Trivia Quiz on Art History Part 2

1. Which famous piece of artwork depcits the Battle of Hastings ?

A) The Death of General Wolfe

B) Bayeux Tapestry

C) Guernica

D) The Battle of Anghiari

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2. Artistic movement shared name with French for hobby horse

A) Cubism

B) Surrealism

C) Impressionism

D) Dadaism

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3. To which group of artists does Vincent Van Gough belong

A) Post Impressionists

B) Impressionists

C) Expressionists

D) Fauvist Artists

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4. The Mask In The Movie "Scream" Was Inspired By The Painting "The Scream" But Who Painted It

A) Vincent van Gogh

B) Claude Monet

C) Edvard Munch

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5. Architectural style developed in the Eastern Empire

A) Gothic

B) Byzantine

C) Romanesque

D) Islamic

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6. Who painted the Laughing Cavalier?

A) Rembrandt van Rijn

B) Johannes Vermeer

C) Jan Steen

D) Franz Hals

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7. On a carving in Coventry Cathedral what did Lady Godiva ride

A) A horse

B) A Goat

C) A carriage

D) A dragon

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8. Aesthetic principles derived from the literature and art of ancient Greece & Rome, but found as ideals in all ages is called?

A) Neoclassicism

B) Romanticism

C) Classicism

D) Baroque

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9. What does the painting The Battle of Gettysburg claim to be

A) The most expensive painting ever produced

B) A detailed map of the battle

C) The longest painting in the world

D) Worlds largest

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10. Which artist is supposed to have used 1000 greens in painting

A) John Constable

B) J. M. W. Turner

C) Vincent van Gogh

D) Claude Monet

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11. What was the most valuable thing ever stolen

A) The Hope Diamond

B) The Amber Room

C) The Scream

D) The Mona Lisa

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12. The art of tracing designs and taking impressions of them is ___________.

A) Engraving

B) Etching

C) Lithography

D) Screen printing

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13. What celebrated photographer snapped shots of Yosemite for 67 straight years

A) Carleton Watkins

B) Timothy O'Sullivan

C) Galen Rowell

D) Ansel Adams

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14. What are terra cotta objects baked from

A) Stone

B) Brick

C) Clay

D) Wood

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15. Who painted The Haywain

A) J.M.W. Turner

B) John Constable

C) Thomas Gainsborough

D) William Blake

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16. What colour is bistre, a pigment used in artist's paints and inks

A) Green

B) Blue

C) Brown

D) Red

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17. Given 10 Years Either Way In Which Year Was The Mona Lisa Started

A) 1498

B) 1500

C) 1503

D) 1512

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18. Which statue is missing its arms

A) The Thinker

B) Statue of Liberty

C) David

D) Venus de milo

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19. A study in shades of grey in the name of what picture

A) Mona Lisa

B) The Scream

C) Whistlers Mother

D) Starry Night

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20. Which painting medium is an emulsion of egg yolks and water

A) Oil paint

B) Gouache

C) Acrylic

D) Tempera

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21. Van Gogh started to draw at the age of?

A) 27

B) 17

C) 21

D) 33

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22. In art, what is impasto

A) Laying paint on thickly

B) Applying a glaze to create depth

C) Mixing colors on the palette

D) Using thin transparent washes

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23. If you were given a French Gobelin what would you have had

A) A Tapestry

B) A Rug

C) A Curtain

D) A Quilt

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24. Name the most famous English artist who painted mostly horses

A) Edwin Landseer

B) Sir Joshua Reynolds

C) Thomas Gainsborough

D) George Stubbs

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25. Give a year in the life of the painter Frans Hals.

A) 1592-1650

B) 1570-1655

C) 1600-1670

D) 1580-1666

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26. Kakiemon is what Japanese product

A) Stoneware

B) Porcelain

C) Lacquerware

D) Earthenware

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27. Which painter did Hans van Meegeren most fake

A) Vermeer

B) Rembrandt

C) Frans Hals

D) Jan Steen

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28. What is missing from the 'venus de milo'

A) Arms

B) Head

C) Torso

D) Hands

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29. The upper horizontal part of a classical order, between a capital and the roof; it consists of the architrave, frieze, and cornice.

A) Architrave

B) Frieze

C) Entablature

D) Pediment

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30. Picasso was almost left for dead when he was born. who saved his life

A) A midwife

B) A nurse

C) An

D) A priest

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31. What now famous painter was once so impoverished that he kept warm by burning his own paintings?

A) Vincent van Gogh

B) Claude Monet

C) Salvador Dalí

D) Pablo Picasso

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32. Which UK artist painted The Rakes Progress in the 1700s

A) Sir Joshua Reynolds

B) Thomas Gainsborough

C) William Hogarth

D) Joseph Wright of Derby

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33. Which painter spent last 4 years of his life on the run for murder

A) Diego Velázquez

B) Rembrandt van Rijn

C) Claude Monet

D) Carravagio for murder in Rome

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34. What is the art of writing decoratively called

A) Calligraphy

B) Typography

C) Penmanship

D) Illumination

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35. Which pop artist died in New York in 1987?

A) Keith Haring

B) Andy Warhol

C) Roy Lichtenstein

D) David Hockney

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36. Who painted the Sistine Chapel

A) Raphael

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Donatello

D) Michelangelo

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37. The museum of modern art in New York City hung Matisse's 'Le Bateau' upside down for how long before an art student noticed the error: How many days

A) 2 days

B) 49 days

C) 47 days

D) 7 days

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38. On German pottery, which factory's mark was from 1724 a pair of crossed swords

A) KPM Berlin

B) Meissen

C) Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

D) Dresden Porcelain Factory

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39. Which artist painted The Scream

A) Edvard Munch

B) Vincent van Gogh

C) Claude Monet

D) Pablo Picasso

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40. Which art gallery would you visit to see Botticelli's ' Birth of Venus'

A) National Gallery, London

B) Louvre, Paris

C) The uffizi, florence

D) The Prado Museum, Madrid

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41. What material did Michelangelo carve most of his sculptures out of

A) Limestone

B) Bronze

C) Marble

D) Wood

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42. Franz Halls The Laughing Cavalier - what's the paintings real title

A) Portrait of a man

B) Portrait of a Laughing Cavalier

C) Portrait of a Gentleman

D) The Laughing Cavalier

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43. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, what was it

A) Starry Night Over the Rhône

B) Sunflowers

C) Red vineyard at arles

D) The Potato Eaters

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44. In a roman basilika, the central aisle. In a church, the main section extending from the entrance to the crossing.

A) Narthex

B) Nave

C) Apse

D) Transept

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45. With what name did pablo picasso sign his paintings

A) Pablo Ruiz Picasso

B) Pablo Picasso

C) P. Ruiz Picasso

D) Picasso

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46. Which connects Delft, Sevres, Wedgwood, Chelsea

A) Stoneware

B) Earthenware

C) Glass

D) Porcelain

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47. Which famous artist took up painting with his left hand when he lost the use of his right hand at the age of sixty

A) Leonardo da Vinci

B) Michelangelo

C) Vincent van Gogh

D) Pablo Picasso

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48. Name the British painter who is the grandson of Sigmund Freud

A) Lucian freud

B) Francis Bacon

C) David Hockney

D) J. M. W. Turner

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49. In what town was Leonardo Da Vinci born

A) Florence

B) Arezzo

C) Vinci

D) Milan

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50. Which Bridge Had Van Gogh Just Finished Painting Before He Cut Of His Ear

A) The Pont Saint-Bénézet (Bridge of Avignon) in Avignon

B) The Lanlois Bridge In Arles

C) The Pont du Gard in Nîmes

D) The Brooklyn Bridge in New York

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