Landmark public-domain artworks matched to artist, period, and one identifying detail.
About this set
44 basic cards for College Art History. It opens with "Who painted 'The Birth of Venus' (1485-1486)?" and "Who sculpted 'David' (1504), the monumental marble figure?". Study it alongside the other College sets below.
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- Who painted 'The Birth of Venus' (1485-1486)?
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Sandro Botticelli- Who sculpted 'David' (1504), the monumental marble figure?
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Michelangelo- Who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
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Johannes Vermeer- Which artist created 'The Night Watch' (1642)?
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Rembrandt- Who painted 'The Third of May 1808', depicting a Spanish execution?
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Francisco Goya- What 1889 masterpiece of swirling skies did Vincent van Gogh paint?
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Starry Night- Claude Monet painted a famous series of paintings of what subject at his garden?
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Water Lilies- What is Leonardo da Vinci's most celebrated portrait painting?
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Mona Lisa- Michelangelo painted what monumental fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
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The Creation of Adam- Which painting depicts a Spanish king and his court being painted by an artist?
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Las Meninas- What artwork depicts Jesus and his twelve disciples at their final meal?
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The Last Supper- Which painting shows a woman in a yellow dress reading a letter indoors?
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Girl Reading a Letter- What painting depicts a woman sleeping in a desert landscape with a lion nearby?
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The Sleeping Gypsy- What mythological subject is depicted in Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus'?
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Venus emerging from the sea- Art movement dominated by Monet, Renoir, and Degas in the 1870s-1880s?
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Impressionism
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