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A  Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed many talents; two of his most famous paintings are The Last Supper (1495-1498) and the Mona Lisa (1503-1506).

B  The creations of Diego Rivera (1886-1957) celebrate Mexico’s history and workers, he is a founder of the Mexican mural renaissance.

C  Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) produced many important paintings including The Three Musicians (1921) and Guernica (1937) beyond his life as a painter, he was a sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramicist.

A  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c. 1573-1610) produced bold paintings marked by light and shadow breaking with past artistic practice, he showed the saints as everyday people.

B  Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught practitioner, and he produced colorful paintings, frequently of jungle scenes.

C  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a poet, architect, and sculptor in addition to achieving fame as a painter, he is probably best known for his frescoes on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling.

A  Art historians refer to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) as a master of the Dutch school; he painted and drew approximately six hundred works.

B  Paul Gaugin (1848-1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter at the age of thirty-five, he abandoned his family to focus on his painting career.

C  Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is known as one of the 19th century’s most influential artists, much of his work was produced in a 29-month period leading up to his suicide.

A  Known as the leading portraitist of America’s Federal period, Gilbert Stuart (1775-1828) produced more than a thousand portraits of four presidents, diplomats, and notables he was best known for his portraits of George Washington.

B  The most famous of Flemish artists and a leading baroque figure, Peter Paul Rubens created material that demonstrated his energy and enthusiasm for his work. He turned out such masterpieces as The Raising of the Cross (1610-1611) and The Judgment of Paris (1638-1639).

C  James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) created paintings that exhibit a compelling sense of design and color, his series Nocturnes was a forerunner of what came to be known as abstract art.

A  The paintings of Barnett Newman (1905-1971) range from abstract expressionism to the color-field movement. He developed a unique geometric style that became his trademark.

B  Renowned for his abstract works, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) produced materials for architectural spaces one of his most famous works is the sculpture garden of the UNESCO building in Paris.

C  Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) painted scenes reflecting the landscape in the southwestern part of the United States, she made her home in New Mexico.

A  Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was the pop artist recognized for his paintings based on comic strips, later he created pop versions of well-known 19th- and 20th-century artworks.

B  A pop artist, Jasper Johns (born 1930) has used flags, beer cans, and targets in his sculpture and paintings; he finds meaning in everyday objects.

C  Franz Kline (1910-1962) produced monumental black-and-white works these are examples of abstract expressionism.

A  Lonely streets, buildings, and interiors dominate the canvases of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) his work has influenced a 21st-century photographer of street scenes.

B  Robert Indiana (born 1928) produces pop paintings and sculptures, such as his Love series, that sometimes call to mind large signs.

C  Winslow Homer (1836-1910) excelled in painting dramatic seascapes, one example is On a Lee Shore.

A  One of the best-known paintings by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), The Gross Clinic, captures a surgical operation, a subject considered inappropriate at the time. Eakins lost an academic position because he used nude models in mixed classes.

B  A major proponent of abstract expressionism and action painting, Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) arrived in the United States as a stowaway and first supported himself here as a house painter, toward the end of his life he worked on sculptures.

C  Jenny Holzer (born 1950) produces multimedia works electronic message boards are one of the media she uses.

A  John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was a master portraitist and painter of historical scenes, his works are considered aristocratically elegant.

B  Stuart Davis (1894-1964) borrowed cubism from European artists and made it American his paintings present bright colors.

C  Known for glass-covered boxes filled with enigmatically arranged found objects and collages, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a product of surrealism, which relied on irrational juxtaposition.

A  The sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) gained fame for his mobiles and wire sculptures of circuses he went on to produce large sculptures for public areas.

B  The painter Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) was born in Pennsylvania but spent many years in Paris, where the Impressionists thrived, she chose women and children as her special subject.

C  Feminist artist Judy Chicago (born 1939) creates multimedia projects. Her best-known work is The Dinner Party, which explores women’s history.