Photography
In 1839, a Frenchman invented this method of photography, which reduced exposure time, but produced only a single image.
DAGUERROTYPE
Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian were the leaders of this Dutch movement of architecture and painting that uses solid blocks of primary color.
DE STIJLE
Inspired by Amida Buddha depictions, this glass-mounted photo by Mariko Mori casts the artist herself as a Bodhisattva, accompanied by pastel-colored aliens who play musical instruments.
PURE LAND
It sits on the Haram al-Sharif, the highest point of Jerusalem, and is decorated with Faience tile on its 8 sides. Name this mosque whose golden dome is higher than the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
DOME OF THE ROCK
The Bacchanal of the Andrians, the Venus of Urbino, and Bacchus and Ariadne.
TITIAN
Leonardo Da Vinci drew 270 diagrams of this optical device in his notebooks, which produces an inverted image on a dark room’s wall opposite a pinhole of fixed aperture.
CAMERA OBSCURA.
Walter Gropius was the founder of this Weimar, Germany movement in architecture that uglified architecture by making it mass-producible.
BAUHAUS
A woman in a hoop skirt attacks a baby with a plunger; a body flies into the air; a man with one leg cut off is somehow still walking. All are black silhouettes. Name this work about racism by Kara Walker.
DARKYTOWN REBELLION
“Except for thy threshold, there is no refuge for me in all the world. Except for this door there is no resting-place for my head. The work of the slave of the portal, Maqsud Kashani.” It was made for a shrine to Safi Al-Din, and has 340 knots per square inch.
ARDABIL CARPET
The Castelfranco Madonna, the Pastoral Concert, and The Tempest.
GIORGIONE
She photographed the great depression, including the haunting image of a “Migrant Mother” worried about how she would feed her children.
Dorothea LANGE
The Seagram Building in NY and Lafayette Park in Chicago are examples of this man’s glass-sided square towers.
Ludwig MIES VAN DER ROHE
Little Red Riding Hood and Sainte Genevieve are possible inspirations for this deeply disturbing feminist drawing of a naked woman snuggling with a canine predator, by Kiki Smith.
LYING WITH THE WOLF
Its Qibla is flanked by two minarets, and decorated with blue tile and gold-colored concave muqarnas. Name this mosque with four iwans located in central Iran.
Great Mosque of ISFAHAN
The Fiesole Altarpiece, the San Marco Altarpiece, and the Annunciation of Cortona.
FRA ANGELICO
He settled the question of whether a galloping horse ever has all 4 legs off the ground.
Eadweard MUYBRIDGE
One of the fathers of the International Style, he’s known for use of piloti and floating windows as in the Carlos de Bestegui Penthouse and the Villa Savoye.
LE CORBUSIER
“We should all see the world from the perspective of the victim, like Jewish people that were killed with their head down in the Middle Ages.” This line from Theodor Adorno is Doris Salcedo’s explanation for why she makes you look into a crack in the floor of the Tate Modern.
SHIBBOLETH
A three-headed kneeling figure of gold supports his footstool. Cherubs write calligraphy on an hourglass. King James I looks bored and uncouth, and the Ottoman sultan wears a huge white turban. Everyone is paying court to this fourth Mughal Emperor in a miniature by Bichitr.
JAHANGIR
The Fire in the Borgo, Mount Parnassus, and the Triumph of Galatea.
RAPHAEL
Daumier drew a caricature of this man taking photographs from the basket of a hot air balloon and thereby “elevating Photography to Art.”
NEDAR
This style was an attempt by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan to make a distinctly American architecture, as in Fallingwater.
PRAIRIE STYLE
Tahereh Saffarzadeh’s poem “Allegiance with Wakefulness” written in calligraphic Farsi overlays a woman holding a rifle in front of her face in this photo by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat.
REBELLIOUS SILENCE
Located in Edirne, Turkey, in Europe near the border of Bulgaria, it has squinches with muqarnas that support a floating dome bigger than that of the Hagia Sophia.
MOSQUE OF SELIM II
The Doni Tondo, the Battle of Cascina, and the Crufixion of St. Peter.
MICHELANGELO