Packet 8: Bonus 13

This woman wears a jeweled choker in a painting that depicts her as a bare-breasted Judith holding the head of Holofernes. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this woman who, in one portrait, stands against a backdrop of multicolored blocks as flowers flow from her waist. This woman wears an eye-covered dress in a portrait nicknamed “Woman in Gold.”
ANSWER: Adele Bloch-Bauer [accept Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I or Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II]
[10e] Adele Bloch-Bauer frequently modeled for this Austrian artist, whose use of gold leaf can also be seen in paintings like The Kiss.
ANSWER: Gustav Klimt
[10m] Three gorgons flank the monkey-like giant Typhon on the middle wall of a Klimt painting titled “Beethoven [this word].” Edvard Munch’s Love and Pain is part of a cycle of paintings titled “[this word] of Life.”
ANSWER: frieze [accept Beethoven Frieze; accept The Frieze of Life]
<Fine Arts - Visual, Khang Le> | VAULT II Packet 08

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