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Q#00023 - Challenge Quiz

Q1: This 1873 Manet piece is one of the few Manet to achieve popularity in his lifetime. It is a portrait where the subject smokes a pipe and is painted in a relatively conventional style. What is the name of this piece that now hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art?

Q2: Ingre's beguiling nude La Grande Odalisque, painted in 1814 was commissioned by who?

Q3:In the time of Leonardo da Vinci, Italy was a collection of independent states ruled by rival families. Which member of which family did Leonardo serve as military engineer and architect from 1502-1503?

Q4:L _ _ _ _ _ is a gallery, open at one or more sides or an open sided gallery.

Q5:In 1982 James Stirling produced Neue Staatsgalerie as a 'picture' of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Altes Museum (1830). Both museums are built around a grand central opening with almost identical grand plans. Name the cities where each of these museums are found.

Q6:

Please provide the Title, Date & Artist of this painting of which only a portion is shown.

Q7:Alphonse Mucha gained fame in the late 1800s due to his numerous posters of which queen of the Paris stage?

Q8:Which famous French sculptor created the Gates of Hell (1880-1917)?

Q9:Which northern European artist (1471-1528) gained fame as a graphic artist in the area of wood cuts and engravings. An example of this exceptional skill which forced his cutters to the limits of the medium is The Knight, Death and the Devil (1513).

Q10: Who is the artist, born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia (1889) that became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1919? He earned a favourable reputation when paintings he exhibited at the 1924 and 1925 exhibitions of Australian Art in London received high praise from newspaper critics.

Clue: Sir Daryl Lindsay was also born in 1889, but we are looking for another artist.

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