The Ultimate Art History Quiz!

By: Gavin Thagard
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The Ultimate Art History Quiz!
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Are you an Art history expert? Take this quiz and find out how much you really know about the history of Art!
Who painted The Last Supper?
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper in the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The painting depicts Jesus and his disciples during the Last Supper from the Bible.
Rembrandt
Vincent van Gogh

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Who is considered one of the founders of Cubism?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Caravaggio
Pablo Picasso
Painters who embraced Cubism rejected the notion that artwork should reflect nature and aimed for more abstract pieces.

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Where was Georgia O'Keeffe born?
Wisconsin
Georgia O'Keeffe was influential in bringing about American Modernism.
Spain
England
Japan

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How did Vincent van Gogh die?
Murdered
Suicide
For Vincent van Gogh, the success sadly did not come until after his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.
Alcohol poisoning
Tuberculosis

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Who painted Madonna Enthroned?
Giotto
Giotto is considered the originator of Western pictorial art and is one of the artist credited with the start of the Renaissance.
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali
Claude Monet

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Who did Claus Sluter work under?
The Duke of Burgundy
Claus Sluter produced the Well of Moses, a fountain built in the Carthusian monastery, for the Duke of Burgundy.
The Pope
The President of the United States
The House of Medici

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What is Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons?
A Fresco Painting
A Sculpture
An Engraving
The engraving depicts the temptations that Saint Anthony of Egypt is said to have faced during a pilgrimage through the desert.
Digital Painting

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What did Donatello's Saint Mark reintoduce to sculptors during the Renaissance?
The principle of weight shift
Saint Mark by Donatello was one of the first sculptures from the Renaissance to demonstrate how the body shifts while standing, which was a concept the Greek sculptures of the fifth century BCE understood.
The ability to increase a sculpture's size
The ability to use stone
The ability to carve a full human figure

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Who commissioned the equestrian statue, Bartolommeo Colleoni?
Marcus Aurelius
Erasmo da Narni
Bartolommeo Colleoni
Hoping a portrait of himself would gain fame, Bartolommeo Colleoni left funds in his will for an equestrian statue to be created in his honor.
Verrocchio

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What book in the Bible is Masaccio's Tribute Money based on?
Mathew
Tribute Money reflects the story from the Bible when Saint Peter pulls a tribute coin from the mouth of a fish.
Mark
Luke
John

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What did John Everett Millais' Ophelia depict?
A marriage
A drowning
In the painting, Millais depicts the drowning of Ophelia which occurred in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A birth
A prayer

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What is the process of painting without conscious thought?
Automatism
Joan Miro produced his work Painting using the automatism technique.
Etching
Intaglio
Hatching

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What new technique did Masaccio use when painting Holy Trinity?
Engravings
Mathematics
Masaccio used mathematics to create a perspective for viewers to follow in Holy Trinity.
Cubism
Automatism

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Who painted The Persistence of Memory?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Camille Pissarro
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali created The Persistence of Memory in 1931. It is an allegory of time coming to an end.

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Who was NOT considered an Impressionist painter?
Claude Monet
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet is known for his realist paintings like The Stone Breakers and Burial at Ornans.
Camille Pissarro

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Who was a Neoclassical painter during the French Revolution?
Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical painters were obsessed with Greek and Roman culture and art, and they found inspiration in ancient subjects.
James Abbott McNeill
Winslow Homer
Rembrandt

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Which is NOT a work of Rembrandt?
The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
Return of the Prodigal Son
Venus of Urbino
Rembrandt was a Dutch painter known for his use of light and shadow. He was also well-known for his portraits.
Self-Portrait

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What kind of painting is Impression: Sunrise?
Impressionist
Impression: Sunrise is a work created by Claude Monet in 1872. It is part of the Impressionist movement that sought to capture the grit of the industrialized world.
Cubism
Romanticism
Rococo

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Who painted Liberty Leading the People?
Edward Hopper
Grant Wood
William Merritt Chase
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix was part of the Romantic movement during the early 19th century. He often used historic events as inspiration.

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When was the Realist movement?
21st Century
19th Century
Realist painters focused on subjects that could be found in everyday life. These subjects were depicted in a natural way.
12th Century
10th Century

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Which was NOT a work by Albrecht Durer?
Great Piece of Turf
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Lion Hunt
Born in Nuremberg, Albrecht Durer studied in Italy so he could better understand the Italian Renaissance.
Four Apostles

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Who painted Nighthawks?
Vincent van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Edward Hopper
Stillness and open space characterized Edward Hopper's work. His paintings often reflected American cities and countryside.

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Where was Michelangelo Buonarroti from?
Spain
The United States
Italy
Michelangelo is credited with painting the inside of the Sistine Chapel.
Britain

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Who was Not part of the Romantic movement?
Eugene Delacroix
Thomas Eakins
Romanticism was a movement from about 1750 to 1850 that emphasized feelings over reason.
Theodore Gericault
Francisco Goya

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Who painted the ceiling decoration for the church of Sant'Ignazio?
Fra Andrea Pozzo
Fra Andrea Pozzo's painting on the ceiling of the church of Sant'Ignazio is called the Glorification of Saint Ignatius. It was completed between 1691 and 1694.
Vincent van Gogh
Eugene Delacroix
Jacques-Louis David

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Which of the following was an Enlightenment painting that depicted the wonders of science?
The Last Supper
Villa at the Seaside
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery was painted by Joseph Wright of Derby between 1763 and 1765, which was in the middle of the Age of Enlightenment.
The Rehearsal

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What movement rejected the limitations of Impressionism?
Realism
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionist were concerned with the capabilities of art and, therefore, sought to examine the expressive elements of painting.
Rococo
Neoclassicism

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Who painted Number 1?
Gino Severini
Nicolas Poussin
Pieter Bruegel
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock's style of painting was characterized by his use of drips and splatters of paint across a canvas.

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Where was Pieter Bruegel from?
Spain
Netherlands
Pieter Bruegel is known for works like Hunters in the Snow and Netherlandish Proverbs, which are characterized by their depictions of everyday human activities.
Italy
The United States

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When did Neo-Expressionism come about?
1500s
1800s
1750s
1970s
Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer are a few examples of Neo-Expressionist painters.

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Who painted The Scream?
Edvard Munch
Emotions characterized Munch's work, such as despair which can be found in The Scream.
Francisco Goya
Hendrick Ter Brugghen
Paolo Veronese

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Who painted landscapes of the American West?
Angelica Kauffmann
Albert Bierstadt
In 1858, Albert Bierstadt traveled to the American West, where he captured various landscapes like in his Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.
Henri Matisse
El Greco

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Who was NOT a painter in the High Renaissance?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent van Gogh
Artists of the High Renaissance paved the way for visual art as a profession, as the prestige of their work increased throughout the era.

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Who created Anatomy of a Kimono?
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Peter Paul Rubens
Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schaprio created Anatomy of a Kimono to show the world that women were creating collages before Pablo Picasso made them popular.
Perugino

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Which was NOT a work by Caravaggio?
Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa
Caravaggio was famous for bringing a naturalistic element to classical and religious pieces that was absent among Italian painters before him.
Conversion of Saint Paul
Calling of Saint Matthew
Entombment

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