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How many people are at the table in Leonardo's Last Supper?
Answer: 13
Why: Leonardo split the twelve apostles into four groups of three, with two groups on each side of Jesus.
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Whose attribute in art is a spiked wheel?
Answer: Catherine
Why: The spinning firework called a Catherine wheel takes its name from her wheel.
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What is the oldest known Christ Pantocrator icon painted with?
Answer: Hot wax
Why: The hot-wax technique, encaustic, takes its name from the Greek for 'burning in'.
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What shape surrounds the Eye of Providence in church art?
Answer: Triangle
Why: An eye inside a triangle became a sign of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in late Renaissance art.
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What nut gives the mandorla, a full-body halo, its name?
Answer: Almond
Why: Byzantine icons use it for moments of divine glory, such as the Transfiguration and the Ascension.
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How did early Christian art show God the Father?
Answer: As a hand
Why: Western art later replaced the hand with a full figure of God the Father, which Orthodox art did not accept.
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