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1. The Precolumbian culture best known for stirrup spout vessels and realistic ceramic portraiture is ____________.
2. The canonical form in ancient Egyptian art lasted for thousands of years. However, one XVIII Dynasty Pharaoh deviated from this form as well as from accepted religious norms. This Pharaoh was _______.
3. Through the American 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act it was established that artists own copyrights to any work they create even after said work is sold. These, among other rights established in 1990, last for how long?
4. The Pre-Raphaelites painted images based on literature during which century?
5. Michelangelo is often called the Father of the Renaissance, but which painter is credited with making the stylistic leap that marks the beginning of Renaissance painting?
6. Which ancient culture is widely known for the frescoes in the Tomb of the Triclinium, the Tomb of the Leopards, the Tomb of the Chariots, and the Tomb of the Banquet?
7. Masks depicting supernatural beings for False Face Society ceremonies were created by the ____________.
8. What Pre-Inca culture is best known for the free-standing stone sculpture called the Raimondi Stone?
9. What 20th century American artist made a statement about the art world and art as commodity with his bizarre works that consisted of basketballs in fish tanks?
10. Edouard Manet went against traditional painting styles and gave rise to a movement that would become Impressionism. Who was the popular French academic painter that served as Manet's antithesis?
11. Which Expressionist was a member of the Nazi Party and yet had more paintings than any other artist exhibited in the Degenerate Art Exhibition?
12. The many Mayan stela depicting their ancient ballgame tell us that the losers of the game could be _____________.
13. Which great American painter often exhibited his work in various Kansas City bars, although he did not frequent such establishments?
14. What 17th century artist is best known for taking chiaroscuro to its most blatent, and some would argue most powerful, level by adding the image of a flickering candle directly into his paintings?
15. Which towering Gothic cathedral collapsed after 37 years of ongoing construction?
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