Modern Life
This artist painted to stone breaking laborers on a heroic scale.
Who is Gustave Courbet?
This word means something that is both terrifying or awe-provoking and beautiful.
What is sublime?
This is the title of David's painting showing a group of brothers pledging to go to war.
What is The Oath of the Horatii?
This object is used to divert storms. The user stabs the sky with it and says a magical incantation.
What is the weather charm or "hos" from Micronesia?
This artist showed a bit of the Messiah complex in his self-portrait.
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
This artist depicted ballet dancers over and over.
Who is Degas?
This artist created a painting on the theme of a slave-owner throwing slaves overboard, with shackles on, to get insurance money.
Who is Joseph Mallord William Turner?
This is the name of the prominent Neoclassical sculptor who carved Cupid and Psyche.
Who is Antonio Canova?
On the islands of Melanesia, these freestanding instruments rank among the tallest in the world.
What is a slit gong or Atingting Kon?
This painting includes a reimagining of hell that is true horrifyingly unique.
What is Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch<
She painted horses and oxen with anatomical correctness, due in part to her visits to the slaughterhouse.
This artist painted the gruesome scene titled The Death of Sardanapalus.
Who is Eugène Delacroix?
This factory produced Jasperware designed after Greek vessels for middle- and upper-middle class families.
What is the Wedgewood factory?
An unfortunate group of people were left on this raft in the ocean after a tragic shipwreck.
What is the Raft of the Medusa?
If you were suffering from a skin disease, this altarpiece may have brought you comfort.
What is the Isenheim Altarpiece?
This artist captured the real effects of light during different times of day and different seasons.
Who is Claude Monet?
This photographer captured the mood of the last parting between Lancelot and Guinevere.
Who is Julia Margaret Cameron?
This artist abandoned the Classical Ideal of the High Renaissance in favor of something a bit bizarre, including a painting with a very long neck.
Who is Parmigianino?
This is the title of Turner's painting of stormy seas.
What is The Slave Ship?
This African people group celebrated kingship and had a golden throne believed to have been sent from heaven.
Who are the Asante?
This artist took one of the first photographs that included the depiction of a human being.
Who is Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre?
This artist showed an empowered Judith slaying Holofernes.
Who is Artemisia Gentileschi?
This building rejected the ornamentation of classical architecture in favor of the use of modular technology.
What is the Crystal Palace?
In the Western Arnhem Land in Australia, these spirits are believed to have taught its inhabitants how to paint.
What are Mimi Spirits?
Her self-portrait is the first female artist self-portrait.
Who is Catharina van Hemessen?