transfigured Night or Verklrte Nacht
His most famous work was the basis of an Ernst Lubitsch film that won the 1934
Academy Award for art direction,Franz Lehr
"Dvork advised him to 'Hang up your fiddle, and write music.' As conductor of the
Theater an der Wien, he had a 110-piece orchestra at his disposal, composing his
first operetta with librettist Felix Falizari, Kukuschka",Franz Lehr
Following works included The Count of Luxembourg and The Land of Smiles,Franz Lehr
"The composer of the grand opera Giuditta, FTP, name this early 20th century
Austro-Hungarian composer of The Merry Widow.",Franz Lehr
"An important element of his training with Niccolo Zingarelli was the composition
of hundreds of wordless solfeggi, none of which survive, while Giovanni Rubini
created noted tenor roles in his works such as Adelson e Salvini",Vincenzo Bellini
"His most famed partnership began with Il pirata and lasted throughout his career
until his ninth, and last, opera based on a Scott work",Vincenzo Bellini
"Thus Felice Romani did not adapt I puritani, but did work on The Capulets and the
Montagues and La Sonnambula",Vincenzo Bellini
"FTP, name this composer who surpassed Rossini to earn the highest fees ever for
his opera Norma.",Vincenzo Bellini
"Ferruccio Bussoni used its incomplete quadruple portion as the basis for the
Fantasia contrapuntistica, while its first nine sections were the only organ
recording ever made by Glenn Gould",The Art of the Fugue or Die Kunst der Fuge
"Its completed sections include four simple subjects, three counters, two doubles,
two triples, four canons, and three mirrors",The Art of the Fugue or Die Kunst der
Fuge
Key and subject are kept constant in order to demonstrate the potential of
variation on a short theme alone,The Art of the Fugue or Die Kunst der Fuge
"FTP, identify this work in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach that demonstrates his
skill with counterpoint.",The Art of the Fugue or Die Kunst der Fuge
During his first meeting with Richard Wagner he refused to sit down out of respect
for his musical hero,Anton Bruckner
"His first major musical work, Requiem in D minor, was written while teaching at
St",Anton Bruckner
Florian in Austria,Anton Bruckner
"In 1856, he moved to Linz, and while there he composed a version of Ave Maria and
his Mass in D Major",Anton Bruckner
He dedicated his Third Symphony to Wagner but its 1877 premier was a failure - only
25 people remained in the auditorium by the end,Anton Bruckner
"FTP, identify this composer of the more favorably received Fourth or 'Romantic'
Symphony, who is sometimes better known for his Zeroth Symphony.",Anton Bruckner
"The director of the Netherlands Opera asked its composer to write a 'real' opera,
and it debuted in Rotterdam in 1980",Satyagraha
"Famous songs in it include The Kuru Field of Justice and Indian Opinion, and the
main character is visited by spiritual guardians including Arjuna and Krishna in
the opening, Tolstoy in Act I, Tagore in Act II, and Martin Luther King in Act
III",Satyagraha
They watch over the main character as he fights to repeal the Black Act in South
Africa,Satyagraha
"FTP, name this Phillip Glass opera about Gandhi that takes its name from the
Sanskrit word for nonviolence.",Satyagraha
"Notable pieces in this opera are the aria 'O muto asil' and the 'Soldiers' Dance',
but it is most famous for its overture",William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell)
"A subplot concerns Arnold's love for Matilda, but soon Arnold sees his father
Melcthal executed",William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell)
"The villain Gessler celebrates a century of Austrian occupation in Switzerland by
ordering the Swiss to kneel, and when the title figure refuses, Gessler orders him
to perform his most famous feat on his son Jemmy",William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell)
"FTP, what is this opera by Rossini about a Swiss folk hero who shoots an apple
from his son's head?",William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell)
"A medieval estate is depicted in one of its sections, entitled 'The Old Castle',
while the gardens of Paris are evoked in 'Tuileries'",Pictures at an Exhibition
"Although originally written for the piano, Maurice Ravel created the famous
orchestral transcription through which it is well known today",Pictures at an
Exhibition
Several sections entitled 'Promenades' depict the composer walking about
contemplating paintings like 'The Hut on Fowl's Legs' and 'Gnomus' found at a
showing of the art of Victor Hartmann,Pictures at an Exhibition
"FTP, what is this piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky?",Pictures at an Exhibition
"Originally used interchangeably with the term 'canzona,' this musical form
gradually adopted its most well known structure through the Biblical ones of Kuhnau
and seventy written by C.P.E",sonata
Bach,sonata
Examples of them include MacDowell's Eroica and Tragica and Liszt's Apres une
lecture de Dante and one in B minor,sonata
"Other examples include Les Adieux and Hammerklavier, which are found among
Beethoven's celebrated set of 32",sonata
"Including an exposition, development, and recapitulation of a theme, FTP, what is
this form of instrumental music, examples of which include Beethoven's Waldstein,
Appassionata, and Pathetique?",sonata
"Much confusion has surrounded the direction senza sordini in the first movement of
this musical work, whose third and final section, presto agitato, concludes with a
remarkably long 43-bar coda",Moonlight sonata (accept Beethoven's 14th Piano Sonata
until *)
"The composer's Opus 27, Number 2 in C-sharp minor, its most famous part is its
first section, adagio sostenuto",Moonlight sonata (accept Beethoven's 14th Piano
Sonata until *)
"Originally titled 'Quasi una fantasia' to account for the non-traditional use of
its form, it gained its nickname from a description by the poet Ludwig Rellstab
involving Lake Lucerne",Moonlight sonata (accept Beethoven's 14th Piano Sonata
until *)
"FTP, what is this * 14th piano sonata by Beethoven bearing a lunar
name?",Moonlight sonata (accept Beethoven's 14th Piano Sonata until *)
"The main theme of this musical work was first developed for the trio section of
the composer's March in D Major, and its music was later adapted for his Coronation
Ode with the words 'Land of hope and glory'","Pomp and Circumstance, No. 1"
"The first of five similar compositions by the composer intended to prove that
serious music could be written in the military march form, the tradition with which
it is most associated grew from its use at a Yale ceremony conferring an honorary
doctorate o","Pomp and Circumstance, No. 1"
"Named for a quote from Othello, FTP, what is this famous march now ubiquitous at
graduation ceremonies?","Pomp and Circumstance, No. 1"
"The protagonist of this opera exuberantly downs champagne while dressing for a
wedding feast he has planned for his peasants, and he later barely escapes the
drawn sword of Ottavio, who is responding to a girl's cries for help",Don Giovanni
"The title character thwarts a posse bent on lynching him using a disguise that
allows him to issue bogus directions and assault Masetto, who is nursed by
Zerlina",Don Giovanni
"After he contemptuously waves Elvira out of his chamber, he and Leporello witness
the arrival of a statue of the murdered Commendatore, who drags the title figure to
hell",Don Giovanni
"FTP, what is this opera by Mozart about the legend of Don Juan?",Don Giovanni
"A skilled ballet dancer who often acted the clown in Moliere comedies, he wrote
'Amour, Que Veux-tu de Moi'",Jean Baptiste Lully
"As a boy, he was a gift of the Duc de Guise to lady Montpensier; as a man, his
lavish operatic productions introduced overtures and female dancers to
Versailles",Jean Baptiste Lully
"FTP, name this composer of Armide et Renaud and Alceste, who famously expired
after poking his foot with his conductor's baton.",Jean Baptiste Lully
"When Mahler conducted this opera in Vienna, he inserted a trial scene from the
play on which it was based",The Marriage of Figaro or Le Nozze di Figaro
"'Voi che sapete' and 'Porgi amor' are notable arias from this opera whose
complications result in part from the page Cherubino's attachment to Barbarina, the
gardener's daughter",The Marriage of Figaro or Le Nozze di Figaro
"Susanna dresses as the Countess to trick the title character, while Count Almaviva
tries to seduce his own wife, who is dressed as Susanna, the bride-to-be",The
Marriage of Figaro or Le Nozze di Figaro
"With libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, FTP, what is this Mozart opera based on a
Beaumarchais play concerning the wedding of a former barber of Seville?",The
Marriage of Figaro or Le Nozze di Figaro
The atypical 'harmonic' version of this instrument is used almost exclusively by
French composers,harp
"The typical version is tuned diatonically in the key of C-flat, through six
octaves and a fifth",harp
"At the front of it, called the front pillar, are seven pedals that can be
depressed two notches each, and which shorten the strings to sound one or two
pitches higher",harp
"FTP, what is this instrument in which approximately 45 strings are stretched in a
triangular frame?",harp
"In spite of this composer's anti-Semitism, the fourth work in his Opus 17 has come
to be known as 'The Jew'",Frederic Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek)
"He incorporated the cello into his early chamber work Grand Duo on Themes from
Robert the Devil, but is better known for piano works, including a famous Fantasy-
Impromptu that he disliked so much he refused to have it published",Frederic Chopin
(or Fryderyk Franciszek)
"He gained fame for his intimate drawing-room performances of works like the
'Military' and 'Heroic' Polonaises and his Second Piano Sonata, containing his
famous funeral march",Frederic Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek)
"FTP, who was this French composer of Polish descent responsible for the 'Minute'
Waltz?",Frederic Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek)
"Highlights of this opera include the chorus Gloria all'Egitto, the title
character's arias Ritorna vincitor and O patria mia, and the 'Triumphal
Scene'",Aida
One of its unique features is a brief atmospheric prelude that replaces the
traditional overture,Aida
"The plot is fairly simple, involving a love triangle in which a captain
inadvertently reveals battle plans to the enemy",Aida
"The jilted Amneris then has Rhadames arrested as a traitor and walled up in a
pyramid, where he is joined in death by the titular Ethiopian princess",Aida
"FTP, what is this opera by Verdi?",Aida
This composer's early struggles ended with the publication of his Moravian
Duets,Antonin Dvorak
"He experienced great success with his less-ambitious works like the Scherzo
Capriccioso and the Gypsy Songs, but his 10 operas, including Rusalka, were less
successful",Antonin Dvorak
"Although he composed the American String Quartet and the Dumky Trio, today he is
known for introducing folk melodies into classical music, notably in the Slavonic
Dances",Antonin Dvorak
"FTP, who was this great Bohemian composer whose 9th symphony is known as the New
World Symphony?",Antonin Dvorak
One of this musical work's unusual features is the appearance of the main theme
only after an 18-bar introduction and its first main section,Rhapsody on a Theme of
Paganini
"The seventh section marks the first use of the Dies Irae theme, which is
periodically placed in opposition to the main theme until it concludes with a
famous unaccompanied statement of the main theme",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"The 19th section celebrates the left-hand pizzicato technique of the work's
inspiration, but the most famous is the 18th, a romantic anthem derived by
inverting the main theme",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"FTP, what is this rhapsody celebrating the 24th caprice of a famous violinist,
written by Sergei Rackmaninoff?",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
The most famous set of examples of this type of musical composition was the subject
of a famous series of performances by Leopold Godowsky,etudes (accept study until
*)
"They began to develop with the collections published by Muzio Clementi, while
those by Karl Czerny and Rudolphe Kreutzer are frequently used by aspiring pianists
and violinists",etudes (accept study until *)
"Unique examples are the one's dubbed 'tableauxs' by Rackmaninoff and the
'Transcendental' ones by Liszt, but by far the most famous are a set of 27 by
Chopin that includes examples nicknamed 'Black-key' and 'Revolutionary'",etudes
(accept study until *)
"Named for the French for * 'study', FTP, what are these compositions designed to
explore technical problems?",etudes (accept study until *)
"Luca Agnoli wrote the aria Vasto teatro il mondo for this opera, but it is often
replaced by L del ciel nell'arcano profondo, which is sung by the royal tutor
Alidoro",Cinderella or La Cenerentola
"The valet Dandini pretends to be Prince Ramiro and goes to Don Magnifico looking
for a wife, eventually picking the title character over Clorinda and Tisbe, her
haughty stepsisters",Cinderella or La Cenerentola
"FTP, name this Rossini opera retelling a popular fairy tale about a trip to a ball
engineered by a fairy godmother.",Cinderella or La Cenerentola
Hindemith based his 'Symphonic Metamorphoses' on a theme by this composer,Karl
Maria von Weber
In 1803 his father placed him under the tutelage of Abb Vogler,Karl Maria von
Weber
"Forced to focus on composing and conducting after he ruined his singing voice by
accidentally drinking nitric acid, his first successful opera, Abu Hussan, followed
failures such as Silvana and Das Waldmadchen, and he died in England two months
after the ",Karl Maria von Weber
"FTP, identify this German Romantic composer famous for the opera The
Freeshooter.",Karl Maria von Weber
"The 'Children's Chorus' is a feature of this opera, whose 'Card Trio' is sung
while the title figure draws the ace of spades, symbolizing her impending
death",Carmen
"Act II opens at the inn of Lillas Pastia, where the title figure is introduced to
Escamillo, leading to a rivalry for her between Escamillo and a corporal who throws
away his career and his relationship with the chaste Micaela, and who kills the
protagoni",Carmen
"FTP, what is this opera about a gypsy employed in a cigarette factory, the
masterpiece of Georges Bizet?",Carmen
"In the book from which it was adapted, the character in this opera who claims to
be impoverished student Gualtier Mald was originally Franois I, king of
France",Rigoletto
"However, censors wouldn't allow such an overtly political statement, and further
denied use of the proposed title 'The Curse.' Also not chosen for the title was Le
roi s'amuse, the title of the Victor Hugo work from which it was taken",Rigoletto
"The unhappy title character recalls a curse after his daughter is abducted, after
she loses her virginity, and after she sacrifices herself to save the libertine
Duke of Mantua",Rigoletto
"FTP, name this Verdi opera about a hunchbacked court jester.",Rigoletto
"This musician died in 1976 in seclusion at the New Jersey estate of Pannonica de
Koenigswarter, his patron, after whom he named one of his songs",Thelonius Monk
"He was house pianist at Minton's in Harlem in the early 1940s, where he greatly
influenced the playing of Bud Powell",Thelonius Monk
"Known for his odd habit of getting up and doing a shuffling dance when moved by
his or his sidemen's playing, his studio album Brilliant Corners gave a boost to
John Coltrane's career",Thelonius Monk
"FTP name this composer of ''Round Midnight' and subject of the film Straight, No
Chaser.",Thelonius Monk
The composer's sense of diablerie is palpable in the driving energy of number's
eight and nine,Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"The cavalry charge in number fourteen is meant to evoke the Romantic period of its
inspiration, while the actual theme appears only by the second variation and
appropriately in the violins",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"There are 24 parts in all to this concerto for piano and orchestra, in accordance
with the 24 Caprices by the musician who inspired it",Rhapsody on a Theme of
Paganini
"FTP, name this work by Rachmaninoff inspired by an Italian violin
virtuoso.",Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
"When one character in this opera admires the Drum Major of the military band, her
friend Margaret says that she can 'stare through seven pairs of leather breeches.'
The Doctor alters the title character's diet as part of an experiment and complains
when ",Wozzeck
"The moon rises 'like a bloody sword' and the title character kills Marie, the
mother of his child",Wozzeck
"In the final scene, a child riding a hobby-horse learns that his mother is
dead",Wozzeck
"FTP, name this controversial opera based on a Buchner play and composed by Alban
Berg.",Wozzeck
"This composer's poetry-inspired song cycles include The House of Life, and On
Wenlock Edge, which incorporate verses from the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and
A Shropshire Lad",Ralph Vaughan-Williams
"While organist at Lambeth, he collected the folk melodies that would become
'Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains' and Tudor material that influenced his most
famous work",Ralph Vaughan-Williams
"His opera Sir John in Love contains his famous arrangement, Fantasia on
Greensleeves, but, FTP, what English nationalist composer is equally well known for
his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.",Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Verdi used one of this composer's tunes for the Grand Chorus of Aida,Gaetano
Donizetti
"Enrico di Borgogna was his first opera to be staged, and he did not become widely
known until the premiere of Anna Bolena",Gaetano Donizetti
"He was comfortable with French as well, debuting operas in that language after
1840",Gaetano Donizetti
"Among his better-known 73 are Lucrezia Borgia, Don Pasquale, and Daughter of the
Regiment",Gaetano Donizetti
"FTP, name this composer of the The Elixir of Love and the Sir Walter Scott
adaptation, Lucia di Lamermoor.",Gaetano Donizetti
Among the most moving pieces in this opera is ''Liu! Liu! Sorgi!' sung at the death
for a character's unwillingess to betray the man she loves,Turandot
"Another is the brief aside of Ping longing for his small home covered in bamboo,
far away from the executions he must help arrange",Turandot
"Its most famous aria demands that no rest be taken, which is a result of Calaf's
success and his deal with the title character",Turandot
"FTP name this opera about the wooing of the daughter of the Emperor of China,
famous for the aria 'Nessun Dorma,' the last opera of Giacchimo Puccini.",Turandot
"The composition begins with enchanting low flute notes, transforming the audience
into an idyllic setting",Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or 'Prlude l'apres-
midi d'un faune
"Woodwind solos and harp glissandos maintain the theme, about the title figure who
makes a pass at one of two nymphs; she escapes, leaving him to play with her
scarf",Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or 'Prlude l'apres-midi d'un faune
"Choreographed and danced by Nijinsky eighteen years after it was first composed,
FTP, what Stphane Mallarm work was transformed into an Impressionist tone poem in
1894 by Claude Debussy [deh-byoo-SEE]?",Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or
'Prlude l'apres-midi d'un faune
Section 13 of this work is the only one without a title; though a quote within it
from Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage implies that the person was on a
sea voyage,Enigma Variations
"Section 4 features a door slamming, a tribute to the composer's friend, William
Baker",Enigma Variations
"Section 5 was inspired by the nervous laughter of Richard Arnold, son of the poet
Matthew",Enigma Variations
"The most famous section was inspired by a nighttime walk with the composer's best
friend August Jaeger, and is titled 'Nimrod.' The first represents the composer's
wife and the last represents the composer in this series of 14 vignettes",Enigma
Variations
"FTP, identify this set of variations for orchestra, written by Edward Elgar and
so-named because of their puzzling meaning.",Enigma Variations
"This fanatical admirer of the German Romantic Jean Paul founded a society of
friends known as 'David's Band,' and wrote a series of dances for piano named after
him",Robert Schumann
"Grieg's Piano Concerto is largely derived from an A minor concerto by this German,
whose choral works include Requiem for Mignon",Robert Schumann
"Better known are his Kreisleriana and his Kinderscenen, or Scenes from
Childhood",Robert Schumann
"FTP, name this composer of four symphonies, of which the first is called 'Spring'
and the fourth the 'Rhenish.'",Robert Schumann
"Initially performed with a text by Josef Weyl, this work revived a nation that had
suffererd a recent humiliating defeat at Koniggratz","On the Beautiful, Blue Danube
or An der schonen, blauen Donau"
"It is divided into five mini versions of the namesake form, of which the first is
in D-major and the fourth is in F","On the Beautiful, Blue Danube or An der
schonen, blauen Donau"
"Composed for the Vienna Men's Singing Society, it debuted in 1867 and is still
more famous than similar works in the vein by its composer as in Roses from the
South, Morning Leaves, and Emperor","On the Beautiful, Blue Danube or An der
schonen, blauen Donau"
"FTP, name this most famous waltz of Johann Strauss the Younger.","On the
Beautiful, Blue Danube or An der schonen, blauen Donau"
He once challenged the French harpsichordist Jean Louis Marchand to a musical
contest only to have the Frenchman fail to show up,Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on
just last name; must have both initials)
"His numerous church cantatas include 'Sleepers Awake' and 'O joyous Light,' and he
used six of those linked cantatas to form his Christmas Oratorio",Johann Sebastian
Bach (prompt on just last name; must have both initials)
"He once walked 200 miles on foot to hear the organist Dietrich Buxtehude, shortly
after which he composed his Toccata and Fugue in D Minor",Johann Sebastian Bach
(prompt on just last name; must have both initials)
Perhaps better known is his Mass in B Minor,Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on just
last name; must have both initials)
"FTP, name this composer of the St",Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on just last
name; must have both initials)
Matthew Passion and the Goldberg Variations.,Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on just
last name; must have both initials)
"The recommended recording of it is Leondard Bernstein's 1987 one with the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, which comes paired with the composer's Fifth
Symphony",Unfinished Symphony (accept early buzz of Schubert's Eighth Symphon)
"Woodwinds and brass are given equal presence to that of the strings, in this work
that begins with an introductory passage in the cellos and basses",Unfinished
Symphony (accept early buzz of Schubert's Eighth Symphon)
The true main theme comes from the clarinet and oboe in B minor,Unfinished Symphony
(accept early buzz of Schubert's Eighth Symphon)
"Not long after its composer finished his Ninth Symphony, he wrote its first two
movements were written in 1822",Unfinished Symphony (accept early buzz of
Schubert's Eighth Symphon)
"FTP, name this Eighth Symphony of Franz Schubert, left incomplete at his
death.",Unfinished Symphony (accept early buzz of Schubert's Eighth Symphon)
"In act one of this opera, 'Che farrano vecchi miei' causes Larkens to cry",Girl of
the Golden West or La Fanciulla del West
"The title character describes her life in 'Oh, se sapeste' in act two, and in
'Laggi nel Soledad, era piccina' in act one, she imagines a happy life after
marrying Jack Rance",Girl of the Golden West or La Fanciulla del West
"The tenor solo 'Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano' in which Dick Johnson wishes
that the title character not be told that he is dead, may be the most famous aria
of, FTP, what Puccini opera, set in California during the Gold Rush?",Girl of the
Golden West or La Fanciulla del West
"It was originally dedicated to Emma Bardac, the composer's mistress",La Mer or The
Sea
"The final movement begins with a roll of the timpani, and the conversation between
the instruments ends with the theme that concluded the opening movement",La Mer or
The Sea
"Erik Satie 'particularly liked the part at a quarter to eleven,' referring to the
title of the first movement 'From dawn to midday.' The second movement features
themes constructed from whole-tone scales often associated with the composer and
was entitled",La Mer or The Sea