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The woodblock print that was influenced, in part, by anxieties about invasion from the seas.
What is Katsushika Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Edo period, c. 1830–32.
The first the first colossal nude sculpture since antiquity.
What is Michelangelo's David?
The artist that depicted a slave ship after the ship owner forced his sick and dying slaves overboard.
Who is J.M.W. Turner?
This artist showed a modern day picnic, but with two nude women.
Who is Manet?
His self-portrait may reveal a bit of a messiah-complex.
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
The carved Melanesian male figure assisted its male owner with help with hunting and warfare.
What is an aripa?
The artwork that contains nine scenes from the Book of Genesis flanked by seven Old Testament prophets and five ancient female sibyls.
What is the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?
The artist whose Judith Slaying Holofernes depicts an empowered woman.
Who is Artemisia Gentileschi?
The artist who portrayed a woman actively looking at the crowd at the opera house.
Who is Mary Cassatt?
His Haystack series showed the changing effects of light on color.
Who is Claude Monet?
The court that adopted porcelain for royal and official purposes.
What is the Joseon court?
This altarpiece is one of the most original and confounding altarpieces of all time.
What is Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights?
His self-portrait is shown on Goliath's slain head.
Who is Caravaggio?
His oversize painting of laborers was controversial.
Who is Gustave Courbet?
His patriotic scene may have been a call to arms as the French Revolution was approaching.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
The subject matter of Michael Tjakamarra Nelson and Marjorie Napaljarri's desert acrylic painting from 1984.
What is the Dreaming?
The altarpiece that shows Christ on the cross covered in skin sores.
What is the Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece?
This painting shows the dramatic moment right before an execution.
What is Francisco de Goya's The Third of May, 1808?
The photographer who showed the aftermath of Civil War battles, sometimes manipulating the photographs to make them more disturbing.
Who is Timothy H. O’Sullivan?
The artist who was hired as the painting instructor for fourteen-year-old Queen Elizabeth of Spain
Who was Sofonisba Anguissola?
The type of sculptured object carved by the Asmat people of New Guinea for funerary ceremonies that send the spirits of recently deceased people onward to the land of the ancestors.
What is a Bis pole?
Da Vinci painted the angel in the workshop of this artist.
Who is Andrea del Verrocchio?
The photographer who purposefully blurred her photographs to express emotion.
Who is Julia Margaret Cameron?
The artist who depicted the raft that carried 150 passengers after a shipwreck; only 15 survived.
Who is Théodore Géricault,?
The region within Oceania where the ahu ‘ula were made.
Where is Polynesia/Hawaii?