QB Fine Arts & RMPSS

Rene Magritte (Belgian) Femme-boutille and others: people on wine bottles

Rene Magritte (Belgian) The Future of Painting: Clouds onto a death mask of Napoleon in

Rene Magritte (Belgian) Not to be Reproduced: A copy of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and depicts his patron Edward James looking into a mirror that reflects the back of his head

Rene Magritte (Belgian) Time Transfixed: Depicted a train emerging out of a fireplace

Rene Magritte (Belgian) The Treachery of Images: Contains a caption translating to "This is not a pipe."

Rene Magritte (Belgian) The Castle of Pyreenes: dark ocean waves beneath a giant levitating boulder upon which a castle sits

Rene Magritte (Belgian) The Menaced Assassin: three men staring through a window at a nude, bloodied woman lying on a chaise as a nearby man listens to a gramophone

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian) Margit Pogany: Oversized eyes, a black patina, and two hands on which the subject rests her head in a bust

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian) Sleeping Muse: Similar to Margit Pogany

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian) Table of Silence: A war monument with twelve hourglass-shaped seats surrounding the table

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian) Endless Column: A stack of sixteen rhomboidal pieces

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian) Bird in Space: Tapered bronze cylinders evoke the title creature in a series by this artist that was taxed as metal after a customs battle

Marc Chagall (Russian-French Jew) Paris Through the Window: two-faced man and his cat gaze at the Eiffel Tower

Marc Chagall (Russian-French Jew) I and the Village: A burning synagogue appears in this artist's "White" depiction of the crucifixion. A church and houses, two of which are inverted, appear in the background of a painting by this artist set in his hometown of Vitebsk where a green-colored man faces a goat

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) Mlada: Slavic-themed opera where the Astrologer commands the title animal to kill the husband of the Queen of Shemakha

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) Dance of the Tumblers: tells how Mizgir's love causes the Snow Maiden to melt

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) Festival at Baghdad

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship"

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) Inspired by Arabian Nights

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) The Golden Cockerel: contains opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, which includes The Flight of the Bumblebee

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Fourteen paintings in this man's signature style adorn the walls of his namesake chapel in Houston, Texas.

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Earlier "multiforms" such as Blue, Orange, Red, featured vibrant colors.

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Later, darker works in that style seem to parallel his own life.

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Seagram Murals

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Broke his contract because he was unhappy with the dining atmosphere in the Four Seasons

Mark Rothko (Russian-Jewish) Pioneer of color field painting

Mary Cassatt (American-Impressionist) Drypoints depict a woman adjusting her hair at a mirror that was inspired by Kitagawa Utamaro

Mary Cassatt (American-Impressionist) One depicting a blue-dressed woman licking an envelope

Mary Cassatt (American-Impressionist) A sleeping dog and a young girl rest on two turquoise armchairs that extend toward the viewer in The Letter

Mary Cassatt (American-Impressionist) A woman holds a pink dress-wearing baby as a man rows a yellow boat in one painting by this artist, The Boating Party

Mary Cassatt (American-Impressionist) Another depicts a woman wearing stripes washing the title figure's feet in The Child's Bath

Andrew Wyeth (American) Christina's World

Andrew Wyeth (American) Snow Hill

Sibelius Finlandia

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) Leonard Bernstein called this composer's ninth symphony the "anti-Ninth" due to its humor compared to most other ninth symphonies

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) Six movements of this composer's last string quartet are all played adagio.

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) Controversy exists over the authenticity of his "memoirs" as related by Solomon Volkov in the book Testimony

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) Represented himself in his eighth string quartet using the notes D - E-flat - C - B

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) His Symphony No. 13 is a setting of a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) Wrote fifteen string quartets as well as fifteen symphonies, the seventh of which uses an ostinato which may represent Hitler's invasion

Dmitri Shostakovich (Soviet/Russian) "Leningrad" and "Babi Yar" Symphonies.

Albrecht Durer (German) A smoky character extends his hand while St. John literally eats a book, in his Apocalypse woodcuts

Albrecht Durer (German) Depicted a noseless, lipless character in a scene in which a dog runs between two horses

Albrecht Durer (German) A pronged staff with a goat's head appears in a painting by him which also portrays a character holding an hourglass on a pale horse

Albrecht Durer (German) Portrayed a woman with wings sitting next to a 4-by-4 magic square

Albrecht Durer (German) Noted Woodcut Artist

Albrecht Durer (German) Melancholia I (one) and Knight, Death, and the Devil.

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) A book by Metius is open on a table and the subject touches a globe

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Anton van Leeuwenhoek posed for this painter's Astronomer and Geographer.

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) A foot warmer sits behind the title figure of another painting by this artist as she pours white liquid

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) A two-hundred million-dollar painting by this artist titled The Concert was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Another work by this man depicts a viola da gamba lying on black and white marble as a woman plays a keyboard.

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Mixed sand into paint to depict red-roofed houses behind a city gate in a work in which a technique similar to pointillism is used to depict fishing boats anchored in a harbor

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Depicted a woman in a blue turban looking at the viewer in another painting

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) One painting by this artist features a chandelier with a double-headed eagle above a painting of the Seventeen Provinces and depicts a man painting a woman in blue holding a book and a trumpet

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Another work by this artist shows a girl seated at a virginal while a viol lays on a blue-and-white checkered floor; The Art of Painting

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) Painted dark clouds over the Schie Canal in a painting of his hometown, Delft.

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) The Music Lesson

Jan/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist) Painted several portraits for the Jewish d'Anvers family, including one of their daughters Alice and Elisabeth, Pink and Blue

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist) Aline Charigot modeled for a woman who holds a dog on the left side of a painting by this artist, where she sits across from a man modeled by this artist's friend Gustave Caillebotte

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist) A man stands under a striped pink awning in a painting by this artist in which people gather around a table filled with wine bottles

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist) Luncheon of the Boating Party

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) Wife of Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) An angel at the top of one of this artist's works was removed by Isamu Noguchi at the request of Clare Boothe Luce.

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) A seashell full of bullet holes appears next to a yellow dress in a painting by this artist which depicts a skyscraper emerging out of a volcano

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) This artist, who depicted the death of American socialite Dorothy Hale, depicted their own legs in a bathtub in their painting What the Water Gave Me

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) This artist painted a self-portrait where a bus accident is symbolized in the title Broken Column

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) Another self-portrait with a thorn necklace and a hummingbird.

Frida Kahlo (Mexican) Known for her unibrow

Bela Bartok (Hungarian) Has a third movement "Elegia" that uses his dissonant "night music".

Bela Bartok (Hungarian) Arranged 153 piano etudes of increasing difficulty into his Mikrokosmos

Bela Bartok (Hungarian) This composer collaborated with Zoltan Kodaly to compile folk music from their native country

Bela Bartok (Hungarian) The "Game of Pairs" is the second movement of his Concerto for Orchestra.

Bela Bartok (Hungarian) Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian) Depicted a banner reading "beauty adorns virtue" on the back of a portrait

Ralph Vaughan Williams His Seventh Symphony opens with a line from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

Thomas Cole (Hudson River School) Destruction/Desolation: logging scars form Hebrew letters translating to "Noah" and "the Almighty." That painting includes a self-portrait of this artist with an easel, in between two rocks. This artist depicted the sacking of a classical city, depicting the moonlit ruins of a Roman harbor and an ivy-overgrown pillar to center left; that painting is the last of several works depicting the rise and fall of civilization from pastoral beginnings

Thomas Cole (Hudson River School) This artist also depicted a series in which an angel leads a man in a boat from his youth to old age. This figure is depicted in Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits,

Thomas Cole (Hudson River School) The Course of Empire and The Voyage of Life

Thomas Cole (Hudson River School) The Ox-Bow: depicted a view from Mount Holyoke in which the left part of the canvas shows a thunderstorm, while the right side shows a sunny riverbend.

Banksy (United Kingdom) Withdrew an offer to give prints of his work to people who voted against the Conservative Party after learning that doing so was illegal.

Banksy (United Kingdom) This artist depicted a girl patting down a soldier in a painting at the "Walled Off Hotel" that he opened in the West Bank.

Banksy (United Kingdom) This creator of a fake amusement park called Dismaland put together footage taken by Mr. Brainwash for the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Banksy (United Kingdom) Images of a heart-shaped balloon flying away from a girl and of a rioter throwing a bouquet of flowers exemplify this artist's use of stencils in his large-scale murals

Banksy (United Kingdom) Known as an unknown/anonymous graffiti artist

Camille Saint-Saens (France) The Carnival of the Animals

Hans Zimmer (German American) A piece by this composer includes the slow melody (read slowly) "A E (pause) A E (pause) B E (pause) B E."

Hans Zimmer (German American) This composer included "Now We Are Free" in his score for the film Gladiator.

Hans Zimmer (German American) Slow half-steps punctuate "Dream Is Collapsing," a song composed by this composer; that song appears in his score to a movie which ends with the dramatic number "Time."

Hans Zimmer (German American) "Cooper and Murph pursue a drone to "Cornfield Chase," a song from one of this composer's many collaborations with Christopher Nolan

Hans Zimmer (German American) Wrote the scores for Inception and Interstellar

Niccolo Paganini (Italian) This composer inspired a Nathan Milstein piece titled after this composer and the suffix "-ana."

Niccolo Paganini (Italian) In a piece by a different composer, an Andante cantabile D-flat major movement contains an inversion of a theme from a piece by this composer.

Niccolo Paganini (Italian) A handbell used in this composer's second violin concerto inspired a "grand etude" titled "La campanella" by Franz Liszt.

Niccolo Paganini (Italian) Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote a rhapsody based on an A minor piece by this composer that is often played as a virtuosic violin showpiece

Niccolo Paganini (Italian) Violinist and composer of 24 famous caprices

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy This composer did not allow the publication of the score of his fifth symphony, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Lutheran Church.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy He wrote a work nicknamed "Kinderstuck" which was one of his Songs without Words.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy This composer of the Reformation symphony was inspired by his trip to Fingal's Cave to write the Hebrides Overture, and he composed the Scottish and Italian symphonies.