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The famous artist responsible for the Mona Lisa.

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

100

The most basic element of art. 

What is a line?

100

Types of exterior arches used on buildings to help brace a building.

What is a flying buttress?

100

An extremely famous set of rocks found on the Salisbury Plain in England. 

What is Stonehenge?

100

An extremely famous Dutch painter who used contrasting color and direct application of paint in his works such as Night Cafe.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

200

The creator of the sculpture David.

Who is Michelangelo?

200

The two types of analysis for artworks.

What are contextual and formal analysis?

200

A type of interior arches that typically forms a tunnel in Romanesque churches.

What is a barrel vault?

200

An ancient circular building in Rome, that was often used for entertainment purposes.

What is the Colosseum?

200

Ancient historian who analyzed art in his work: Natural History. 

Who is Pliny the Elder?

300

Creator of the Bronze Statue David.

Who is Donatello?

300

Two terms that describe the two-dimensional area of an art piece or the three-dimenional area of an art piece. 

What are shape and form?

300

A building that resembles a stepped pyramid.

What is a ziggarat?

300

Another ancient building in Rome used for worship.

What is the Pantheon?

300

An author and artist who created the compilation of biographies for artists: The Lives of the Artists. (He is also an Italian)

Who is Giorgio Vasari?

400

The artist behind The Birth of Venus.

Who is Botticelli?

400

The usage of mellowed colors and blurred outline.

What is sfumato?

400
An invention by Roman builders that revolutionized architecture and allowed large stone walls and roads.

What is concrete?

400

A cave in Southeastern France that features some of the oldest known art in the world. 

What is Chauvet Cave?

400

A German Scholar whose Enlightenment philosophy strongly influenced art in the 1700s. 

Who is Johann Joachim Winckelmann?

500

The Pope that commissioned Michelangelo to work on his tomb.  

Who is Pope Julius II?

500

The consideration of a viewers access to a work, it's original context, the cost, and so on. 

What is patronage?

500

The culture that popularized using mosaics, and what are they made out of? 

What is Byzantine and stained glass?

500

A famous French Gothic cathedral built in 1145.

What is the Chartres Cathedral?

500

A Dutch artist who created some of the most well known Baroque works.

Who is Rembrandt van Rijn?