14th Century: What name was given to the dance of a skeleton or corpse leading people to the grave in order of social precedence
Answer: danse macabre
1980s: He used bold line and silhouette techniques to depict the women of the '80s
Answer: patrick nagel
19th Century: "Death of Marat" and "Oath of the Horatii", two of his better known works
Answer: jacques-louis david
19th Century: "The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons" was done by this Englishman
Answer: william turner
19th Century: American painter who painted "Death of General Wolfe
Answer: benjamin west
19th Century: Color of ceiling in Van Gogh's "Night Cafe
Answer: green
19th Century: French Impressionist who did "The Luncheon of the Boating Party", 1881
Answer: Pierre-auguste renoir
19th Century: French lithographer chronicled repressive French government in mid 1800s
Answer: honore daumier
19th Century: French painter who did "Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa
Answer: antoine-jean gros
19th Century: German artist who did "The Hulsenbeck Children
Answer: philipp otto runge
19th Century: He was symbolized by Rodin in "The Thinker
Answer: dante
19th Century: His notorious painting, "The Picnic", was rejected by the Salon of 1863
Answer: edouard manet
19th Century: In 1885 he did "The Potato Eaters
Answer: vincent van gogh
19th Century: Known for his rendering of ballet dancers
Answer: edgar degas
19th Century: Sculptor's "George Washington", 1841, was too "god-like" for Americans
Answer: horatio greenough
19th Century: The two prominent subjects in Sir Edwin Landseer's "Man Proposes, God Disposes
Answer: polar bear
Age at which Patrick Nagel died
Answer: 38
Born in Urbino in 1483, which Italian artist, with Leonardo and Michelangelo, is considered one of the three Masters of the High Renaissance
Answer: raphael
By what name is the 16th century Italian painter Jacopo Robusti better known
Answer: tintoretto
During the Renaissance, the iTalian Donatello was prominent in which field
Answer: sculptor
English painter 1887 - 1976
Answer: Laurence Stephen Lowry
For which type of paintings are 16th century artists Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver chiefly known
Answer: miniatures
How did racey Emin shock the art world in 1999
Answer: with her bed
In 1504 Michaelangelo completed the sculptureDavid which other Renaissance artist cast a bronze David in 1433
Answer: donatello
In Son of Man (1964) by Rene Magritte, what hides the subjects face
Answer: an apple
Picasso was almost left for dead when he was born. who saved his life
Answer: his uncle|uncle|an uncle
Poppy Field and "Water Lilies" were painted by which artist
Answer: claude monet
Sculptor Rodin was working on a commision when he died, it has become one of his most famous works what was it
Answer: the thinker
She is famous for her airbrushed woman-animal art
Answer: olivia
Szukalski was this country's greatest artist (until Hitler destroyed his work)
Answer: poland
The art of beautiful handwriting
Answer: calligraphy
The art of tracing designs and taking impressions of them is ____
Answer: lithography
The artist Canaletto painted many views of which city
Answer: venice
The mona lisa is also known by the original name of
Answer: la gioconda
The word for which genre of painting or drawing comes from the French for "line for line
Answer: portrait
The work of which 20th century artist includes many compositions made up of maps,photographs and text such as A Hundred Mile walk
Answer: richard long
This statue was found on the Greek island of Melos in 1820
Answer: venus de milo
Three main types of Greek columns are Doric, Ionic, and ____
Answer: corinthian
What Dutch master painted 64 self-portraits
Answer: rembrandt
What hobby was developed by the Palmer Paint Company
Answer: Painting by numbers
What is the art of tracing designs and making impressions of them called
Answer: lithography
What was the surname of the Dutch painter Rembrandt
Answer: van rijn
Where on Van Goghs The Sunflowers at the National Gallery does the artists signature appear
Answer: on the vase
Which 17th century dutch artist painted a famous series of self portraits
Answer: rembrandt
Which 20th century artist has been called The King of Schlock Art
Answer: morris katz
Which American architect developed geodesic domes
Answer: richard buckminster fuller
Which American artist is famous for a picture of a can of beans
Answer: Andy Warhol
Which artist and self taught anatomist painted racehorses Molly Longlegs and Whistlejacket
Answer: george stubbs
Which artist featured a cemetary in his home town in his 1923-27 painting The Resurrection:Cookham
Answer: stanley spencer
Which artist is known for his silk screen images of Marilyn Monroe
Answer: andy warhol
Which artist painted 62 self portraits
Answer: Rembrandt
Which artist painted The Ambassadors, a double portrait of Jean de Dintville and Georges de Selve
Answer: hans holbein
Which artists most famous painting was The persistence of Memory
Answer: Dali
Which northern artist has a new perfroming and visual arts centre in Salford named after him
Answer: l s lowrie
Which painting by Sir Edwin Landseer is owned by John Dewar &sons and featured on the labels of their whisky bottles
Answer: the monarch of the glen
Which post impressionist french artist renowned for his paintings of Tahiti was the subject of a Somerset Maugham novel
Answer: paul gauguin
Which Renaissance artist painted Mystic Nativity 1500 which is now in the National Gallery, London
Answer: sandro botticelli
Which Royal Academician in 1830 slipped one of his own works into the selection panel for an exhibition, only to have it rejected by his colleagues
Answer: john constable
Which Spanish painter painted the picture known as The Rokeby Venus
Answer: velasquez
Which Van gogh painting sold for ?44.38m in May 1990
Answer: Portrait of Dr Gachet
Who invented painting by numbers
Answer: palmer paint company
Who is the sculptor of Newton on the piazza of the new British Library at St Pancras
Answer: eduardo paolozzi
Who painted 'Irises'
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
Who painted "And when did you last see your father", now in the walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Answer: william frederick yeames
Who painted self portrait with bandaged ear
Answer: vincent van gogh
Who painted Snow storm- steamboat off a Harbours mouth
Answer: Turner
Who painted the Mona Lisa
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Whose painting exhibited in 1874 gave rise to the term Impressionism
Answer: claude monet
Which artists most famous painting is The Blue Boy
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
Who did a series of paintings of young men and light reflecting on water
Answer: David Hockney
Who said "I do not seek , I find"
Answer: Picasso
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