Art

Velazquez

A self portrait of this artist wearing a cross on his black tunic and holding a palette can be seen in one of his paintings. He included a cupid holding a mirror in his Rokeby Venus and painted the results of the siege of a Dutch town in The Surrender of Breda. This artist painted a girl stepping on a dog and a dwarf in a dress as the title attendants of the Infanta Margarita as court painter for Philip IV of Spain. For 20 points, name this Spanish painter of Las Meninas.

Giotto

A story in Boccaccio's Decameron involves his finding it funny that he was so covered in mud that nobody would recognize him. He designed the freestanding campanile of Florence's Duomo, and one of his earliest paintings was a large crucifix in Santa Maria Novella. Legend has it that he was a shepherd boy discovered by Cimabue while drawing some sheep on some rocks. His masterwork is usually considered to be the fresco cycles in the Scrovegni, or Arena Chapel in Padua. He may also have painted the frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi depicting that saint's life. For 10 points, name this early 14th-century Italian artist, sometimes considered the first painter of the Renaissance.

Oath of the Horatii

A student of this work's artist, Anne-Louis Girodet, depicted a continuation of its story, in which a title character kills his sister for mourning her fiancé, The Death of Camilla. That sister is in the painting itself, along with several other women on the right-hand side. The central figures are preparing to fight an analogous group from Alba Longa, one of whom is Camilla's husband-to-be, who is killed in the altercation. A secondary focus is the background, whose arches number the same as the title (*) characters, while one of the men is clutching a spear in his right hand and himself being held by his brother. A man in front of them has one hand open and three swords in the other, while the three title characters stretch their arms forward towards the swords. For 10 points name this painting depicting a triplet of soldiers swearing to fight for Rome, by Jacques Louis David

Guernica

A tapestry copy of this painting in the New York UN building was temporarily covered with a blue curtain, and this work was exhibited with a poem by Paul Eluard. A soldier holding a broken sword lies at the bottom of this painting with a flower in his hand while a ghostly woman reaches in from a window holding a (*) candle. It depicts a market day and a light bulb in the form of an eye along with a woman grieving over her child. A bull with smoke for a tail and a screaming horse being pierced with a spear appear at the left of this painting. For 10 points, Pablo Picasso painted what mural in response to the bombing of a Basque town?

Grieg

He's not Debussy, but this composer used the melody from his previous Spillemaend in his String Quartet in g minor. This composer of The Mountain Thrall also composed Scenes of Country Life for piano, but his most famous piano composition is Lyric Pieces. His opus 25, Six Songs were inspired by an author of the same country for whose play this composer most famously wrote incidental music. For 10 points, "March of the Trolls" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King," part of the Peer Gynt suite, were by what Norwegian composer?

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

This work may have been inspired by an 1887 work titled Animal Locomotion as well as works done by Etienne-Jules Marey. It was shown at an event that included Picabia's Dances at the Spring and the artist of this work also submitted Portrait of Chess Players. One critic dubbed it "Explosion in a Shingle Factory" and the American Art News offered a reward for anyone who could "find the lady". The work shows about twenty different images of the lady performing the titular action, similar to stroboscopic photography. For 10 points, name this piece that caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show, a work by Marcel Duchamp.

Delacroix

A bearded man wearing a leopard skin presents a basket to the titular queen in this artist's Cleopatra and the Peasant, and a black man in a red turban stands in back of a woman standing on some rubble in his Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi. A man reclines on a red bed in the middle of a massacre in his Death of Sardanapalus, and in another painting, a boy with two pistols flanks the title figure, who is raising the French flag. For 10 points, name this painter of Liberty Leading the People

Giotto di Bondone

A demon flies towards a hanged woman in Despair, a scene in this artist's series on the seven vices. The enthroned St. Peter of his Stefaneschi Triptych is drawn similarly to Mary in his Ognissanti Madonna. The blue ceiling of his most famous work is decorated with stars and circular busts of Jesus and the Four Apostles. Christ extends his arms and is surrounded by a rainbow in his Last Judgment. He designed a tall bell tower in Florence. Angels fly recklessly above a craggy rock in the (*) Lamentation scene by this student of Cimabue; that scene was commissioned to atone for the sins of the usurer, Reginaldo Scrovegni. For 10 points, name this artist of the early Italian Renaissance who created the Arena Chapel frescoes.

Crucifixion

A dice game goes on in the bottom right of an Emil Nolde painting of this scene, and Salvador Dali's depiction of it simultaneously explores the unfolding of a hypercube. The central figure wears a Jewish prayer shawl as a synagogue burns in the background in a Mark Chagall painting titled after a White version of this scene. Matthias Grünewald is also known for a depiction of this scene which contains a group of (*) weeping women and the Latin acronym INRI just above the central person's head. For 10 points, what scene depicts Christ on the cross?

da Vinci

A lost painting by this man was commissioned to compete with Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina and was called The Battle of Anghiari. He painted an infant John the Baptist sitting on a cliff next to the title figure of his Madonna of the Rocks. This man demonstrated the "canon of proportions" with a sketch of a man inscribed in a square and a circle titled the "Vitruvian Man." Another of his paintings shows Peter holding a knife and Judas wearing green and blue. For 10 points, name this Renaissance Italian painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.

Futurism

A manifesto for the architecture of this movement was written by Antonio Sant‟Elia, an important architect of this style. Artists such as Mikhail Larionov of Rayonism were influenced by this style, and the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was a prominent Russian member of this movement. The Manifesto of this movement claimed that "a speeding bullet is more beautiful than the Mona Lisa," and was written by Filippo Marinetti. Works like The City Rises and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space are paragons of this style. Artists like Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and Umberto Boccioni were artists in, For 10 points, what early 20th century Italian art style that worshipped speed and violence?

Las Meninas

A nun and confessor stand in the mid-ground of this painting, which includes several paintings from Rubens's Metamorphosis series in the background. Evidence suggests that the Cross of St. James was added to the drapery of one figure in this work after the artist was inducted into the Order of Santiago. Notably, this painting is the only known double portrait of King Philip IV and his wife Mariana of Austria, whose countenances are (*) reflected by a mirror in the background of this painting, while their daughter the Infanta Margarita is flanked by dwarves, a large dog, and the titular attendants in the foreground. For ten points name this 1656 painting which resides in the Prado, the magnum opus of Diego Velazquez.

Eggs

A painting by Oskar Kokoschka depicts a cat sitting under a table with three forks pointing towards a "red" version of these objects. A man paints a hummingbird while looking at one of these items in Rene Magritte's Clairvoyance. These items are being prepared in an orange bowl by an "old woman" in a Velasquez painting. In Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus, a flower emerges from one of these objects sitting in a stone hand. During the Renaissance, these items were commonly mixed with pigment to form a quickly- drying medium called tempera. For 10 points, name these objects ornately decorated by the Fabergé

Mexico

After emigrating to this country from the United States, Conlon Nancarrow composed his studies for player piano. A nineteenth-century composer from this country wrote the waltz Over the Waves. Aaron Copland incorporated folk songs from this country into a tone poem depicting one of its dance halls. The home country of composers such as (*) Silvestre Revueltas, its popular ranchera songs include "Cielito Lindo." A folk ensemble from this country includes a vihuela and a guitarron, and originated in Jalisco. For 10 points, name this country whose Mariachi bands play songs such as "La Cuharacha" and "La Bamba."

Venus of Urbino

Art/Architecture (Note to moderator: Giorgione is pronounced Zhor-ZHOH-nay. Manet is pronounced MAN-ay. Titian is pronounced TIH-shun.) There is a pot of myrtle flowers on a window sill in the background, and the main figure is holding flowers in her right hand and has a red floral pattern on her mattresses. There are two women in the background, one standing and one kneeling with her back towards the painting, picking out clothes. This work is often compared to a Giorgione work that preceded it and Manet's Olympia, which was painted hundreds of years later. Name this Titian painting of a reclining nude

A Sunday Afternoon on Island of La Grande Jatte

Background: four people in white are rowing a boat headed by a man in blue. A man with a top hat holds a cane while staring out to the left, and a man in a rowing shirt smokes a pipe next to a brown dog while two soldiers facing away can be seen in the back of this painting. Two ladies sit on the ground, one with a blue [*] umbrella, the other holding flowers, and in the background are several boats sailing in the river. On the right, a woman holding an umbrella holds a monkey on a leash. Pointillist On the Seine by Georges Seurat

Bernini

Cerberus appears below the title figure, on whose face are sculpted tears, in this artist's Rape of Proserpine. He depicted a fully clothed David in the act of throwing a stone, and a nymph is in the middle of turning into a laurel in his Apollo and Daphne. A work of his in the Piazza Navona includes depictions of the Danube and the Ganges, the Fountain of the Four Rivers. One of this man's most famous sculptures is housed in Santa Maria della Vittoria and depicts an angel pointing a spear at the writhing title saint. For 10 points, name this sculptor of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

The Thinker

Commissioned by Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Copy of this sculpture is located in front of philosophy hall at Columbia University. The original moved in front of the Pantheon. Originally titled the Poet. Meant to represent Dante contemplating his Divine Comedy in front of Gates of Hell, also by the same sculptor as this work. Depicting a man in an anatomically impossible pose because of wrist strain, Rodin.

The Night Watch

Directly above the central figure in this work is the partial face and painter's beret a clever self-portrait of the artist. To the right of the painting, a man can be seen pointing a spear downward at a dog in the shadows while at the left a girl wearing a bright yellow dress stands illuminated beneath a man carrying a blue and yellow banner. Covered in a dark varnish that mistakenly set the painting at the wrong time of day, for 10 points, identify this work by Rembrandt van Rijn depicting Captain Frans Banning Cocq and his company

Hieronymus Bosch

Grim reaper looks around a corner and holds an arrow to a man surrounded by gremlins. In another of his works, an orange flag moves with the wind and a group of monks talk to a nun playing a lute. That work by this painter of Death and the Miser depicts people in water holding bowls as they surround the titular (*) Ship of Fools. He is best remembered for a triptych which showcases Hell and Paradise. For 10 points, name this Netherlandish painter who depicted giant fruit, rabbits, and nudes in The Garden of Earthly Delights

Claude Debussy

He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune

Cezanne

His early dark period contained a work depicting two men, one holding a knife, over a dead body, in his The Murder. A later work by this artist is characterized by thick layers of paint due to reworking and depicts a path through a small town in House of the Hanged Man, one of few works he signed. Several paintings by this artist show groups of men gambling in The Card Players and he depicted nude women in his portraits of bathers. His Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier remains the most expensive still-life ever sold, and he depicted a certain geographical feature, with several paintings showing it from Les Lauves. For 10 points, name this French post-impressionist known for his paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire.

Bauhaus

In its early phases, this group was influenced by the aesthetic ideas of Johannes Itten, who taught the preliminary course Vorkurs. Three years later, Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who rewrote the Vorkurs with an emphasis on New Objectivity. Members of this school include Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig, and Ernst May, who are credited with thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Dresden, Frankfurt and Berlin. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, For 10 points, identify this German school of art and architecture that translates to "Building School."

Carvaggio

In of this artists's works, a tax collector garbed in a Roman military uniform lies under a horse who appears to be ready to stomp on him during the titular event. In addition to Conversion on the Way to Damascus, this man also painted a blasphemous depiction of the Assumption of Mary where Mary's corpse is garbed in red and lies ungracefully in the midst of the mourning disciples, a work entitled (*) Death of the Virgin. For 10 points name this Italian Baroque painter who utilized tenebrism to emphasize the contemporaneous setting used in his painting of Jesus converting the titular tax collector, The Calling of St. Matthew. This man depicts several mourners placing the dead Christ on top of a flat rock, and portrays the Virgin Mary as an old woman in his work Entombment. In addition to painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, this painter made a painting of Saint Joseph with an ass, an angel and the Madonna and Child, Rest on the Flight Into Egypt. He also painted a portrait with three dumbfounded disciples reveling at the sight of Jesus post-resurrection, The Supper at Emmaus. His best-known work shows Jesus and a beam of light pointing at the title figure surrounded by his assistants. For 10 points, name this Italian painter and master of chiaroscuro who painted The Calling of St. Matthew.

Rubens

In one of this artist's paintings, Aurora watches overhead as the central figure wears a black gown and escapes from her confinement. That work appears in a series that also includes a work showing a figure wearing a blue cape with fleur-de-lis designs. This artist of Flight from Blois and (*) Disembarkation at Marseilles included those works in his Marie de'Medici Cycle. His most famous altarpieces are at display at Antwerp and depict the rise and fall of Christ. For 10 points, name this Baroque Flemish artist who painted the Elevation and Descent from the Cross.

Botticelli

In one of this man's paintings located in the Sistine Chapel, Joshua protects Moses from being stoned on the right while Korah rebels at the center. This man's Adoration of the Magi takes place under the crumbling ruins of a Roman building and prominently features some Medicis as the Magi. His other works in praise of the Medici family include Lorenzo the Magnificent holding an inkpot for Mary in his Madonna of the Magnificat. Another painting by this artist depicts Flora's transformation in an orange grove to the right of the three graces dancing, and is often called La Primavera. For ten points, name this artist who painted a naked goddess emerging from a clam shell in The Birth of Venus

Rembrandt

In one of this man's works, a man peeks his head inside a bed curtain while the title reclining nude woman with flower bracelets raises her right hand. The title character, wearing a white turban and a crown, looks behind at backlit Hebrew writing in another of his works. A man puts his hand over the heart of the title figure in a red dress in a wedding portrait by this painter of Danaë and (*) Belshazzar's Feast. In one work, he showed a man carrying a flag with a blue stripe while others hoist spears, and in another, a figure uses forceps to display a corpse's muscles. This artist of The Jewish Bride made several portraits of his wife Saskia, in addition to over 80 self-portraits. For 10 points, name this Dutch painter of The Night Watch and The Anatomy Lesson.

Chagall

In one painting by this artist, a jumping fish conducts an animal cellist as a blue figure wraps his arms around the central figure in red; that painting is La mariée. In another work by this man, a swastika'd man burns down a synagogue and a green figure carries a sack to the right, as Jesus, who wears a prayer shawl, is crucified. In one work by this painter of White Crucifixion, a scythe-carrying man walks toward an upside-down violinist, while in the foreground, a green-faced man looks at a goat, on whose cheek there is another goat. For 10 points, name this Jewish painter of I and the Village

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In one painting from this movement Jesus knocks on a door while carrying a lantern. Notable works from this movement include King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid and Light of the World. Another work from this movement features the pale title figure floating next to some weeds, and was created when the model Elizabeth Siddal was forced to stay in an icy tub for several hours. Siddal was also used to model as a character from The Divine Comedy in a painting from this movement titled Beata Beatrix. For 10 points, the identify this movement led by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which took its name from the rejection of artistic styles after a certain Renaissance painter

Oklahoma

In one song from this musical, a character claims to have been "hoodblinked" and "hambushed" in "It's A Scandal! It's An Outrage!" Two other characters in this musical make plans to discreetly attend a box social in "People Will Say We're In Love." Ali Hakim pays fifty dollars to Will to get out of marrying Ado Annie, and Laura ends up with Curley, who opens this show by singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning." For 10 points, name this Rogers and Hammerstein musical, which is about romance among farmers in the Indian Territory and is named for a present-day American state

Magic Flute

In this opera's, one character is told to "Get out," meaning that he was denied access to a temple. At the beginning, another character tells the protagonist that he strangled the serpent chasing him, and as a result has a padlock placed over his mouth. "Der Vogelfänger bin ich jai" is sung by (*) Papageno, who is caught by Monostatos. The aria "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" is sung when one character is shown a portrait of a woman he would later fall in love with. Sarastro is wanted dead by the Queen of the Night, but her plans fail when Tamino marries Pamina. For 10 points, name this Mozart opera in which hearts are changed by the title instrument. n

Madame Butterfly

In this opera, a dinner's toasts are interrupted by an off scene whisper that warns the protagonist of being damned. One character that rides the USS Abraham talks about buying a house for 999 years, before which the beginning of "The Star- Spangled Banner" was played. That character would meet (*) Sharpless. The Grand Commissioner arrives and finishes up paperwork for the protagonist. She is later helped into a gown by Suzuki after the aria "Night is Falling," but her joy comes to an end when she names her child Sorrow. This is, for 10 points, which opera telling of the relationship between Colonel Pinkerton and Cio-Cio San, by Giacomo Puccini

Funeral of the Count of Orgaz

In this painting, a harpist and two other musicians sit to the left of a figure in yellow who holds some keys. The parish priest who commissioned it may be the figure in the white translucent gown with his back to the viewer in its bottom right. The artist's signature can be found on the handkerchief of a young boy, who was modeled after the artist's own illegitimate son. A kneeling (*) John the Baptist looks up towards Jesus while Mary, seated across from him, stares down at this painting's title figure. That title figure is supported by the elaborately-robed Saints Augustine and Stephen. This work is located in the Church of Santo Tome in Toledo. For 10 points, name this El Greco masterpiece where the title nobleman dies and is welcomed into Heaven

Greece

Influence from a namesake German academy led 19th-century Academic realists from this country to form the Munich School. An allegorical depiction of this modern-day country kneels on a stone from which the arm of a dead man extends in an 1826 painting. Antoine-Jean Gros dubbed a painting set in this country "the massacre of painting". In this modern-day country, the (*) Black-Figure style was largely replaced by the Red-Figure style for painting kylikes. This country is depicted Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi in a painting by an artist who showed its citizens being raped and sold into slavery by turban-wearing horsemen in The Massacre at Chios. For 10 points, name this country home to such classical painters as Zeuxis and Apelles

Monticello

Its architect designed a clock with an hour hand only and a weathervane which can be read from indoors, both located in its east portico. It was one of the earliest buildings with a dumbwaiter, and its dining room table was folded up between meals. Several of its rooms are named for their shape, such as the "North Octagonal" and "South Square" rooms. While the master bedroom incorporates elements from the Roman temple of Fortuna Virilis, the most major influence on it was the villas of Andrea Palladio that its inhabitant and designer had seen while abroad; the Villa Rotonda, for example, inspired its famous dome. For 10 points, name this Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson.

Symphony of a Thousand

Its composer improvised in the Infirma nostri corporis part of the first section, which is set around the hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus". Franz Liszt later used the last scene of its second section, which features two solos for the Pater Ecstaticus and Pater Profundis, and is a rendition of the closing scene from Goethe's Faust. Written in E flat major, its alternate name comes from the fact that it requires a large number of people to play it. For 10 points, identify this symphony, the 8th of Gustav Mahler.

Louis Sullivan

Late in life, this architect designed the Purdue State Bank and National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna, two of several banks that became known as his jewel boxes. This architect also designed a bronze-gated tomb at Graceland Cemetery that houses Carrie Eliza Getty. Now the namesake of the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building he designed in 1899, most of this architect's major works were done in partnership with a German-born architect, including the cur- rent home of Chicago's Roosevelt University, the Auditorium Building. This architect loaned money for the purchase of a first house by Frank Lloyd Wright, who considered him a mentor. Name this architect whose partnership with Dankmar Adler included the design for a ten-story building in St. Louis, the Wainwright Building

Brahms

Movements in one of this man's most famous works include "How lovely is thy dwelling place" and "for all flesh is as grass", his Opus 45 created in 1868. Because of the similarities of his first symphony to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, that work is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth". One of his most famous works, a companion to the Tragic Overture, was composed in 1880 as a thank you present for receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. He also created variations on themes of Paganini, Handel and Haydn. For 10 points, identify this composer of Academic Festival Overture and A German Requiem

Garden of Earthly Delights

On the right side of this work is a backgammon table with three dice on it, while a woman carrying a jug and a candle has another large die on her head. The left side of this painting depicts a unicorn, a giraffe, and a large pink fountain. The exterior of this work is a grisaille of a transparent sphere containing traces of vegetation, the world during the Third Day of creation. This painting's left panel includes God's hand on Eve's wrist in Eden, while its rightmost panel depicts punishment in Hell and its central panel contains many nudes frolicking in the title sinful location. For 10 points, name this triptych by Hieronymus Bosch.

England

One artist from this country painted a sideburned man who tries to hold his mistress back as she rises from his lap. That painting, The Awakening Conscience, was derided for vulgarity, as was a painting which showed Jesus as a boy with a hand injury in Joseph's carpentry shop. Another painting from this country depicts a red dove, which carries a poppy to the kneeling, green- clad Beata Beatrix. Elizabeth Siddall modeled in this country for a painting in which she clutches flowers and floats down a weedy river.. For 10 points, identify this country which produced Ophelia and included artists like John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in its Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Calling of St. Matthew

One figure in this painting was imported from its artist's The Fortune Teller, while the two figures at left were derived from a Holbein print of gamblers unaware of the presence of death. This painting hangs to the left of one in which the title figure is "Inspired" by an angel, and it features a figure who wears a sword and straddles a bench below a four-paneled window. This painting in the (*) Contarelli Chapel shows a table reminiscent of its artist's Cardsharps. St Peter stands in front of Jesus, who stretches his arm out beneath a shaft of light toward the title figure, who in turn gestures to himself questioningly. For ten points, identify this painting in which a tax collector joins Jesus as an apostle, a work by Caravaggio

van Eyck

One of his paintings shows a white robed man kneeling behind a knight. In addition to Madonna of the Canon Van der Paele, this man often inscribed his motto "Als ich Chan" in his works. Peacocks can be found in the background of his Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, and he collaborated on a work that features Adam and Eve flanking angels above a panel showing The Adoration of the Lamb. He also painted a work that uses a dog to show fidelity and has a woman in a green dress holding a merchant's hand. For 10 points, name this painter of The Ghent Altarpiece and The Arnolfini Wedding.

String Quartet

One of these works by Smetana (SMET-n-uh) is entitled From My Life. Mozart composed six of them dedicated to Haydn. Haydn pioneered this form in the six he composed for Count Erdody, two of which are nicknamed "Sunrise" and "Emperor." Beethoven dedicated six of them to Count Razumovsky (rahs-oo-MAWF-skee), Schubert entitled one Death and the Maiden, and Dvorak (DVAWR-zhahk) composed an "American" one. For 10 points, name these four-movement works scored for viola, cello, and two violins

Rivera

One of this artist's pieces shows his assistant Paulette Goddard holding "the tree of life and love." Another of his paintings features a microscopic view of cells running through the middle, while a hand grasps a glowing dial and the title figure worriedly operates controls. That painting outraged Nelson Rockefeller because it depicted Vladimir Lenin, and survives today as a piece that depicts man as the "controller of the universe." He also painted laborers at the River Rouge plant of the Ford Company. This artist of Detroit Industry and Man at the Crossroads was married to the artist of Self-Portrait with Monkey. For 10 points, name this the one-time husband of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican muralist

Altdorfer

One of this artist's works a cross bracketed by two normal-sized figures in red robes. Besides his Crucifixion, A tiny creature with a red underbelly looks imploringly up at a black-armored knight in his St. George and the Dragon. A tall cream-colored house is given a path across a ravine in his Landscape with a Footbridge. In his most famous work, a crescent moon visible in the upper left appears with the setting sun in the lower right of the sky, and an opening in the clouds features a floating red banner, under which two tremendous armies clash. For 10 points, identify this painter of The Battle of Alexander at Issus

John Philip Sousa

One of this composer's pieces is said to have gotten its name from the firework-like effects of the drums in its score, and in addition to "The Thunderer," this man composed a piece in 6/8 time for the Washington Post. In his most famous form, he composed "Semper Fidelis" for the US Marine Corps and a piece entitled "U.S. Field Artillery" that is based on the "Caisson Song." For 10 points, name this American composer of "Stars and Stripes Forever" known as the "March King

Messiah

One of two instrumental movements in this work is the Pifa, a sinfonia that depicts shepherds. This piece contains the duet "O death, where is thy sting?", and a tenor sings "ev'ry mountain and hill" during the aria "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted." This work's libretto was written by Charles Jennens, and its three parts depict the(*) Annunciation, the Passion, and Paul's teachings. King George II stood up for a section of this piece containing the lines "For he shall reign for ever and ever." For 10 points, identify this oratorio by George Frideric Handel that includes the "Hallelujah Chorus."

Sophocles

One play by this writer begins with Deianeira (day-uh-NEE-rah) complaining that her life is sorrowful and bitter; she later dyes a robe in blood so her husband will not love Iole (ih-OH-lee). Another work by this writer is about the attempt of Neoptolemus (nee-op-TOL-ee-mus) and Odysseus (oh-DIS-see-us) to recruit a fighter on the island of Lemnos. This writer ended the tradition of writing tragedies as parts of trilogies, and he added a third actor to the stage. The Trachiniae (truh-KIN- ee-ee) and Philoctetes (fil-uhk-TEE-teez) are two of his seven plays which have survived in their entirety. He followed soon after Aeschylus (EHS-kuh- lus), and wrote plays about a certain character at Colonus and the King; that character is Oedipus (EHD-uh-pihs). Name this playwright whose third Theban play was Antigone (aan-TIH-goh-nee).

The Gulf Stream

Painted during the artist's shift towards more abstract watercolors, this oil work was created after two separate trips to Nassau. The scene features numerous stalks of sugar cane that lie scattered at the central figure's feet. Some critics have speculated that the "rigger" in the upper left-hand corner was added in order to offer hope and make the work more appealing to buyers. For 10 points, identify this picture depicting a tumultuous water spout, raging sharks, and a seemingly stoic black man awaiting his demise; a painting of a boat drifting along the titular ocean current by Winslow Homer.

Wyeth

Some of his lesser known paintings include Long Limb and Late Fall, the former being an egg tempera and the latter a watercolor. He painted Lovers and Gone, both part of the over 200 portraits that he did from 1971 to 1985 of his neighbor Helga Testorf without the knowledge of his wife or her husband. His most famous work depicts his neighbor sprawled on a dry field facing her house in the distance. For ten points, identify this American painter, the creator of Christina's World.

Mozart

The aria "Vedrommi Intorno" is sung by the titular King of Crete in this man's opera Idomeneo. Another of his operas contains the aria "Ho capito, signor, si" and contains the character Leporello, the servant of a character who kills Donna Anna's father and is dragged to hell at the end of the opera. This man composed "The Queen of the Night Aria" for a well-known piece, and in yet another opera with music composed by him, Ferrando and Guglielmo try to seduce each other's wives; that opera is Così fan tutte ("TWO"-tee). For 10 points name this Austrian composer of the operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute

Third of May 1808

The artist of this painting also created a preceding work showing a mob attacking Mamaluke soldiers on horseback. The action takes place at the hill of Principe Pio, where a man in yellow pants and a white shirt stands amidst a crowd of scared civilians and raises his arms in a Christ-like pose. The bodies and the pool of blood below hint at his fate as a row of soldiers on the right lines up their guns and prepares to fire into the crowd in, for 10 points, what Francisco Goya work depicting the executions of the titular day? Elements of this work could be earlier seen in the artist's print "And it cannot be helped." This work is paired with a Picasso painting in which some victims are replaced with pregnant women, Massacre in Korea. Besides including themes from the Disasters of War series, a companion to this piece shows a dead man sliding off his horse in the Charge of the Mamelukes. A box lantern is surrounded by a group of uniformed men facing the central figure, who has his arms raised in despair. For 10 points, this work showing a firing squad in Madrid, painted by Francisco Goya and titled for the date of that event

Birth of Venus

The background of this work depicts an orange grove with trees that have gold covered leaves. One figure in the right foreground of this work is shown wearing a white dress with blue flowers. Roses appear to the left of the central figure in this work, who covers her right breast. Zephyr and Chloris blow the titular figure of this work to land, where she is to be covered with a red robe. The nude title figure of this painting is shown rising up from the sea on a shell. For 10 points, identify this painting of the Roman goddess of love by Sandro Botticelli. A depiction of this scene by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (boo-ger-OH) shows two men blowing conch shells. A better known depiction of this scene features flowers floating through the air while a man produces wind from his mouth. That depiction also features a woman handing a (*) pink cloak to the main figure, who stands nude on a conch shell. Sandro Botticelli painted a well known version of, for 10 points, what mythological scene which shows the conception of a certain Roman goddess

Arnolfini Marriage

The bottom of this painting includes a rug adorned with alternating red and blue squares. Near the carving of Saint Margaret, a brown feather duster hangs from the top of a bed. Several oranges and red sandals are scattered through the room in this work, while scenes from the Passion can be seen around a (*) convex mirror. A brass chandelier hangs above the artist's signature and a brown dog sits in front of the title characters. One figure wears a black top hat and a fur coat, while the other sports a green dress and holds the other's hand. For 10 points, name this painting showing a couple by Jan van Eyck.

Tchaikovsky

The first movement of this composer's Serenade for Strings in C is labeled "Pezzo in sonatina form." He wrote Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and his only unnumbered symphony was based on Byron's Manfred. His second symphony is nicknamed "Little Russian" and his sixth is also known as "Pathetique." For 10 points, name this composer who included "Trepak" and "Waltz of the Flowers" in his ballet The Nutcracker. used a Friedrich Schiller play for the basis for his opera about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans. He wrote his own libretto for his opera about the guardsman of Ivan the Terrible, The Oprichnik. Tatyana does not return the title character's love in his (*) Eugene Onegin, while another of his operas ends with Hermann killing himself after seeing the titular card. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of The Queen of Spades who also composed the 1812 Overture.

The Nutcracker

The first production of this was choreographed by Lev Ivanov after Marius Pepita became ill, and for it the composer had a celeste brought in secret from Germany. Based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman, it sees a girl dream of characters such as Mother Ginger, the (*) Snow Queen, and Arabian Coffee, who are inspired by food items at a party where that girl, Clara, receives the title gift from Count Drosselmeyer. Featuring the Rat King, name this Tchaikovsky ballet which features the celeste in the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy."

The Planets

The idea for this work was suggested by Clifford Bax. Originally scored as a piano duet, the last movement of this work was instead scored for an organ. A chorus is located in a separate room in one movement of this work, whose music was given to the musicians two hours before its premiere performance in the Queen's Hall. Its last movement has the chorus fade out at the end, and is called "The Mystic". This suite contains "The Magician" and "The Bringer of Peace," as well as the "Bringer of Jollity". The "Bringer of War" is a well-known movement in, For 10 points, what eight-movement suite by Gustav Holst based on celestial objects such as Mercury?

Fountain of Four Rivers

The people of its city originally protested its installation because it was built during a famine at taxpayer expense and because it displaced street vendors. Antonio Bernal wrote a report on its unveiling after its commission by the Pamphilj family. The artist, who also created Apollo and Daphne, was se- lected from several competitors by Pope Innocent the Tenth. The title subjects were selected as represen- tatives of the Renaissance-recognized four continents by its sculptor, Gianlorenzo Bernini. Name this sculpture in Rome's Piazza Navona [pee-ATZ-ah nah-VOH-nah] featuring the Rio de la Plata, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Danube

Rite of Spring

The scenario for this musical work was first conceived by Nicholas Roerich (ROAR-ik), who designed its costumes and sets. Excerpts from it accompany an animation of the prehistoric earth and dinosaurs in Walt Disney's Fantasia. Subtitled "Pictures from Pagan Russia," this Sergei Diaghilev (dee-AH-gil-ev) production begins with a high bassoon solo. Its choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky ends with a young girl dancing (*) herself to death in a sacrificial ritual. For 10 points, name this ballet that caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere by Igor Stravinsky

Arnolflini Portrait

The single lit candle among the brass chandelier's several has resulted in widely-varying interpre- tations, but the most common is that it represents the titular event. Indeed, it is often argued that the paint- ing was created as a legal document to validate that. However, this is called into question by the left fig- ure's use of his left hand instead of his right. The woman looks pregnant, but this was probably simply due to the predominant style of 1434, when it was made. A dog sits at her feet, and an observer of the ceremony can be seen in the mirror. The painting is now in London's National Gallery. Name this oil painting that depicts the marriage of a Lucca merchant, a work by Jan van Eyck

Imperial Hotel

The son of this structure's architect used a similar style to design the John Sowden House. Two long wings connect via breezeways to the central part of this structure, whose roofs are designed to look like pyramids. Oya stone was used in this building's construction to amplify the effect of the Maya Revival Style. When it was demolished in 1968 due to its sinking foundation, its facade and reflecting pool were moved to a museum nearly 250 miles away. Its copper roof, cantilevered floors, and suspended piping allowed it to survive a great disaster in 1923. For 10 points, name this structure that withstood the Great Kanto Earthquake, a lodging for travelers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located in Tokyo

Rubens

The title figure stares towards the sky as several ferocious felines roam about in a cave in one of his work, and he also painted two versions of The Judgement of Paris. In addition to Daniel in the Lion's Den, he was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall, and he painted a self-portrait with his wife Isabella Brandt in a Honeysuckle Bower. He also painted a series of twenty four paintings based on the life of a French queen. For 10 points, identify this Flemish artist of the Marie de Medici cycle who painted Raising of the Cross and Descent from the Cross, the namesake of some large nude figures

Wright

This architect designed houses for himself in Arizona and Wisconsin which he named Taliesin East and West. One of this man's designs near the University of Chicago campus exemplifies the Prairie Style. He was commissioned by the Kaufmann family to build a house along a portion of Bear Run in Pennsylvania. This architect designed a museum with the intention that visitors view works of art as they make their way down a spiral staircase inside an inverted ziggurat. For 10 points, name this architect of Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum

Corbusier

This architect used metal sheets to create a weathervane-like structure for his Open Hand Monument. He used the height of a man with his arm raised as the basis for a system of proportions called Modulor. This man invented a cube-shaped armchair called the "Grand Confort", developed a Y-shaped "hen's foot" floor plan for his proposed "Cartesian skyscraper", and used some of the principles of his (*) "Radiant City" in his design for Chandigarh. Horizontal windows, roof gardens, and the replacement of support walls with stilts called pilotis were among the "five points" described in a manifesto by this architect, who put them into practice with his Villa Savoye. For 10 points, name this Swiss-French architect who wrote Towards a New Architecture

Frank Gehry

This architect's namesake tower in Hanover spirals slightly, and his buildings in Santa Monica include his house. A design of his for the Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague which implies a human couple is known as Dancing House. [*] The faultiness of his Stata Center led to a lawsuit from MIT, and other works of his include the Experience Music project in Seattle and the Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles. For 10 points, name this modern American architect whose trademark silvery sheets of metal cover buildings such as the Guggenheim Bilbao

Cellini

This artist created a model with a scimitar and broken lance which was to be the basis for a never realized fifty-four foot high statute of Mars. This man, along with his patron, helped restore the Etruscan Chimera d'Arezzo. He created a marble crucifix for his own tomb but now resides in the Escorial. His portrait work includes a bust of Bindo Altoviti and one of Cosimo I. An antlered stag sticks out above a female nude in his bronze Nymph of Fontainbleau. One of his more famous bronze works shows one title figure holding a sword and the head of the other figure. For 10 points, name this sculptor and goldsmith who created a saltcellar for Francis I and Perseus With the Head of Medusa

Kadinsky

This artist depicted a ship with a green sail attacking a ship with a blue sail in his painting Sea Battle. He argued that yellow was a warm, spreading color while blue was a cold, contracting color in Concerning the Spiritual in Art. His painting of a man wearing clothes of the title color on a white horse crossing a green hill gave its name to an artistic movement he founded along with Franz Marc. Inspired by music, he painted many canvases of colorful abstract forms titled Compositions and Improvisations. For 10 points, name this Russian abstract painter who cofounded The Blue Rider

Michelangelo

This artist of the Madonna of Bruges [BROOZH] sculpted a monkey grabbing the leg of a man in straps along with a horned Moses for the tomb of Pope Julius II. This sculptor of The Dying Slave showed himself holding his flayed skin in his fresco The Last Judgment. Another of his works shows a nude man holding a slingshot in preparation for battle with Goliath. For 10 points, name this Italian artist of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, who sculpted a noted Pietà and marble David

Miles Davis

This artist once almost got in a fight with Thelonious Monk, which helped give him a reputation of having a quick temper. This man's first quintet released four albums from a two day recording session but broke up due to the band member's drug problems. This artist teamed up with Gil Evans to produce some of his most famous music, and they teamed up with Joaquin Rodrigo to produce Sketches of Spain. He reformed his sextet to record his most famous modal jazz album. For 10 points, name this jazz trumpeter who fused jazz and rock n' roll in his album Bitches Brew and whose most popular album is Kind of Blue

Lucas Cranach the Elder

This artist painted several canvases entitled Melancholia in which a woman in a red dress sits on the floor and lazily whittles a stick, seemingly unaware that several nude infants are doing ridiculously precocious things around her. This artist depicted himself being splashed with Christ's blood in a painting that repeats the letters "VDMIA," indicating "the word of the Lord endures forever." He painted several depictions of Venus as a tall, slender nude, including a painting in which she holds up a nearly invisible translucent cloth across her pubis. After the death of his son Hans, this artist of the Weimar Altarpiece used a single crow's wing in his coat of arms, which previously depicted a bat-winged serpent biting down on a ring made of gold and rubies. He depicted the parents, Hans and Margarethe, and the wife, Katharina von Bora, of a man whose portly face he framed with curly hair and a black hat in another portrait. For 10 points, name this German Renaissance artist who produced several portraits of Martin Luther

Rodin

This artist portrayed a dynamic figure with both feet on the ground in his intentionally unfinished The Walking Man. He sculpted designs of later works like Ugolino into a portal inspired by (*) Dante. He also sculpted Paolo and Francesca from Dante's Inferno in a lovelock, as well as a work where a poet sits with his chin on his knuckles in a contemplative pose. Name this French sculptor of The Gates of Hell, which includes The Kiss, and The Thinker

James Whistler

This artist used a butterfly monogram and, like Gustav Courbet, painted his mistress, Joanna Hiffernan, in front of some abstract trees in Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. This artist painted several works for Frederick Leyland, including designing a room in the Japanese style, The Peacock Room, and sued Jonathan Ruskin over criticism over a work depicting fireworks in London, Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket. For 10 points, name this artist of a picture of his mother sitting with a white bonnet, Arrangement in Grey and Black.

Picasso

This artist's Massacre in Korea was influenced by Goya's The Third of May 1808. Dora Maar served as a model for a work by this man known as the Weeping Woman; he also painted a 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein in his early career. With Georges Braque, he would go on to pioneer a major new art style. One work by this man was inspired by a trip to a Parisian museum displaying African masks; that work shows five nude prostitutes in Barcelona. For 10 points, name this artist of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon who depicted a German bombing raid in Spain in his work Guernica. He painted Guillaime Apollinaire as a red-jumpsuited strongman and himself as a harlequin in his Family of Saltinbanques. Featureless black figures comprise his Don Quixote, while another of his works depicts a mother crying over her dead child on the left while a disfigured horse dominates the center. Parisian prostitutes in African masks appear in this artist's Demoiselles (deh-mwah-ZELZ) d'Avignon. For 10 points, name this painter whose Blue Period works preceded his co-founding of Cubism and creation of 1937's Guernica.

Sydney Opera House

This building's construction was delayed by a controversy over the stress tolerance of plywood known as Malice in Blunderland, and it was completed by Peter Hall. This building's reception hall was redesigned in 1999 by its original architect, and it added a colonnade on the exterior in 2001. It overlooks Port Jackson and includes underground chambers where performers prepare. For 10 points, name this building which features overlapping sail-like shells, a musical space designed by Jorn Utzon and found in Australia

Ravel

This composer dedicated each movement of one of his piano suites to a friend killed in World War I and named it for François Couperin. "Ondine" and "Le gibet" are among the movements of his Gaspard de la Nuit, and this composer of the piano suite Miroirs wrote a ballet based on a work by Longus that includes a wordless chorus in its instrumentation. His most famous work, which was inspired by Ida Rubenstein, contains an abrupt shift from a D flat to a C major chord at the end; that piece opens with a solo flute and features a constant crescendo over an ostinato rhythm in the snare drum. For 10 points, name this Impressionist composer of Pavane for a Dead Princess and Bolero

Mahler

This composer included two Nachtmusik movements in his Seventh Symphony, and in one of his song cycles, the hero sings "Ich hab'ein glühend Messer." Besides writing Songs of a Wayfarer, he set the hymn "Veni, creator spiritus" in one work and includes a minor key version of(*) "Frere Jacques" in another. This composer is known for the adagietto movement of his Fifth Symphony, and he has horns mimic an ape call in a setting of Li Po poems. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of The Song of the Earth, the Titan Symphony and Symphony of a Thousand

John Coltrane

This composer reworked the chord progression of Tadd Dameron's "Lady Bird" in his "Lazy Bird," an example of a compositional technique known as his "changes." He collaborated with Eric Dolphy on Impressions and Africa/Brass, while his arrangement of "Afro Blue" from Live at Birdland in 3/4 time parallels his rendition of a song from The Sound of Music. Pianist McCoy Tyner backed this man on "Countdown," "Naima," and an album opening with "Acknowledgement" and "Resolution." For 10 points, name this jazz tenor saxophonist who performed a rendition of "My Favorite Things" and composed Giant Steps and A Love Supreme

Franz Schubert

This composer said, "the devil may play it" about his difficult Wanderer Fantasy, which he couldn't play himself. He wrote the incidental music to a Helmina von Chezy play containing a shepherd's song, Rosamunde. Another work begins with two Gs being played in triplets and describes an evil elf who kills a boy, Der Erlkonig. This composer abandoned a symphony after finishing only two of its movements and created a variation on an earlier work of his, "Die Forelle." For 10 points, name this composer of the "Unfinished" Symphony and the Trout Quintet

Britten

This composer set Gerald Bullett's "The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems" for voice and harp in his Ceremony of Carols. In another work by this composer, variations A through M on a theme are each played by a different instrument of the orchestra, and each variation is based off a theme from Purcell's Abedalzar. Another work by this composer sets Wilfred Owen to music. For 10 points, name this British composer of War Requiem and A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Rachmaninoff

This composer's eighteen Opus 33 and Opus 39 etudes for piano include "The sea and the seagulls" and "A scene at the fair." His Fourteen Songs ends with his plaintive Vocalise. This composer inverted the theme of an A minor caprice into D flat major in the "Andante cantabile" eighteenth variation of one of his works. He grew to hate the astounding popularity of his Opus 3 Number 2 Prelude in C sharp Minor, and often performed duets at home with his good friend Vladimir Horowitz, who gained renown for performing this composer's notoriously difficult third piano concerto. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

American Gothic

This iconic painting is one of the most parodied in the world; the first was done by Gordon Parks. Two potted plants sit on the porch, one of which is a cactus. A church spire is seen in the trees behind the house. A young woman stands next to an older man holding a pitchfork. For 10 points name this 1930 painting depicting two Iowans standing in front of a particular style of house by Grant Wood.

Copland

This man composed the incidental music to Irwin Shaw's play Quiet City and an opera entitled The Tender Land. This man used folk songs like "El Mosco" and "El Palo Verde" in a piece inspired by a dance hall, and another piece by him includes Foster's "Camptown Races," "Springfield Mountain," and parts of the Gettysburg Address. In addition to [*]El Salón México and A Lincoln Portrait, this man wrote a piece including "Buckaroo Holiday" and "Hoe-Down," while another written for Martha Graham features variations of the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts." Writer of Fanfare for the Common Man, for 10 points, name this composer of Rodeo. One work by this composer features text from speeches of a certain American president. A highly patriotic work by this man was later reworked into his final symphony, his third. This composer of Lincoln Portrait wrote the score for a ballet which included sections such as "Saturday Night Waltz" and the "Hoe Down." This composer was commissioned by Martha Graham to write a ballet set in Pennsylvania that includes variations on the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. For 10 points, identify this composer of Rodeo and Appalachian Spring. and Appalachian Spring.

Calder

This man created a portable miniature of a circus and a large steel abstract statue for Expo 67 entitled Man. The name of this artist's most famous genre of work was suggested by Duchamp and his wire and metal work .125 was created for the JFK airport. A red circle hangs from a fountain that uses (*) mercury created by this artist and a work of his in Chicago was made red to stand out from the surrounding office buildings; that work is Flamingo. This sculptor's most famous work is kinetic, distinguishing it from this man's stabiles. For 10 points, name this sculptor who created Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, an example of the art form he invented, the mobile.

Stieglitz

This man created a series showing clouds called Equivalents, while his later work usually depicted the busy streets of New York. He depicted poor passengers on the boat Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Steerage, and met Edward Steichen at the First Chicago Photographic Salon. Along with F Holland Day, this man led the Photo-Secession movement. One of the first to exhibit Ansel Adams's works, for 10 points, name this photographer who also made nude pictures of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe

Brancusi

This man included a reflecting pool in a windowless chamber with an underground entrance in his design for a Temple of Meditation at Indore, and another of his works consists of twelve hourglass-shaped stools around a limestone table. This creator of Mademoiselle Pogany and The Table of Silence caused scandal with his phallic Princess X, and his other sculptures include a nearly hundred-foot stack of rhomboid forms and a series of marble and bronze sculptures capturing the essence of flight. For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor of The Endless Column and Bird in Space

Vermeer

This man may have trained with Carel Fabritius, whose style is similar to his own, and his only dated works are The Procuress, The Astronomer, and 1669's The Geographer. This artist's fascination with natural light can be seen in Officer and Laughing Girl and Woman Reading a Letter at an Open Window. For ten points, name the Dutch painter who depicted his home in View of Delft and who is probably best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Art of Painting

Mantegna

This man painted the Madonna of Victory altarpiece to commemorate the victory of his patron at the Battle of Fornovo, and he dedicated his Parnassus to that patron's wife, Isabelle d'Este. A series by this artist includes sections like "The Corselet-bearers" and "The Elephants" and is housed in Hampton Court, and he decorated a room in the Ducal Palace of Mantua with a di sotto in su ceiling. The Triumph of Caesar and Camera degli Sposi were painted by, for 10 points, what artist who is best known for his use of foreshortening in such works as The Dead Christ?

Schumann

This man's Opus 19 in D flat major features piano variations on a theme representing flowers. Another piano piece by this composer contains an A, E-flat, C, B sequence as a musical cryptogram in movements such as "Eusebius", "Florestan" and "Papillons". This composer of Blumenstück and Carnaval incorporated a theme from his Kreisleriana into the last movement of his Symphony No. 1 and also included a Traumerei in his "Scenes from Childhood". His Symphony No. 3 was inspired by a trip on the Rhine River with his wife Clara. For 10 points, name this Romantic composer of the "Spring" and "Rhenish" Symphonies. One of this composer's piano works closes with a march of the fictional "Davidsbündler" [day-vids-BOON-dler] league and spells A-S-C-H in a recurring motif. This man composed the opera Genoveva and the song cycle Dichterliebe. [DICK-ter-leeb-uh] This composer wrote the piano works Scenes from Childhood and Kreisleriana, [KRICE-ler-ee-ah-nuh] which his wife Clara performed. This man's Third Symphony in E Flat major depicts the Cologne Cathedral and is nicknamed "Rhenish." [RENN-ish] For 10 points, name this composer of Carnaval and the "Spring" Symphony

Felix Mendelssohn

This man's second symphony in B flat major was written as "praise-song" to celebrate a technological anniversary, as was his Gutenberg Cantata. Sections like "The Shadow of Death" and "The Night is Departing" comprise one of this man's symphonies, while another contains a notable tarantella and saltarello in the final movement. Clarinets and a solo flute quote a Bach cantata in his fifth symphony, which contains the "Dresden (*) Amen." This man's third symphony was informed by a trip that also produced a work evoking Fingal's Cave, the Hebrides Overture. The "Reformation," "Scottish," and "Italian" symphonies were composed by, for 10 points, what man whose work also includes a notable Wedding March" from incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream

Delacroix

This painter depicted treasures lining the floor and soldiers stabbing writhing concubines as a monarch in white and gold reclines on a bed in his The Death of Sardanapalus. This artist also executed a work that includes dead revolutionaries on the ground and a boy waving two (*) pistols. Central to that painting is a bare-breasted woman who holds a musket in one hand and the tricolored French flag in the other. For 10 points, name this French painter of Liberty Leading the People.

Durer

This painter of The Feast of the Rose Garlands showed a man with a fur-adorned lance, a dog running through the legs of a horse, and a pig-snouted figure of Satan in his Knight, Death and the Devil. An hourglass, a bell, and a balance all hang on the wall behind a laurel-wreathed woman in his Melancholia I, and another balance is being whipped through the air by a horseman in his Apocalypse. For 10 points, name this Northern Renaissance practitioner of woodcuts, a noted sixteenth-century German artist

Jacques-Louis David

This painter showed the winds of change blowing in from the left as a man stands amid a crowd, in his depiction of a national assembly. He showed a bearded man pointing to the sky while Crito touches his knee in a work whose central figure reaches for a goblet. In one of his paintings, a man in his bathtub keels over while clutching a letter. This man also depicted three brothers saluting their father, who holds three swords, while a group of Roman women weep. For 10 points, name this French painter who depicted the deaths of both Marat and Socrates, and who painted The Oath of the Horatii

Guernica

This painting contains a prostrate man with stigmata on his hands, as well as a dove with a broken wing perched near a large animal, who is peering at his smoky tail. Fire will consume a woman peering at the only view of the outside, a small, square window in the upper right. A flower grows from a broken sword in the foreground, which appears to be next to the nose of an animal's head superimposed on another animal, whose nose forms a human skull. Another woman holds a candle, and a lightbulb burns the eyes of a trapped horse. For 10 points, name this huge Pablo Picasso mural in which a bull represents Spain, about the titular Basque town. |

Washington Crossing the Delaware

This painting depicts a scene set at night with pieces of ice floating around a boat. Several soldiers and officers are in a vessel, preparing for a surprise attack, with one person carrying the American flag. Name this 1851 painting that shows an event occurring shortly before the Battle of Trenton, painted by the German American artist Emanuel Leutze (pronounced LOYTSEH

Blue Boy

This painting hangs opposite a 1794 Thomas Lawrence painting in The Huntington. The seventeenth-century apparel of this painting's subject is an homage to Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Charles I. The dark sky in the background contrasts with the light face of the subject, who stands with his left arm at his waist and holds a feathered hat in his right hand. The subject is generally thought to be Jonathan Buttall, and is prominently dressed in the titular color. For 10 points, name this portrait by Thomas Gainsborough

Hagia Sophia

This structure is home to two urns, each cut from a single piece of marble, named the Lustration Urns from Pergamon. Four pendentives were the initial supports for one of the highlights of this structure which collapsed in an earthquake and prompted its architect to make the feature taller and more stable. This structure also houses a mosaic at its entrance that depicts a child Christ sitting upon the lap of the Virgin Mary with a scroll in his left hand.. It was designed by Isidore of Miletus and reconstructed following the Nika riots. For 10 points, name this church turned mosque turned museum in Istanbul commissioned by emperor Justinian I

Magritte

Two men holding a club and a net hide behind a wall waiting for the titular figure in this artist's painting The Menaced Assassin. An easel displaying a painting of the outside view characterizes his The Human Condition, while his The Son of Man depicts a man in a bowler hat with an apple obscuring his face. He also depicted a train coming out a (*) fireplace in Time Transfixed. For 10 points, name this Belgian Surrealist who in The Treachery of Images depicted a pipe captioned with the words, "This is not a pipe."

Winslow Homer

Two women sit on a bench fixing the title objects in this painter's Mending the Nets and ravens swoop towards the title animal running through the snow in his The Fox Hunt. The capture of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Petersburg is the subject of his Prisoners from the Front. A red brick house stands behind children running with their hands linked, playing the title game, in his Snap-the-Whip. Sharks swim beneath a boat containing a solitary African-American man in his The Gulf Stream. For 10 points, name this American painter of many seascapes of his home-state of Maine.

Dali

With Luis Bunuel, he worked on the movie Un chien andalou and L'Age d'Or. One of his paintings shows Vermeer's leg used as a table stand next to a shoe, and another shows reflections of swans as elephants in the water that includes a self-portrait. He sculpted a Lobster Phone out of plaster, and twenty-eight Venus de Milos are seen in his The Hallucinogenic Toreador. He also painted a "Disintegration" of his most famous painting. For 10 points, identify this painter of the melting clocks in Persistence of Memory. This man collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on the set design for the dream sequence in the film Spellbound. This artist's thoughts on birth and rebirth are evident in the motifs of eggs, such as in his painting The Narcissist. He painted an elephant on stilts and two tigers leaping at a sleeping woman in one work. Another of his paintings depicts ants swarming a watch dial. For 10 points, name this artist who included dripping clocks in his painting The Persistence of Memory.

Aria

long solo in an opera