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This Paris museum, once a royal palace, is now home to the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.
Difficulty: Easy- The Louvre
- Musée d'Orsay
- Centre Pompidou
- Palace of Versailles
This circular diagram divided into pie-shaped segments with a dot in each half represents the I Ching and appears in the South Korean flag.
Difficulty: Medium- Yin yang
- Taeguk (Korean yin-yang)
- Bagua
- Tao circle
The Impressionists initially called their exhibiting group by this formal name when incorporating in 1873.
Difficulty: Hard- Society of French Artists
- Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.
- Independent Artists Cooperative
- Progressive Artists Association
This 1960s art movement emerged in Southern California and focused on perceptual experiences using light as the primary medium.
Difficulty: Easy- Light and Space
- Abstract Expressionism
- Pop Art
- Minimalism
This museum in Paris, formerly a royal palace, houses the Mona Lisa and is the world's largest art museum.
Difficulty: Medium- Uffizi Gallery
- The Louvre
- British Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Greimas's generative trajectory of meaning, this deepest level contains the fundamental semantic categories and elementary structures of signification.
Difficulty: Hard- Deep structure
- Surface structure
- Narrative structure
- Discursive structure
In 1990, thirteen works valued at $500 million were stolen from this Boston museum in what remains the largest art heist in history.
Difficulty: Medium- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Fogg Museum
- Institute of Contemporary Art
This Orthodox icon type depicts Mary pointing to the Christ child, showing him as "the Way" and earning the title "She who shows the way."
Difficulty: Hard- Hodegetria
- Eleousa
- Platytera
- Glykophilousa
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