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1. This painter was noted for his ceiling fresco of Aurora in the Villa Ludovisi, commissioned by Pope Gregory XV. One of Bologna's leading painters he was nicknamed the 'squinting one'. Who was he?
2. She was the first female painter to gain international renown in Europe and painted numerous self-portraits, but was perhaps best captured by van Dyck when she was 93! Who was this charming lady?
3. It is widely accepted now that which painter was the so-called 'Master of Flémalle'?
4. Jan van Eyck frequently worked with his brother, most famously on the altarpiece at Ghent. But what was his brother's name?
5. Brunelleschi, the greatest architect of the Renaissance, was passed up for the design of the new Medici palace in favor of which younger architect?
6. Who sculpted 'St. Mark' for the Or San Michele in Florence, the first statue of the Renaissance era to capture the full meaning of contrapposto?
7. True or false: Ghiberti sculpted the first set of doors for the Baptistery of Florence.
8. True or false: Brunelleschi lost to Ghiberti in the competition to sculpt a set of bronze doors for the Florentine Baptistery, but later constructed the cathedral dome in Florence despite competition from Ghiberti.
9. Who was the young genius that first applied Brunelleschi's scientific laws of perspective to painting?
10. Yes or no: Filippino Lippi was the son of Fra Filippo Lippi.
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