Which French architect designed the Petit Trianon at Versailles in a neoclassical style?
Answer
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
98613 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which Sergei Prokofiev symphony is deliberately composed in a neoclassical style reminiscent of Haydn?
Answer
Symphony No. 1 (Classical)
Who designed the neoclassical building of the British Museum in London?
Answer
Robert Smirke
Which female neoclassical painter was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts?
Answer
Angelica Kauffman
Which Jacques-Louis David painting depicts Napoleon crowning himself?
Answer
The Coronation of Napoleon
Which German architect designed the Neue Wache in Berlin?
Answer
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Which neoclassical sculptor created the 'Equestrian Statue of Peter the Great' in St. Petersburg?
Answer
Étienne Maurice Falconet
Which neoclassical building in London was originally the Royal Academy of Arts?
Answer
Somerset House
Which Jacques-Louis David painting shows the Sabine women stopping a battle?
Answer
The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Which British architect designed the Pulteney Bridge in Bath?
Answer
Robert Adam
Which U.S. President was an amateur neoclassical architect who designed Monticello?
Answer
Thomas Jefferson
Which architect designed the Altes Museum in Berlin?
Answer
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Canova's "Venus Italica" was created to replace which stolen ancient statue?
Answer
Venus de' Medici
La Madeleine church in Paris was originally intended as what?
Answer
a temple to the glory of the army
Which architect designed the Bank of England in a neoclassical style?
Answer
Sir John Soane
Which German archaeologist is considered the father of Neoclassicism?
Answer
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
What 1834 event inspired J.M.W. Turner's painting 'The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons'?
Answer
The fire of the Houses of Parliament
Which American Romantic painter is known for large-scale landscapes of the Rocky Mountains?
Answer
Albert Bierstadt
Which German Romantic painter created the series 'The Times of Day'?
Answer
Philipp Otto Runge
Which 1812 painting by Théodore Géricault depicts a cavalry officer on a rearing horse?
Answer
The Charging Chasseur
Which American Romantic painter created the series 'The Course of Empire'?
Answer
Thomas Cole
What is the title of Goya's painting of a giant eating his son?
Answer
Saturn Devouring His Son
In Friedrich's 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog', what is the figure standing on?
Answer
a rocky precipice
What shipwreck inspired Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa'?
Answer
the Méduse
Which French Romantic artist painted 'The Death of Sardanapalus'?
Answer
Eugène Delacroix
Which British Romantic painter was also a poet and illustrated his own books?
Answer
William Blake
What is the name of the surrealist object created by Dalí in 1936 featuring a telephone?
Answer
Lobster Telephone
For which 1945 Alfred Hitchcock film did Dalí design the dream sequence?
Answer
Spellbound
What is the title of Salvador Dalí's 1951 mystical manifesto?
Answer
Mystical Manifesto
What is the title of Dalí's 1936 painting depicting the Spanish Civil War?
Answer
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
What is the title of Dalí's 1937 double-image painting of swans?
Answer
Swans Reflecting Elephants
Which fashion designer collaborated with Dalí to create a shoe hat?
Answer
Elsa Schiaparelli
What is the title of Dalí's 1954 painting of a hypercube crucifixion?
Answer
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
What is the name of the optical illusion technique Dalí developed?
Answer
Paranoiac-critical method
What was the name of Salvador Dalí's pet ocelot?
Answer
Babou
What is the title of Dalí's painting depicting a crucified Christ viewed from above?
Answer
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Who expelled Dalí from the Surrealist movement?
Answer
André Breton
What novel did Salvador Dalí write?
Answer
Hidden Faces
Which iconic candy logo was designed by Dalí?
Answer
Chupa Chups