Quiz Bowl Art History

Question: An artist who did all of his work in this century painted a still life in which a cat stares hungrily at some oysters next to the title stingray. A magnificent ceiling painting made during this century shows Ludovico Rezzonico standing next to a lion and looking up at Apollo's chariot. Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (shar-DANN) and Giambattista Tiepolo were active during this century. An artist working in this century set several paintings from his (*) Progress of Love series in lush artificial gardens. Another painting made during this century includes a statue of Cupid holding a finger to his mouth as a woman in pink kicks off her shoe while riding the title conveyance. For 10 points, name this century in which Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing and other Rococo works were painted.

18th century AD/CE [or 1700 s]

An exhibition titled Freeze in this decade featured a photograph of a wound made from an ice pick titled Bullet Hole by Mat Collishaw. A poster reading "Made in Heaven" advertising a Whitney exhibit in this decade depicted a racy image of Ilona (ill-OH-nah) Staller and Jeff Koons. An artist who died in this decade included a griot in his painting Flexible and was a both a member of SAMO and a collaborator of Andy Warhol. Damien (*) Hirst formed the Young British Artists during this decade, in which street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (boss-kee-AH) died. An exhibition in the last year of this decade titled The Perfect Moment featured controversial nude photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. For 10 points, Mapplethorpe died in what decade, during which many artists made works responding to the AIDS crisis?

1980s

This painting was described as a "single mosaic of boredom" by the Marxist philosopher Ernest Bloch in his magnum opus The Principle of Hope. Years after first completing it, this painting's artist added a border of blue, red, and orange to offset it from the clean white background. The background of this painting shows a man playing a horn and two soldiers in green uniform looking away from the viewer. A young girl dressed in white holds the hand of a woman wearing orange in the center of this painting, which is set on the opposite riverbank as its artist's Bathers at Asnieres. For 10 points, name this pointillist masterpiece by Georges Seurat.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte1884 [accept either underlined part; or Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte--1884; or A Sunday on La Grande Jatte; accept "Isle" for "Island" in all cases]

Question: A model of the patron's Dutch estate sits on a shelf in the upper-left of this artist's The Hope Family . A grief-stricken Britannia, cast in shadow, stands next to a lion as Neptune delivers the title admiral to her in this artist's The Immortality of Nelson . Putti surround the title scientist as he raises a hand to a key tied to a kite string in this artist's Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky . In another of his paintings, a (*) tomahawk sits under the tattooed leg of a man who adopts a Thinker pose. In that contemporary history painting by this artist, Thomas Hinde kneels to try to stop the bleeding of the title British hero. For 10 points, name this Anglo-American painter who depicted the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in The Death of General Wolfe .

Benjamin West

This artist was known as his country's 'Raphael' after his treatment of Archangel Michael Binding the Devil. Charles Rollins's American History inspired this artist to engrave his version of the Death of Socrates. This artist was the second president of the Royal Academy and depicted a figure seated in a thunderstorm receiving a shock on the finger from a key in one work. A squatting Native American rests his hand under his chin while the title figure dies of war wounds in this artist's most famous work. For 10 points, identify this American artist known for his history paintings such as The Death of General Wolfe.

Benjamin West

An artistic group in 17th century Utrecht was partially named after this artist. This student of Simone Peterzano included a glass of liquid and several necklaces in his version of the Penitent Magdalene. This artist attracted with his depiction of a barefoot Mary standing in a shabby doorway in his Loreto Madonna. John the Baptist and Nicodemus lower Christ onto a stone slab in one of this artist's works. One of this artist's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel contains a single light source on the right and depicts the title man being summoned by Jesus. For 10 points, name this Baroque artist who used chiaroscuro in works like The Calling of Saint Matthew.

Caravaggio [accept Michelangelo Merisi or Michelangelo Amerighi]

A 2014 Frick exhibition contained both Scipione Pulzone's and this artist's Roman portrait of a half-armored Vincenzo Anastagi. An angel in yellow floats over some sleeping apostles as Judas leads soldiers towards Christ in his The Agony in the Garden. A bent-over carpenter takes a drill to the Cross as soldiers prepare to remove the brilliant red cloak of Jesus in this artist's Disrobing of Christ. The Castle of San Servando and a stormy sky can be seen in a (*) Mannerist landscape by this artist of the town where he worked. A 1586 painting by this artist shows Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist ready to welcome the deceased title official into Heaven. For 10 points, name thi s Cretan-born Spanish artist of View of Toledo and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

El Greco

One artist from this country depicted a musician squeezing lemon juice into the eye of a supposedly blind fellow beggar in The Musician's Brawl and made several candlelit scenes of Mary Magdalene. Another artist from this country showed the title Biblical monarch descending towards a boat in one of his signature seaport landscapes, The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba . A possible depiction of the origin of painting showing a shepherd tracing a shadow on a (*) tomb displaying the title inscription was painted by a Classical artist from this country, who also depicted four figures linking hands beneath Apollo's chariot in his A Dance to the Music of Time . For 10 points, native son Nicolas Poussin's (poo-SANN's) Et in Arcadia Ego can be found in what country's Louvre museum?

France [accept the Kingdom of France or Royaume de France ] [The other artists are, respectively, Georges de la Tour and Claude Lorrain.

In a painting by this artist, the sun and the moon are encased in a cloud above an ancient temple and a flag appears in factory smoke on opposite sides of a borderline. A skyscraper inside a volcano is one of the objects floating in a bathtub in this artist's What the Water Gave Me. A painting by this artist depicts its subject's body split in two and drilled with nails. Lingering pain from having been (*) hit by a bus is symbolized in this artist's painting The Broken Column. A vein connects the two hearts of two depictions of this artist in one painting. A necklace decorated with a dead hummingbird and a monkey appear in another of this artist's self-portraits. For 10 points, name this Mexican artist, the wife of Diego Rivera.

Frida Kahlo

Question: An artist born in this country painted a woman glancing at a newspaper in a crystal ball in the left panel of his triptych The Departure and showed a man being hanged in a cramped tent in his 1919 painting The Night . A contemporary artist from this country created a series of grid paintings called 4900 Colors and also made a series of blurred "photo-paintings". A Swiss-born artist published the Pedagogical Sketchbook while teaching at a design school in this country led by (*) Walter Gropius. The creator of the Street Scenes cycle co-founded a proto-Expressionist movement in this country whose name translates as "the bridge". For 10 points, Max Beckmann and Ernst Kirchner were among the artists labeled "degenerate" by what country's Nazi regime?

Germany [or Weimar Republic ; or East Germany ; or West Germany ; or German Democratic Republic ; or GDR ; or DDR ; or Federal Republic of Germany ; or FRG ; or Bonn Republic ] [The contemporary artist is Gerhard Richter.]

Question: This painting, whose style was reused in its artist's later painting The Charnel House , was exhibited alongside a fountain that pumps mercury. A tapestry copy of this painting was covered by a curtain during a Colin Powell press conference at the United Nations. The creation of this painting was documented in a series of photographs by its artist's long-time partner Dora Maar. This painting was vandalized with the words (*) "kill lies all" written in red spray paint in a response to the My Lai (mee lye) Massacre. This painting uses only black, white, and gray to portray a flower growing from the hand of a dead soldier and a horse screaming in pain. For 10 points, name this massive painting inspired by the 1937 bombing of a Basque city, a work of Pablo Picasso.

Guernica

A woman gazes at a cross while seated in front of a painting of the Crucifixion in this artist's Allegory of Faith. A chandelier with a double-headed eagle hangs in front a large map in a painting by this artist. That painting by this artist includes a black and white tiled floor and a girl holding a trumpet. This artist of The Little Street depicted the Schiedam Gate in a painting that was painted with the help of a camera obscura. The subject of this artist's most famous portrait wears a bright blue turban and a very large piece of jewelry. For ten points, identify this artist of who depicted a view of his hometown in View of Delft and painted The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

Jan Vermeer

This artist's depiction of a young shepherdess was painted over his controversial Captivity of the Jews in Babylon. A waning gibbous moon shines on a dark landscape where many of the title creatures are herded in this artist's The Sheepfold. X-rays revealed that a small coffin was painted over by a basket in one of this artist's paintings. That painting by this artist depicts two farmers bowing their heads and was originally titled Prayer for the Potato Crop. Along with Camille Corot, this man was a prominent member of the Barbizon School. For 10 points, identify this French Realist artist of The Angelus who depicted three women picking wheat in The Gleaners

Jean-François Millet

The atmosphere in the room around the time of this painting is imagined in Even Sussman's 89 Seconds at Alcázar. Picasso painted a series of 58 interpretations of this work, which also helped inspire John Singer Sargent to paint The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. The faces of this painting's patrons are shown reflected on a mirror that hangs below several large paintings on the back wall in this work. One of the central figures in this work is shown mid-curtsy, and a man is shown standing across two steps in a doorway in the background of this painting. For 10 points, name this large painting that depicts the daughter of Philip IV, the Infanta Margarita, the masterpiece of Diego Velasquez.

Las Meninas

Question: This painting is the subject of Michael Jacobs's book Everything is Happening . After the death of Jaime Sabartés (HIGH-may sah-bar-TAYCE) , an artist donated his 45 variations on this painting to his namesake museum in 1968; many of those variations feature a menacing ceiling hook. In this painting, "the observer and the observed take part in a ceaseless exchange", according to Michel (*) Foucault's The Order of Things . A youth places her red-laced shoe onto a dog's back on the right side of this painting. The shade cast on the two large Rubens paintings in this painting's background contrasts with the artist, who wears a red cross and stands at an easel. A dwarf is part of the entourage of the Infanta Margarita Teresa as depicted in, for 10 points, which painting by Diego Velazquez?

Las Meninas [accept The Maids of Honor or The Ladies-in-Waiting ]

: In a Yue (you-EH) Minjun parody of this painting, maniacally laughing men in white tshirts and blue shorts stand around a rock. A statue of the dead Hector on a Roman sarcophagus inspired the pose of a pants-less man wearing one blue sock in the bottom left of this painting. This painting of a "modern subject" features an imaginary row of houses in front of a cathedral on its right. This painting likely inspired the character of Gavroche with a (*) boy in a velvet hat who carries two pistols. On the left of this painting, a dandy in a top-hat holds a rifle next to a youth grabbing a stone. The title woman of this painting wears a Phrygian cap and carries the tricolor flag. For 10 points, name this painting which depicts the July Revolution of 1830, by Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People [or Liberty on the Barricades; or La Liberté guidant le peuple]

The unfinished Manchester Madonna is attributed to this artist. This student of Ghirlandaio painted a group of nudes frolicing in the background of his sole surviving panel painting, the Doni Tondo. This artist's final fresco is The Crucifixion of Saint Peter. This artist included a Libyan and Cumean Sibyl in a building that houses many of his paintings. Daniele da Volterra painted fig leaves over one of this artist's works to cover up the nudity. That work by this artist includes a self portrait as the flayed skin in the hands of Saint Bartholomew. For 10 points, identify this Renaissance artist who painted a Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni [accept either underlined name]

Question: Mabel Dodge ran a salon in this state described as a "garden of Allah". Spiritual landscapes such as Earth Rhythms No. 6 were made by Transcendental Painting Group member Raymond Jonson in this state. One artist made abstract paintings at the "Black Place" in this state, and painted a pink-heavy landscape called Red and Yellow Cliffs near this state's Ghost Ranch. An artist summering in this state mailed back to New York a collection of (*) bones to create a "Great American Painting". Joseph Henry Sharp, who painted many Native Americans in this state, founded a society of artists that popularized its art colony at Taos (touse) . For 10 points, name this state where many paintings of cow skulls in desert landscapes were made by Georgia O'Keeffe.

New Mexico

The turbaned subject of a painting by this artist wears a blue dress with a gold shirt that is reminiscent of this artist's painting Antea. St. John gazes directly at the viewer and extends his index finger in the air while the Virgin and child look on in this artist's Vision of St. Jerome. This artist of Turkish Slave painted curved ceilings beams and a very large ring in a self-portrait. Only one column was restored in the background of one of this artist's paintings which features a large baby Christ held by a figure with bizarre proportions. For 10 points, identify this Mannerist painter of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Madonna of the Long Neck.

Parmigianino [or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]

This artist anticipated cubism with his painting of a plaster cast of Cupid on a tilted floor. One of the very few paintings that this artist signed has the viewer looking down beyond a path and towards the titular House of the Hanged-Man; that painting was inspired by this artist's friend Camille Pissarro. A man with a cane gazes up at the title figure in this artist's response to a Manet work, A Modern Olympia. Trees lean together to form a triangle in this artist's Large Bathers. This artist of many still lifes featuring fruit frequently used a landmark near Aix-en-Provence as an artistic subject. For ten points, identify this French Post-Impressionist who painted many depictions of Mont-Sainte Victoire.

Paul Cezanne

The subject of this painting drinks a toast in a portrait made a year earlier that is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. The Met displays this painting near a portrait by William Merritt Chase of Marietta Benedict Cotton that references a table in this painting. Arsenic treatments may be the cause of the unusually white skin of the subject of this non-commissioned painting. The significant amount of criticism it drew at the Paris Salon of (*) 1884 caused its artist to retouch the shoulder strap of the dress of its Creole subject, whose face is rendered in profile. This painting depicts Virginie Gautreau, although its official title renders the subject anonymous. For 10 points, name this scandalous portrait of a woman in a black dress by John Singer Sargent.

Portrait of Madam X [or Portrait de Mme *** ; accept Portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau until read; accept Portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno until Gautreau is read]

This artist included his handprint in the lower left of a work that depicts a large head that has many faces embedded in its eyes and mouth. In one painting, this artist portrayed his wife as a series of spheres over water. A number of buildings are supported on animals with very tall and skinny legs in this artist's Temptation of St. Anthony. This artist's Crucifixion is set at Port Lligat and features Jesus on a hypercube. This artist was inspired by atomic physics to create the Disintegration of his most famous work; that work by this artist includes many melting clocks. For ten points, name this Catalan artist of The Persistence of Memory.

Salvador Dali

Question: The only man wearing armor in this painting stands below a niche with a statue holding a lyre. The allegorical subject of this painting appears with the words "Causarum Cognitio" in a tondo above it. A white-clad figure in this painting may be either a self-portrait or a depiction of the artist's mistress La Fornarina. A youth in this painting holds a black tablet displaying the formula "one plus two plus three plus four equals ten", while one of its central figures holds a (*) book and points his finger to the sky. Other men in this painting include Averroes (av-er-ROH-eez) and, possibly, Zoroaster. Pope Julius II commissioned this painting, which is opposite its artist's La Disputa in the Stanza della Segnatura (sen-yah-TOO-rah) . For 10 points, name this Raphael painting of Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers

The School of Athens [or Scuola di Atene ]

A bust of Tiberius appears at the top of this non-Caravaggio artist's The Crowning With Horns. A ring of eight stars arranged in a circle appears at the top left of one of this artist's paintings that includes a figure mimicking a pose from Laocoon as he tries to free himself from a snake. Two cherubs holding a cross are suspended in a cloud above a large banner in this artist's Pesaro Madonna. This student of Giorgione included a pair of cheetahs in his Bacchus and Ariadne. In this artist's most famous work, a brown and white dog lies at the foot a bed while the reclining title figure gazes at the viewer. For ten points, name this Venetian artist of The Venus of Urbino.

Titian

This man proclaimed that "modern art can only be born when signs become symbols" in his analysis of the geometrical aspects of paintings. In 1924, this artist exhibited across the United States as part of a four-person tour that also included Lyonel Feininger and Alexej von Jawlensky (yiv-LEN-ski) . He referred to "largely unconscious, spontaneous expressions of inner character" as "Improvisations", which he contrasted with his (*) "Impressions" and "Compositions". This author of Point and Line to Plane and Concerning the Spiritual in Art depicted a white horse racing across a landscape in a painting that inspired Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc, and others. For 10 points, name this Russian-born artist whose painting of a man on horseback was the namesake of The Blue Rider group.

Wassily (Wassilyevich) Kandinsky

Question: An artist with this last name depicted Jim Hawkins looking up at Long John Silver's parrot in one of the illustrations for Scribner's edition of Treasure Island . Portrait of Pig is a popular painting by the youngest of three generations of artists with this surname on view at the Brandywine River Museum near Philadelphia. A farmhouse made famous by an artist with this surname was made into a museum in South Cushing, (*) Maine. An artist with this surname who painted numerous portraits of his German neighbor Helga Testorf depicted a young woman in a pink dress picking berries in a painting that appears to show that polio-afflicted woman crawling towards the distant Olson farmhouse. For 10 points, give the surname of the artist of Christina's World .

Wyeth [accept Andrew Wyeth or N. C. Wyeth or Jamie Wyeth ]

Question: After seeing a one-man show, Grace Hartigan started producing paintings in this style such as Ninth Street . Hedda Sterne was the only woman included in a noted photo of members of this art movement. Pink and white hues dominate City Landscape , one of Joan Mitchell's masterpieces in this style. Robert Hughes argues that the first painting to fully realize the goals of this movement was a six-meter wide canvas commissioned for Peggy (*) Guggenheim's apartment. An alcoholic leader of this movement often painted his canvases directly on the floor in a process captured by Hans Namuth. That member of this movement was married to Lee Krasner and created such paintings as Autumn Rhythm and Lavender Mist . For 10 points, name this art movement exemplified by Jackson Pollock.

abstract expression ism [or action painting; or gestural abstraction ; or drip painting; prompt on abstract ion or expression ism]

The Futurist Gino Severini added Cubist sequins to his depiction of a "blue" person in this profession, one of over 100 paintings he made of them. One of these people, wearing a white dress affixed with colorful flowers, bends backwards in the painting L'Étoile ( lay-TWAHL) . An oft-painted person in this profession, Rosita Mauri, holds a bouquet of flowers in an 1877 painting. A "dreadfully ugly" statue of an upwards- looking (*) fourteen-year-old girl in this profession was originally made in wax and wears a skirt made from cotton. The same artist depicted two of these people "Practicing at the Barre" and painted another one raising her left leg and arms in the middle of a pirouette. For 10 points, Edgar Degas frequently painted what tutu-wearing people?

ballet dancers [or ballerinas ]

Five-foot-by-five-foot square canvases painted in this color were the primary output of the last ten years of Ad Reinhardt's career. Bands and ovoids of this color are arranged at different points on the large canvas in the 150 paintings in Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic series. Anish Kapoor controversially gained an exclusive license to make art with a (*) newly developed shade of this color. A series of paintings named for this color includes Fight with Cudgels and was painted onto the walls of the "House of the Deaf Man". The title god takes a bite out of a smaller god in Saturn Devouring His Son , one of Francisco Goya's paintings nicknamed for this color. The dress worn by Whistler's Mother is, for 10 points, what dark color?

black [or Vantablack ]

A man wearing this color shirt tears off Jesus's clothes in El Greco's ​Disrobing of ​Christ. A woman holds a black lamb as people walk between sand dunes in the background of a Paul Gauguin painting titled for this color. This is the color of the ceiling in The (*) ​Night Café and the curtain in the background of The Ambassadors. This is the color of the woman's dress in the Arnolfini Wedding. Henri Matisse painted his wife with her face bisected by a stripe of this color. An apple of this color obscures the face of Magritte's The Son of Man. For 10 points, John Constable's Dedham Vale uses what color to depict the trees and grass?

green

None of the title group of these people pay attention to a devotional image of Mary hanging on a tree on the right-hand side of a painting depicting these people at a kermis . In that painting, one of these people with a peacock feather in his hair looks intently at the bagpipe player seated next to him. Another painting titled for these people shows two wheat sheaves held together by a rake above a man with a spoon in his hat. In a painting titled for these people, two of them carry some (*) soup on an unhinged door. Vienna's Kunsthistorisches (KOONST-hiss-TOR-ish-is) Museum has a painting of these people dancing by an artist who showed a paper-crowned bride not feasting in another painting of them. For 10 points, a genre painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts a wedding attended by what lower-class people?

peasant s [accept The Peasant Dance or The Peasant Wedding ; prompt on farmers ; prompt on serfs ; prompt on things such as poor people]

A Rothko painting that only contains shades of this color is titled Four Darks in [This Color]. Andokides is thought to be the first to paint figures of this color in a certain art form. This is the color of the Phrygian cap worn by Liberty in Liberty Leading the People. Mary Magdalene is often depicted as having robes of this color and carrying an egg of this color. Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party has a covered veranda that has white and stripes of this color. Ancient Greek pottery is distinguished between figures of black and this color. For 10 points, identify this color which makes up the primary colors along with blue and yellow.

red

The subject of one of these paintings appears before a background of "pale veronese green" in a painting made after the artist received a similar work by Emile Bernard. The subject of another of these paintings wears a blue cap trimmed with black fur and stands in front of an easel and a Japanese print of three women. The subject wears a straw hat in one of them that was painted on the back of The Potato Peeler . The ones made in (*) Saint-Rémy depict their subject from the left, and they all depict the brother of an art dealer named Theo. The most famous of these paintings depicts the aftermath of an event in which their subject gave an unusual gift to an Arles prostitute. For 10 points, name these paintings, one of which depicts its artist with a bandaged ear.

self-portrait s of Vincent Van Gogh [prompt on portraits of Vincent Van Gogh ; prompt on self portraits ]

A gift from the Huxleys inspired Henry Moore to create a volume of twenty eight prints of "Elephant" versions of these objects. The composition of Charles Allen Gilbert's All Is Vanity is in the shape of one of these objects. One of Cezanne's still lifes shows four of these objects arranged in a pyramid shape. One of these objects lies on the windowsill in Dürer's Saint Jerome in his Study, and one of these objects is set against the colors of the American flag in a Georgia O'Keefe painting. An anamorphic portrayal of one of these objects appear across the floor in Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors." For 10 points, name these objects that symbolize death.

skulls [prompt on skeletons; do not accept or prompt on "heads"]

To display paintings in this series, Camille Lefèvre (kuh-MEE luh-FEV) designed two elliptical rooms that form an infinity symbol, which Andre Masson compared to the Sistine Chapel. These paintings were installed in the Orangerie after their artist donated them to the government on the day after the armistice ending World War I. Later entries in this series, such as Yellow Nirvana , are more abstract due to the artist's progressing (*) cataracts. Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas is one of these paintings, some of which are framed by two willow trees or depict the Japanese footbridge that the artist installed in an addition to his home at Giverny (zhee-vair-NEE) . For 10 points, name this series of over 250 Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet depicting aquatic plants.

the Water Lilies series

A painting titled for this artist's most famous subject "and Alvaro" depicts a blue door behind some washbuckets. This artist painted a boy in oversized military wear running through a withered winter field. A nude with blonde braids sits next to an open window in this artist's Lovers. This artist's work entered a melancholy period after a train accident killed his father, the creator of notable (*) illustrations of Treasure Island. Recurring subjects for this artist included the Kuerner family of Chadds Ford and his neighbor Helga Testorf. A painting by this artist set in Cushing, Maine depicts the Olson family farm in the top right corner and centers on a paralyzed girl wearing a pink dress and lying in the grass. For 10 points, name this painter of Christina's World.

Andrew Wyeth [or Andrew Newell Wyeth]

Question: This man stands in front of a blazing sunset studiously examining a rock limpet in a J. M. W. Turner painting created as a counterpart to a depiction of David Wilkie's sea burial. He adopts an adlocutio pose while granting a blessing to a crowd of men holding banners and giving Roman salutes in the painting The Distribution of the Eagle Standards . This man's mother ahistorically appears in a massive canvas that depicts him receiving a blessing from (*) Pope Pius VII. Rocks engraved with this man's surname and the names of Charlemagne and Hannibal appear below a rearing horse ridden by this ruler in a painting depicting him crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, who often depicted this man with his hand in his waistcoat. For 10 points, name this French emperor.

Napoleon Bonaparte [accept either underlined portion; accept Napoleon I]

This artist's son earned the nickname "Velvet" for his richly painted floral still lifes. A scene from Matthew 15:14 inspired this artist's painting of six men stumbling diagonally across the canvas. Bowls of soup and porridge rest on a makeshift tray made of a door in this artist's painting of a celebratory feast. This artist of The Blind Leading the Blind produced a painting whose center depicts a flock of sheep surrounding a shepherd glancing skyward. In that painting by this artist, a ship sails past the flailing feet of the title drowning youth. For ten points, name this Flemish member of the Northern Renaissance who painted The Peasant Wedding and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

A painting by an artist from this country was purchased with money Ernest Hemingway earned in a boxing match and shows a newspaper whose name is cut off at "L'INTR" on the title Farm . That same artist from this country placed the title creature on a stark brown and black landscape next to a ladder extending toward the sky in one painting. Another artist from here included a large hand holding an (*) egg with a flower coming out of it in his depiction of the Narcissus myth. The painter of Dog Barking at the Moon was born in this country, as was a man who created a work juxtaposing softness and hardness in which ants crawl over a watch in a landscape decorated with melting clocks. For 10 points, name this home country of the Surrealists Joan Miró (zhoo-AHN mee-ROH) and Salvador Dalí.

Spain [accept Kingdom of Spain or Reino de España ; prompt on Catalonia ]

A man in the foreground of this painting wears a red-and-gold robe that includes large red tassels and a panel depicting the man's own martyrdom. Robert Byron, among others, have suggested that this painting's composition was inspired by Byzantine depictions of the Dormition of the Virgin. Seven men in black clothing with huge white ruffs form the center of a horizontal line of heads that divides this painting. The artist's signature and the date (*) 1578 appear on a handkerchief in the pocket of a boy who points at this painting's central figure. Darker colors in the "terrestrial" lower half of this painting contrast with brighter ones in its "heavenly" upper half. Saints Augustine and Stephen lower the corpse of Don Gonzalo Ruiz, the title noble of, for 10 points, what painting by El Greco?

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz [or El entierro del senor de Orgaz ; or El entierro del Conde Orgaz ; accept reasonable translations that include an equivalent of the underlined information]

The man on the left of this painting has a concave pose very similar to that of a Roman cameo of Augustus riding on a Capricorn. A figure on the right of this painting places his right arm around a woman in order to touch an infant, leading many scholars to identify the pair as Mary and Jesus. Frank Lynn Meshberger argued that the shape of a human brain is created in this painting by the mass of drapery and (*) figures on the right. To the right of this painting is the scene of the water being divided from the earth. The title man in this painting is shown after formation and enlivenment but before animation. For 10 points, name this scene painted by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel where God is about to touch the first man's finger.

The Creation of Adam [or God Creating Adam; prompt on the Sistine Chapel ceiling until "Sistine"]

Question: This English word, which is not a place name, begins the title of a painting commissioned by Girolamo Marcello in which a cupid at the feet of the title nude was painted out by a later artist. This is also the first word in the title of a painting in which a drinking vase and a mandolin sit near a woman who grasps a walking stick. In that painting titled for this action, a "wandering (*) Negress" is inspected but not devoured by a passing lion. Bat-like creatures mass behind a man performing this action in a Goya etching that suggests a certain type of it "produces monsters". Titian completed a Giorgione painting of Venus performing this action, which is also being done in an Henri Rousseau painting by a supine gypsy. For 10 points, name this nighttime action.

sleep ing [or dream ing]