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 Honoré Daumier Paul Gauguin Gustave Courbet

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? Crete Cyprus Rhodes Lemnos

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"? Titian Velazquez Anthony van Dyke Hans Holbein the Younger

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

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

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

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

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