A 1900 cupola fresco inspired by this book included a coy depiction of a viper with a foreign crown. For points each:
[10m] A triptych inspired by what book depicts a nude, blonde maid pulling away from a man in a boat? In a “defense” scene from this book, a white-bearded man holds a rudder while raising a sword against a flying monster.
ANSWER: The Kalevala (The unnamed paintings are The Defense of the Sampo, The Aino Myth Triptych, and Ilmarinen Ploughing the Viper-field by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.)
[10e] Akseli Gallen-Kallela and other Finnish national painters became known to the West at one of these events in 1900, which also exhibited Art Nouveau work by Hector Guimard and Alphonse Mucha at the Grand Palais.
ANSWER: World’s Fair [or World Exposition; accept the 1900 Exposition Universelle or Paris Expo]
[10h] Finnish painter Eetu Isto had to jump out a window with this 1899 painting to evade Russian police. Revolutionaries made thousands of copies of this painting in which a two-headed eagle wrests a book of laws from the Maid of Finland.
ANSWER: The Attack [or Hyökkäys]
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