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.

Q: This man painted a satyr hanging from a tree with his panpipes, while in another of his works, cherubs sit atop a black cloud while Saint Peter sits below next to the Virgin Mary. This artist of The Flaying of Marsyas and The Pesaro Madonna painted (*) cheetahs drawing Bacchus's chariot as he leaps out to protect Ariadne. This artist painted Cupid reaching into a sarcophagus while a bride in white sits opposite Venus in his Sacred and Profane Love. His most famous work shows a dog sleeping on a white sheet beside the title goddess. For 10 points, what Renaissance artist depicted Venus lying on her side in Venus of Urbino

A: Fine Arts
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Q: One work of his, the colossal Saint John the Evangelist currently resides in the Duomo of Florence, but from its creation until 1588, it occupied a place in the faade of the Baptistery, a building which this artist's mentor, Lorenzo Ghiberti, had designed. Following his work on Saint John, he worked on a statue of St. Mark for the Orsanmichele church, where he would also create a statue of Saint George several years later. While working on the sculpture Habbakuk, or Zuccone, he is alleged to have repeatedly muttered "Speak, Damn you, Speak" at the marble he was working with. For ten points, identify this 15th-century artist and sculptor of the Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata and the Bronze David.

A: Fine Arts
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Q: This artist showed a man swinging a sledgehammer in a poster executed as a cover for The Morse Dial. This painter showed a seated brunette wearing only a pair of shoes staring out of an open window to her right in one work, while another of his paintings shows a blonde woman bending over to adjust the cloth base of a basket of fruit. He based many of the women in his paintings on the likeness of his wife, Josephine Nivison. This painter of (*) Eleven AM and Tables for Ladies showed a woman in a yellow hat sitting alone at a table staring into her cup of coffee in a different work. An advertisement for Phillies Cigars appears near the top of his best known painting, in which three people sit at a diner. For 10 points, name this American artist of Automat and Nighthawks.

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Fine Arts
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