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Which artist and architect wrote the seminal series of biographies entitled 'Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' or 'Lives of the Artists' in 1550?

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* 2. One of Paul Cezanne's closest friends since childhood was the writer Émile Zola - which of the images below is a Cezanne painting of Zola?

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This portrait of Emily Brontë is part of a larger painting of the family - but who painted it?

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Which of the Four Evangelists (portrayed here by El Greco) allegedly painted the first icon (a portrait of the Virgin Mary) and is also the patron saint of artists?

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Which artist published their memoirs entitled 'Strangeland' in 2005?

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"If he had become a dedicated artist, he would have been one of the best that century." - which writer, who created over 4000 semi-abstract and abstract drawings, was Delacroix referring to?  

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Which member of the Bloomsbury Group painted this portrait of Virginia Woolf in 1917?

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Which Surrealist artist published her first book, La Maison de la peur, in 1938, complete with illustrations by fellow artist Max Ernst?

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* 9. Albrecht Durer's 'Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion' ('Four Books of Human Proportions'), was published in 1528 and discusses his ideas on how best to work with human proportions. The text is accompanied by over 150 Durer woodcut prints, but which of the following doesn't feature in the original text?

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The cover art for The Beatles' 1967 album, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', created by Sir Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, features a number of well-known writers but which of the writers listed below isn't included?

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