Masters of the Renaissance
Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
A. Raphael
B. Michelangelo
C. Donatello
D. Titian
Answer: Who is Michelangelo?
Which artist painted the series of works depicting Water Lilies?
A. Edgar Degas
B. Claude Monet
C. Édouard Manet
D. Paul Cézanne
Answer: Who is Claude Monet?
Who painted American Gothic, featuring a stern-looking farmer and woman standing in front of a farmhouse?
A. Edward Hopper
B. Grant Wood
C. Norman Rockwell
D. Thomas Hart Benton
Answer: Who is Grant Wood?
Which artist painted The Last Supper?
A. Michelangelo
B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Raphael
D. Titian
Answer: Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Which artistic movement is most closely associated with Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro?
A. Cubism
B. Impressionism
C. Surrealism
D. Expressionism
Answer: What is Impressionism?
Which artist painted The School of Athens, depicting philosophers including Plato and Aristotle?
A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Raphael
C. Caravaggio
D. Botticelli
Answer: Who is Raphael?
Which artist is famous for painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?
A. Georges Seurat
B. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
C. Paul Gauguin
D. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Answer: Who is Georges Seurat?
Which American artist painted Nighthawks, depicting customers inside a brightly lit diner late at night?
A. Andrew Wyeth
B. Edward Hopper
C. Georgia O'Keeffe
D. Jackson Pollock
Answer: Who is Edward Hopper?
The Persistence of Memory, famous for its melting clocks, was painted by which artist?
A. Pablo Picasso
B. Salvador Dalí
C. Joan Miró
D. René Magritte
Answer: Who is Salvador Dalí?
Which movement is associated with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and often depicts subjects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously?
A. Cubism
B. Futurism
C. Dadaism
D. Symbolism
Answer: What is Cubism?
Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait Lady with an Ermine depicts a woman holding which animal?
A. Rabbit
B. Ferret
C. Stoat
D. Fox
Answer: What is a stoat?
Which Post-Impressionist artist famously painted The Starry Night while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum?
A. Paul Cézanne
B. Vincent van Gogh
C. Georges Seurat
D. Henri Matisse
Answer: Who is Vincent van Gogh?
Which artist became famous for large-scale paintings of flowers, including numerous depictions of enlarged irises and poppies?
A. Georgia O'Keeffe
B. Mary Cassatt
C. Frida Kahlo
D. Louise Nevelson
Answer: Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
Which artist painted Las Meninas, a complex royal portrait featuring the young Spanish princess Margarita Teresa?
A. Francisco Goya
B. Diego Velázquez
C. El Greco
D. Peter Paul Rubens
Answer: Who is Diego Velázquez?
Which artist was a major figure in the Dada movement and famously submitted a urinal titled Fountain as an artwork?
A. Marcel Duchamp
B. Man Ray
C. Max Ernst
D. René Magritte
Answer: Who is Marcel Duchamp?
Which Renaissance artist created The Birth of Venus, depicting the goddess emerging from the sea?
A. Sandro Botticelli
B. Titian
C. Giorgione
D. Raphael
Answer: Who is Sandro Botticelli?
Which artist developed a distinctive style using small dots or dabs of unmixed color, a technique known as Pointillism?
A. Claude Monet
B. Georges Seurat
C. Paul Gauguin
D. Edgar Degas
Answer: Who is Georges Seurat?
Which American artist's Christina's World depicts a woman lying in a field looking toward a farmhouse?
A. Grant Wood
B. Andrew Wyeth
C. Edward Hopper
D. John Singer Sargent
Answer: Who is Andrew Wyeth?
Which Dutch artist painted The Night Watch, a monumental group portrait of a civic militia?
A. Johannes Vermeer
B. Rembrandt
C. Frans Hals
D. Jan Steen
Answer: Who is Rembrandt?
Which art movement, associated with artists such as André Breton and Salvador Dalí, explored dreams and the unconscious?
A. Fauvism
B. Surrealism
C. Constructivism
D. Neoclassicism
Answer: What is Surrealism?
Which artist's Vitruvian Man was based on the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius?
A. Raphael
B. Michelangelo
C. Leonardo da Vinci
D. Andrea del Verrocchio
Answer: Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Which artist's late-career paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire helped lay important groundwork for the development of Cubism?
A. Paul Cézanne
B. Henri Rousseau
C. Camille Pissarro
D. Édouard Manet
Answer: Who is Paul Cézanne?
Which American artist is associated with drip painting, including works created by pouring and splattering paint across large canvases?
A. Mark Rothko
B. Jackson Pollock
C. Willem de Kooning
D. Franz Kline
Answer: Who is Jackson Pollock?
Which Spanish artist painted Guernica, his monumental response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War?
A. Joan Miró
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Salvador Dalí
D. Francisco Goya
Answer: Who is Pablo Picasso?
Which 17th-century artist is particularly associated with chiaroscuro, dramatically contrasting light and darkness, and influenced generations of Baroque painters?
A. Caravaggio
B. Vermeer
C. Velázquez
D. El Greco
Answer: Who is Caravaggio?