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Name this 19th century American art movement which included Asher Durand, the painter of Kindred Spirits. It is named after a body of water near New York where its members principally worked.

Hudson River School

This founder of the Hudson River School depicted a Native American in a windy landscape in the work The Savage State as part of the Course of Empire series.

Thomas Cole

In Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life series, which follows the life of an American man, the man is accompanied by this figure.

the angel

Name this series of eight paintings that includes “The Heir”, “The Madhouse”, and “The Gaming House”. It follows the decline of Tom, a son of a merchant.

A Rake’s Progress

William Hogarth, the painter of A Rake’s Progress, was an artist from this city. This city is also the location of the National Gallery Art Museum and Big Ben.

London

In another series, Hogarth depicted Silvertongue to satirize these events. A 1434 painting depicting one of these events includes a green curtain and a small dog in the center.

wedding or marriage

Name this art movement of the artist of Monogram, Robert Rauschenberg, as well as the painter of Drowning Girl.

pop art

This other Pop artist who ran “The Factory” is famous for his series of Campbell’s Soup Cans and his many depictions of Marilyn Monroe.

Andy Warhol

The earlier mentioned artist of Drowning Girl is this man. This artist is also known for a work which includes the words “I pressed the fire control…and ahead of me blazed rockets through the sky…”

Roy Lichtenstein

One figure in this painting has a white shell attached to his brown cloth. Name this work in which a red-dressed Jesus sits around a table filled with fruit and reveals himself to two of his disciples.

Supper at Emmaus

Supper at Emmaus is a work by this Italian artist, who is also known for the prominent ray of light shining at the subject in his The Calling of St. Matthew.

Caravaggio

Caravaggio was a painter active during the early stages of this artistic period, which came before the Rococo era. Peter Paul Rubens was also a painter during this artistic movement.

Baroque period

Name this 19th century art movement which focused on the accuracy of lighting. Its name is derived from Claude Monet’s depiction of an orange sunrise over a harbor.

Impressionism

This French Impressionist painter painted L’Absinthe, but may be better known for his various depictions of young ballerinas.

Edgar Degas

In this Edgar Degas painting, a man sits in a chair and reads a newspaper while men in black hats prepare a certain white commodity behind him.

A Cotton Office in New Orleans

Name this 1814 canvas that depicts members of Napoleon''s army preparing to shoot a man in a white shirt raising his arms in protest of the war.

The Third of May, 1808

The Third of May, 1808 is a masterpiece by this 19th century Spanish painter. In his later life, he painted dark scenes like Saturn Devouring His Son for his Black Paintings.

Goya

The Third of May, 1808 served as a direct inspiration for this artist’s Massacre in Korea. This artist also depicted a red jester in Family of Saltimbanques.

Pablo Picasso

Identify this artist who also painted Mount Sinai as part of his Modena Triptych, and an elongated John the Baptist in Opening of the Fifth Seal. His names reflects his Cretan origin.

El Greco

A river cuts under a gray bridge in this El Greco work, which also features a dark, swirling sky overlooking the title town.

View of Toledo

In another El Greco painting, a crowd of men with spears and lances stands behind a soldier, who witnesses the “disrobing” of this figure.

Jesus Christ

Name this painting in which objects like a psalm book and a lute symbolize the qualities of the two title men, who both stand on opposite sides of an amorphous skull.

The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors is a painting by this German artist who depicted his family around the title figure in his Darmstadt Madonna.

Hans Holbein

In Holbein’s portrait of this figure, the subject wears a black fur coat and has his hands on a red book. To the left of this figure in that painting, a man appears on a golden column.

Desiderius Erasmus

Name this genre of painting which attempts to depict non-moving subjects such as flowers, vases, and apples and other fruit.

still-life

Still-lives are among the best known creations by this French Post-Impressionist painter, who is also renowned for using Les Lauves as a viewpoint for his series depicting Mont Saint Victoire.

Paul Cézanne

Many of Cezanne’s still-lives feature these objects sitting with fruit. One of them sits on the windowsill in Durer’s St. Jerome in his Study, and Damien Hirst embedded diamonds on one in For the Love of God.

skull

This American photographer founded the f/64 group and is also famous for his pictures of Half-Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Ansel Adams

People prepare to take a ship from New York to Germany in this American photographer’s The Steerage. He also founded the journal Camera Work and a gallery known as 291.

Alfred Stieglitz

The word “Railowsky” appears at the left of this French photographer’s Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare. This pioneer of “street photography” is considered the father of photojournalism and founded Magum with Robert Capa.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Name this London cathedral named after a religious figure from Tarsus. In 1665, it was destroyed by a giant fire.

St. Paul’s Cathedral

This English designer of the library at Cambridge’s Trinity College is most famous for starting the rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1669.

Sir Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren enlisted the aid of this other English architect to rebuild St. Paul’s Cathedral. Andrew Palladio’s influence on this architect can be seen in his Banqueting House in Whitehall.

Inigo Jones

Name this blind subject who is often sculpted carrying a book, a staff, and, most notably, a set of scales. This subject’s name reflects her appearances in front of courthouses.

Lady Justice

An artist with this surname depicted Lady Justice standing with wisdom and George Washington. The more famous sculptor with this surname is known for his mobiles like Lobster Trap and Fish Tail.

Alexander Calder

Lady Justice sits with her hand on her chin on the right of Pope Urban VIII’s tomb, which was designed by this artist. In another sculpture, this artist depicted Pluto’s kidnapping of a goddess in The Rape of Proserpina.

Bernini

Name this art movement associated with the work Papal Palace by Paul Signac. A man in a cone-shaped hat plays a trombone at the title Circus Sideshow in a painting by the most famous member of this movement.

pointillism

Pointillism is evident in this painting which shows a man in top hat relaxing with a bunch of other people at the title locale, most notably the woman with a monkey on a leash.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is perhaps the best known work by this French Neo-Impressionist painter.

Georges Seurat

Like Spain, this European country contains some of the world’s oldest examples of Paleolithic cave art, including depictions of hyenas at Chauvet. This country also holds Cosquer Cave in its Marseille region.

France

The southwestern region of France is home to this cave system near Montignac renowned for the detail of its “Crossed Bison” painting. Due to extensive damage, visitors are only allowed to visit a replica site.

Lascaux

Lascaux also contains a Stone Age-old hall with almost exclusively these animals. Bronze-age sculptures of these animals from the Minoan culture depict people “leaping” over them.

bulls

Name this American artist who also painted six men diving into a small body of water in The Swimming Hole.

Thomas Eakins

This Eakins painting depicts the title professor at Jefferson Medical College showing his students how to perform surgery on a leg.

The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins is renowned for his depictions of life from this home city of his. This city is also home to the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Name this painting in which a brown-spotted dog sleeps on a bed next to a nude woman who holds red roses in her hand. This painting was the inspiration for a similar Manet work entitled Olympia.

Venus of Urbino

This other painting by the artist of the Venus of Urbino depicts a baby Cupid reaching into a tub of water while a red-robe carrying Aphrodite looks on. The woman on the left holds a vase of jewels.

Sacred and Profane Love

Both the Venus of Urbino and Sacred and Profane Love are paintings by this Italian artist.

Titian

Name this statue located in Padua, Italy which depicts the condotierro Erasmo de Narni riding a horse that has its front left-leg raised. Its name roughly translates as “speckled cat”.

Gattamelata

The Gattamelata is an equestrian work by this early Renaissance artist, who is also known for a contrapposto bronze sculpture of David.

Donatello

Copies of Donatello’s Saint Mark and Saint George stand out in niches outside this Florence church which originally functioned as a granary.

Orsanmichele

Name this space found above a doorway or window. It can be semi-circular or triangular and is often highly decorated in cathedrals and churches.

tympanum

This architectural element is made of stones called voussoirs topped by a keystone and often supported by columns. Simple types are rounded and corbeled ones, and they are found between a wall of a building and a flying buttress.

arches

Unlike the pointed arches used in Gothic architecture, this style of architecture uses round arches. The Church of Sainte-Foy was built in this style which uses non-flying buttresses.

Romanesque

This Spanish artist painted an old woman frying eggs as a young boy looks on. He is perhaps more famous for his later work as court painter to Philip IV.

Diego Velazquez

At the top of the center panel of triptych, a crowd of naked people enter into a giant egg. Another group of people carry a giant egg and fish lower in that panel, while its hellish right panel shows someone balancing one on his back.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

This Russian jeweler, possibly inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Easter egg decorating, created ornately decorated eggs for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II.

Fabergé

Name this 18th century artistic movement that often depicted stories from Greek and Roman mythology, or otherwise took influence from the art of those cultures.

Neoclassicism

One leading Neoclassicist artist was this female Swiss-born painter of Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures who was also a founding member of the Royal Academy.

Angelica Kauffman

Jacques Louis-David painted this seminal work of Neoclassicism. It shows the title heroes swearing loyalty to Rome by saluting their swords.

The Oath of the Horatii

Name this series of seven marble and nine bronze sculptures, a streamlined depiction of the beak, feathers, and tail of the title avian.

Bird in Space

This Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space also created The Gate of the Kiss and Sleeping Muse. He sculpted a phallic sculpture for Princess Marie Bonaparte titled Princess X.

Brâncusi

This memorial in Târgu Jiu which reaches nearly one hundred feet tall was created Brâncusi and dedicated to the Romanian soldiers of WWI. It consists of a stacked set of sixteen-and-a-half rhomboid modules.

Endless Column

Name this painting of a woman riding the title recreational object while being pushed by her husband. She kicks off a pink shoes toward her hiding lover.

The Swing

In addition to The Swing, this French artist painted The Pursuit and The Meeting, included in his four-painting cycle The Progress of Love.

Fragonard

Fragonard was a member of this eighteenth century art movement that developed in Paris to break from the restrictions of the late Baroque period. Its other members included Antoine Watteau and François Boucher.

Rococo period

Name this Neo-Impressionist painting depicting Parisians relaxing on the River Seine. A woman holds a monkey on a leash in the right foreground of this work.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Seurat pioneered the use of this technique A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It involves painting distinct dots of pure color, which the viewer perceives as a fuller range of tones.

pointillism

This painting by Seurat shows a boy in a red hat cupping both his hands to his mouth. It depicts bourgeoisie on the bank opposite to the one depicted in A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Bathers at Asnières

Name this statue of Erasmo da Narni, an equestrian monument in the Piazza del Santo in Padua. The name comes from the title condotierro’s’ nickname, meaning “Honeyed Cat.”

Gattamelata

This Renaissance Italian sculptor of the Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata also sculpted the prophet Habbakuk in II Zuccone.

Donatello

Donatello created a bronze statue in which this figure stands atop a large severed head. Michelangelo’s marble depiction of this figure shows him holding a sling over his left shoulder.

David

Name this European art-style that was characterized by organic shapes, frivolity, and heavy ornamentation. Painters like Jean-Antoine Watteau and Francois Bouchard worked in this style.

Rococo

This Rococo painter included a statue of a putto looking on as a woman in a pink dress kicks off her shoe in his The Swing.

Fragonard

Though Rococo was centered in France, Yinka Shonibare, an artist from this country, recreated the woman from Fragonard’s The Swing in a dress made from batik fabrics.

Nigeria

Name this medium that combines different 2-D works, including newspaper and magazine clippings, to form a cohesive image.

collage

In addition to painting, Marc Chagall designed works in this medium, often for synagogues. One work in this medium by Chagall is in the UN headquarters.

stained glass

This type of painting can use a thicker pigment called gouache. Unlike oil or acrylic painting, the colors achieved with this medium are usually translucent.

watercolor

Name this type of painting that consist of natural scenes. The Hudson River School made paintings of this type in such places as the Andes and the Berkshire Mountains.

landscape paintings

This English landscape artist painted numerous scenes of the English countryside, including The Hay Wain and several views of Salisbury Cathedral.

John Constable

This Caspar Friedrich work shows a suited man holding a walking stick and looking away from the viewer over the title landscape.

Wanderer over the Sea of Fog

This 1881 wax sculpture of a ballet student is wearing real clothing and has real hair.

Little Dancer of 14 Years

Little Dancer was the only sculpture this artist displayed in his life; he is also known for paintings of ballerinas.

Edgar Degas

Degas claimed to be a realist, but he is more commonly identified with this artistic movement whose early artist include Claude Monet.

Impressionism

Name this New York art museum, originally founded as the Museum of Non-Objective Art. It was designed as an “inverted ziggurat”.

Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim Bilbao was designed by this architect to look like a metal ship. In addition, he used a similarly undulating style for a building dedicated to brain health at the Cleveland Clinic.

Gehry

Gehry’s works have often been compared to this movement of architecture due to his use of asymmetrical façades. Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind design works in this organic movement which suggests tearing down of buildings, rather than the creation of them.

Deconstructivism

Name this term for fabric with elaborately woven designs, common in the middle ages.

tapestry

One famous tapestry shows one of these mythical creatures caught in an octagonal pen. Others in the series show “the hunt” of this equine, which was thought to only be able to be tamed by a virgin.

unicorn

The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestry series is now housed in this New York city museum, a part of the Metropolitan museum of art with a focus on medieval arts and architecture.

The Cloisters

Name this artistic scene from the New Testament. It is chronologically followed by The Deposition of Christ, which shows his body being remove from a title instrument of torture.

The Crucifixion

The center figure in this painting is posed similar to Christ in depictions of the Crucifixion This painting shows blue coated soldiers with guns pointed at that white shirted man who also has the stigmata on his right hand.

Third of May, 1808

This is the Spanish artist of Third of May, 1808 as well as a series of gruesome scenes from the Napoleonic invasion of Spain called The Disasters of War.

Goya

Name this medium first pioneered by artists like Joseph Niepcé and Louis Daguerre in the mid 19th century and practiced with a camera.

photography

This photographer was a founding member of Group f-stop 64. His images of Yosemite National Park like El Capitan became influential in conservationist movements.

Ansel Adams

Adams and f-stop-64 were opposed to this photographic movement. Stieglitz’s photographs were often in this style, characterized by a dull focus rather than the sharp contrast of Adams’ photos.

pictorialism

Name this work, which shows the scene behind the canvas as King Philip IV and his queen have their portrait painted. Figures in this work include the artist himself, the Infanta Margaret Theresa, two dwarves, and a large dog.

Las Meninas

This painter of Las Meninas also depicted the success of General Ambrogio Spinola in capturing the title Dutch city in the Surrender of Breda and painted a portrait of Pope Innocent X.

Velazquez

In this work by Velazquez, the title figure reclines in the nude upon a blue sheet with her back toward the viewer. Her face is dimly reflected in the mirror into which she gazes, which is held by a Cupid wearing a blue sash.

Rokeby Venus

Name this bronze figure by Rodin that appears in a work of art titled The Gates of Hell. It depicts a man with his chin resting on one hand as he performs the title action.

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