Quizbowl Art list

Statue of Liberty

(1886) Sculpture by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (sculptor); Gustave Eiffel (engineer)

Mona Lisa

(1500) Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Parthenon

(447 BC) Building by Ictinus and Callicrates; Pericles (patron)

Guernica

(1937) Painting by Pablo Picasso

Mount Rushmore

(1927-41) Sculpture by Gutzon Borglum

Sistine Chapel

(1473) Building by Giovanni de' Dolci; Pope Sixtus IV (patron)

Notre Dame Cathedral

(1160-1345) Building by Maurice de Sully (patron)

The Thinker

(1900) Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Nighthawks

(1942) Painting by Edward Hopper

Taj Mahal

(1632) Building by Ustad Ahmad Lahori; Shah Jahan (patron)

The Persistence of Memory

(1931) Painting by Salvador Dalí

American Gothic

(1930) Painting by Grant Wood

United States Capitol

(reconstructed 1815-1826) Building by William Thornton (original); Benjamin Latrobe; Charles Bulfinch; et al. (revisions)

The Night Watch

(1642) Painting by Rembrandt

Saint Paul’s Cathedral

(1708) Building by Christopher Wren

Lincoln Memorial

(1922) Building by Henry Bacon

Fallingwater

(1936) Building by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Last Supper

(1495-98) Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

The Gates of Hell

(1880) Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

The Birth of Venus

(1480) Painting by Sandro Botticelli

The School of Athens

(1509) Painting by Raphael

Las Meninas

(1656) Painting by Diego Velázquez

The Starry Night

(1889) Painting by Vincent van Gogh

David (Donatello)

(c. 1440) Sculpture by Donatello

St. Peter’s Basilica

(1626) Building by Donato Bramante (first architect); Pope Julius II (patron)

Bayeux Tapestry

(1080) Tapestry by Bishop Odo (patron)

The Third of May; 1808

(1814) Painting by Francisco Goya

Liberty Leading the People

(1830) Painting by Eugène Delacroix

Gateway Arch

(1965) Building by Eero Saarinen

Eiffel Tower

(1889) Building by Gustave Eiffel

Empire State Building

(1931) Building by (Firm of) Shreve; Lamb & Harmon

Hagia Sophia

(537) Building by Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles; Justinian the Great (patron)

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

(1886) Painting by Georges Seurat

The Arnolfini Wedding

(1434) Painting by Jan van Eyck

The Death of Marat

(1793) Painting by Jacques-Louis David

Water Lilies

(1899) Painting by Claude Monet

Pietà

(1499) Sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarotti

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

(c. 600 BC) Sculpture by Nebuchadnezzar II (patron)

Westminster Abbey

(1245) Building by Henry III of England (patron)

David (Michelangelo)

(1504) Sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarotti

Roman Pantheon

(c. 125) Building by Apollodorus of Damascus (traditionally); Hadrian (patron)

Arrangement in Gray and Black; No. 1: The Artist's Mother

(1871) Painting by James McNeill Whistler

World Trade Center

(begun 1966) Building by Minoru Yamasaki

Fountain

(1916) Sculpture by Marcel Duchamp

Uffizi Palace

(1560-81) Building by Giorgio Vasari; Cosimo I de' Medici (patron)

The Scream

(1893) Painting by Edvard Munch

Great Sphinx of Giza

(c. 2500 BC) Sculpture by Khafre (probable patron)

Angkor Wat

(12th century) Building by Suryavarman II (patron)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

(1959) Building by Frank Lloyd Wright

Olympia

(1863) Painting by Édouard Manet

Temple of Jerusalem

(10th century BC) Building by Solomon (patron)

Chrysler Building

(1930) Building by William Van Alen

Venus de Milo

(340 BC) Sculpture by Alexandros of Antioch; Praxiteles (former; mistaken attribution)

Monticello

(1768) Building by Thomas Jefferson

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

(1646) Sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini

The Kiss

(1886) Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Church of the Sagrada Familia

(begun 1882) Building by Antonio Gaudí

Last Judgment

(1534) Painting by Michelangelo Buonarotti

Luncheon on the Grass

(1863) Painting by Édouard Manet

Garden of Earthly Delights

(1500) Painting by Hieronymus Bosch

Palace of Versailles

(1669) Building by Louis Le Vau; Charles Le Brun; André Le Nôtre; et al.; Louis XIV of France (patron)

Great Pyramid of Giza

(c. 2570 BC) Building by Khufu (patron); Hemiunu (architect)

Bird in Space

(1919) Sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși

Gattamelata

(1445) Sculpture by Donatello

Venus of Urbino

(1538) Painting by Titian

Cathedral of Florence

(1420) Building by Filippo Brunelleschi

Colossus of Rhodes

(292 BC) Sculpture by Chares of Lindos

Washington Crossing the Delaware

(1851) Painting by Emanuel Leutze

Campbell's Soup Cans

(1962) Painting by Andy Warhol