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WorksheetsMS 2 - Visual Artist and Their Works (Classics)
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
In Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, the title goddess stands on which of the following?
a leaf
a seashell
a chariot
a rose
Vermeer’s most famous portrait depicts a girl wearing what piece of jewelry?
a pearl earring
an emerald broach
a sapphire bracelet
a diamond necklace
Which artist below created portraits of the Infanta Margarita Teresa while serving as King Philip IV’s court painter?
Anthony van Dyck
Peter Paul Rubens
Jan van Eyck
Diego Velázquez
This work is an Albrecht Dürer engraving. What is its title?
Adam and Eve
The Four Apostles
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Knight, Death, and the Devil
In the painting at right, Michelangelo depicts which of the following biblical events?
The Great Flood
The Creation of Adam
The Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt
The Last Judgment
Examine the painting at right. Based on its style and subject matter, it was MOST likely created by which artist below?
Albrecht Dürer
Hieronymus Bosch
Jan Vermeer
Raphael
Michelangelo’s sculpture Pietà depicts which of the following?
Paul’s conversion to Christianity
the Virgin Mary cradling Christ’s body
God’s creation of Adam
a dying slave
Flora, Zephyrus, and Spring are all figures in which Botticelli painting?
Mars and Venus
Adoration of the Magi
Pallas and the Centaur
La Primavera
Diego Velázquez painted three of the works below. Which one did Jan Van Eyck create?
The Surrender of Breda
Old Woman Frying Eggs
The Arnolfini Wedding
The Lady with a Fan
Tenebrism, an art technique closely related to chiaroscuro, is a hallmark of his work. Which artist below
painted The Calling of St. Matthew and Judith Beheading Holofernes?
Bruegel
El Greco
Caravaggio
Donatello
At right is Michelangelo’s sculpture of which Roman god, whom he depicted holding a wine goblet and a tiger skin?
Apollo
Neptune
Saturn
Bacchus
Botticelli’s La Primavera includes three mythological sisters dancing in filmy tunics. Which choice below gives their collective name?
Fates
Gorgons
Muses
Graces
Which of the following artists made a woodcut of a rhinoceros without actually having seen one, but worked from a model to paint Young Hare?
Albrecht Dürer
Titian
Peter Paul Rubens
Hieronymus Bosch
In the Vermeer painting at right, the woman is holding what kind of instrument?
virginal
sackbut
lute
recorder
At right is Diego Velazquez’s portrait of what pope?
Julius II
Gregory I
Innocent X
Urban VIII
Monet worked from a boat-turned-studio in a Parisian suburb, where he lived with his family for five years.
Which choice below names that location, whose poppy fields and snow he recorded in paintings?
Argenteuil
Nice
Marseille
Arles
Originally in color, who painted the depiction of the Rhone River shown?
Peter Paul Rubens
Vincent van Gogh
Rembrandt van Rijn
Pablo Picasso
Diego Velazquez created a portrait of his slave, who became a painter himself after Velazquez freed him in
1650. Which choice below names that man?
Lorenzo de Medici
Anthony van Dyck
Giovanni di Arnolfini
Juan de Pareja
Three of the following Albrecht Durer artworks are engravings or woodcuts. Which one is a painting?
Saint Jerome in His Study
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Young Hare
The image at right is taken from a Michelangelo painting in which he depicts the creation of which biblical figure?
Jesus
Adam
Eve
Moses
Which of the following artists counted cafés, cypress trees, wheat fields, and Provence among his favorite subjects?
Johannes Vermeer
Paul Cezanne
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
Diego Velázquez served as court painter for the family of which ruler below?
Charles IV
Nicholas II
Henry VIII
Philip IV
Pablo Picasso collaborated with which of the following artists to create the style known as Cubism?
Georges Braque
Salvador Dalí
Wassily Kandinsky
Henri Matisse
Rembrandt painted many biblical stories. One of his artworks shows the blinding of what strongman from the
Book of Judges?
Joshua
Samson
Solomon
David
Which Renaissance artist below sculpted the relief The Battle of the Centaurs shortly before losing the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici?
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Picasso painted three of the following works during his Rose Period. Which one did he create during his Blue Period?
Acrobat and Young Harlequin
The Actor
Family of Acrobats with Monkey
The Old Guitarist
Which choice below gives the official title of Rembrandt’s Night Watch?
The Stoning of St. Stephen
The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch
Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer
Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
Vincent van Gogh included what kind of towering evergreen tree in the foreground of Starry Night, as well as in a landscape featuring a wheat field?
maple
oak
cypress
birch
Which one of the following men is NOT a subject of Albrecht Dürer’s painting Four Apostles?
Luke
Peter
Paul
John
Which artwork below did Claude Monet create?
Luncheon of the Boating Party
The Artist’s Garden at Giverny
The Absinthe Drinker
Bathers at Asnières
Which of the following Botticelli works includes dancing Graces, a blue-faced Zephyrus, and a woman scattering flowers?
The Birth of Venus
Mars and Venus
La Primavera
Annunciation
In which of the paintings below does the artist include a self-portrait, as well as a young princess surrounded by ladies-in-waiting?
Las Meninas
The Arnolfini Wedding
Girl with a Pearl Earring\
The Night Watch
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Melancolia I are works by which of the following artists?
Rubens
Caravaggio
Raphael
Dürer
At right is Vermeer’s hometown portrait. Which of the following cities is it?
Paris
Delft
Amsterdam
Brussels
At right is Botticelli painting that depicts Mary holding the infant Jesus. What is its title?
The Last Judgment
Adoration of the Magi
The Annunciation
The Ascension
Which of the artists below created numerous domestic portraits, including The Lacemaker, The Music Lesson, and The Milkmaid?
Rembrandt van Rijn
Peter Paul Rubens
Jan van Eyck
Johannes Vermeer
Which of the following choices names the Diego Velázquez military painting that shows a defeated Dutch
army commander giving keys to a triumphant Spanish general?
The Surrender of Breda
Guernica
View of Toledo
The Second of May 1808
Art critics characterize three of the works below as Albrecht Dürer’s Master Engravings. Which one is NOT?
Melancolia I
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Praying Hands
St. Jerome in His Study
Michelangelo depicted Moses, Bacchus, and a dying slave in which of the artistic genres below?
fresco
mosaic
sculpture
collage
The Vermeer work at right shows A Lady Seated at what kind of instrument?
cornet
violoncello
glockenspiel
virginal
In various paintings, Sandro Botticelli depicted which of the following biblical women with young St. John the Baptist, writing the Magnificat, and holding a pomegranate?
the Virgin Mary
Esther
Sarah
Eve
From 1520 to 1534, Michelangelo designed and sculpted the tomb of which man below, depicting him deep in thought?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Dante
Lorenzo de Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Which of the following people was NEVER the subject of a Diego Velázquez portrait?
Prince Balthasar Charles
King George III
Pope Innocent X
Infanta María Teresa
At right is a self-portrait that which of the following artists, who also created larger-than-life apostles, painted at age 26?
Hans Holbein
Albrecht Dürer
Anthony van Dyck
Jan van Eyck
Michelangelo designed Florence’s New Sacristy as a funerary chapel for which of the following families, whose members included his patrons Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII?
Sforza
Borgia
Habsburg
Medici
