History Quiz: Art

He fought in World War I, so the work and others in the series are meant to represent the horrors of war.

Cave paintings like these were created by using pipes made out of bones to spray paint (made by combining various materials (for different colours) with fluids) over hands held up to the cave wall.

They are among the more famous depictions of the mythical building, if not the most famous.

She would go around the world, painting plants with a high level of scientific accuracy, before photography could realistically be used for that purpose.

Members of the upper class in Roman Egypt often wanted to be mummified, though Roman mummies (known as Fayum mummy portraits) differed from Egyptian mummies: they had wooden boards, featuring naturalistic portraits of the deceased, attached to them.

He created the etching in 1799.

It is a Māori tradition, and involves elaborate carving in wood, stone or bone.

The Xenomorph is a good example of Giger's work, blending biological and mechanical elements. Roger Dean has created album covers for bands such as Yes, Asia and Budgie, while Gerald Scarfe created some of Pink Floyd's music videos and was a conceptual character artist for the Disney film Hercules.

The Hellenistic influences can be seen in the usage of porticoes, for instance.

He was born on 29th September 1571. Leonardo da Vinci was born on either 14th or 15th April 1452 and Michelangelo was born on 6th March 1475.

The claws of the beast in the motif usually grip the border around it, neighbouring beasts of parts of its own body.

He has been described as a Cubist or Surrealist painter, depending on the painting.

It was 12.4 metres tall, and was made out of a wooden frame covered in ivory plates and gold panels. Phidias also created two massive statues of Athena for the Acropolis, one made using the same process as the Statue of Zeus, which was located inside the Parthenon; the other was a massive bronze that stood between the Parthenon and the Propylaea (the gate to the Acropolis). Polykleitos created a statue of an Amazon for Ephesus and a gold and ivory statue of Hera for the Heraion in Argos. Praxiteles is probably most famous for carving nudes, including those of Hermes and of satyrs.

He is probably most famous for his murals.

Specifically, it was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. York Minster is a Gothic cathedral, while Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is an example of modern architecture.