In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

One of his paintings appears to show a young boy looking at the viewer, holding up the decapitated head of a deer by its antlers. In addition to Putto with Hunting Trophy, this artist painted a now-lost Madonna of Albinea. He was commissioned by the abbess Giovanna Piacenza to paint numerous frescoes for a chamber in her convent, and he painted a fresco depicting a scene from the Book of Revelation on the ceiling of the San Giovanni Evangelista. In addition to painting works in the previously mentioned convent of San Paolo, this artist created a fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin on the ceiling of the dome of the Cathedral of Parma, as well as a series of four paintings depicting scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, such as the Abduction of Ganymede and Danae. For ten points, name this artist of the Loves of Jupiter series.
Fine Arts

A fleet led by Lourenco de Almeida was among the first Europeans to colonize this modern day nation. One empire in this modern day nation, whose largest ethnic group is known as the Sinhalese, had its capital at Nallur. The Palk Strait is at the northern end of this nation, as is a series of small islands known as (*) Adam's Bridge. The northern tip of this island was also home to this nation's Jaffna kingdom, which ruled at the same time as other empires on this modern country like the Kotte Kingdom and the Kandy Kingdom. For 10 points, name this Asian nation once known as Ceylon.
History

A composition by this composer subtitled "a study for 23 strings" quotes the funeral march from Beethoven's Eroica; that piece is Metamorphosen. The last movement of this composer's first tone poem quotes the popular tune "Funiculi, funicula," and the score to another tone poem was published with a poem by Alexander Ritter. In addition to Aus Italien and Death and Transfiguration, he composed a "Rondeau Form for Large Orchestra" that depicts a character who mocks religion, flirts with women, and ends up on the scaffold. Another work opens with a brass fanfare depicting sunrise. For 10 points, identify this German composer of Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Also sprach Zarathustra.

Fine Arts