Famous paintings and artists quiz
Art history in ten questions. No pictures needed!
10 multiple-choice questions, with the answer explained after each one.
Answer each question, see why, and beat your best score.
All 10 questions and answers
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- Who painted the Mona Lisa?
- Raphael
- Michelangelo
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Titian
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Leonardo da Vinci. It hangs in the Louvre, Paris.
- Who painted The Starry Night?
- Paul Gauguin
- Claude Monet
- Vincent van Gogh
- Paul Cézanne
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Vincent van Gogh. He painted it in 1889.
- Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
- Michelangelo
- Caravaggio
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Botticelli
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Michelangelo. He worked on it from 1508 to 1512.
- Who painted The Scream?
- Egon Schiele
- Gustav Klimt
- Edvard Munch
- Salvador Dalí
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Edvard Munch. Munch made several versions.
- Which painting by Salvador Dalí features melting clocks?
- The Persistence of Memory
- Composition VIII
- Guernica
- The Kiss
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The Persistence of Memory. Painted in 1931.
- Who painted Guernica, a protest against the bombing of a Spanish town?
- Diego Rivera
- Joan Miró
- Pablo Picasso
- Francisco Goya
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Pablo Picasso. Picasso painted it in 1937.
- Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?
- Frans Hals
- Rembrandt
- Jan Steen
- Johannes Vermeer
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Johannes Vermeer. A Dutch Golden Age masterpiece.
- Which Impressionist painted a famous series of water lilies?
- Claude Monet
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Camille Pissarro
- Edgar Degas
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Claude Monet. He painted them in his garden at Giverny.
- Blue Poles, bought by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973, was painted by whom?
- Brett Whiteley
- Jackson Pollock
- Mark Rothko
- Andy Warhol
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Jackson Pollock. The purchase caused a national controversy at the time.
- Who painted The Birth of Venus?
- Sandro Botticelli
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Titian
- Raphael
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Sandro Botticelli. It hangs in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.