#9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "The Swing" is one of this 18th century Frenchman's works showing billowy dresses & frolics in gardens Fragonard |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1200: In the 18th century British architects began a revival of this medieval style, pointed arches & all Gothic |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1600: An outgrowth of the Baroque style, this frothy style that embraced natural elements originated in 18th century Paris rococo |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $2000: As the name of this 18th century movement suggested, it tried to recreate the art of Greece & Rome neoclassical |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $600: Art supplies fashion ideas--here's what 18th-century women wore for this outdoor activity (sidesaddle, of course) riding |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $1200: This 18th century English painter captured his own daughters chasing a butterfly Gainsborough |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $400: His contemporaries called this painter of presidents the "Father of American Portraiture" (Gilbert) Stuart |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $800: Terra cotta whiz Clodion was a major sculptor in this elegant post-Baroque style Rococo |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $1200: In his self-portrait with his wife & daughter, this Brit gave them blue dresses; we guess he liked the color Gainsborough |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $1600: An illness that left him deaf in the early 1790s was followed by the disturbing series of etchings "Los Caprichos" Goya |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | 18th CENTURY ART $2000: Piranesi depicted torture instruments in his series of prints called "Carceri", these places jails (or prisons) |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | JOBS IN ART $1600: This 18th century master of Venetian views gave us "The Stonemason's Yard" Canaletto |
#6927, aired 2014-10-28 | JUST SIT RIGHT BACK $2000: An 18th century chair with Cabriole legs & a curved back is named for this "Rake's Progress" painter who used the form in his art William Hogarth |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | ART "R"EVIEW $1,000 (Daily Double): This term can refer to a style of art or design or to a highly ornamental style of music of the late 18th century Rococo |
#6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ART $1000: The name of this heavily decorated & frothy 18th century style was coined by Maurice Quai as a term of ridicule rococo |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $400: William Hodges, official artist to this captain & explorer, painted "Tahitian War Canoes" in 1774 (Captain) Cook |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $800: Here, army officer
Rouget de Lisle
tries out this new
patriotic song he's written
in 1792 "The Marseillaise" |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $1200: Seen here, Nader Shah of what's now this Mideastern land loved conquering places like Bahrain & Oman Iran |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Now hanging in the Capitol, the 20th-century work seen here depicts a scene in this building in 1787 Independence Hall |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2000: The battle here is off South Africa in 1757 during this conflict that's been called the "real first world war" the Seven Years' War |
#5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, was a patron of this mid-17th century view painter Canaletto |
#5645, aired 2009-03-06 | THE ART OF WORK $800: The 18th-century work seen here is partly titled these people "Hard at Work" blacksmiths |
#5217, aired 2007-04-24 | ART STYLE ETYMOLOGY $800: Initially a perjorative term, this 18th century art period name comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work" rococo |
#5016, aired 2006-06-05 | LOST ART $400: His marble "David" would be hard to lose, but his smaller bronze "David" has been missing since the 18th century Michelangelo |
#4734, aired 2005-03-17 | ART -ISMs $600: This "neo" 18th century style of Benjamin West developed after Herculaneum & Pompeii were excavated Neoclassicism |
#4655, aired 2004-11-26 | ART HISTORY $1200: The frolicsome painting seen here dates from this century the 18th |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | 18th CENTURY ART $400: English nobles' souvenirs of Italy often included a Canaletto view of this city's Grand Canal Venice |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | 18th CENTURY ART $800: Works like "Pipe and Jug" made J.B.S. Chardin one of the century's masters of this genre still life |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | 18th CENTURY ART $1,000 (Daily Double): Baroque led to this style exemplified here by a Francois Boucher painting Rococo |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | 18th CENTURY ART $1600: John Constable called John Robert Cozens "the greatest genius that ever touched" this genre of painting landscape art |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | 18th CENTURY ART $2000: James Boswell knew what Samuel Johnson looked like before meeting him from a portrait by this man Sir Joshua Reynolds |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $2,200 (Daily Double): Seen here, "The Age of Innocence" is one of many charming paintings by this great 18th century portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $500: The Prado boasts a fine portrait of 18th century artist Francisco Bayeu by this Spaniard, his brother-in-law Francisco Goya |
#2592, aired 1995-12-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: This art auction firm that joined with Parke Bernet in 1964 was founded in England in 1744 Sotheby's |
#2092, aired 1993-10-12 | SOCRATES $1000: "The Death of Socrates" by this 18th century French artist is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Jacques-Louis David |
#2070, aired 1993-09-10 | ART $600: This city was home to Titian & Tintoretto during the Renaissance & to Tiepolo in the 18th century Venice |
#1530, aired 1991-04-05 | ART $600: Famous for his "Discourses", he's considered the 18th century's leading English portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |