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Art part 3 Flashcards

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What artist named his track Naima after his first wife

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John Coletrane

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What artist depicted a seated woman wearing a large lavender-colored sash in his portrait Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

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John Singer Sargent

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What sculpture had a cast created for the Cleveland Museum which was damaged by a bomb

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The Thinker

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What composer quoted a Bach fugue in his first cello sonata

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Brahms

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What composer included a timpani roll that opens his folk music influenced A minor piano concerto

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Edvard Grieg

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What artist created a wire structure of a woman flipping on top of a man titled Two Acrobats as part of a wooden-wire model circus

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Alexander Calder

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What composer compiled a set of 6 concertos dedicated to Christian Ludwig

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JS Bach

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What equestrian statue of the Italian mercenary Erasmo da Narni stands in the Piazza del Santo in Padua

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Gattamelata

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Who created Gattamelata and Penitent Magdalene

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Donatello

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What artist created the essay collection The New Plastic in Painting and created New York City 1

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Piet Mondrian

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What artist depicted two rabbits on a hill to the left of women resting on a water filled sarcophagus

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Titian

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Who wrote the Mephisto Waltzes

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Franz Lizst

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What nationalist Italian composer instructed orchestras to play a recording of a twittering nightingale in his 1926 tone poem The Pines of Rome

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Ottorino Respighi

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What composer created a piece that was described by Hans von Bulow as the Old Testament of piano music

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JS Bach

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What fresco covers the altar wall in the sistine chapel and depicts St Bartholomew’s flayed skin

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The Last Judgement

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What artist’s Delivery of the Keys remains on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel

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Perugino

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What artist painted Portrait of Madame X

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John Singer Sargent

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What instrument did Max Roach play

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Drums

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What jazz saxophonist is known for St Thomas, which he adapted from a Bahamian folk song his mother sang to him

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Sonny Rollins

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Who created The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living where a shark is in fermaldahyde

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Damien Hirst

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In what painting’s central scene does a concert take place on the title vehicle

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The Haywain Triptych

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Who painted the Haywain Triptych

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Aken

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What composer created a ballet contains a famous movement in which The Man and Woman Kiss

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Darius Milhaud

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What aesthetic movement did photographers try to altar photos to create images that could be considered art

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Pictorialism

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What partially self titled jazz album features the song Fables of Faubus which attacked Arkansas’s governor

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Mingus Ah Um

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Who created Mood Indigo and Take the A Train

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Duke Ellington

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What dance used in The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse is the national dance of Uruguay and Argentina

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Tango

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What pigment is made from cow urine in its namesake country

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Indian Yellow

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What artistic movement did Magritte depict in his Vache Period

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Fauvism

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What solo work for piano extensively quotes Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata

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Concord Sonata

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Who wrote the Conord Sonata

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Charles Ives

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What jazz pianist replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis’s band and was the pianist on Bitches Brew

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Chick Corea

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What Masaccio fresco in Santa Maria Novella depicts the title religious figures situated beneath an elaborate barrel vault

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The Holy Trinity

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37
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What symphony takes its title from a poem by Friedrich Klopstock

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Resurrection symphony

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Who wrote the Resurrection symphony

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Gustav Mahler

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What French composer wrote a treatise on harmony and composed pioneering french operas like Hippolyte et Aricie

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Jean-Phillipe Rameau

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In what sculpture does a god grasp a baby in one arm and what is assumed to be grapes in the other

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Hermes and the infant Dionysus

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Who sculpted Hermes and the infant Dionysus and Aphrodite of Cnidus

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Praxiteles

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What artist painted the St Mark series

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Tintoretto

43
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What Duke Ellington album was inspired by his world tour and featured tracks Bluebird of Delhi and Isfahan

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The Far East Suite

44
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What musical movement was led by Maurice Ravel

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Musical Impressionism

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What French impressionist composer created Suite Bergamasque and a symphonic composition depicting the sea title La Mer

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Claude Debussy

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What painting shows middle eastern women being stabbed and is dominated by a huge red-covered bed

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Death of Sardanapalus

47
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What man designed the bell tower that sits adjacent to the Duomo in Florence

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Giotto

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In what English composer’s War Requiem does the traditional text of the Latin mass intersperses with poems by Wilfred Owen

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Benjamin Britten

49
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What composer wrote a requiem that is unusually set to the German text of the Lutheran Bible instead of the traditional Latin

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Johannes Brahms

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51
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Who sculpted Mr Rushmore

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Gutzon Borglum

52
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What composer’s Roman Carnival Overture reused material from his opera Benvenuto Cellini

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Hector Berlioz

53
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What composer used the ‘queen mab’ scherzo as part of a massive choral symphony based on Romeo and Juliet

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Hector Berlioz

54
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What artist depicted the Coronation of the Christian Knight on the central panel of his Modena Triptych

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El Greco

55
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What artist painted the Dormition of the Virgin in the 1560s

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El greco

56
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What artists late works depicts the castle of San Servando and the Alcantara bridge

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El greco

57
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What man’s band The Second Testament created the album E=mc2

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Count Basie

58
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What composer wrote an piano suite based on an ETA Hoffman character called Kreisleriana

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Robert Schumann

59
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What composer depicted Eusebius and Florestan in his collection Carnaval

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Robert Schumann

60
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What composer set music to Heinrich Heine’s poem ‘I stand in Dark Dreams’

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Grieg

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What composer created incidental music such as ‘ the Abduction of the Bride, and Solveigs song

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Grieg

62
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What composer depicted a wild dance at a village inn in the first of his Mephisto Waltzes

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Franz Lizst

63
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Who composed Totentanz

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Lizst

64
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What artists depiction of Judith and Holofernes showed the general sitting in a cushion and dangling his legs over the base

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Donatello

65
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What artists image of Habakukk was given a nickname meaning pumpkin

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Donatello

66
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What artist showed a line of blindfolded soldiers in Gassed

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John Singer Sargent

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What artist painted two guitars on a back wall of a room in El Jaleo

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John Singer Sargent

68
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What artists most famous portrait shows the pale wife of Pierre Gautrrau

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John Singer Sargent

69
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What composer used an A E F motif in his Double Concerto for violin and cello

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Brahms

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What composer wrote his Tragic Overture and orchestral dances based on folk melodies

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Brahms

71
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What composer created a piece that was nicknamed because he traded it for an English razor

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Joseph Haydn

72
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What composer created string quartets that contained variations in the Deutschlandiled

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Joseph Haydn

73
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What composers ‘song of the Hindu trader’ was arranged into the hit ‘song of India’

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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What composer created an opera where Mizgir loves a woman who melts

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Nikolai Rimsky-korskov

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What man wrote the Procession of the Nobles for the collaborative opera Mlada

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsavok

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What composer wrote Les Noces or The Wedding

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Igor Stravinsky

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