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Art

How old are the oldest known cave paintings?

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40,000 years ago

(possibly painted by Neanderthals)

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The most prominent examples of Egyptian, Greek and Hellenistic, and Roman art all date from what time periods, respectively?

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Circa 3000 BCE

Circa 1000 BCE

Circa 500 BCE

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Fill in the relative art periods present in the following timeframes:

__________ — 400 - 1400 CE

__________ — 1400 - 1550 CE

__________ — 1600 - 1750 CE

__________, __________ — 1750 - 1850 CE

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Fill in the relative art periods present in the following timeframes:

Medieval — 400 - 1400 CE

Renaissance — 1400 - 1550 CE

Baroque — 1600 - 1750 CE

Neoclassical, Romantic — 1750 - 1850 CE

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Fill in the relative art periods present in the following timeframes:

_________, _________, _________ — 1850 - 1910 CE

_________, _________, _________, _________, _________ — Early-to-mid 1900s

__________ — 1960s

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Fill in the relative art periods present in the following timeframes:

Realism, Impressionism**, **Post-Impressionism — 1850 - 1910 CE

Cubism, Fauvism**, **Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism — Early-to-mid 1900s

Pop Art — 1960s

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Art of the Middle Ages largely focused on what theme?

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Christianity

(flat-looking pictures and frescos of Jesus and/or Biblical scenes)

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Who is credited with showing his ingenuity by cracking an egg in order to win the honor of designing the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy?

What period of art history was this?

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Brunelleschi

Renaissance

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Who created this sculpture, fresco, and painting and in what period of art history?

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Donatello

Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and sculptures and in what period of art history?

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Michelangelo

Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Leonardo

Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Raphael

Renaissance

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Who created this painting and in what period of art history?

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Botticelli

Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Dürer

Renaissance

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Who created this painting and in what period of art history?

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Bosch

Renaissance

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Who created these three paintings and in what period of art history?

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van Eyck

Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Rubens

Baroque

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Linear perspective was largely developed and utilized in artwork from which period of art history?

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The Renaissance

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Rembrandt

Baroque

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Caravaggio

Baroque

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The works of Caravaggio are a great example of what principle of lighting?

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Tenebrism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Vermeer

Baroque

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Who created these sculptures and in what period of art history?

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Bernini

Baroque

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Who created this painting and in what period of art history?

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Fragonard

Rococo (late Baroque)

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Hogarth

Rococo (late Baroque)

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The flamboyant French architecture under Louis XV (e.g. Versailles) is an example of what period of art history?

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Rococo

(late Baroque)

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Jacques-Louis David

Neoclassical

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Who created these sculptures and in what period of art history?

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Canova

Neoclassical

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Friedrich

Romanticism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Delacroix

Romanticism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Turner

Romanticism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Goya

Romanticism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Daumier

Realism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Jean-François Millet

Realism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Courbet

Realism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Corot

Realism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Monet

Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Manet

Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Renoir

Impressionism

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Who created these bronze sculptures and in what period of art history?

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Rodin

Impressionism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Pissarro

Impressionism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Berthe Morisot

Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Degas

Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Mary Cassatt

Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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van Gogh

Post-Impressionism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Gauguin

Post-Impressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Cézanne

Post-Impressionism

46
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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Seurat

Post-Impressionism

47
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Seurat’s Post-Impressionist A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is an example of what form of painting?

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Pointillism

48
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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Munch

Fauvism / Expressionism

49
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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Matisse

Fauvism / Expressionism

50
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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Picasso

Cubism / Futurism

51
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Who created these artworks and in what period of art history?

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Marcel Duchamp

Dada / Surrealism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Salvador Dalí

Dada / Surrealism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Frida Kahlo

Dada / Surrealism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Georgia O’Keefe

Surrealism / Precisionism

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Art

Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Jackson Pollock

Abstract / Expressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Rothko

Abstract / Expressionism

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Who created these paintings and in what period of art history?

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Andy Warhol

Expressionism

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Art

Who designed these buildings and in what period of art history?

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Frank Gehry

Post-Modern / Deconstructionism

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Art

Who designed these buildings and via what purported style?

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture

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Art

Notre-Dame de Paris is an example of what style of architecture?

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French gothic

61
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What is the name of this Gothic/Baroque/Moorish/Victorian cathedral in Barcelona?

Who designed it?

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La Sagrada Familia

Antoni Gaudí

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Art

Who designed these buildings and under what catchphrase?

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Mies van der Rohe

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