| TRIPTYCHS | Many altar paintings of the Middle Ages |
| APSES | Where many altars are |
| YALTA | Many altars around conference site (5) |
| NEDKELLY | Who was the subject of Sidney Nolan's series of paintings from 1946-47. considered to be one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings of the 20th century? (3,5) |
| ROUSSEAU | Landscapist of the Barbizon School noted for his paintings of the forest of Fontainebleau (8) |
| TAMAYO | Which Mexican artist reacted against the epic proportions and political rhetoric of the paintings of the Mexican muralists? |
| GOLDFINCH | Thistle-eating bird with a red face supposedly coloured by the blood of Jesus, hence symbolising Christ's crucifixion and its depiction in many religious Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna a |
| SEASCAPE | Painting of the ocean or shore such as Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, Monet's Impression, Sunrise or Turner's The fighting Temeraire (8) |
| HITCHENS | Artist of the London Group noted for abstracted paintings of the Sussex landscape including Damp Autumn, Hazel Wood and Farm House (8) |
| SISLEY | Alfred -; Impressionist noted for his paintings of the Thames and of the countryside around Paris (6) |
| STUBBS | Artist whose painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket once graced the walls of a room at Wentworth Woodhouse that bears its name today (6) |
| HOGWASH | Artist whose painting of the children of George II's apothecary, Daniel Graham, includes details of a cat, a cherry-bob, a goldfinch in a gilded cage and a silver basket of fruit (7) |
| HOGARTH | Artist whose painting of the children of George II's apothecary, Daniel Graham, includes details of a cat, a cherry-bob, a goldfinch in a gilded cage and a silver basket of fruit |
| CAFE | Setting for many Manet paintings of the bourgeoisie |
| PALMER | Artist whose visionary paintings of the Kentish landscape include In a Shoreham Garden and A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star (6) |
| LIPPI | Who abducted the nun Lucrezia Buti, was released from his vows to marry her and then made her his model for his paintings of the Madonna? (5) |
| ADANCETOTHEMUSICOFTIME | A twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin |
| BOGART | Player with paintings of the ladies, possibly? (6) |
| SIDNEYNOLAN | Sir noted for his paintings of the Australian outback (6,5) |
| OPART | Eye-bending paintings of the 60's |
