• 1. 
    Who is the greatest Italian painter of the Venetian school, known for his powerful portraits, religious paintings, and sumptuous mythological subjects?

  • Domenico Veneziano
  • Titian
  • Michelangelo
  • Piero della Francesca
  • 2. 
    What English artist and art critic championed Post-Impressionism?

  • Duncan Grant
  • John Ruskin
  • Roger Fry
  • Wyndham Lewis
  • 3. 
    Who painted Guernica?

  • Gino Severini
  • Juan Gris
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Georges Braque
  • 4. 
    With which printmaking technique is 18th-century artist Francisco de Goya associated?

  • aquatint
  • etching
  • engraving
  • lithography
  • 5. 
    For what is Henry Moore best known?

  • Expressionist painting
  • bronze and stone sculptures
  • tensile structures
  • lithography
  • 6. 
    What term is used to describe the fixing of pigments with heated wax?

  • fresco
  • encaustic
  • emboss
  • etch
  • 7. 
    In which of these countries are Balochi rugs woven?

  • Turkey
  • Indonesia
  • China
  • Afghanistan
  • 8. 
    Which style of painting uses water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster?

  • casein
  • fresco
  • sand painting
  • trompe l’oeil
  • 9. 
    In traditional Chinese art, what does the dragon symbolize?

  • a duck
  • a teacher
  • fear
  • the emperor
  • 10. 
    Who is the sculptor of the Pietà at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome?

  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Michelangelo
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Raphael
  • 11. 
    Which of these artists worked with Pablo Picasso to develop the style known as Cubism?

  • Jacob Lawrence
  • Alfonso Michel
  • Georges Braque
  • Edgar Degas
  • 12. 
    Of what material is the spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City made?

  • gold-plated metal
  • stainless steel
  • marble
  • granite
  • 13. 
    Which English artist painted Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972)?

  • Francis Bacon
  • Peter Max
  • David Hockney
  • Lucian Freud
  • 14. 
    What emperor built a country residence at Tivoli, near Rome, beginning in 118 CE?

  • Caligula
  • Augustus
  • Hadrian
  • Julius Caesar
  • 15. 
    Who painted A Rake’s Progress?

  • Bridget Riley
  • William Hogarth
  • William Orpen
  • Antoine Watteau
  • 16. 
    What monument, apart from the Eiffel Tower, did Gustave Eiffel have a hand in designing?

  • Arc de Triomphe
  • Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Tower of London
  • 17. 
    Which aesthetician sought to push British painting away from its early 18th-century traditions and was made the first president of the Royal Academy in 1768?

  • Joshua Reynolds
  • Thomas Gainsborough
  • Allan Ramsay
  • William Hogarth
  • 18. 
    Which English artist was famous for his paintings of the English countryside, sketched constantly from nature?

  • Henry Moore
  • John Constable
  • John Everett Millais
  • Graham Sutherland
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