RESIDENCES
DAILY DOUBLE
One of its owners bore the cognomen "Conviva", "dinner guest", which is appropriate since this house has a triclinium, decorated with 4th Style wall paintings and located in Pompeii.
It denotes art in poor taste, often the product of industrial manufacturing and shallow sentimentality. It’s a major topic of Jeff Koons’ Banality series.
KITSCH
The artist of this work chose its title because "it refers to when you are recognized as somebody that is different." Was she on crack?
SHIBBOLETH
He wears a torque and a curved war-trumpet surrounds him as he collapses on the ground.
The DYING GAUL
This saint is depicted pointing to Jesus in the Isenheim Altarpiece, and saying, ”He must increase, I must decrease.”
JOHN THE BAPTIST (or “the Baptizer”)
The biggest influence on Thomas Jefferson’s architectural style was this ancient Roman building, on which the Jefferson memorial is patterned.
The PANTHEON
Also located in Pompeii is this other house, named for a famous statue of a dancing figure found it it. It is also famous for having the Alexander Mosaic in its entryway.
House of the FAUN
It's the framework of hierarchical race-based classes in the Spanish Empire, resulting from Spaniards intermarrying with indigenous Americans and Africans, thus producing mestizos, mulattos, and so forth.
CASTA
The word "ornithology" and the name "Pree" on Basquiat's Horn Players triptych are references to this Jazz saxophonist.
Charlie "Bird" PARKER
A fierce Ottaman calvaryman rounds up slaves after the Turks slaughtered 20,000 Greeks in The Massacre at Chios by this French Romantic painter.
Eugene DELACROIX
The upraised hand of the Buddha making the Abhaya Mudra means this.
DON'T BE AFRAID
The Hellenistic statue known as the Borghese Warrior was the source for the pose of the title character being attacked by a predatory fish in this painting by John Singleton Copley.
WATSON and the SHARK
This house has flat, fake Doric columns and an arch that is useless except as a bird blind. It was designed by Robert Venturi.
House in NEWCASTLE COUNTY, Delaware
The first half of this term means "subdued, austere beauty" while the second half means "rustic patina." The concept denotes the acceptance of transience and imperfection in Japanese architecture and art.
The falcons on the Pyxis of Al-Mughira are dynastic symbols of this Muslim Caliphate.
UMAYYAD
He holds in his hand the note which Charlotte Corday had presented to gain admission to his study, where he was soaking in a bath, just as Jacques Louis David has painted him.
MARAT
Her crossed hands over her chest indicate her acceptance of Gabriel’s message in Fra Angelico’s most famous painting.
The VIRGIN MARY
The Laocoon group was a major influence on this painting by Titian, which includes a figure wrestling with snakes.
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE
His own personal residences included an apartment in Paris and the Villa Le Lac in Switzerland, but he also designed the Weissenhof-Siedlung houses in Stuttgart.
Le CORBUSIER
It denotes the depiction of wrinkles and ugliness as marks of age and venerable experience in Roman portrait sculpture.
VERISM
Checkerboard patterned squares on the T'oqapu Tunic denote this concept.
INCA MILITARY AUTHORITY
DAILY DOUBLE
He’s spouting quite a lot of blood out of his neck in the version by Artemisia Gentileschi, but he’s not as old and ugly as the mask in Untitled #223 by Cindy Sherman.
He doesn’t even look at the executioner handing him a cup, but points a finger in the air as he continuing arguing right up to his death in a painting by Jacques Louis David.
SOCRATES
Michelangelo’s figure of Joel served as the reference that this 20th century American artist used for his figure of Rosie the Riveter eating a sandwich.
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Located in Spring Green, Wisconsin, it is an exemplar of the Prairie Style of architecture developed by its owner and occupant, Frank Lloyd Wright, and is named after a Welsh bard.
TALIESIN
This Chinese concept denotes "inaction" or "lack of exertion" as the ideal behavior of a ruler; it is seen in the Longmen Caves' depiction of the Vairocana Buddha as a symbol of the reign of the Empress Wu Zetian.
WU-WEI
The sugar cane in Wilfredo Lam's The Jungle is a symbol of the exploitation of Cuba by this country.
The UNITED STATES
Impalement, severed limbs, and jabbing with bayonets are some of the ways Spaniards are shown being killed in this series of mezzotints by Goya.
The DISASTERS OF WAR
Elon Musk clearly wanted to go fight the Sabines, right?
OATH OF THE HORATII
This impressionist painted in the style of imported Ukiyo-E prints from Japan, including her depictions of women dressing or bathing.
Mary CASSATT