Anecdotes And Trivia About Great Painters

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1. Which of these French painters was locked up in prison for a cartoon he had made? Paul Cézanne Gustave Courbet Paul Gauguin Honoré Daumier

2. Although he spent most of his life in Spain, El Greco as his (nick)name indicates, was born in Greece. On which of these islands? Rhodes Lemnos Cyprus Crete

3. Which of these Italian painters has a name that in Italian means "little barrel"? Tintoretto Botticelli Modigliani Brunelleschi

4. All of these were court painters. Which of them was Charles V of Spain's "court painter"? Hans Holbein the Younger Anthony van Dyke Titian Velazquez

5. Which of these Italian painters got into trouble for running off with a nun? Fra Angelico Leonardo da Vinci Giotto Fra Filippo Lippi

6. Which of these Italian painters demonstrated his talent by drawing a perfect circle for the Pope? da Vinci Giotto Brunelleschi Caravaggio

7. Which of these painters was accused by a critic of "throwing a pot of paint in the public's face"? Jackson Pollock Seurat Whistler Vlaminck

8. Which of these British painters seems to have preferred "horses" to "humans" as subjects for his paintings? Thomas Gainsborough Sir Joshua Reynolds George Stubbs John Constable

9. Which of these English painters had himself tied to the mast of a ship in order to paint a storm? William Blake Constable Turner Gainsborough

10. Who was the Dutch painter that started his career as a free lance minister in a Belgian mining district and ended his life with one ear cut off and totally out of his mind? Hans van Meegeren Willem de Kooning Vermeer Vincent van Gogh