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ART CULTURE Flashcards

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Designer of White House

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James HOBAN

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5 Classics of Confucian thought - mnemoind DRS IP

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Book of Documents
Book of Rites
Spring and Autumn Annals
I Ching
Classic of Potry

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a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts.

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TABLEAU VIVANT

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the ship of the god Baldr, described as the “greatest of all ships”.

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HRINGHORNI

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BALDR’S WIFE

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NANNA

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HOME OF BALDR

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BREIDABLIK

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a public university in Cairo, Egypt., it is Egypt’s oldest degree-granting university – and the world’s second oldest degree granting university – and is renowned as the most prestigious university for Islamic learning.In addition to higher education, oversees a national network of schools with approximately two million students.[4] As of 1996, over 4,000 teaching institutes in Egypt were affiliated with the university.[5]

Founded in 970 or 972 by the Fatimid Caliphate as a centre of Islamic learning, its students studied the Qur’an and Islamic law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and how to calculate the phases of the moon. Today it is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world.[6] In 1961 additional non-religious subjects were added to its curriculum

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al-azhar

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a German painter, active mainly in Basel. His 1444 panel The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (a portion of a lost altarpiece) has been credited as the earliest extant faithful portrayal of a landscape in European art history, being based on observation of real topographical features.[1]

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Konrad WITZ

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9
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vENEZUELAS MOST CELEBRATED ARTIST

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rAPHAEL jESUS soto

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De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by BLANK BLANK between 1443 and 1452.[1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius’s De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture. It was followed in 1486 with the first printed edition of Vitruvius.

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Leon ALBERTI

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In photography, WHAT is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image

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BOKE

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sCULPTOR OF fearless girl

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Kirsten VISBAL

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a mythological Chinese archer. He was also known as Shen Yi and simply as Yi (羿). He is also typically given the title of “Lord Archer”. He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind. Other times, he is portrayed as either simply half-divine or fully mortal. His wife, Chang’e (嫦娥 Cháng’é), is a lunar deity.[1]

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HOU YI

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wHAT IS THE SHAPE OF bAHAI SYMBOL

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NINE POINTED STAR

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Sculptor of Motherland Caalls

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Yevgeny VUCHETICH

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16
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rapa nui script

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RONGORONGO

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rapa nui birdman cult

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TANGATA MANU

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Name of Potiphar’s wife

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ZULEIKHA

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n Italian architect and painter. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter’s Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Pope Julius II appointed him to build a sanctuary over the spot where Peter was martyred.

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Donato BRAMANTE

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2019 pritzker - Harbin cultural centre, Barcelona’s Palau saint jordi

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Arata ISOZAKI

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Chief Sumerian deity

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ENLIL

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CONSORT OF ENLIL

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NINLIL

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REGION HOME TO ZAPOTECS AND MIXTECS

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OAXACA

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THREE CAPITALS OF ZAPOTEC

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MONTE ALBAN
MITLA
zaachila yoo

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was an Irish-American mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States. He became a naturalized citizen of the USA at age 21 and passed the New York state bar exam, specializing in commercial law.

Judge was one of the seventeen co-founders of the Theosophical Society. Like Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, he stayed in the organization when others left. When Olcott and Blavatsky left the United States for India, he stayed behind to manage the Society’s work, all the while working as a lawyer.

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William Quan JUDGE

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was a Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893.[2] A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the rights of Jains, and wrote and lectured extensively on Jainism, other religions, and philosophy

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Virchand GANDHI

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PASSOVER MEAL

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SEDER

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PASSOVER BREAD

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matzoh

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passover month

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nisan

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an ancient Celtic healing god. The cult of stretched from the Italian Peninsula to the British Isles, with a main sanctuary located at Aquileia, on the Adriatic coast. Through interpretatio romana, was often identified with Apollo, although his cult seems to have preserved a certain degree of autonomy during the Roman period

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BELENUS

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What six-letter name is given to the practice of buying or selling of ecclesiastical or religious privileges
including pardons and benefices?

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SIMONY

32
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Which Polish nobleman, often described as the “Father of the American Cavalry”, became a hero during
the American Revolutionary War and is one of only eight people to be awarded honorary US citizenship?

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PULASKI

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an upper garment traditionally worn by women in Southeast Asia, notably in Brunei,[9] Indonesia,[10] Malaysia,[8] and Singapore.[11] Outside of Southeast Asia, it is worn by Javanese, Malays and Portuguese Eurasians in Australian Cocos Islands and Christmas Island, coastal India and Sri Lanka, Macau as well as South Africa.

is an upper garment opened at the front traditionally made from lightweight fabrics such as brocade, cotton, gauze, lace, or voile, sometimes adorned with embroidery. The front is secured with either buttons, pins, or brooches. The lower garment for the outfit is known as sarong, kemben or kain, a long piece of cloth wrapped and tucked around the waist or under the armpits, either made out of batik, ikat, songket or tenun[n 2] is officially recognised as the national costume of Indonesi

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KEBAYA

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Gala dali first husband

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Paul eluard

35
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Dali wife

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Gala

36
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Dali civil war painting

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Soft construction with boiled eggs

37
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Migration series

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Jacob lawrence

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Jacob lawrence wife

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Gwendolyn knight

39
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French caravaggist

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Georges de la tour

40
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Velasquez pope

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Innocent x

41
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Holocaust memorial berlin

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Eisenman

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Heardt castle

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Julia morgan

WQC QUESTIONS (25 decks)

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