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Name this Baroque style painting and artist.  This popular portrait painter decided to create an imaginative composition.  It was impressive but his subjects were unhappy.  

Name this Dutch artist and the painting.  This work was probably painted not as a portrait for an important indiviual, but rather for a study.  The mystery of this young woman and why the artist painted her make it very popular with modern viewers.  

This cathedral shows the best examples of this type of cathedral-the flying buttress, pointed arch, and ribbed vault.  The key to naming this one is the two different towers.  What is the name and style of this cathedral?  

Name the French artist whose poster art became a fine art print.  His subject matter showed the seamier side of the French nightlife.  

Name this artist who fled the Nazi invasion and came to New York City.  His work was laid out in grids.  He wanted to make a painting that could be universally understood by everyone.  Name the work.  

Name the artist and this work.  He is the artist most identified with the term “action painting” because of the energy in his technique.  It was an “all-over” picture meaning that no part could be called the subject.  

Name this Egyptian artifact.  This death mask covered the face of the mummified body.  This golden mask is inlaid with lapis, quartz, turquoise, and glass.    

Name the artist and the name of the work.  Even though his style is modern, this Russian painter filled his canvases with rural scenes from his childhood.  

Name the architect and this famous home.  After visiting the sight, he came up with the idea of placing the house over the cliff and letting the water pass underneath.  The sounds of the waterfall fill the house.  

Name this Japanese artist and the wood block print.  In total the artist created 36 views of Mount Fuji.