Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

Quizbowl > Art part 3 > Flashcards

Art part 3 Flashcards

1
Q

What artist named his track Naima after his first wife

A

John Coletrane

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

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

A

John Singer Sargent

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

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

A

The Thinker

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What composer quoted a Bach fugue in his first cello sonata

A

Brahms

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

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

A

Edvard Grieg

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

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

A

Alexander Calder

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q
A
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

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

A

JS Bach

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

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

A

Gattamelata

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Who created Gattamelata and Penitent Magdalene

A

Donatello

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

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

A

Piet Mondrian

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

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

A

Titian

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Who wrote the Mephisto Waltzes

A

Franz Lizst

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

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

A

Ottorino Respighi

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

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

A

JS Bach

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

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

A

The Last Judgement

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

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

A

Perugino

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What artist painted Portrait of Madame X

A

John Singer Sargent

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

What instrument did Max Roach play

A

Drums

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

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

A

Sonny Rollins

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

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

A

Damien Hirst

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

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

A

The Haywain Triptych

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Who painted the Haywain Triptych

A

Aken

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

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

A

Darius Milhaud

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
What aesthetic movement did photographers try to altar photos to create images that could be considered art
Pictorialism
26
What partially self titled jazz album features the song Fables of Faubus which attacked Arkansas's governor
Mingus Ah Um
27
Who created Mood Indigo and Take the A Train
Duke Ellington
28
What dance used in The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse is the national dance of Uruguay and Argentina
Tango
29
What pigment is made from cow urine in its namesake country
Indian Yellow
30
What artistic movement did Magritte depict in his Vache Period
Fauvism
31
What solo work for piano extensively quotes Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata
Concord Sonata
32
Who wrote the Conord Sonata
Charles Ives
33
What jazz pianist replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis's band and was the pianist on Bitches Brew
Chick Corea
34
35
What Masaccio fresco in Santa Maria Novella depicts the title religious figures situated beneath an elaborate barrel vault
The Holy Trinity
36
37
What symphony takes its title from a poem by Friedrich Klopstock
Resurrection symphony
38
Who wrote the Resurrection symphony
Gustav Mahler
39
What French composer wrote a treatise on harmony and composed pioneering french operas like Hippolyte et Aricie
Jean-Phillipe Rameau
40
In what sculpture does a god grasp a baby in one arm and what is assumed to be grapes in the other
Hermes and the infant Dionysus
41
Who sculpted Hermes and the infant Dionysus and Aphrodite of Cnidus
Praxiteles
42
What artist painted the St Mark series
Tintoretto
43
What Duke Ellington album was inspired by his world tour and featured tracks Bluebird of Delhi and Isfahan
The Far East Suite
44
What musical movement was led by Maurice Ravel
Musical Impressionism
45
What French impressionist composer created Suite Bergamasque and a symphonic composition depicting the sea title La Mer
Claude Debussy
46
What painting shows middle eastern women being stabbed and is dominated by a huge red-covered bed
Death of Sardanapalus
47
What man designed the bell tower that sits adjacent to the Duomo in Florence
Giotto
48
In what English composer's War Requiem does the traditional text of the Latin mass intersperses with poems by Wilfred Owen
Benjamin Britten
49
What composer wrote a requiem that is unusually set to the German text of the Lutheran Bible instead of the traditional Latin
Johannes Brahms
50
51
Who sculpted Mr Rushmore
Gutzon Borglum
52
What composer’s Roman Carnival Overture reused material from his opera Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
53
What composer used the ‘queen mab’ scherzo as part of a massive choral symphony based on Romeo and Juliet
Hector Berlioz
54
What artist depicted the Coronation of the Christian Knight on the central panel of his Modena Triptych
El Greco
55
What artist painted the Dormition of the Virgin in the 1560s
El greco
56
What artists late works depicts the castle of San Servando and the Alcantara bridge
El greco
57
What man’s band The Second Testament created the album E=mc2
Count Basie
58
What composer wrote an piano suite based on an ETA Hoffman character called Kreisleriana
Robert Schumann
59
What composer depicted Eusebius and Florestan in his collection Carnaval
Robert Schumann
60
What composer set music to Heinrich Heine’s poem ‘I stand in Dark Dreams’
Grieg
61
What composer created incidental music such as ‘ the Abduction of the Bride, and Solveigs song
Grieg
62
What composer depicted a wild dance at a village inn in the first of his Mephisto Waltzes
Franz Lizst
63
Who composed Totentanz
Lizst
64
What artists depiction of Judith and Holofernes showed the general sitting in a cushion and dangling his legs over the base
Donatello
65
What artists image of Habakukk was given a nickname meaning pumpkin
Donatello
66
What artist showed a line of blindfolded soldiers in Gassed
John Singer Sargent
67
What artist painted two guitars on a back wall of a room in El Jaleo
John Singer Sargent
68
What artists most famous portrait shows the pale wife of Pierre Gautrrau
John Singer Sargent
69
What composer used an A E F motif in his Double Concerto for violin and cello
Brahms
70
What composer wrote his Tragic Overture and orchestral dances based on folk melodies
Brahms
71
What composer created a piece that was nicknamed because he traded it for an English razor
Joseph Haydn
72
What composer created string quartets that contained variations in the Deutschlandiled
Joseph Haydn
73
What composers ‘song of the Hindu trader’ was arranged into the hit ‘song of India’
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
74
What composer created an opera where Mizgir loves a woman who melts
Nikolai Rimsky-korskov
75
What man wrote the Procession of the Nobles for the collaborative opera Mlada
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsavok
76
What composer wrote Les Noces or The Wedding
Igor Stravinsky

Quizbowl (17 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions