Art History Trivia Questions
Total Questions: 43
Which alloy were many of Degas' clay or wax-modeled statues cast in after his death?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
bronze
Which artist is known for the famous American Western art bronze sculpture titled 'Bronco Buster'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
frederic remington
In which Scandinavian country was Edvard Munch born on December 12, 1863, in Loten?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
norway
Which artist, known for painting 'The Blue Boy,' worked as a restorer of paintings for art dealers in the 1740s?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
thomas gainsborough
What type of wall hanging is 'The Hunt of the Unicorn', a famous example of the mille-fleur style?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
tapestry
Which mountain is featured in Hokusai's famous series 'Thirty-Six Views'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
mount fuji
Which cubist artist was inspired by the women of Barcelona's Carrer Avinyo to create 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
pablo picasso
Which renowned 20th century Spanish artist painted 'The Blue Room' during his Blue Period?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
pablo picasso
In which city did Canaletto, in the 1730s, paint the quay of the Piazzetta, also his hometown?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
venice
What is the last name of the portrait artist John Singer, who painted his niece Rose-Marie in 'Repose' in 1911?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
john singer sargent
Which muralist began studying at Mexico City's Academy of San Carlos at the age of 10?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
diego rivera
In which capital city was David Roberts, often referred to as the 'Scottish Canaletto,' born in 1796?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
edinburgh
Which artist caused controversy by including the phrase 'God does not exist' in a mural in Mexico City?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
diego rivera
Who painted 'Luncheon on the Grass'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
Édouard manet
Which Maine artist has the world's largest collection of drawings at NYC's Cooper-Hewitt Museum?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
winslow homer
Which Roman goddess of beauty did Titian paint reclining nude on a bed in 1538?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
venus
Which American artist painted the famous work 'Christina's World' 40 years ago?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
andrew wyeth
Who is the artist known for painting 'Syndics of the Drapers' Guild', which is considered one of the best Dutch group portraits?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
rembrandt
Which artist, known for works like 'The Blue Boy,' was notably influenced by Van Dyck?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
thomas gainsborough
Which artist, known for his ballerina paintings, began to favor pastels after 1880 for their delicate effect?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
edgar degas
Which artist created 'Birth of Venus,' which singer Gloria Trevi recreated with herself as Venus in her 1997 calendar?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
sandro botticelli
In 1985, which city's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts acquired over 1,000 works by Thomas Eakins?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
philadelphia
Which Cubist painter and sculptor, born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain, was the son of an art professor?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
pablo picasso
What nymph is featured alongside Apollo in one of Bernini's greatest sculptures?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
daphne
What is the name of the body of water after which the school of art founded by Thomas Cole in Catskill, N.Y. is named?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
hudson river
What is the name of the 19th century New York landscape school that eventually spread to Mexico and South America?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
hudson river school
Which Italian master sculpted the 'Dying Slave' in the early 1500s, now located in the Louvre?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
michelangelo
Which British painter, famous for creating 'Blue Boy', was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
thomas gainsborough
Which artist frequently depicted bare bones and desert flowers in her paintings after relocating to New Mexico?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
georgia o'keeffe
In what painting, created by her brother in 1930, did Nan Wood Graham pose?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
american gothic
Which Cretan-born Spanish artist once offered to repaint Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
el greco
What is the art form that involves setting stones or glass into mortar and was the main decorative art of the Byzantine Empire?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
mosaic
Who was the 80-year-old artist featured in a one-woman show at a New York City gallery in 1940?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
grandma moses
Which Mexican painter collaborated with Ben Shahn on a series of murals in Rockefeller Center in 1933?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
diego rivera
Which artist studied the Jews of Amsterdam and included them in works like the etching 'Christ Preaching'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
rembrandt
Which great Italian sculptor taught Michelangelo's teacher Bertoldo?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
donatello
What letter follows 'Madame' in the title of John S. Sargent's scandalous portrait of Mme. Gautreau?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
x
Which woman impressionist was hired to paint a mural at the 1892 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
mary cassatt
Which artist created a series of 'Haystacks' before focusing on water lilies?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
claude monet
Which artist, known for creating a famous evocative painting, had a museum opened in his honor in Oslo in 1963 to mark his centennial?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
edvard munch
What alloy were over 70 wax and clay works found in Degas' studio after his death later cast into?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
bronze
What animal is featured in both Henri Rousseau's paintings 'The Sleeping Gypsy' and 'The Dream'?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
lion
Who was the artist that initiated and led the impressionist movement and is famous for his haystacks paintings?
Medium
Click to reveal answer
claude monet
Page 1 of 1