One
Encompassing architecture, music, painting, and sculpture, what 17th and 18th century art style derives its name from the Portuguese word for flawed pearl?
Baroque
Two
What is the term for an individual piece used to create a mosaic?
A tessera
Three
What is the name for a piece of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three parts?
A triptych
Four
What dolls, made by the Hopi and Zuni tribes, were made to represent masked impersonators and dancers?
Kachina Dolls
Five
What large artwork was stolen by Nazi Germany in 1942 from St Bavo's cathedral in Belgium
The Ghent Altarpiece. It was the focal point of the book and movie, The Monuments Men
Six
Johann Sebastian Bach's brother, Jacob, was known for playing what double-reed woodwind instrument?
The oboe
Seven
In 1982, King Juan Carlos of Spain bestowed the title of Marquis on what artist?
Salvador Dali
Eight
Winning a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, what author wrote the novels Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Nine
What American composer had his first work, The Old Cat and the Young Mouse, published in 1920?
Aaron Copland
Ten
Louise Bogan was the first woman to hold what position that is currently held by Tracy K Smith?
US Poet Laureate
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