Art Flashcards

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The central figure in a biblical Rubens painting is Salome, who is presenting the head of John the Baptist to this biblical king

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Herod

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| A rich auburn is named for this Venetian artist, who favored that hair color in his paintings

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Titian

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew displays a painting on the monitor.</a>) This artist cleverly included a glimpse of his painting “The Dance” as part of a 1909 <a>still life</a>

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Matisse

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s the nickname of painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, acquired when he lived in Italy

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El Greco

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The clouds undulate in van Gogh’s <a>painting</a> called “A Wheat Field with” <a>these</a> trees

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cypresses

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| It can mean the closely woven durable cloth on which oil paintings are made or refer to the painting itself

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a canvas

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In Britain the last name of this British painter (1776-1837) means “police officer”

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(John) Constable

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Her dominant motifs, the animal bones & landscape of the Southwest, are seen <a>here</a>

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This Belgian artist’s painting “Threatening Weather” includes a cloud shaped like a tuba

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Rene Magritte

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| The name of this heavily decorated & frothy 18th century style was coined by Maurice Quai as a term of ridicule

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rococo

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Giotto’s realistic technique revolutionized painting & was a strong influence on this art era of the 1400s

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the Renaissance

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| One exhibit at this country’s 1982 Sydney biennial was the creation of the largest indoor sand painting

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Australia

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Hard to tell, but Frans Hals is said to have used 27 different shades of this–look at the garb of “Adriaen Van Ostade”

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black

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| “Revelations “, an exhibit of her photos of ’50s & ’60s weirdos, has been seen in San Francisco, L.A. & New York

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(Diane) Arbus

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The first <a>civic sculpture</a> financed by federal & private funds was by this artist (notice it’s not hanging)

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(Alexander) Calder

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In the 1300s Italy gave birth to this art movement that would eventually sweep across Europe

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the Renaissance

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Seen in the painting <a>here</a>, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow

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van Gogh

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$4000 ||| Category: ART ||| This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like “Cathedral”

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Jackson Pollock

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a landscape on the monitor.</a>) To show distance, the artist creates a place on the horizon where two parallel lines seem to <a>converge</a>, referred to by this 2-word term

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the vanishing point

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1865 he shocked Paris with “Olympia”, his painting of a reclining nude

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Édouard Manet

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Romantic painters liked nighttime, as in Friedrich’s 1822 canvas showing this rising over the sea

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the Moon

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| The Byzantines kept busy making these, in which small pieces form big pictures on floors, walls & ceilings

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mosaics

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| This British artist, known for a famous “Boy”, gave us the girl seen <a>here</a>

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Gainsborough

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| A woodcut is this raised type of printing, also a kind of map

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a relief

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Otto Van Veen–<a>here</a>’s his “Lamentation”–taught this greatest northern Baroque painter–<a>here</a>’s his

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Rubens

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Manet didn’t exhibit with this group but his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot did

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the Impressionists

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Meyer portrayed the dignity of these people, from the French for “country”, as seen <a>here</a>

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peasants

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$3000 ||| Category: ART ||| Robert Motherwell painted over 100 versions of “Elegy to” this “Republic” that Picasso mourned too

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the Spanish Republic

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Bocklin’s <a>“Isle of the Dead”</a> exemplifies this “ism” that used external <a>objects</a> to represent ideas & emotions

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symbolism

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| A visit to the Alhambra led this 20th c. Dutch artist to optical oddities like water that flows up as well as down

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M.C. Escher

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| One of the few portraits of colonial craftsmen is Copley’s painting of this silversmith

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Paul Revere

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Andy Warhol made an 8-hour film of one facade of this New York City landmark

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the Empire State Building

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| They were first partnered in 1857; their sons carried on the print firm until 1907

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Currier & Ives

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$4000 ||| Category: ART ||| The book “Iowans of Impact” calls him “Anamosa’s famous artist”

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Grant Wood

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases

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Ming

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Dante Gabriel Rossetti wanted to take art back to “pre-“ this Renaissance master born in 1483

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Raphael

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| We’re not joshing–in 1769 this portrait painter got knighted

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(Joshua) Reynolds

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the works of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin

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Postimpressionist

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| “The Regatta at Argenteuil” shows this Frenchman’s love of water subjects, like lilies

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Monet

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them

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clowns

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as “The Mother of” this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden

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Rembrandt

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$4500 ||| Category: ART ||| 19th c. painter Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. on this river, whose “School” he helped found

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the Hudson River

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| A note formerly on the back of “Figure de fantasie” by this Rococo painter says it was done in one hour

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Fragonard

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Venetian, said his pupil Palma Giovane, “used his fingers more than his brush” to finish his lush works

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Titian

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Ceramics is the art of making objects, even dreidels, out of this material

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clay

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Someone tearing the L.A. Times into strips may be practicing this art form with a hyphenated French name

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papier-mâché

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The name of this type of paint that contains egg yolks almost sounds like a Japanese dish, but don’t eat it

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tempera

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This movement began in 1950s Britain, but it’s based on American mass media & advertising images

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Pop Art

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Around 1450, with big commissions drying up, sculptors turned to these head-&-shoulders portrait pieces

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busts

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Noun for a work in which ideas are personified, like the book “Pilgrim’s Progress” or <a>de Troy’s</a> <a>“Time Unveiling Truth”</a>

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allegory

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| This “Rake’s Progress” satirist was a British patriot, as seen in his 1748 work “O the Roast Beef of Old England”

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(William) Hogarth

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The puzzling, distorted <a>skull</a> in his 1533 portrait <a>“The Ambassadors”</a> may refer to his name, meaning “hollow bone”

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(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| <a>This</a> impressionist was as skilled at painting <a>people</a> as he was at painting fields & sunsets

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Renoir

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Life in the tenements of New York was a favorite subject of this Robert Henri “School”

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the Ashcan School

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| First name of the son <a>seen</a> <a>here</a> in a 1655 portrait by his father

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Titus

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Ususally an altarpiece, it’s a painting consisting of 3 separate panels

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a triptych

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| He advocated sfumato, a subtle blending of tones, saying light and shade should blend like smoke as seen <a>here</a>

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Da Vinci

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Andre Breton hailed this man’s art as “the most hallucinatory known until now”

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Dalí

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Aptly, Georgia O’Keeffe’s first one-woman show was at this man’s 291 Gallery

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Alfred Stieglitz

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Courbet was the leader of this movement; verism is an extreme form of it

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realism

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| As a youngster, Claude Monet did these exaggerated portraits popular with today’s street artists

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caricatures

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| “The Portrait of a Lady on a Balcony” done around 1504-14 & hanging in the Louvre is better known as this

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the “Mona Lisa”

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Van Eyck bros. weren’t the 1st to use these paints, though sometimes creditied with it; they date back much earlier

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oils

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Gustave Moreau was well known as a painter of this Biblical dancer

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Salome

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| As it’s what J.M.W. Turner did best, “Hannibal & His Army Crossing the Alps” is set during one of these

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a snowstorm

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In the cathedral at Chartres, most of this translucent artwork from the 13th century is still in place

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stained glass

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Joseph Stella is known for a series of paintings of this amusement park at the southern end of Long Island

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Coney Island

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam) Rembrandt used metal plates & this oak press to make copies of this type of artwork

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etchings

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| 19th century sculptor William Rush is famous for this pair of figures he did for a theater in Philadelphia

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Comedy & Tragedy

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Maurice Utrillo’s White Period featured streets of this Paris area, also home to Amelie & Toulouse-Lautrec

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Montmartre

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Legend says that ancient Greek Zeuxis painted a bunch of these so realistically, birds tried to eat them

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grapes

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1884 Rodin was commissioned to create a monument to “The Burghers of” this French seaport

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Calais

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| A seascape by this American artist is seen here

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Winslow Homer

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Disciple Paul Signac helped Georges Seurat develop this signature painting technique

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Pointilism

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Born in Greece, this 20th century Italian artist often painted hallucinatory images of empty towns

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Giorgio de Chirico

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1936 Time Magazine featured this mustachioed Surrealist on its cover

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Salvador Dali

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| In Masaccio’s “Expulsion from Paradise”, an archangel with a sword hovers over this pair

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Adam & Eve

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$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Nabis were painters in Paris who emulated the primitive style of this artist who left France for Tahiti in 1891

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Paul Gauguin

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$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| This artist born in 1471 probably learned everything from his father, a goldsmith, also named Albrecht

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Albrecht Durer

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Swedish-born artist is known for his giant versions of common objects, like burgers or ice cream cones

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Claes Oldenburg

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In his “Homage to Picasso”, Spanish artist Juan Gris tried his hand at this movement

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Cubism

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Batik is painting on cloth to which this substance has been applied

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Wax

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| A sculpture by Daniel Chester French can be seen if you look carefully on the back of this current U.S. bill

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$5 (Lincoln Memorial in the background)

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$1500 ||| Category: ART ||| They were first partnered in 1857 & their sons carried on the print firm until 1907

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Currier and Ives

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1766 Etienne-Maurice Falconet was called to Russia to make a huge equestrian sculpture of this man

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Peter the Great

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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| “100 Soup Cans”

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Andy Warhol

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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| “Guernica”

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Pablo Picasso

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| “Water Lilies”

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Claude Monet

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$None ||| Category: ART ||| This technique, from Latin for “to look through”, began in Western painting in works like the one seen here

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Perspective

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| This art practiced by William Blake precedes “Printing” in the name of a U.S. bureau

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Engraving

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| To film Jackson Pollock at work, you’d say, “Lights! Camera!” this type of painting

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Action

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| In the 1880s this artist with “noir” in his name broke with impressionism & began using more black

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Your initial impression might be that he was England’s greatest seascape painter

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J.M.W. Turner

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Last name of former husband & wife Walter & Margaret, known for painting large-eyed waifs

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Keane

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$None ||| Category: ART ||| The Italian name of this 15th century masterpiece is “L’Ultima Cena”

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"The Last Supper"

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| You can’t make a genuine tempera painting without breaking these

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eggs

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Surrealists used odd juxtapositions in this form whose name is French for “gluing”

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collage

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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Edward Steichen led the movement to recognize as art these images, whose name means “drawn with light”

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photographs

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$1800 ||| Category: ART ||| 17th century Flemish master known for painting women like the one seen <a>here</a>:

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Peter Paul Rubens

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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1920 this impressionist, known for his water lilies, painted another plant, “Wisteria”

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Claude Monet

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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In Hieronymus Bosch’s 3-panel “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, it’s the garden on the left

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Garden of Eden

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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This style of Picasso & Braque was broken into 2 phases, analytic & synthetic

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Cubism

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103
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| He poured & splattered paint onto the canvas to make his “Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950”

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Jackson Pollock

104
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Anthony Janson says only 2 Flemish Baroque artists achieved international status, Van Dyck & this man

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Peter Paul Rubens

105
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This “Younger” German’s 1540 portrait of England’s Henry VIII is in Rome’s Galleria Nazionale

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Hans Holbein

106
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$100 ||| Category: ART ||| The artists known as The Four Wangs rose to prominence under this country’s Ch’ing Dynasty

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China

107
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Delacroix’ dramatic historical painting of the “Massacre At Chios” is in this Paris museum

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The Louvre

108
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$300 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s the shape of a tondo, a type of painting popular in the 15th century

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Round

109
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Once a cubist, this Spaniard from Figueras turned to surrealism after going to Paris in 1928

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Salvador Dali

110
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$500 ||| Category: ART ||| This word that often precedes expressionism is derived from the Latin for “drawn off” or “drawn away”

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Abstract

111
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Sadly, the technique he invented to paint “The Last Supper” led to its rapid deterieration

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Leonardo da Vinci

112
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s the 4-syllable term for a satirical portrait that exaggerates or distorts a person’s features

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Caricature

113
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Gouache is a type of this painting technique; its name comes from guazzo, Italian for “puddle”

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Watercolor

114
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Now in the British Museum, the sculptures known as these marbles once adorned the Parthenon

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Elgin marbles

115
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This great French sculptor sculpted “The Kiss” in 1886

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Auguste Rodin

116
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The part of the Sistine Chapel on which Michelangelo painted Adam’s fall

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ceiling

117
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In this Italian’s “Virgin & Child with Saint Anne”, both women wear smiles rather like his Mona Lisa’s

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Leonardo da Vinci

118
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$300 ||| Category: ART ||| Dutch artist Anton Mauve was a relative & counselor of this “Sunflowers” painter

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Vincent Van Gogh

119
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Beds & couches are common props in the paintings of this psychoanalyst’s grandson Lucian

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Sigmund Freud

120
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In a 1996 movie Jeffrey Wright played this Haitian-American, a star of the 1980s art world

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

121
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| This beloved folk artist painted “Look, It’s A New Little Colt” in 1945, when she was in her ’80s

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Grandma Moses

122
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The title of Botticelli’s famous painting “Primavera” means this season of the year

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Spring

123
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Peter Blume’s 1930 painting “The Eternal City” depicts this fascist as a surreal green jack-in-the-box

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Benito Mussolini

124
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This Frenchman finished his paintings of “Poplars” before he began his “Water Lily” murals

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Claude Monet

125
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| From 1912 to 1933 this “Bird In Space” sculptor created a series of abstract busts of “Mademoiselle Pogany”

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Constantin Brancusi

126
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Grime darkened the daytime setting of this artist’s work, causing it to be misnamed “The Night Watch”

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Rembrandt

127
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| This Venetian master was born Tiziano Vecellio

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Titian

128
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This French impressionist’s 1893 “Trapeze Artist At The Medrano Circus” was painted on cardboard

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Toulouse Lautrec

129
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| While serving as art director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, he painted murals & designed sets

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Marc Chagall

130
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly

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Gothic

131
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The roots of this kind of “expressionism” are seen in the works of Wassily Kandinsky

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Abstract expressionism

132
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Fathers of this modern style include Claes Oldenburg, George Segal & Roy Lichtenstein

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Pop Art

133
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Cezanne said, “Treat nature in terms of the cylinder,” this shape & “the cone, all in perspective”

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Sphere

134
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This 20th century Spanish artist called his works “Hand-painted dream photographs”

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Salvador Dali

135
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Coptic art, which developed in this river valley, was inspired by the Hellenistic style of Alexandria

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Nile

136
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Encaustic painting, practiced by the ancient Greeks, uses this melted insect substance as a binder

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Wax

137
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| This muralist was only 10 when he began studying at Mexico City’s Academy of San Carlos

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Diego Rivera

138
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Giovanni Antonio Canal was the real name of this artist known for his paintings of Venice

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Canaletto

139
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| The Bronze Family Group sculpted by this Englishman in the 1940s is in the Museum of Modern Art

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Henry Moore

140
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$100 ||| Category: ART ||| Utrillo’s “White Period” lasted circa 1908-1914, longer than this artist’s “Rose Period” from 1904-1906

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Pablo Picasso

141
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1892 he painted “Vahine No Te Vi. Woman With Mango”

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Paul Gauguin

142
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$300 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s the common English term for the type of painting the French call une nature morte

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Still Life

143
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Dancer Louise Weber, one of his most famous subjects, was known as “La Goulue” – The Glutton

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Toulouse-Lautrec

144
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$500 ||| Category: ART ||| Hats off to this Belgian whose 1926 painting “The Menaced Assassin” features men in bowler hats

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Rene Magritte

145
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| His first important painting was of his niece, but his most famous is his 1871 portrait of his mother

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James M. Whistler

146
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This “Mona Lisa” artist is noted for the sfumato, or smoky, quality of his paintings

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Leonardo da Vinci

147
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| He slashed his ear before Christmas in 1888 & painted a “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” soon after

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Vincent Van Gogh

148
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Appropriately, this grandmother of American folk art painted “Over the River to Grandma’s House”

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Grandma Moses

149
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Englishman painted a “Girl with Pigs” as well as “The Blue Boy”

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Thomas Gainsborough

150
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$None ||| Category: ART ||| He said he painted one his masterpieces with his “beard turned up to heaven”

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Michelangelo

151
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| These colored chalklike sticks are made with a pigment & a weak adhesive such as gum tragacanth

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Pastels

152
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1546 Pope Paul III appointed this artist architect of St. Peter’s Basilica

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Michelangelo

153
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| The final layer of plaster prepared for this type of wall painting is called intonaco

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Fresco

154
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1930 Grant Wood’s reputation was established by a Chicago showing of this painting

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“American Gothic”

155
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| She was commissioned to paint a mural for the woman’s building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

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Mary Cassatt

156
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Emanuel Leutze used the Rhine as a model for his painting of “Washington Crossing” this river

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the Delaware

157
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| A pieta now in the cathedral of Florence was originally meant for this artist’s tomb

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Michelangelo

158
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| He painted a series of “Haystacks” before turning to water lilies

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Claude Monet

159
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| His “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” established him as one of Amsterdam’s great portrait painters

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Rembrandt

160
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| “Northeaster”, an 1895 painting by this American artist, depicts the ocean striking the Maine shore

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Winslow Homer

161
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1922 he painted his 1st major mural, “Creation”, at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City

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Diego Rivera

162
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$1900 ||| Category: ART ||| Botticelli featured members of this prominent family in his “Adoration of the Magi”

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The Medicis

163
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s what Alexander Calder called his stationary sculptures

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Stabiles

164
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| You can see his “Majas on a Balcony” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Francisco Goya

165
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1983 he skirted 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with sheets of pink plastic

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Christo

166
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| He was just 22 when he illustrated his first Saturday Evening Post cover in 1916

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Norman Rockwell

167
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1538 Titian painted this Roman goddess of beauty reclining nude on a bed

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Venus

168
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| He painted Mademoiselle Lala hanging by her teeth in the circus, but he’s more famous for his ballerinas

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Edgar Degas

169
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Frenchman put himself & his cousin Tapie in his 1892 painting “At the Moulin Rouge”

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Lautrec

170
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| For his mural “The Last Supper”, he used oils instead of the watercolors of normal frescoes

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Leonardo da Vinci

171
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The floor type of this art form originated with pebble floors laid in late-Neolithic Crete

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Mosaics

172
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1892 this French artist portrayed dancer La Goulue entering the Moulin Rouge

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Toulouse-Lautrec

173
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This “American Gothic” painter operated the Stone City Art Colony to help younger artists

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Grant Wood

174
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1543 this Venetian traveled to Bologna to paint the portrait “Pope Paul III Without Cap”

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Titian

175
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Maurice Utrillo was famous for his paintings of this city, especially of Montmartre

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Paris

176
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| One of Andy Warhol’s favorite subjects was this founder of the People’s Republic of China

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Mao Tse-tung

177
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1961 the Met purchased his “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer” for $2.3 million

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Rembrandt

178
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$700 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1978 3 of his bronzes, including “The Clenched Hand”, were stolen from the St. Louis Art Museum

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Rodin

179
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| His son Jamie is the day-dreaming boy with the coonskin hat in his 1952 watercolor “Faraway”

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Andrew Wyeth

180
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1888 he painted his “House at Arles”, his “Bedroom at Arles” & several still lifes of sunflowers

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van Gogh

181
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| At a 1989 auction, this pop artist’s “Shot Red Marilyn” sold for $4.07 million

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Andy Warhol

182
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Of winter, spring, summer or fall, the alternate title of Botticelli’s painting “Primavera”

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Spring

183
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Noted Rubens works include the “Raising of” & “Descent from” this religious symbol

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the Cross

184
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Like most of his works, this American sculptor’s “The Diner” features figures cast from living models

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George Segal

185
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| This artist’s mother could have told you he was greatly influenced by French painter Gustave Courbet

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James Whistler

186
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This kind of painting on plaster was a speciality of 15th c. artist Piero della Francesca

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Fresco

187
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| This Spaniard’s brother-in-law, court painter Francisco Bayeu, helped him get commissions in the 1770s

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Francisco Goya

188
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This Flemish artist painted a unique triple portrait of England’s King Charles I around 1637

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Anthony van Dyck

189
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| “Strolling Actresses Dressing In a Barn” is a 1738 engraving by this English satirist

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William Hogarth

190
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| He snuck a self-portrait into his “The Last Judgment” fresco in the Sistine Chapel

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Michelangelo

191
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| “At the Moulin Rouge” took this French artist to new heights of fame

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Lautrec

192
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Melted watches dot the landscape in this Spaniard’s “The Persistence of Memory”

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Salvador Dali

193
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| She modeled for husband-to-be Alfred Stieglitz’s photos, and he sold her paintings

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Georgia O’Keeffe

194
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| You have to have a big wall for his circa 1480 work “The Birth of Venus”; it’s over 5’ X 9’

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(Sandro) Botticelli

195
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| When arthritis made needlework difficult, she turned to painting copies of Currier & Ives prints

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Grandma Moses

196
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Corpulent sea nymphs circle Marie de Medicis’ ship in this Flemish artist’s painting of her arrival in France

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(Peter Paul) Rubens

197
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| 1 of this German’s first commissions when he moved to England was to paint the family of Sir Thomas More

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Hans Holbein

198
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This American Impressionist formed a close friendship with Degas & posed for his “At the Milliner’s”

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Mary Cassatt

199
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| 19th century French Primitive artist who painted “The Snake Charmer”

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Henri Rousseau

200
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$100 ||| Category: ART ||| This late artist was also a jewelry designer; you might expect his watches to be limp

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Salvador Dalí

201
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The “Thinker” guards the entrance to the Philadelphia museum devoted to this sculptor

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Rodin

202
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$300 ||| Category: ART ||| An artist dedicated to reviving early Renaissance style & methods is described as “pre-“ this

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Raphaelite

203
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Egypt’s temple of Abu Simbel features 4 figures of this pharaoh carved out of the rock

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Ramses II

204
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$500 ||| Category: ART ||| His paintings of flags & targets at a one-man show in 1958 unleashed a storm of controversy

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Jasper Johns

205
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$100 ||| Category: ART ||| This gemlike carving material was obtained from walruses as well as elephants

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ivory

206
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| This diminutive poster artist broke his legs in childhood falls, inhibiting their growth

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Toulouse-Lautrec

207
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$500 ||| Category: ART ||| The animal featured both in Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy” & “The Dream”

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a lion

208
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| New & unknown in Paris, at 22 he painted “The Old Guitarist” in shades of blue that reflected his mood

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Picasso

209
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$500 ||| Category: ART ||| The most famous “Sunday Afternoon” this pointillist painted was on the “Grand Jatte”

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(Georges) Seurat

210
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| A recent show of her works at the Whitney Museum included bronzes of her art made before she was Mrs. John Lennon

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Yoko Ono

211
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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Back in 1961 his “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer” brought a record price of $2.3 million

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Rembrandt

212
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Jean Arp coined this term to describe the non-mobile works of Alexander Calder

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Stabiles

213
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| One of Goya’s works depicts this father of Jupiter “devouring his children”

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Saturn

214
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Also known as “Beaubourg”, the Paris Center for the Contemporary Art is named after this French president

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Georges Pompidou

215
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Modern movement that is named for the optical illusions created by its geometric patterns

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Op Art

216
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Greek for “beautiful writing”, it’s the art of beautiful handwriting

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Calligraphy

217
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Building in which you’d find Michelangelo’s masterpiece “The Creation of Man”

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The Sistine Chapel

218
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| You can see “The Maid of Honor” by Velazquez in this Madrid museum

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The Prado

219
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$1500 ||| Category: ART ||| Renoir depicted this mythical character having to choose the most beautiful of 3 goddesses

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Paris (“The Judgment of Paris”)

220
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Medieval artists gave triangular ones to the trinity, round to the angels & rectangular to living holy people

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Halos

221
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Originally full of light & color, his 1642 work was so darkened by grime & smoke it’s now called “The Night Watch”

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Rembrandt

222
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$1500 ||| Category: ART ||| Artist who was the initiator & leader of the impressionist movement; he’s famous for his haystacks

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Claude Monet

223
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Flemish painter known for his “Venus & Adonis”; he negotiated a 1630 peace treaty between England & Spain

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Peter Paul Rubens

224
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| This nihilistic movement in the arts is named for a French word for hobby horse

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Dada/Dadaism

225
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Renaissance began in this country

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Italy

226
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| A furor erupted over a student exhibit in Chicago when 1 of these was placed on the floor

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American flag

227
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| His art sold well, but this Delft painter produced few works & died broke

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Vermeer

228
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Painter known for his portrayal of a polio victim named Christina Olson

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Andrew Wyeth

229
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| At his home in Giverny, this artist created the water lily pond that inspired his paintings

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(Claude) Monet

230
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Born Anna Mary Robertson, this artist died in 1961 at age 101

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Grandma Moses

231
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1534 Pope Paul III named him painter, sculptor & architect of the Vatican Palace

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Michelangelo

232
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| As a teenager, Andrew Wyeth was inspired by this American seascape artist

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Winslow Homer

233
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$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1888 Vincent van Gogh threatened to kill this artist who was his roommate at the time

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Paul Gauguin

234
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Mona Lisa was painted in oil on this, not canvas

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Wood Panel

235
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Winslow Homer’s “Prisoners from the Front” is a scene from this war

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The Civil War

236
Q

$600 ||| Category: ART ||| On May 9, 1989 a self-portrait by this artist went for a whopping $47.85 million

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Pablo Picasso

237
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Meaning “like a wild beast”, it’s the art movement associated with Matisse

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Fauvism/Fauves

238
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$3000 ||| Category: ART ||| (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): Artist whose most famous painting, seen here (“The Swing”), is an example of the Rococo style:

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Fragonard

239
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| Michelangelo spent 3 years, 1501-4, sculpting this Goliath-size statue

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David

240
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$3400 ||| Category: ART ||| The style of this Baroque Flemish artist is so distinct, his name became an adjective to describe it

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Peter Paul Rubens

241
Q

$100 ||| Category: ART ||| Term for Spain’s Islamic art, it comes from the Muslim group that conquered the country in the eighth century

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Moorish

242
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The starting point and center of early Renaissance art was in this Italian city

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Florence

243
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$300 ||| Category: ART ||| Many Rembrandt masterpieces hang in this “national museum” in Amsterdam

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Rijksmuseum

244
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| John Constable is best known for painting these

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Landscapes

245
Q

$500 ||| Category: ART ||| With works titled “White LIne” and “Blue Segment”, this Russian has been called the first abstract painter

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Wassily Kandinsky

246
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| El Greco told Pope Pius V he could improve this room by getting rid of Michelangelo’s frescoes

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the Sistine Chapel

247
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Name shared by father and son 16th century German painters known as “The Older” and “The Younger”

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Hans Holbein

248
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| He’s the man in “A Man of Sorrows”’s image

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Jesus

249
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Vincent Van Gogh’s brother Theo did this for a living

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worked in an art gallery (or sold art)

250
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| His 1872 work “Impression Sunrise” not only left an impression, but named a whole movement

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Claude Monet

251
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| The most delicate of these is made of only 150-200 sable hairs, weighing .000529 oz. altogether

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paintbrush

252
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$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The Mogul school introduced western perspective, not a Hollywood one, to art of this country

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India

253
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$600 ||| Category: ART ||| “From today painting is dead”, said a French artist upon seeing this type of picture in 1839

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Daguerreotype, photograph

254
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$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Highest price for painting by a female was $1.1 mil. for “Reading Le Figaro” by this U.S. artist

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Mary Cassatt

255
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$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1517, this French king & patron of Da Vinci orig. bought the “Mona Lisa” to hang in his bathroom

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Francois I

256
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$200 ||| Category: ART ||| A painting of inanimate objects, not people

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a still life