ART, ARCHITECTURE, FASHION, DESIGN Flashcards
(317 cards)
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The Burghers of Calais
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Rodin
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Sentimental bad taste
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Kitsch
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Museum of fine arts in Moscow, named for poet
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Pushkin Museum
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Painter influenced by aboriginal art
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Picasso
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Fashion designer - documentary called “The Last Emperor”
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Valentino Garavani
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Italian designer, icon of the Dolce Vita, bamboo bag, iconic moccasins
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Gucci - Gucci loafer
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Spanish painter of dark subjects - insanity, witches, creatures, corruption
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Francisco Goya
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Painted many versions of “The Peaceable Kingdom” in mid 19th c
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Edward Hicks
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English romantic landscape & seascape painter
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JMW Turner
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Rococo painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
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Antoine Watteau
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Late 18th century English portraitist of 1776-looking men and Marie-Antoinette-looking women
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Thomas Gainsborough
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Girl with a Watering Can
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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small grassy mound or clump of grass; or alternatively a low seat.
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tuffet
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Vanity Fair photographer
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Annie Leibovitz
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1913 first large modern art show in USA
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The Armory Show
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Enlarging nearest part of image to add depth
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Foreshortening
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Washington DC layout
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L’Enfant
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American balloon animal sculptor
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Jeff Koons
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Russian orchestrator
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Rimsky-Korsakov
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Heart Castle architect
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Julia Morgan
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Stained glass artist, design director at his father’s business
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Leader of French Romantic School
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Eugene Delacroix
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Lincoln Memorial sculptor
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Daniel Chester French
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Renaissance painter of mythology
Botticelli
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English 1700s cartoonist/satirist
William Hogarth
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Dean of Impressionists
Camille Pissarro
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upholstered low couch or a smaller cushioned seat used as a table, stool or footstool
ottoman
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The Spanish Dancer painter
John Singer Sargent
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US designer with eponymous brand who also wrote and directed two Oscar-nom films
Tom Ford
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French investor who bought Dior and is now CEO of LVMH
Bernard Arnault, 3rd richest man in the world
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The Tribute Money, significant 1420s fresco, by
Masaccio
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Nihilistic art movement
Dada
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La Danse/Dance orangeish figures in a circle
Matisse
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Michelangelo last name
Buonarotti
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The Third of May 1808 painting of firing squad
Francisco Goya
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Most famous artist born on Crete
El Greco
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Photos of O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz
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Sculpture of men who made themselves hostages to free their city
The Burghers of Calais, Rodin
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Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
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Doonesbury cartoonist
Gary Trudeau
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Italian sculptor of David (not M)
Donatello
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Henry VIII portrait by
Hans Holbein the Younger
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American artist known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images
Judy Chicago
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Artist who wraps things in fabric
Christo
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entertainment center
console
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window attached to its frame by a hinge at the side
casement
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Passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns.
Arcade
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Male American painter living in Europe, known for portraits
John Singer Sargent
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Velazquez masterpiece
Las meninas
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Horseshoe crafter
Farrier
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Adding a layer of glue to canvas so paint doesn't sink in
Sizing
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The Battle of San Romano, mid 15th c, three paintings significant in linear perspective
Paolo Uccello. Paintings coveted by Medici.
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Chinese American designer, "Dolly Girl" brand
Anna Sui
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The Blue Rider was named for a painting by
Kandinsky
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"The Judgment of Paris" judging Roman Gods painting
Claude Lorrain
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Leading painter of Spanish Golden Age
Diego Velazquez
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couch-like sitting furniture or, in some countries, a box-spring based bed
divan - named for Persian offices
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Giovanni Antonio Canal was the real name of this artist known for his paintings of Venice
Canaletto
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Russian pioneer of abstract art
Wassily Kandinsky
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Painter of "The Hunters in the Snow," 1565
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Goya's mistress
Duchess of Alba
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the transverse part of a church beside the altar
transepts
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Renaissance expressionistic artist
El Greco
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Turn of 20th century US art group that portrayed daily life in NYC, often in poorer neighborhoods
The Ashcan School
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unsupported overhang
cantilever
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"Blue Boy" is a painting by
Thomas Gainsborough
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Austrian erotic expressionist painter
Egon Schiele
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Las Meninas painting by
Diego Velazquez
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general word for the space between architectural elements like columns, beams
bays
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20th century painter of flags
Jasper Johns
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Renaissance friar artist
Fra Angelico
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Rococo artist
Watteau
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US painter of "The Gross Clinic," 1875
Thomas Eakins
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David vs. Delacroix
Napoleonic, epic, firmer lines vs. 50 years later, romantic, brushstrokes, color
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Painter of "Death of the Virgin" 1606
Caravaggio
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American female war and Depression photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
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Art by artists without formal training, often discovered after death
Outsider Art/Art Brut
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German Renaissance woodcut printer
Albrecht Durer
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Painter of "The Peasant Wedding," 1567
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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This architect partnered with Rudolph Schindler & pioneered steel-frame housing with the Lovell House
Richard Neutra
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Minimalist German fashion designer, now label for Uniqlo
Jil Sander
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Christina's World
Andrew Wyeth
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Painter of "Niagara"
Frederic Edwin Church
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Italian painter of elongated figures
Modigliani
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French fashion designer post WWI, popularized casual chic, jewelry, fragrance
Coco Chanel
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Fashion designer best known for wrap dress
Diane von Furstenburg
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Painter of Luncheon of the Boating Party (boater hats & undershirts at table)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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"PRB" painters, British group
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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School of Australian impressionism named for German-sounding Melbourne suburb
Heidelberg School
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French street photography pioner
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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US designer in Jewish immigrant family, known first for jeans
Calvin Klein
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Garfield cartoonist
Jim Davis
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Style of painting with pronounced chiaroscuro
Tenebrism
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Baroque painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
Peter Paul Rubens
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NY fashion designer for simple, comfortable women's wear, dressed Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Faye Dunaway
Geoffrey Beene
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introduced "Le Smoking" tuxedo for women
Yves St. Laurent
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Founded in 1939, this city's Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case
Cincinnati
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Applying glaze on part of a painting
Scumble
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French designer born in Algeria, tutored by Dior
Yves St. Laurent
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The Night Watch
Rembrandt
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Ballet painter
Degas
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Cuban-American designer of Michelle Obama election-night dress
Narciso Rodriguez
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American sculptor of "Spider," 1996
Louise Bourgeois
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Scandalous/modernist early 20th century Romanian sculptor
Constantine Brancusi
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Venus of Urbino
Titian
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Luxury Paris department store
Bon Marche
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Cartoonist behind the Addams family
Charles Addams
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Name for round work of art, mostly Renaissance
Tondo
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Edward Hicks became a Quaker icon because of his paintings of
The Peaceable Kingdom and other religious and folk art
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Crafter who builds wooden wheels
Wheelwright
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Sculptor of American West
Frederick Remington
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US designer known for her "essentials" line. "Queen of Seventh Avenue"
Donna Karan
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2 Flemish Baroque painters
Rubens, van Dyck (was R's assistant)
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German creative director of Chanel and Fendi, white hair and sunglasses and starched collars
Karl Lagerfeld
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sculpted female form serving as architectural support
caryatid (carry-at-id)
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Sensual Baroque painter
Rubens
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British pop artist, still painting swimming pools
David Hockney
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American artist of Penn's Treaty With The Indians, Treaty of Paris
Benjamin West
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English designer for Givenchy then his own label
Alexander McQueen
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Italian Baroque chiaroscuro painter
Caravaggio
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Dutch etcher as well as painter
Rembrandt
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US designer of over the top, colorful dresses, does a cartwheel at the end of her shows
Betsey Johnson
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A sculptural embellishment of an arch.
accolade
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brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical (fantasy/mythical) creatures
alebrijes
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Founder of the Hudson River School
Thomas Cole
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Artist of The Anatomy Lesson
Rembrandt
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Elephant and Donkey cartoons
Thomas Nast
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Term for non-mobile Calder works
Stabiles
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Moulin Rouge artist
Toulouse-Lautrec
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Dutch abstract artist with blotchy figures, sculptures
Willem de Kooning
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French designer who democratized couture
Yves St. Laurent
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Rembrandt portrait of his son at a lectern
Titus
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ceiling that looks like recessed half-cylinder over a square
barrel vault
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Realist movement showing rural US scenes
Regionalist
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Court artist of Philip IV of Spain
Diego Velazquez
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Rihanna's fashion brand
Fenty
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a parapet in defensive architecture is also called a
battlement
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American designer who dressed Lucille Ball, Cher, Diana Ross, The Carol Burnett Show, Gypsy
Bob Mackie
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Paintings titled "Nocturne," "Symphony," "Harmony" with colors
Whistler
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Still painting swimming pools
David Hockney
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"Bathers at Asnieres" artist
Georges Seurat
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American female abstract sculptor, big black boxes
Louise Nevelson
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American jeweller who founded store, created first retail catalog in US, introduced UK sterling silver standard
Charles Lewis Tiffany
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Opposite sides add up to 7
Dice
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Art movement depicting America as pastoral landscape to be discovered/explored
Hudson River School
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Italian designer descended from Florence nobility; known for geometric prints in kaleidoscopic colors
Don Emilio Pucci
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Dutch 1700s - "Self Portrait with a Sunflower"
Anthony van Dyck
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18th century British horse painter
George Stubbs
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Garden of Earthly Delights by
Hieronymous Bosch
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bed with curved foot and headboards
sleigh bed
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controversial Dior designer
John Galliano
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Early 20th c female architect
Julia Morgan
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Two phases of cubism
Analytic and synthetic
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British fashion designer and animal-free advocate
Stella McCartney
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US designer with line for Target and Brooks Brothers, Project Runway judge
Zac Posen
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Invented oil painting
Jan van Eyck
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Spiderman cartoonist
Stan Lee
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19th century American illustrator and painter of seascapes, portraits, daily life
Winslow Homer
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"The Dinner Party" installation is by
Judy Chicago
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Thomas Gainsborough best known painting
"Blue Boy"
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Designer known for Balloon Coat and Baby Doll Dress
Hubert Givenchy
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English Romantic landscape painter
JMW Turner
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"Sleeping Venus" painting, many imitators
Giorgione. Also known as the Dresden Venus, influenced Titian.
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British neoclassical architect
John Nash
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framed furniture across between daybed and bed
chaise lounge
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Paintings of ordinary people in everyday life are also known as
genre paintings - esp 17th c Dutch/Flemish like Bruegel and Vermeer
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Dutch Renaissance painter among the first to paint village life, non-religious scenes
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Court artist of Charles IV of Spain
Francisco Goya
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Painter of "Children's Games," 1560
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Painter of Bal du moulin de Galette (people looking over bench at table)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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American seascape painter
Winslow Homer
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Third Renaissance Great master
Raphael
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Velazquez chiaroscuro style
Tenebrism
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Home was a Paris literary/art gathering place in 1920s
Gertrude Stein
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Nude Descending a Staircase
Marcel Duchamp
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name for gaps in a battlement to allow launch of projectiles
crenels (crenellated)
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early Dutch artist oil paint and perspective/subject innovator
Jan van Eyck
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Originally term for full-size sketch for transfer to a wall
cartoon
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red-brown color named for Venetian painter
Titian
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"Gypsy Girl" Dutch portraitist
Frans Hals
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Venetian Mannerist Painter
Tintoretto
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Louis XV mistress, patron of Francois Boucher
Madam de Pompadour
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1930s Farm Security Administration photographer
Dorothea Lange
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French and Spanish jewelry designer, daughter of painter
Paloma Picasso
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Impressionist painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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bed that folds into wall
Murphy bed
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American Edwardian portrait painter
John Singer Sargent
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a couch with a back that is traditionally raised at one end
fainting couch
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upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs
chaise lounge
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20th century abstract English sculptor
Henry Moore
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painter of Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Rembrandt
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American grand landscape painter, namesake of Colorado 14er
Albert Bierstadt
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topmost part of a column
capital
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"Pogo" cartoonist
Walt Kelly
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Austrian symbolist painter
Gustav Klimt
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a deep buttoned sofa, usually made from leather, named for 18th c earl
Chesterfield
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Praying desk with a knee bench
prie-dieu
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semicircular recess with vault/dome behind the altar
apse
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generic term for pool table & similar
billiards table
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Painter of "Netherlandish Proverbs," 1559
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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French-American feminist sculptor, installation artist, painter
Louise Bourgeois
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Real name of El Greco
Domenikos Theotokopoulos
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Death of Marat artist
Jacques-Louis David
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Style using detail, color, movement, grandeur to create awe
Baroque
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Dutch golden age mostly portraitist from Haarlem, close up people in ruffles and hats
Frans Hals
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St Paul's architect
Christopher Wren
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vertical member projecting from a wall to stabilize it/resist lateral thrust
Buttress
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US photographer of odd and disturbing people
Diane Arbus
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NY designer, own label and creative director for Louis Vuitton
Marc Jacobs
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Painter of "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
Emanuel Leutze
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Painter of Belshazzar's Feast
Rembrandt
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Final expression of the Baroque movement
Rococo
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Famous for Madonnas
Raphael
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French fashion designer of the "New Look"
Christian Dior
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Barrel maker
Cooper
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series of balusters supporting a handrail
balustrade
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Robert Doisneau b&w Paris photo of kissing on the street by cafe
Kiss by the Hotel de Ville
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American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky
Benjamin West
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Primitive/Naive post impressionist - lions and tigers
Henri Rousseau
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American marine landscape painter
Winslow Homer
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The Night Watch is in this museum
Rijksmuseum
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Vogue and celebrity photo portraits
Richard Avedon
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Dutch Renaissance artist of Blind Leading the Blind
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck - spoofed in Desperate Housewives. Woman in green holding hand of man in hat.
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Museum named for him in Haarlem
Frans Hals
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Spanish luxury fashion designer, the master of couture
Cristobal Balenciaga, has his own museum
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American designer best known for bridal
Vera Wang
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German-Am foremost painter of westward expansion landscapes
Albert Bierstadt
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Royal photographer
Cecil Beaton
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"Nighthawks" artist
Hopper
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paint by fixing wax to a surface with heat
encaustic painting
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Designer of "It's a Jungle Out There" collection
Alexander McQueen
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The Ambassadors (1553)
Hans Holbein the younger
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Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
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American landscape style known for effects of light on water and sky
Luminism
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Dutch Abstract painter with black and white color blocks
Piet Mondrian
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Parthenon statues in British Museum known as the
Elgin Marbles
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pret-a-porter
ready to wear
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1910s group of German artists central to founding Expressionism & abstraction
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
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Civil War photographer
Matthew Brady
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Duomo architect
Brunelleschi
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Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
Rembrandt
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The name of this art style is derived from a Paris shop opened in the 1890s by dealer Siegfried Bing
Art Nouveau
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the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary
chancel
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Paris contemporary art museum
Pompidou Center
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gargoyles and similar sculptures
grotesques or chimeras
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central part of a church where the laypeople go
nave
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extension of wall at the end of a roof, originally built for defense
parapet
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In 1983, became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a solo exhibition
Yves St. Laurent
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Venezuelan fashion designer who dresses first ladies
Carolina Herrera
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English painter of turbulent/pastel seascapes
JMW Turner
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Raphael's best known work
School of Athens
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View of Toledo artist
El Greco
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Premier turn of 20th c poster artist
Toulouse-Lautrec
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Inner court of a Roman house; in a multi-story building, a toplit covered court rising through all stories.
Atrium
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Me Myself And My Heroes etching
David Hockney
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Painter of "The Tower of Babel," 1563
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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American preppy/sailor designer
Tommy Hilfiger
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The group led by Robert Henri & known as The Eight later became known as this school
Ashcan school
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Around 1912 Robert Delaunay brought color to the forefront of this -ism, thereby creating Orphism
Cubism
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impressionists who lived together
Van Gogh and Gauguin
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The Man With The Golden Helmet
Rembrandt (probably)
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American b&w photographer of nudes, self-portraits, celebrities
Robert Mapplethorpe
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20th c painter descended from essayist with same name
Francis Bacon
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Most significant Dutch Renaissance painter
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Van Dyck vs Van Eyck
Baroque, Renaissance
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19th c US painter of Jolly Floatboatmen
George Caleb Bingham
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1300s painting master
Giotto
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Best known work is "School of Athens"
Raphael
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French art movement toward realism during Romanticism, mostly landscape paintings of trees
Barbizon School
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Painter of Luncheon on the Grass
Degas (painting is dark, looks almost primitive)
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US designer born Karl Anderson, leads his own label, sells ready to wear and other thing
Michael Kors
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"The Missouri Artist" who was also a politician
George Caleb Bingham
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a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis to sand, cut, face etc
lathe
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Creating a stone wall/building without any mortar
Dry stone
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1600-10 Italian painter of chiaroscuro figures against dark backgrounds - eating, beheading, etc.
Caravaggio
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Majas on a Balcony painting
Goya
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Paintings incorporated everyday objects
Robert Rauschenberg
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Painter of Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d'Anvers ("Pink and Blue")
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Craft of building a roof with dry vegetation
Thatching
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Juliet Balcony is also called
Balconet
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American 19th c maritime painter most central to Luminism
Fitz Henry Lane
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Museum with colored ducts
Pompidou Center
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individual molded shafts supporting a parapet or handrail
baluster
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Ecstasy of St Theresa sculptor
Bernini
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Washington portraitist
Gilbert Stuart
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Leading Baroque sculptor
Bernini
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Fool the eye style of painting
Trompe l'oile
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Critic who loved Turner
John Ruskin
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Artist whose name means Hollow Bone
Holbein
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general word for architecture serving as defensive barricade
bulwark
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Large French fashion house with brand ambassadors, fragrances
Dior
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Designer for Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy
Hubert Givenchy
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John Ruskin, 19th c author of "Modern Painters," said art should be ____ \_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_
"truth to nature" - loved JMW Turner
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Painter of Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
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Midwestern Muralist
Thomas Hart Benton
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The Rake's Progress series by
William Hogarth
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Swiss cubist/figurative sculptor
Giacometti
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Painter of "The Swing"
Jean-Honore Fragonard
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Color block painter
Rothko
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Gauguin profession before painting
Stockbroker
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Japanese wood-block artist
Hokusai
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Infinity Mirrors artist
Yayoi Kusama
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19th-20th c American artist known for portraits of Philadephians
Thomas Eakins
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Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly
Gothic
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Italian word for bell tower
campanile
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American designer, controversial, Goth and edgy statements and designs, "Lord of Darkness" for use of black
Rick Owens
309
$300 million worth of art was stolen from the Gardener Museum including the only marine painting by this Dutchman
Rembrandt
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Dutch painter 15-1600s, copied his father's works and made his own
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
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Italian billionaire fashion designer, took over her grandfather's label
Miuccia Prada
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This Flemish artist painted a unique triple portrait of England's King Charles I around 1637
Anthony van Dyck - "Charles I in three positions" in one picture
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Latin word for pride and mortality
Vanitas
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"Girl with a Pearl Earring" artist
Vermeer
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Painter of Girls At The Piano
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
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German painter of American West
Albert Bierstadt
