In which city is the Louvre Museum located?
Answer
Paris
197 Arts Trivia Questions with Answers
197 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which American landscape painter is known for 'The Oxbow'?
Answer
Thomas Cole
Which French painter created 'The Card Players' series?
Answer
Paul Cézanne
Which German Renaissance painter created the 'Isenheim Altarpiece'?
Answer
Matthias Grünewald
Which ancient Greek statue of a discus thrower is famous?
Answer
Discobolus
Which Italian Baroque painter created 'The Calling of Saint Matthew'?
Answer
Caravaggio
Which American architect designed Fallingwater?
Answer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'?
Answer
Hieronymus Bosch
What is the term for a painting created on wet plaster?
Answer
Fresco
Which art movement is characterized by small dots of pure color?
Answer
Pointillism
Who sculpted 'The Burghers of Calais'?
Answer
Auguste Rodin
Which artist painted 'The Hay Wain'?
Answer
John Constable
Which American painter is known for her large-scale flower paintings?
Answer
Georgia O'Keeffe
Which architect designed the Barcelona Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition?
Answer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Which sculptor created the 1913 work Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
Answer
Umberto Boccioni
Which Dada artist created the installation Merzbau?
Answer
Kurt Schwitters
Which artist created Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962?
Answer
Andy Warhol
Which artist painted the large color-field work No. 61 (Rust and Blue)?
Answer
Mark Rothko
Which art museum in Bilbao was designed by Frank Gehry?
Answer
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Which Spanish surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931?
Answer
Salvador Dalí
Which Russian artist wrote the 1911 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art?
Answer
Wassily Kandinsky
Which painting gave Impressionism its name?
Answer
Impression, Sunrise
Which Flemish painter made The Arnolfini Portrait in 1434?
Answer
Jan van Eyck
Who founded the Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1919?
Answer
Walter Gropius
Which artist painted Las Meninas in 1656?
Answer
Diego Velázquez
Which painter made the 1888 series of Sunflowers in Arles?
Answer
Vincent van Gogh
Which Mexican artist painted The Two Fridas in 1939?
Answer
Frida Kahlo
The Venus de Milo is generally believed to depict which goddess?
Answer
Aphrodite
Which Mughal emperor commissioned the Taj Mahal?
Answer
Shah Jahan
Hokusai created which famous woodblock print of a wave near Mount Fuji?
Answer
The Great Wave
Which Florentine gallery houses Botticelli's The Birth of Venus?
Answer
Uffizi Gallery
What is the name of the first photograph, created by Niépce in 1826?
Answer
View from the Window at Le Gras
What year did Picasso's Blue Period begin?
Answer
1901
Which Spanish painter is known for The Third of May 1808?
Answer
Francisco Goya
Who sculpted The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years?
Answer
Edgar Degas
What type of object did Marcel Duchamp use for his Fountain?
Answer
A urinal
What is the term for strong light-dark contrast in painting?
Answer
Chiaroscuro
Which artist painted The Night Watch?
Answer
Rembrandt
Which artist painted American Gothic?
Answer
Grant Wood
Which art movement includes Monet, Renoir, and Degas?
Answer
Impressionism
Which artist is known for drip painting?
Answer
Jackson Pollock
What material is Michelangelo's David carved from?
Answer
Marble
Which Italian city is home to Michelangelo's David?
Answer
Florence
Which Renaissance painter is known for the 'Flagellation of Christ' and his use of mathematical perspective?
Answer
Piero della Francesca