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Dutch Paintings
YGK These Dutch Paintings
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Rembrandt masterpiece depicting a civic guard led by Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch | The Night Watch |
| The small figure in The Night Watch carrying a dead chicken, a symbol of the militia company | A woman in a yellow dress |
| The criminal being dissected in Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp | Aris Kindt |
| The famous medical treatise visible in the bottom right corner of The Anatomy Lesson | Andreas Vesalius’s anatomy treatise |
| The Rembrandt painting depicting a prophecy appearing on a wall to a Babylonian king | Belshazzar’s Feast |
| The Dutch rabbi who provided the Hebrew font for the letters in Belshazzar’s Feast | Menasseh ben Israel |
| The Vermeer painting also known as Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman | The Music Lesson |
| The inventor who attempted to prove Vermeer used optical devices in the documentary Tim’s Vermeer | Tim Jenison |
| The object behind the central figure in The Milkmaid that indicated her single status | Foot warmer |
| The Vermeer painting featuring a model possibly portraying Clio, the Muse of History | The Art of Painting (or The Allegory of Painting) |
| The Muse of History's attributes in The Art of Painting, including a trumpet and a book by this author | Thucydides |
| The age of the subject in Frans Hals’s The Laughing Cavalier according to an inscription | 26 |
| The Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting where the titular youth's legs are barely visible in the water | Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
| The W. H. Auden poem that famously describes Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | “Musée des Beaux Arts” |
| The Bruegel painting from the "Months of the Year" cycle featuring ice-skaters and unsuccessful hunters | Hunters in the Snow |
| The female artist whose work was once entirely misattributed to Frans Hals | Judith Leyster |
| The Judith Leyster painting depicting a woman sewing by candlelight while ignoring a man's offer of coins | The Proposition |