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89 Cards in this Set
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Hatshepsut was the first
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great female ruler whose name has been recorded
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Hatshepsut built
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a famous mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri
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Painted reliefs in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple constitute
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the first great tribute to a woman's achievement in history or art
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Nefertiti was the queen of
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Akhenaton
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Nefertiti reigned during the
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New Kingdom
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Nefertiti had a famous limestone bust that is a good example of
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the naturalistic Amarna style
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Theodora was the empress of
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Justinian
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Theodora was one of the most remarkable women during the
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Middle Ages
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Theodora is portrayed leading a procession in a famous mosaic in
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San Vitale, Ravenna
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Theodora, in a famous mosaic in San Vitale, is portrayed
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leading a procession
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Isabella d'Este was the daughter of
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the duke of Ferrara
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Isabella d'Este was the wife of
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Francesco Gonzaga
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Fracesco Gonzaga was the marquis of
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Mantua
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Isabella d'Este is the subject of a famous portrait by
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Titian
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Sofonisba Anguissola is renowned for
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painting informal and charming group portraits
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Sofonisba Anguissola was the Court painter to
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Phillip II of Spain
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Caterina van Hemessen was what kind of artist?
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Flemish
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Caterina van Hemessen is the first known woman to
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paint a northern European self-portrait
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Lavina Teerling is was what kind of artist?
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Flemish
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Lavina Teerling is best known for
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her life-size portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
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Artemisia Gentileschi was what kind of artist?
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Baroque
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Artemisia Gentileschi is a follower of
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Caravaggio
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A Caravaggista is
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a follower of Caravaggio
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Artemisia Gentileschi is best known for painting
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several versions of Judith slaying the Assyrian general Holofernes
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Marie de' Medici was the Wife of
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Henry IV, the first of the Bourbon kings of France
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Marie de' Medici commissioned who to paint a series of paintings glorifying her career?
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Rubens
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Marie de' Medici comissioned Rubens to
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paint a series of paintings to glorify her career.
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Judith Leyster was what type of artist?
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Dutch Baroque
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Judith Leyster mainly painted
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portraits
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Judith Leyster was influenced by
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Hals
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Rachel Ruysch was what kind of artist?
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Dutch Baroque
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Rachel Ruysch was renowned for her
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detailed floral paintings
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun is famous for
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her portraits of Marie Antoinette
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun is one of the few
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women admitted into the French Royal Academy
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was the contemporary of
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard is famous for her paintings of
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French aristocrats
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard was one of the few
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women admitted to the French Royal Academy
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard was the contemporary of
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
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Angelica Kauffmann was what type of artist?
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Neoclassical
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Angelica Kauffmann is best known for
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her painting titled Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (or Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures)
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Edmonia Lewis was what ethnicity?
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African American
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Edmonia Lewis sculpted in what style?
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Neoclassical
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Edmonia Lewis is best known for which sculpture?
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Forever Free
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What does the sculpture, "Forever Free," by Edmonia Lewis depict?
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freed African American slaves
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Julia Margaret Cameron is one of the most famous
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portrait photographers in Victorian England
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Julia Margaret Cameron is known for her images with
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a slightly blurred focus
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Rosa Bonheur is the most celebrated woman artist of the
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nineteenth century
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Rosa Bonheur is most famous for which work
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"The Horse Fair"
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Gertrude Kasebier was what ethnicity?
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American
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Gerturde Kasebier is famous for her photographs with
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symbolic themes
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Gertrude Kasebier is most reknowned for which photograph?
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Blessed Art Thou Among Women
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Gertrude Kasebier did what type of art?
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Photograph
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Berthe Morisot was what type of artist?
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Impressionist
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Berthe Morisot married who?
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Manet's brother
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Berthe Morisot often posed for
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Manet
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Berthe Morisot is praised for
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the grace and delicacy of her work
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Mary Cassatt was what type of artist
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American Impressionist
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Mary Cassatt exhibited regularly with
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Impressionists
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Mary Cassatt is best known for her portraits showing the
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relationship between mother and child
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Mary Cassatt was influenced by
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Degas and Japanese woodblock prints
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Gertrude Stein was an important patron of
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Picasso, Matisse, and other avant-garde artists living in Paris
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Gertrude Stein was the subject of an important portrait by
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Picasso
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Hannah Hoch was what kind of artist
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Dada
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Hannah Hoch was best known for her
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photomontages
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Georgia O'Keefe was what type of artist
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American Precisionist
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Georgia O'Keefe was best known for her detailed paintings of
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flowers and bones
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Georgia O'Keefe simplified her subjects almost to the point of
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complete abstraction
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Kathe Kollwitz was a
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German Expressionist
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Kathe Kollwitz was best known for her
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poignant depictions of grief and loss
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Kathe Kollwitz worked in a variety of
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printmaking techniques, including woodcut, lithography, and etching
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Meret Oppenheim was what type of artist?
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Surrealist
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Meret Oppenheim is best known for her
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"Object" (or "Le Dejeuner en fourrure"), a fur-lined teacup inspired by a conversation with Picasso
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Frida Kahlo was what type of artist
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Mexican Surrealist
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Frida Kahlo was married to
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Diego Rivera
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Frida Kahlo is best known for her
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series of self-portraits
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Barbara Hepworth was influenced by
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Brancusi's dictum that sculptors should strive to represent the essence of things
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Brancusi's dictum is that
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sculptors should strive to represent the essence of things
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Barbara Hepworth is best known for which famous work?
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"Oval Sculpture"
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Dorothea Lange was a preeminent American photographer of the
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Great Depression
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Dorothea Lange was most famous for her picture
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"Migrant Mother"
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Helen Frankenthaler is what type of painter?
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Post-Painterly Abstractionist
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Helen Frankenthaler is best known for her
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color field paintings
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Maya Ying Lin was what type of sculptor?
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minimalist
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Maya Yin Lin is best known for designing
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the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Louise Nevelson was a
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American sculptor
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Louise Nevelson was best known for creating
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assemblages, artworks constructed from existing objects
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Audrey Flack is a(n)
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American Superealist
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Audrey Flack is best known for which famous work?
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Marilyn
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Audrey Flack's "Marilyn" can be compared with
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Dutch vanitas paintings
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