This Chinese sage is credited with the creation of Daoism
Laozi
This lightweight material fills the topmost of the Pantheon's dome
pumice
For Fredrick Douglass, photography represented this ideal
impartiality
This decade marked Parisian color merchants switching to dyes made of mechanically ground pigments
1830s (1836)
This deity was the supreme celestial deity over the Roman peoples
This Roman emperor commissioned the construction of the Pantheon
Hadrian
According to De deversis artibus, these three specific materials were needed to create stained glass
silica, potash, and lime
Prussian blue evoked this mood in Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
Serenity
During this period of Chinese history, the underglaze method of painting was created
Yuan dynasty
Beyond the ring of angels in the rose window of the Cartres Cathedral are these Catholic characters
24 Elders of the Apocalypse
This artist penned Introduction to the Three Arts of Design
Giorgio Vasari
This type of clay was used for extremely white porcelain in China
kaolin clay
The spherical design of the rose window at Chartres Cathedral evokes the image of this tool
Spinning wheel
The Chartres Cathedral took this long to build
70 years
This god presides over the kingdom of the afterlife in ancient Egyptian mythology
Osiris
This painter utilized Prussian blue in his work Girl with Kitten
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
This is the chemical name of what is commonly known as Prussian Blue
Iron Ferrocyanide
The fluidity of the movement of the Dragon on Jar with Dragon evokes this concept
power
This year marked the beginning of the conquest of Egypt by Rome
30 BCE
The Virgin Mary was the primary figure painted with this particular dye, before other shades became more available
Ultramarine
This amateur English scientist died before he could witness the first permanent image written with light
Thomas Wedgewood
Nicephore Niepce used this type of plate, coated with Bitumen of Judea, to copy an engraving
pewter
This element of Portrait of a Youth symbolizes coming of age
Mustache
This photographic process was invented six years after our photo of Frederick Douglass was taken
wet-plate process
This common element in Precisionist photography pointed may have contemplation similar to that of religious works
smokestacks