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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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1 |
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night. |
Humanities > Art |
07/08/08 |
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2 |
The Pietà and the David were sculpted by Michelangelo before he became thirty years of age. |
Humanities > Art |
03/18/09 |
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3 |
The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Humanities > Art |
05/15/08 |
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4 |
The "Oath of the Horatii" was painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1784 as oil on canvas in the neoclassic style. |
Humanities > Art |
01/09/09 |
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5 |
Salvador Dalí painted "La persistencia de la memoria", or "The Persistence of Memory", in 1931. |
Humanities > Art |
12/28/08 |
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6 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" from 1880 to 1881. |
Humanities > Art |
02/11/09 |
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7 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" in 1876. |
Humanities > Art |
02/12/09 |
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8 |
Pablo Picasso painted "Guernica" in 1937. |
Humanities > Art |
02/12/09 |
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9 |
Michelangelo's ceiling in Sistine Chapel has lost only one piece in five centuries. |
Humanities > Art |
07/08/15 |
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10 |
Marcel Duchamp entitled a urinal as art and called it "Fountain" in 1917. |
Humanities > Art |
04/05/09 |
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11 |
Many artists have made self-portraits, but only Vincent van Gogh painted "Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear" in 1889. |
Humanities > Art |
02/15/09 |
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12 |
Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing showing the proportions of man is called the "Vitruvian Man". |
Humanities > Art |
02/23/09 |
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13 |
Johannes Vermeer painted "The Milkmaid" in oil on canvas and completed it in 1660. |
Humanities > Art |
12/30/08 |
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14 |
Johannes Vermeer painted "Diana and her Companions" and completed it in around 1656. |
Humanities > Art |
01/08/09 |
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15 |
Jean-François Millet painted "The Gleaners" in 1857 in oil on canvas. |
Humanities > Art |
02/22/09 |
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