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Great painters quiz — Arts & literature

The “Great painters” quiz — Arts & literature. It has 25 questions in five categories: Eras & styles, Masterpiece secrets, Face of the artist, Palette & craft, Rivals & scandals. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Great painters

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Eras & styles

  1. 100

    Which art movement got its name from Claude Monet's painting of a sunrise over the port of Le Havre?

  2. 200

    Which painting style did Georges Seurat develop by applying small, distinct dots of pure colour?

  3. 300

    Which avant-garde movement, pioneered…

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  4. 400

    Which modern art movement…

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  5. 500

    Which abstract movement did…

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Masterpiece secrets

  1. 100

    Which masterpiece did Vincenzo Peruggia steal from the Louvre in 1911 by hiding it under his coat?

  2. 200

    Which Rembrandt painting actually depicts a daytime scene, but acquired its dark name from aged varnish?

  3. 300

    Which Netherlandish master included…

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  4. 400

    The bombing of which…

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  5. 500

    In which masterpiece did…

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Face of the artist

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which Dutch post-impressionist painter created dozens of self-portraits, including one with a bandaged ear?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which Mexican painter depicted her identity and pain through raw self-portraits with a prominent unibrow?

  3. 300

    Which German Renaissance master…

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  4. 400

    Which Italian Baroque painter…

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  5. 500

    Which Italian Mannerist painter…

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Palette & craft

  1. 100

    What wall-painting technique involves applying water-based pigments directly onto fresh, wet lime plaster?

  2. 200

    Which Renaissance technique of softly blurring edges and tones takes its name from the Italian word for smoke?

  3. 300

    Which semi-precious blue mineral…

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  4. 400

    Which Italian term describes…

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  5. 500

    Which ancient technique using…

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Rivals & scandals

  1. 100

    Which Spanish surrealist shocked audiences with his upturned mustache, pet anteater, and melting clocks?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Whom did Michelangelo famously rival in Florence while commissioned to paint opposing walls of the Palazzo Vecchio?

  3. 300

    Which painter sued critic…

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  4. 400

    Which Italian Baroque master…

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  5. 500

    Whose painting “The Luncheon…

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