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What hides the face in Magritte's self-portrait The Son of Man?
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What is the Mona Lisa painted on?
Answer: Wood
Why: Until canvas caught on in the 16th century, wooden panels were the usual support for easel paintings.
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Whose only surviving female nude is the Rokeby Venus?
Answer: Diego Velázquez
Why: In Velázquez's Spain the Inquisition discouraged nudes and could seize such paintings or order them repainted.
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Which genre gained its own Prix de Rome, first awarded in 1817?
Answer: Historical landscape
Why: Awarded every four years, it sent the winner to live and work at the Villa Medici in Rome.
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What color are the heels in Rigaud's portrait of Louis XIV?
Answer: Red
Why: Even Louis's enemy William III of Orange took up the red heels that the French king had made fashionable.
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How does the Chinese landscape term shan shui translate?
Answer: Mountains and water
Why: Landscape has led Chinese painting since about the tenth century, when it rose to prominence under the Song dynasty.
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Which new genre did the French Academy create for Watteau in 1717?
Answer: Fête galante
Why: His reception piece for the Academy, The Embarkation for Cythera, now hangs in the Louvre.
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