French artist Edouard Manet. The Battle, fought in French waters outside Cherbourg harbor on June 15, 1864, was watched from shore and small boats by more than 15,000 people – one of them, Manet. The naval engagement ended with the sinking of the Alabama, which had defeated more than 60 Union ships in prior battles.
The Arts
Are you nutty about Neoclassicism? Excited about Expressionism? Batty about the Baroque Era? Put your art expertise to the test with these questions and prove that you're more than a novice.
What is the only sculpture on which Michelangelo is believed to have carved his name?
What are the initials of the painter ‘Lowry’?
What fellow artist did French impressionist Paul Gauguin refer to as “the little green chemist”?
Who designed the largest Protestant church in England, St Paul’s Cathedral?
Whose paintings Raising of the Cross and Descent from the Cross are in Antwerp Cathedral?
Anna Mary Robinson – a famous American painter – what’s her alias?
Sir Henry Cole got John Callcot Horsley design ? to save time?
Which major 20th century art movement is divided into two parts called Analytical and Synthetic?
What name is given to a picture or pattern made up of several small pieces of glass, stone, etc., of various colors?
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