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Poker Face
100
It’s the name of the king pictured below.
Who is Louis XIV?
100
It’s the type of architecture found in Notre Dame Cathedral, characterized by the style below:
What is Gothic architecture?
100
He’s the artist responsible for the ethereal attendant angel to the left of Christ in this painting, The Baptism of Christ By Verrocchio‘s workshop.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
It’s the enormous statue believed to be a commemoration of a naval victory. Also a famous sneaker.
Who is Nike of Samothrace?
100
It’s the method used to create the paintings in the Sistine Chapel.
What is Buon Fresco?
100
This famous poet’s midlife journey into a dark wood inspired many artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
200
Jan Bruegel imbedded the crest of this royal family in the biblical scene “The Census at Bethlehem.”
What is the Habsburg double eagle?
200
It’s the building with the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world. It’s an engineering marvel, surviving close to 2 millennia.
What is the Pantheon?
200
The artist responsible for this Neoplatonic wedding gift, Primavera:
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
200
These are the three traditional orders of columns found in ancient Greek architecture.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
200
The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture set up this ordered hierarchy of importance in artworks, perhaps in part to reinforce state propaganda.
What are
1) History Painting
2) Portraiture
3) Genre Painting
4) Landscape
5) and the lowly Still Life?
200
Kate accused Joey of being this artist’s doppelgänger.
Who is Raphael?
300
The name of the emperor responsible for the arch below, which depicts the spoils from the destruction of Jerusalem in one of its friezes.
Who is Titus?
300
This famous, ornate hall associated Louis XIV with Apollo, and allowed the king to reflect upon his godlike appearance everyday.
What is the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
300
The dutch artist who painted these genre scenes died in poverty, but his rare artworks are worth millions nowadays.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
300
Paolo Veronese painted this immense scene for a monastery in Venice, but it was nabbed by Napoleon and brought to France. Ironically, it is overshadowed by little Mona everyday.
What is The Marriage Feast at Cana?
300
This bold, opulent, dramatic, and ornate style of art dominated the 17th and 18th centuries. (The style arose from the Counter Reformation’s rules for artworks —as defined by the Council of Trent.)
What is Baroque art?
300
It’s the name of this famously spurned woman painted by Hans Holbein.
Who is Anne of Cleves?
400
The ”Frieze of the Archers,” now located in the Louvre, once adorned the palace at Susa— to welcome (and intimidate) visitors to this ancient Empire.
What is the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire?
400
It’s the real name for the building below, popularly known as the Colosseum.
What is the Flavian Amphitheater?
400
He’s the artist who created the painting The Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin depicted below:
Who is Jan Van Eyck?
400
This famous sculpture created later in Donatello’s life is found in the Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo.
What is The Penitent Magdalene?
400
Judith and Her Maidservant painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1625, follows this dark and dramatic style created by Carravaggio.
What is Tenebrism?
400
It’s the thuggish artist pictured below. His reputation almost destroyed his legacy. 
Who is Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio?
500
He is the pope who commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling —and an arch nemesis of Michelangelo.
Who is Pope Julius II?
500
In addition to his many other accomplishments, he is the artist who designed St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
Who was Michelangelo?
500
He’s the artist who painted the final judgment fresco inside of the Duomo ceiling, carved Michelangelo‘s tomb, and wrote the “Lives of the Artists” (which captures a colorful history of Renaissance artists).
Who was Giorgio Vasari?
500
These are the paintings, with their corresponding temperaments, painted by Arcimboldo for the Habsburg court.
What are:
Spring—Sanguine,
Summer—Choleric,
Autumn—Melancholic,
and Winter—Phlegmatic?
500
This movement is considered the lighter side of Baroque art. With its pastels and big hair, it sounds a little like the late 80’s, the 1780’s that is. Watteau’s Embarkation from the Isle of Cythera captures its aristocratic frolics.
What is Rococo?
500
Across from the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, this goldsmith-architect gazes up at his crowning achievement: the largest freestanding masonry dome in the world.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
