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100
The artist of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was born in this town.
What is Vinci?
100
Roy Lichtenstein, Judy Chicago, Ansel Adams, Mary Cassatt.
What is the United States?
100
This famous painting by Edward Hopper shows the loneliness of urban America in the 1930s.
What is Nighthawks?
100
Home to many well-known classical buildings, this city is the capital of Greece.
What is Athens?
200
The architect of "Fallingwater."
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
200
The Pergamon Altarpiece is displayed in this museum in Berlin, Germany, built specially to display it.
What is the Pergamon Museum?
200
Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe Morisot.
What is France?
200
More famous for her large canvases of flowers that evoke female anatomy, this New Mexico artist's "Cow Skull with Calico Roses" is featured at the Art Institute.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
200
This post-World War II American art movement was led by painters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
300
The artist of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
This New York City museum, founded by Solomon R. Guggenheim, was originally called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.
What is the Guggenheim Museum?
300
Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Vito Acconci.
What is Italy?
300
One of the largest and most beloved paintings in the collection, "Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by this Postimpressionist artist shows people relaxing on an island outside Paris.
Who is Georges Seurat?
300
The semicircular recess at the end of a church opposite the entry.
What is apse?
400
The sculptor of "The Thinker."
Who is Auguste Rodin?
400
This art movement was named after Claude Monet's painting "Impression: Sunrise."
What is Impressionism?
400
Katsushika Hokusai, Yasumasa Morimura, Hiroshige, Yoko Ono.
What is Japan?
400
The Art Institute proudly features an over-life-sized "Assumption of the Virgin" by this Baroque painter whose name means "The Greek."
Who is El Greco?
400
This style of art, created during the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaton, showed greater naturalism than traditional ancient Egyptian styles.
What is Amarna art?
500
The architect of the stepped pyramid of Djoser.
Who is Imhotep?
500
In the movie "Frida," Salma Hayek played this Mexican painter.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500
Joseph Beuys, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, Anselm Kiefer.
What is Germany?
500
Based on a famous novel by Oscar Wilde, this life-sized portrait by Ivan Albright was used for a Hollywood movie of the same title in the 1940s.
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
500
The designs on Corinthian style columns are stylized representations of this leaf.
What is acanthus?
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