Scholar's Bowl Art
When was the Mona Lisa painted?
1500
The artist of this painting chose one of his sitters after grabbing his hand and staring at it fascinatedly for a while. This painting's style was inspired by the artist's trip to Munich, which separated it from his earlier Impressionistic work. A photograph named "[this painting], Washington, D. C." shows an African-American woman with a broom and a mop in front of the American flag; that photograph is by Gordon Parks. One curl escapes the bun of a woman wearing a (*) cameo and a dotted dress in this painting. The central figures of this painting are either husband and wife or father and daughter, and the window above them is mirrored by a pitchfork held by a dentist. For ten points, name this oft-parodied Grant Wood painting showing a serious-looking couple in front of an house in Iowa. Created in 1930
American Gothic
One painting in this group of works consists entirely of two brown swaths of paint, except for a small picture of the title animal's head. A work in this group of works allegorizes civil war using two men knee-deep in mud swinging sticks at each other. This group of works includes The Dog and (*) Fight with Cudgels and was originally created on the walls of its artist's reclusive home the Villa of the Deaf Man. The most famous painting in this set shows a crazed, long-haired man chewing a bloody baby's arm. Saturn Devouring His Son is a member of, for 10 points, what set of paintings by Francisco Goya named for a single, dark color?
Black Paintings
A rubber eraser was used to create the fleur-de-lis pattern present on all of these paintings. Irving Blum had to buy some of these paintings back after some were sold during the artist's first solo show at Ferus Gallery. These works were traced and gradually enlarged from a mailing envelope. Despite the similarity of the entries in this series, they were made a few months before their artist discovered the silkscreen process for (*) mass reproduction. The word "Consommé" (con-sum-MAY) can be seen on one of these paintings, and one contains the phrase, "Great as a sauce, too!" These paintings were originally exhibited on shelves to evoke the feeling of a grocery aisle and include entries such as "Tomato." For 10 points, name this series of paintings by Andy Warhol of a packaged food product. Created in 1962
Campbell's Soup Cans
The artist of this painting said that while creating it, he felt as though he was not working on a painting, but "on the ground itself," and that it celebrated an "extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless." That artist used his young wife Betsy as a model for the head and torso in this work, as its subject was actually 55 years old when it was painted. A house depicted in this painting is now a museum in (*) Cushing, Maine. The subject of this 1948 painting is believed to have had Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a type of neuropathic disorder, and wears a pink dress while lying down in beige grass. For 10 points, name this painting of a young girl reaching towards a distant cottage, a work of Andrew Wyeth. created in 1948
Christina's World
In 2018, conservators spent two around-the-clock weeks in the Golden Room applying new analysis techniques on this painting while it was off from view at the Mauritshuis (MAO-rits-house) Museum. Astronomer Vincent Icke argued that an object in this tronie is fake due to how the light reflects off it and its uncharacteristically large size. This painting increased in popularity due to a Tracy Chevalier novel titled for it, in which this painting's model is a maid named (*) Griet who is allowed to try on the title item. The title woman in this "Mona Lisa of the North" wears a blue turban whose yellow and blue tassel hangs down her back. This portrait was painted in Delft. For 10 points, name this Johannes Vermeer painting of a young woman wearing the title piece of jewelry. Created in 1665
Girl with a Pearl Earring
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 The right side of this painting shows a man trapped by fire. The top of this painting features a light bulb due to the similarity between the words for "light bulb" and "bomb" in a certain language. The very bottom of this work shows a flower growing from the hand of a dead person that still clutches a broken sword. This mural, which was created for the 1937 World's Fair, shows a woman crying while holding a baby under the head of a bull on its left, and the center shows a screaming horse. Created by Pablo Picasso in response to the Spanish Civil War. 1937
Guernica
When and who created the Parthenon?
Ictinus and Callicrates. 447 B.C.
A critic imagined a conversation about this painting between two people over an art catalogue where one asks what the "innumerable black tongue-lickings" in this painting are meant to represent. This painting was compared to incomplete wallpaper patterns by Louis Leroy (lou-EE luh-RWAH) who coined the name of the (*) art movement this painting is associated with. Blue smoke stacks and orange light break through a haze in the background of this seascape. In the center of this painting, a shadowy boat floats next to streaks of orange light which seemingly emanates from a solid orange dot. For 10 points, name this painting of the port of Le Havre (AHV-ruh), a work by Claude Monet. Created in 1872
Impression, Sunrise
At the left of this painting, a red-robed figure with a sheathed sword has his left hand on his hip and is using his right hand to hold up a staff, which is wrapped with snakes. A possible companion to this painting shows a woman holding a halberd standing next to a centaur. The right foreground of this painting shows a blue-skinned man grabbing a woman whose mouth is spilling wildflowers; that is this painting's depiction of Chloris and Zephyrus. The top center of this painting shows Cupid aiming towards the three Graces, who are dancing next to Venus in a grove of oranges. For 10 points, name this Botticelli painting sometimes called Allegory of Spring. Created in 1784
La Primavera
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? The background of this painting depicts Minerva Punishing Arachne and Apollo's Victory over Marsyas hanging from the wall, both by Peter Paul Rubens. The vanishing point of this painting is the hand of a man standing on a staircase in a (*) doorway at the right rear of the work. Created in 1656
Las Meninas
In this painting, a paunchy man has one snake coiled around him and another biting his genitalia. A figure with claws, buggy eyes, and pointed ears holds an oar astride his wooden boat in this work as a man cowers and grasps his head in horror beside him. Along the top of this work, one group of angels brings a column toward the center, while another group carries a cross. St. Bartholomew holds in his left hand his own (*)) flayed skin, which supposedly contains a self-portrait of this painting's artist. Daniele da Volterra carried out the Fig-Leaf Campaign to cover up the genitalia in this painting. For 10 points, name this massive fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo which depicts Jesus consigning humans to their ultimate fates. Created in 1534
Last Judgement
One painting with this name was intended for the Salon of 1866 but was incomplete, resulting in the creation of Woman in a Green Dress. That painting included Gustave Courbet and was done by Claude Monet. Paul Cezanne's painting of this name depicts two men and two women partaking in the central activity while a brown dog looks on. In the most popular painting with this name, the artist's use of dark color conceals a (*)) frog in the bottom left corner and a finch flying overhead. The artist's favorite model, Victorine Meurent, sits between two men while another woman in this painting bathes in the background. For 10 points, name this depiction of an outdoor meal by Edouard Manet. Created in 1863
Luncheon on the Grass
The bottom left of this painting shows a blond baby crawling next to a turtle and a little boy holding a parrot. A pineapple is sandwiched between two small fruit trees in this work, while on the right a group of bearded men unfurl a red banner with black text front of a headless statue. This work also depicts an army wearing (*)) gas masks in the top left and police putting down a workers demonstration right underneath. Its central figure wears heavy black gloves and a yellow jumpsuit, and is surrounded by four wing-shaped objects which show cells and space. It was destroyed because its commissioner was unhappy with a depiction of Lenin in the right half of this painting. Originally created for Rockefeller center, for 10 points, name this mural by Diego Rivera.
Man at the Crossroads
Several photographs of this smiling person feature in a photorealistic "vanitas" still life by Audrey Flack. Dorothy Podber used a revolver to shoot a hole in a stack of four paintings of this person. A paste-up by Richard Hamilton consisting of crossed-out negatives of this person is titled "my" this person. Another painting features a small image of this person at the center of a six-foot-tall canvas covered in metallic gold paint. This person's face is depicted in 25 colorful images and 25 black-and-white images composing a 1962 artwork; like similar pieces featuring Jackie Kennedy and Mao Zedong, that silkscreen "diptych" depicting this woman was made in "The Factory." For 10 points, name this actress whose image was repeatedly reproduced by Andy Warhol after her 1962 suicide.
Marilyn Monroe
Question: At the top left of this work, jagged mountains overlook a lake, while below that, less-severe mountains lead to a multi-arched stone bridge across a river. The central figure has a scarf thrown over her left shoulder, part of an intricate clothing design that includes an olive dress and richly-painted light-brown sleeves. Dark pillar bases can be seen on either side of this work, which is situated on a loggia overlooking a meandering road.
Mona Lisa
This figure is shown next to a white handprint and under the title number in Jasper Johns' Figure 7, and Andy Warhol's Thirty Are Better Than One contains 30 black-and-white reproductions of this figure. A small bridge over a winding river can be seen in the background of a painting of this figure. In a collaboration with Phillipe Halsman, Salvador Dalí superimposed his moustache onto this person, a work likely inspired by Marcel Duchamp's parody L.H.O.O.Q.
Mona Lisa
The central figure of this painting is contrasted with a figure based on the model Laure in a Lorraine O'Grady essay on "Black female subjectivity," which notes that woman's role as both "Jezebel and Mammy." The profession of this painting's central subject is indicated by her pearl earrings, oriental shawl, and orchid in her hair. This painting's subject stares directly at the viewer and is modeled on Victorine Meurent ("murr-ON"). The artist of this painting based it on Titian's Venus of Urbino, but replaced that painting's dog with a black cat. For 10 points, a black maid extends a bouquet to the title reclining nude woman in what painting by Édouard Manet? Created in 1863
Olympia
1. In the 19th century, some of this building's marble sculptures were shipped to England by the Earl of Elgin. The treasury of the Delian League helped fund the construction of this Doric order temple. 2. The south wall of this building depicts scenes from the Lapith Wedding. Jacques Carrey created numerous detailed sketches of this building before much of it was ruined in a 1687 bombardment. 3. To avoid obscuring this non-American building, other buildings in the city typically do not surpass twelve floors in height. This building has a curved-in ceiling and floor to negate the optical illusion of them bowing outwards. The alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave are elements of the Ionic order
Parthenon
This work's subject wears a diamond crescent on her head to evoke the huntress Diana. Exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1884, this painting's subject originally wore a dress with a strap sliding down before public backlash forced the creator of this work to paint it back on. The namesake figure of this painting boasts extremely pale (*) skin and a haughty, aristocratic expression. The mysteriously named central character of this portrait was really a New Orleans-born socialite named Virginie Gautreau. For ten points, name this work depicting a lady of high society by John Singer Sargent. Created in 1884
Portrait of Madame X
The Treachery of Images is a painting by this surrealist Belgian. This artist also painted an apple obscuring the face of a man in a bowler hat in his The Son of Man.
René Magritte
This work was intended to hang in a parliament building designed by Legrand and Molinos. In the upper left of this work, a man stops his hat from flying away as an umbrella is flipped open behind him. This work shows a dissenter sitting on a chair with his head down and arms crossed, while at bottom center a clergyman dressed in his traditional white Carthusian robe, Christophe-Antoine Gerle, shakes hands with a layman. A strong wind makes long curtains billow in from the windows in the upper left of this work. Its vanishing point is between the eyes of Jean-Sylvain Bailly, who stands on a table with the title document and lifts his right hand as the crowd imitates him. For 10 points, name this never-completed Jacques-Louis David painting in which the Third Estate pledges to write a constitution.
Tennis Court Oath
The leftmost figure in this work wears a medallion of the Order of St. Michael attached to a gold chain around his neck. An open book in this painting reveals that the man holding a glove in his righthand is 25 years old. Other visible text in this painting includes the Ten Commandments and a translation of Luther's Veni, Creator Spiritus. One man's arm is in front of a (*)) globe in this work,while a lute with a broken string may represent religious discord. A crucifix peers out behind a green curtain in the top left of this painting, while the foreground contains an anamorphic image of a skull. This work is a dual portrait of Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville. For 10 points, name this Hans Holbein portrait of two foreign dignitaries. Created in 1533
The Ambassadors
Heckscher argues that in real life, this painting's subject would likely have stood farther away from the main action, but that he wanted to appear as the reborn version of the author of a book appearing in this painting. Schupbach argues that God's wisdom is highlighted in this painting's emphasis on the human hand. This painting is often compared to an earlier one by Thomas de Keyser but has a more varied composition, such as a figure in top standing in front of a scroll and a figure on the right (*) looking at a page of notes. The criminal Aris Kindt is at the center of this work, and a open book by Vesalius is in the bottom right. Seven men in black with white ruffs surround the title figure, who uses forceps to expose the muscles of a dead body's arm. For 10 points, name this Rembrandt painting where the title physician performs a demonstration. Created in 1632
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
In this painting, a statue of a dragon devouring St. Margaret appears on a bedpost. One object in this painting is surrounded by scenes of the Passion of Christ, and a chandelier in this painting has only one candle. This painting's subjects can be seen from behind in a convex mirror next to the artist's signature, and a(*) dog sits in front of them along with a pair of clogs. One of this painting's central figures seems pregnant and wears a green dress. For 10 points, name this portrait of a couple by Jan ["Yan"] van Eyck ["Ike"]. created in 1434
The Arnolfini Wedding
The orange tree in the background of this painting has not yet produced fruit, symbolizing the potential of this work's main figure. Charles Mack controversially described this painting as a piece of Medici propaganda, and the action of this painting likely occurs on the island of Cythera. The nymph (*) Chloris is being carried toward the central figure of this painting by the wind god Zephyr. On the right side of this painting, the goddess Pomona holds a billowing orange cloth. For ten points, name this painting by Sandro Botticelli depicting a nude goddess rising out of the ocean on a seashell. Created in 1480
The Birth of Venus
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. created in 1770
The Blue Boy
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 Count Orgaz
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
Severed dolls heads and a mechanical monkey look at a version of this painting with a nude man tied to a pole in the center as part of an installation by Nicole Eisenman. The man who commissioned this painting rejected its artist's painting of faceless nudes separated by four vertical bands, Bathers by the River. A pink, blue, black, and white version of this painting was painted in 1930 to serve as a mural above three windows at the Barnes Foundation. This painting, alongside a painting of four (*) seated nudes and a standing violinist on a hill, was commissioned by a Russian collector in 1910. The version of this painting at the MoMA is actually a compositional study for the version given with Music to the artist's patron Sergei Shulkin, which is now found at the Hermitage Museum. For 10 points, name this Henri Matisse painting in which five people join hands in a circle.
The Dance
A delay in the printing of engravings of this painting was caused by Mrs. Hocquet's son, who smashed the printing plate with a hammer, destroying the face of its title figure. Those engravings, promoted by the publisher John Boydell, were based on the work of William Woollett. At the far left of this painting, a man runs into the scene carrying a hat with one hand and the fleur de lis in the other. A bare chested and (*)) tattooed man crouches as he contemplatively stares at this painting's title figure. The people in this history painting are depicted in contemporary clothing, despite Sir Joshua Reynolds's suggestions to depict them in togas. For 10 points, name this painting set after the Battle of Quebec, depicting the death of a British general, by Benjamin West Created in 1770
The Death of General Wolfe
In this painting, a smoking lamp sits atop a black metal pedestal, and a man in gray bows his head and sits on a stone block with the artist's initials. A woman waves while ascending a staircase with two men at the end of a hallway in this painting's background. Apollodorus clutches a wall in grief as a figure in this painting holds his head and extends a (*) goblet to this painting's central figure. That central figure calmly sits on his jail cell bed and points upward with his finger to console Crito and others before his death. For 10 points, name this painting depicting the title Athenian philosopher preparing to drink hemlock, a work by Jacques-Louis David.
The Death of Socrates
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. created in 1500
The Garden of Earthly delight
In this artwork, a man with a goatee leans over an image of the artist himself, who holds onto a railing in front of a doorway. A man in a yellow scarf is among several men in the background of this work who appear to be sleeping. The artist of this work painted a similar scene fourteen years later in which the title figure, David (*) Agnew, instead wears a white coat. Below a note-taking clerk in this painting, a woman hides her face in distress, and four men perform the central action next to a man holding a scalpel. For 10 points, name this painting of a surgery overseen by the title doctor, an 1875 work by Thomas Eakins. Created in 1875
The Gross Clinic
The central object in the painting is decorated by a maroon elongated crescent and contains a dark-cross shaped cleat bound by a thin brown rope. Green and red cords lie next to the central figure, who wears crumpled beige pants. A whitecap, an incoming storm on the top left, and a three masted rescue vessel form this painting's background. For 10 points, name this canvas executed while its artist was vacationing in the Bahamas, containing blood-red water and accurately depicted sharks in its foreground that are threatening this work's central figure, the doomed Anne's sole survivor, a muscular black man; name this painting by Winslow Homer. Created in 1899
The Gulf Stream
A woman at the bottom middle of a painting with this title washes a baby's bottom next to a fire roasting a boar's head. To the right of that fire, a doctor checks a patient's teeth beneath a diagram of vermin invading a heart. Another painting of this name was originally titled Landscape: Noon and includes a (*) white-and-brown dog looking at two men heading towards a woman reaching into a river. That painting of this name features smoke rising from the chimney of Willy Lott's Cottage, and the former painting with this name features three panels depicting fallen angels, Hell, and the title mode of transportation in the center. For 10 points, give this name of a triptych by Bosch and a rural painting about a farm cart in a river by John Constable. Created in 1821
The Hay Wain
In the upper left of this work, two sailboats can be seen on a lake spanned by a rail-bridge. In the upper right of this work, an artist and a bureaucrat can be seen flirting with a woman in all black with hands to her face. The actress Ellen Andree wears a tan hat with a single flower while drinking from a glass in the center of this work. The future (*)) wife of this work's artist, Aline Charigot, can be seen playing with a small dog in the lower left. Now held in the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, this work depicts fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte wearing a straw hat in the lower right, and all of the individuals in this work stand under a red and white-striped awning. For 10 points, name this Impressionist painting depicting many of its artist's friends enjoying a daytime meal by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Created in 1881
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
A counter holding a vase of flowers in the background of this work was painted in a "tender Louis XV green." This depiction of a place "where one can ruin oneself, go mad, commit a crime" contains a mustachioed man in a white suit who is the proprietor of the titular location. On its right, two inconsolable-appearing men (*)) stare down at a table. The artist himself summarized this piece as containing "four lemon-yellow lamps" in a letter to his brother Theo. A clock in the background of this painting reads 12:15, while the center is dominated by a slanting pool table. For 10 points, name this painting of an after-hours restaurant by Vincent Van Gogh.
The Night Cafe
The background structure in this painting may be a triumphal arch erected for Marie de Medici. The center of this painting depicts a man holding both of his gloves in his right hand; that man later commissioned a watercolor copy of this painting that showed its original dimensions. The names of the commissioners of this painting are printed on a shield in its background. This 15-foot-wide painting made for the Kloveniersdoelen (KLO-vuh-NEERS-DOO-luh) was created while the artist's wife (*) Saskia was dying. A man in a red suit loads his musket next to a dwarf on the right of this canvas. The ensign holds an orange and blue striped flag and stands above a brightly lit young girl in this painting. At its center is Captain Frans Banning Cocq (coke). For 10 points, name this Rembrandt painting of a militia company. created in 1642.
The Night Watch
The background of this painting shows a floating platform in front of Catalonian cliffs. A dead tree projects from a larger platform in the near left of this painting, and a face-down object in the lower left corner swarms with ants. A monstrous (*)) face, a self-portrait of the artist, spans the middle of this painting, and is draped with an unusual timepiece. Featuring soft clocks created by salvador dalí in 1931
The Persistence of Memory
A letter outlining the idea of this painting suggests that it would not be "unhealthy" for it to smell of bacon or smoke, because if a "stable smells of manure...that's what a stable's for." This painting was called "not serious" by Anthon van Rappard, who attacked its artist for claiming the legacy of Jean-Francois Millet ("mee-YAY"). The artist of this painting prepared for it by painting Lap with Hands and a Bowl, as well as a series of heads of men and women from Nuenen. That artist chose his (*) ugliest Brabant models for this painting, in which an oil lamp is the only source of light. It contains five figures, one of whom pours tea into cups on the central table. For 10 points, name this painting of peasants consuming the title tuber by Vincent van Gogh. Created in 1885
The Potato Eaters
A sketch created before painting this work depicted a gray-bearded man on his knees with his face resting on one hand and is known as Study for the Father Holding his Dead Son. Other studies leading up to this painting include one depicting cannibalism and many drawn from corpses at the Hospital Beaujon. The subjects of this work are (*) climbing on each other and face the Argos in the distance while at the top of the pile a shirtless man waves a white and orange cloth. For 10 points, name this painting depicting the survivors of an 1816 shipwreck by Theodore Gericault.
The Raft of the Medusa
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. created in 1509
The School of Athens
According to a biography by Sue Prideaux, the artist of this painting commented, "I gave up hope ever of being able to love again." This painting is the best known example of the artist's "soul painting," and a 2004 theft snatched both this painting and the artist's other work Madonna. The eruption at (*) Krakatoa has been theorized as the cause of a "blood red" sky that inspired the artist of this painting while walking in Oslo. Two figures stroll along a bridge in this painting as the primary figure clutches their face. For 10 points, name this painting by Edvard Munch ["moonk"] showing an ambiguous figure making the title cry of anguish. created in 1893
The Scream
After it was refused by the mayor of Laval, this painting was acquired by a charcoal merchant from whom it was purchased by Louis Vauxcelles. This painting's sky contains only six stars and a realistic moon, which hang above a line of lavender mountains. Andre Breton accused this painting of being a forgery when it was acquired by the MoMA. A letter by the artist of this painting identifies a red jar in it as containing drinking water and describes how one character in it picks up the other's "scent, yet does not devour her". Its central figure is dressed in striped "oriental costume" and holds a stick in one hand, while a mandolin with a bent neck sits next to her. For 10 points, name this painting by Henri Rousseau that depicts a lion looking at a slumbering woman.
The Sleeping Gypsy
This painting's commissioner originally wanted its hidden rightmost figure to be a clergyman. Gabriel Francois Doyen (doh-YANH) refused the commission of this painting, which includes a sculpture by Étienne Falconet (fal-koh-NAY) of a cupid placing his finger to his lips. Two putti statues watch in the background as a (*) slipper flies off this painting's central aristocratic woman. An oblivious man stands in the background of this painting while a voyeur hidden in the grass looks up the billowing pink dress of his mistress. That woman sits on the title object of, for 10 points, what Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (frag-oh-NAR)?
The Swing
Janson claims that the dark church in this work's background and the lack of a "divine light" emphasize the central figures' ordinary status. An essay by Kenneth Clark states that this painting is not just a "kind of superior journalism" since it is "revolutionary in every sense of the word." A man wearing the colors of the papacy who may have stigmata on his right hand is illuminated by a (*) box, this painting's only source of light. This piece inspired a work depicting the execution of a Mexican ruler and another set in Korea; those are by Manet and Picasso, respectively. A companion to this piece, The Charge of the Mamelukes, depicts the day before it. The central figure in this painting holds his arms out as a faceless firing squad attacks. For 10 points, name this painting that depicts Napoleon's troops massacring Spanish citizens on a certain date, by Francisco de Goya. created in 1814
The Third of May, 1808
The mountains in the background of this painting merge around a corner with a painting of its central figure preaching. This work is located above The Raising of Theophilus' Son. In the center of this work, a man in an orange tunic has his back to the viewer as two other figures point to the left.Directly to its left, an angel with a sword expels Adam and Eve from paradise. Its central scene has a vanishing point on Jesus' head and shows the (*)) twelve apostles surrounding him in a semicircle. Thiswork accompanies paintings by Masolino in the Brancacci Chapel. On the left-hand side of this work, St.Peter pulls the title objects out of a fish. For 10 points, name this Masaccio work that depicts St. Peter paying a tax collector.
The Tribute Money
One of the two versions of this painting features intricately rendered Stars-of-Bethlehem's and heartsease flowers in its background, reflecting its artist love of botany. That version of this painting was thought to be part of an altarpiece for that was flanked by a depiction of a green angel by Bernardino Luini, and a depiction of a red angel holding a lute by Ambrogio de Predis. The version of this painting in London's National Gallery features Mary wearing a (*)) dark blue robe and references Christ's death by being set in a grotto. Both versions of these paintings, which make use of sfumato, feature an angel, an infant John the Baptist, and an infant Jesus. The Louvre contains the more famous version of, for 10 points, what painting by Leonardo da Vinci, which depicts the Virgin and Child in a rocky landscape?
The Virgin of the Rocks
The artist of this work referred to it as his "first exorcism painting" and an attempt to "give spirits form." The leftmost figure of this painting appears in profile facing right and raises a hand behind her to hold up a curtain of deep red, which appears to cast reddish light on her body. Studies for this painting depict a sailor and a skull-holding medical student interacting with its figures in a reception room, which was later simplified to a background of (*)) blue drapery. In the foreground of this painting, an apple, a pear, a bunch of grapes and a watermelon rind rest on a bundle of grey curtain. The three figures on the left of this painting were influenced by Iberian sculptures, while the two on the right wear African masks and display greater abstraction. For 10 points, name this major Cubist painting depicting five nude prostitutes, a work by Pablo Picasso. Created in 1907
The Young Ladies of Avignon
A painting titled for this scene focuses on a figure who holds a red beverage while pointing upward, and mountains can be seen through the pentagonal windows in back of that work. Andrea del Castagno's depiction of this scene gives halos to many of the figures, and three giant arches dominate the background of a work by Paolo Veronese originally (*) titled for this scene, which was renamed The Feast in the House of Levi. Tintoretto painted this scene on a diagonal axis, and in the best known version of this scene, Judas clutches a bag of silver and St. John sits next to the central figure. For ten points, name this religious scene that shows Jesus consuming his final meal, most famously painted by Leonardo da Vinci. created in 1495-1498
The last supper
This work's creator had earlier painted the title phenomenon Over the Rhone. Blue hills rise in the background of this painting, which was created in an asylum outside the French village of Saint Rémy [sahn reh-MEE]. A (*) cypress tree dominates this painting's foreground, in front of a village illuminated by a swirling crescent moon. For 10 points, name this depiction of an evening sky created by Vincent van Gogh. created in 1889
The starry night
The original sketch for this painting includes a rat in the bottom right that its artist later included in Be In Love And You Will Be Happy. This painting was created after the artist returned home from the Volpini Exhibition. On the right side of his painting, a man can be seen climbing over a waist-high stone wall to follow two women. A small wooden artwork in Tremalo inspired the creation of this painting, which Edouard Dujardin described as an example of (*) cloisonnism. Three women kneel and pray in this painting, and the woman in front of the central object faces away from the viewer and wears a pink bonnet. The title figure of this painting has a claw-like left hand, and a distorted skin tone that mimics the color of the Brittany landscape behind him. For 10 points, name this crucifixion scene painted by Paul Gauguin.
The yellow Christ
A mirror in this painting shows the reflection of one candle stick, but not another one which sits further away. Commissioned by the artist's patron Edward James, it bears resemblance to the artist's earlier Not to be Reproduced. This painting's mirror also shows the reflection of a black clock which is placed between the two (*)) candlesticks and reads a few minutes past 12:40. Depicted below that clock is a trail of steam from a locomotive that strangely appears out of the fireplace. For 10 points, name this surrealist painting by Rene Magritte. Created in 1939
Time Transfixed
Unlike the painting it is based on, this painting places a single pearl earring on the only visible ear of its subject. A book about the "women" of the artist of this painting by Rona Goffen argues that a woman in it is masturbating. The presence of a single fallen rose in this painting is often interpreted as a sign of "plucked" virginity. Most critics instead theorize that, based on the cassoni in the right background, this painting may have been intended to instruct Giulia Varano and is thus an allegory of (*)) marital obligations. This painting creates chiaroscuro with a dark-green curtain that covers the left half of the painting almost exactly, and shows a maid supervising a girl searching through a chest. It was based on a "sleeping" version of the same subject by the artist's teacher Giorgione. For 10 points, name this painting of a women with a dog at her feet, an iconic nude by Titian. created in 1538
Venus of Urbino
Marcel Proust was supposedly cured of a bout of giddiness when he saw this painting, and he described the "sunlit" patch of yellow in this painting as the manifestation of "artistic perfection." Carel Fabritius made a painting with a similar title to this one, but it depicts a music instrument's seller's stall. This painting depicts a city that was also shown in its artist's The Little Street. In the background of this painting, one can make out the tower of the "Old Church." Many buildings in this painting are in (*)) shadow, though not the large New Church. The clock on the Gate Schiedam (SHY-dam) in this painting indicates that the time of day is 7am. The front foreground of this painting is dominated by a quay, where there are numerous ships. A cloudy sky dominates the upper half of this painting, which shows half a dozen peasants on a dirt foreground in the bottom left. For 10 points, name this cityscape by Jan Vermeer. Created in 1660
View of Delft
A stylistic counterpoint to this painting is Anton van den Wyngaerde carefully-labeled wash drawing of the same title of 40 years prior. Jonathan Brown claimed that this painting was created to convince a king to relocate his court, and that a structure it depicts is a notable water-lifting machine built by Giovanni Torriani. A sequel to this painting depicts a bronze statue with a water-jug in its left foreground and the Virgin and angels presenting a chasuble in the sky above. The artist of this painting depicted the same subject behind two pale nude men and their father struggling with snakes in his Laocoön. The artist's son holds a piece of paper with a map on it in the foreground in the artist's second (*)) version of this painting. This painting changes the position of the Alcazar citadel and a cathedral spiral, which are among the grey buildings on a green hill beneath a stormy sky. For 10 points, name this El Greco landscape painting of his adopted Spanish hometown.
View of Toledo
The first version of this painting was burned in a fire at the artist's studio, and the second was destroyed during the bombing of Dusseldorf in World War II. A man plucking a banjo and a man reeling in a fish appear in Robert Colescott's parody of this painting. The artist Worthington Whittredge modeled for the title person in this painting. 50,000 people attended an 1851 exhibition of this painting at the Stuyvesant Institute in New York. In this painting by the artist of (*) Westward, Ho!, a man grasps an anachronistic flag behind the title figure. Nathaniel Greene leans towards the ice in this painting, which was adapted for New Jersey's state quarter. For 10 points, name this Emanuel Leutze (LOOT-suh) painting of an American general leading his troops to Trenton. created in 1851
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Two artworks included in this series are subtitled "harmony in green" and "harmony in red". 15 of these paintings were destroyed by their artist just before their exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery. In 1999, 60 works on the same subject as these paintings were exhibited at the Musee de l'Orangerie, in which eight of these paintings are housed. The artist of these paintings said their aim was to give "the illusion of an endless whole, of (*) water without horizon or bank." Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas is one painting in this series, another of which shows a Japanese footbridge arcing over a pond. For 10 points, name this series of paintings depicting certain flowers in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny. created in 1899
Water Lilies
One man in this painting wears a striped shirt and looks outwards through the legs of another man, while in the right background a ship with two white flags heads towards the distant Morro Castle. A black man holding a rope appears in this painting, which also depicts two men in white reaching for the central figure, who gazes upward. At the front of the boat, a man with long hair is ready to plunge his (*)) spear into the titular animal, which is attempting to eat a naked boy floating in the water. For 10 points, name this painting by John Singleton Copley. Created in 1778
Watson and the Shark
Its artist said of this painting that he could not fit the entire scene due to too many "walk-on parts." This work's background features two mesas on either side, the Roche du Mont and the Roche du Chateau. The dull sky in this painting is interrupted by a tall staff with a crucifix on its top. In this painting a child, who is looking up at a figure whose face is obscured by a hat, stands next to a man reading from a book. In the center of this painting, a white dog and a kneeling man surround a hole in the ground. For 10 points, name this 22-foot long painting depicting the funeral procession of the artist's great uncle in the titular French countryside town, a work by Gustave Courbet.
a Burial at Ornans
The leftmost standing figure in this work wears what is likely a Cholet handkerchief at his hip, as well as a white cockade across his chest. One man in this painting has only a left shoe; another has only a right sock. A young man peers over a pile of stones in this painting while holding a (*) sword above a man in a white shirt lying on the ground. Headgear featured in this painting includes a Phrygian cap and a bicorne. The central figure of this painting, often associated with Marianne, is a topless woman who holds a rifle and a tricolor flag. For 10 points, name this painting depicting the July Revolution by Eugene Delacroix. created in 1830
liberty leading the people
The central figures of this painting were replaced with Humphrey Bogart, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe in Gottfried Helnwein's parody Boulevard of Broken Dreams. The setting of this painting is usually thought to be the empty Mulry Square. The central building in this painting has a yellow door with no handle and no obvious exit. This painting may have been based on a Greenwich Village restaurant. A women in a red dress next to(*) two men and a waiter appear in this painting, which also shows a sign for "five cent Phillies cigars." created by Edward Hopper in 1942
nighthawks
A smaller version of this painting, now in the Toledo (toh-LEE-doh) Museum of Art, was made in collaboration with Anne-Louis Girodet (zhee-ro-DAY). The background of this painting was based on the recently discovered Temple of Paestum that its artist saw while on his Prix de Rome trip. The scene depicted in this painting was possibly drawn from the early drafts of a Corneille (cor-NAY) play. The left-most man in this painting wraps his left arm around a spear and is (*) embraced by the man behind him. An engaged woman named Camille weeps on the right-hand side of this painting. The oldest man in this painting stands under the center of three arches and holds his sons' swords in the air. For 10 points, name this painting by Jacques-Louis David of three Romans taking the title vow. created in 1784
oath of the horatii
A more politically neutral version of this painting, which adds a woman in a blue-and-white striped dress to its right, was painted by Paul Baudry ("boh-DREE"). An arm in this painting is often compared to one in Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ and is found next to an object whose handle was changed from white to black. Having seen the actual scene of this painting, the artist added such details as a green rug and a vinegar-soaked cloth wrapped around its subject's (*) head. The artist's signature is found on a block of wood in this painting next to the title figure's slumped arm, which holds a fountain pen. A bloody letter from Charlotte Corday is shown in, for 10 points, what Jacques-Louis David painting of an assassinated French Revolutionary? created in 1793
the death of marat
A tired-looking man plays the title instrument on the streets of Barcelona in this Picasso work. Created in 1903
the old guitarist
