01·Which Dutch Golden Age painter is so intrinsically linked with the city of Delft that he is often called the 'Sphinx of Delft'?
02·Which Central European capital, nicknamed the 'City of a Hundred Spires,' hosted Mozart for the premiere of 'Don Giovanni'?
03·What expensive pigment, derived from lapis lazuli, created the brilliant blues used by Titian and other Venetian Renaissance painters?
04·The turn-of-the-century cultural flourishing in Vienna, involving figures like Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud, is known by what term?
05·The woodblock print 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' was created by which master of the Japanese ukiyo-e school?
06·Which powerful banking family were the foremost art patrons in Renaissance Florence, sponsoring artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo?
07·What German Expressionist group, co-founded by Wassily Kandinsky in Munich, took its name from a painting of a 'blue rider'?
08·Which Italian appetizer of thinly sliced raw meat was invented at Harry's Bar in Venice and named for a Renaissance painter known for his use of red tones?
09·The former home of composer Edvard Grieg, now a museum called Troldhaugen, is located in which Norwegian city?
10·What is the scientific term for the way Impressionist painters like Seurat used dots of pure color that blend in the viewer's eye?
11·What French term, meaning 'crazy years,' describes the cultural and artistic dynamism of 1920s Paris?
12·Which sitar maestro, who famously collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and The Beatles, is closely associated with the holy city of Varanasi?
13·Which tango singer, a national icon of Argentina, is buried in a famous mausoleum in Buenos Aires's Chacarita Cemetery?
14·The 'Casa Azul' (Blue House), a museum dedicated to a celebrated artist, is a major landmark in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. Who was that artist?
15·Which island in the Venetian Lagoon has been the center of the city's renowned glassmaking industry since the 13th century?
16·The brilliant but unstable yellow pigment Van Gogh used in his 'Sunflowers' series was based on which chemical element?
17·Which American composer captured the sound of 1920s New York City with his work 'Rhapsody in Blue'?
18·Which New Deal program specifically employed artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning during the Great Depression?
19·What is the French term for an artist's workspace, closely associated with the bohemian studios of 19th-century Paris?
20·Which influential art collector and dealer provided Jackson Pollock with his first solo exhibition at her New York gallery, Art of This Century?
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