| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Apr 15 01:14PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > Pope Julius II commissioned this artist to build this sculpture > for his tomb in 1505. The work depicts Moses with horns on > his head. Michaelangelo > This American artist specialized in depictions of the > late-19th-century American West, evoking romantic images of > cowboys and natives. Remington > This Romanian-born sculptor has been called the patriarch of > modern sculpture. This 1908 work is unsurprisingly titled > "The Kiss". Rodin > Italian genius forged a new conception for religious and > historical sculpture. This sculpture of Apollo and Daphne is > in Rome's Borghese Gallery, along with several other masterworks. Bernini > artist represented his view of the human form. A friend once > said that if he decided to sculpt you, "he would make your head > look like the blade of a knife". Dali; Kandinsky > 6. Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-9/sculpt/06.jpg > This sculpture stood on the grounds of Expo 67 in Montreal. > Its American creator is also famous for his mobiles. Calder > This American artist is famous for his life-size plaster-cast > figures that are usually placed in tableaux from everyday life. > He shares his name with a Hollywood actor. James Stewart; Tony Curtis > dancers. When this now much-loved work was shown in Paris in > 1881, critics said the 14-year-old dancer's face was "marked > by the hateful promise of every vice". Manet > * A. Family Belongings > A1. Which family of subatomic particles has members named bottom, > up, and strange? Quarks > A2. Geologists classify rocks into three large families or types: > igneous, metamorphic, and what? Basalt > fictional American-Canadian War starts when our air force > bombs the residence of two real-life American acting > families, wiping them out. Give *either* family name. Carradine; Fonda > Or play the same sport, at least. > C1. These """are the only""" father and son in the NHL to *both* > have their numbers retired. Give their family name. Hull > There """are only two""" players who have each achieved > this feat in 5 different seasons -- and, remarkably, they > also happen to be father and son. Give their family name. Bonds > and the principal house of the Westerlands -- in the "A Song > of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels, made famous on > TV as "Game of Thrones". Give their family name. Stark; Lannister > family, this language is unrelated to them, and is considered > to be the last surviving pre-Indo-European language in > Western Europe. What language? Finnish; Hungarian > itself is a loan-word taken from which language, still in > limited use, considered one of the earliest members of the > entire Indo-European language family? Romansch > rise to the later royal houses of Bourbon and Orleans, > which are considered a part of this overall dynasty. > Name the dynasty. Rothschild > F2. Name the family dynasty that ruled Japan as shoguns from > 1603 until 1867, when the last shogun resigned, with power > soon returning to the Emperor in the Meiji Restoration. Pete Gayde |
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