ARCHITECTURE
Sir Christopher Wren designed more than 50 churches to replace those that were destroyed in this 1666 disaster.
The GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
This was Rubens' nationality, referring to the portion of the Netherlands around Antwerp that remained Roman Catholic during the wars of religion and includes modern Belgium.
FLANDERS
In most of Vermeer's paintings, this is the source of light.
Rembrandt moved to this city in 1631, and lived in it until the end of his life.
AMSTERDAM
It’s located in the Cornaro chapel and uses stucco, opera boxes, and a hidden window to depict a vision by a Spanish mystic nun.
Bernini’s ECSTASY OF ST THERESA
Englishmen on the Grand Tour might bring home a painting of the Grand Canal, the Doge's Palace, or St. Mark's Cathedral from this Italian city on the sea.
VENICE
It depicts a woman being pushed by a bishop while a tiny white doggo sounds the alarm and her lover looks up her skirts.
These creatures are often seen puffing upward through the air in Watteau's and Boucher's paintings.
PUTTI or CHERUBS
The Latin inscription across the front says, "In honor of the most holy Trinity and St. Charles, 1667" — the Charles in question being Charles Borromeo.
SAN CARLO ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE
Rubens painted these animals fiercely munching on some hunters, and sweetly dozing around the prophet Daniel.
LIONS
Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window has been restored, revealing a huge painting of this Roman god on the wall behind the girl.
CUPID
The Jewish Bride and The Return of the Prodigal Son both use this body part to depict affection and tenderness.
HANDS
This spiraling sculpture is exhibit A for figura serpentina, as one male figure crouches below another who is holding up a woman. It’s by Giambologna.
The RAPE OF THE SABINE woman
It's the term for an architectural fantasy that deviates from reality in its location or buildings, such as Canaletto's painting of San Marco.
CAPRICCIO
This painter was married to the cousin of his first wife, who was 37 years younger than he was.
Peter Paul RUBENS
This object is flying through the air in Fragonard's The Swing.
a SHOE
It's the second-largest church in Britain, and had been heavily redesigned by Inigo Jones before being totally rebuilt in Baroque style by Wren.
ST. PAUL'S Cathedral
A bust of Henry IV lies on the ground. Apollo plays the cello. Mercury soars overhead. The three nude graces watch from the right. And Athena watches as a tiny princess writes in a book.
The EDUCATION OF MARIE DE' MEDICI
Like Canaletto, Vermeer probably used this optical device for accurately tracing from life.
CAMERA LUCIDA
A chicken hangs from the belt of a woman in the midground of this painting, possibly symbolizing the name of the commander of a military company.
The NIGHT WATCH
Michelangelo’s pioneering statues for the Mannerist period were decorations for the tombs for these two members of the Medici family.
GIULIANO and LORENZO
The Parthenon placed at a non-existent harbor, or some girls pestering a praying monk inside a huge vaulted basilica are some of the vedute paintings by this Frenchman.
Hubert ROBERT
Marie Louise O’Murphy was depicted lying on her stomach in a private boudoire painting by this French painter, which earned her a date with Louis XV.
BOUCHER
Watteau painted multiple scenes of couples in love making a pilgrimage to this sacred island of Venus.
CYTHERA
These are the three shapes that form the tesselation of the dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
CROSSES, HEXAGONS, and OCTAGONS
This blonde second wife of Rubens was painted by him as Venus, Bathsheba, and nude in a fur wrap.
HELENA FOURMENT
DAILY DOUBLE!
The Astronomer and the Geographer depict this scientist and inventor of the microscope, who served as executor of Vermeer’s will.
Rembrandt consulted his friend, the Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel, for the Hebrew writing shown in this painting.
BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST
This green bronze statue in the Piazza della Signoria’s Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence shows blood and gore pouring out of both ends of a severed neck. It’s by Cellini.
PERSEUS WITH THE HEAD OF MEDUSA
This Italian painter produced wimmelbilder of the inside of imaginary art galleries, in which he placed paintings of vedute paintings and famous statues, as in his Views of Ancient Rome and Views of Modern Rome.
Giovanni Paolo PANINI
Vermeer's The Milkmaid might make your pulse race when you notice this object, designed to hold coals and emit heat under your skirt.
a FOOTWARMER
She was the ”Maitresse en Titre” or official mistress of Louis XV.
Madame de POMPADOUR
DAILY DOUBLE!
He was appointed Architect of St. Peter's in 1629, and designed the semi-circular colonnades that frame St. Peter's Square; he also designed the fountain for the Piazzo Navona.
This triptych is a winged altarpiece for the church of St. Walburga, and it dominated by the slanting diagonal line of Jesus being hosted upward by straining men.
The ELEVATION OF THE CROSS
Other with The Little Street, the only confirmed landscape painting by Vermeer is this one, which depicts a Dutch city famous for its blue and white pottery.
(View of) DELFT
This is the name of Rembrandt’s wife, whom he depicted with himself in an etching.
SASKIA
This was the last, unfinished sculpture of Michelangelo’s career.
The RONDANINI PIETA
This American writer undertook a "grand tour" of Europe which he turned into his satirical novel The Innocents Abroad.
MARK TWAIN
In paintings by Hogarth, a black spot on the neck is a sure sign of this disease.
SYPHILIS
Mistresses for the king were housed in this area of the grounds of the Palace of Versailles.
PARC-AUX-CERFS or the STAG PARK