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WorksheetsArt History Trivia
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 22mins
Why is Mona Lisa smiling?
Watch the 2003 movie “Mona Lisa Smile” starring Julia Roberts to find out
To be honest we don’t really know but we suggest you watch Dr. Wallace’s segment in the new documentary "Why is Mona Lisa Smiling?"
Leonardo said a particularly funny joke when he was creating reference sketches of the sitter
Mona Lisa’s sitter thought she was having a particularly good hair day and was quite smitten with herself
What natural material allowed China, Korea, and Japan to produce particularly fine porcelain?
Kaolin
Silica
Flint
Clay
Dr. Aravecchia is the archeological field director of the Amheida Project. What exactly is the Amheida Project?
An archeological dig studying the interaction between human settlement and the environment over the long span from the earliest human presence in the oasis to modern times
A dig site with the goal of finding Roman antiquities to help further our understanding of the vastness and material culture of the Roman Empire
Dr. Aravecchia keeps it largely hidden from us, but does say it’s a really cool project that we should all get involved in because Egyptian art is by far the coolest art
A dig site with the goal of understanding the complexities of Egyptian-Roman interaction, emphasis on early Christianity
What painting is this?
All of the following singers have wrote a song based on an artist except
Don McLean
Paul McCartney
Josh Groban
David Bowie
Dr. Wallace almost got arrested in East Germany, why?
He publicly suggested American figure skater Rosalynn Sumners should’ve won the Olympic Gold medal in women’s figure skating over Katerina Witt in 1984
He smuggled a Coca Cola in
He tried to buy steroids, just to see if he could jump as high as those East German athletes (I believe I can fly!)
He had a crooked license plate
What is Beckett water?
Water blessed by Thomas Beckett
Water that is combined with the brain matter and blood of Thomas Beckett
The tears of Thomas Beckett
Water Thomas Beckett personally purified
In 2019 Dr. Jones moved back to the United States from Rome. Why did he move back?
To focus on writing a manuscript (tenure was on the line!!)
The call for teaching was a siren song he could not resist
Italian visa expired
WashU summoned him to come back
What painting is this?
What is the most famous painting at the MoMA?
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Van Gogh, Starry Night
Wyeth, Christina's World
Magritte, The Lovers
When Dr. Gabel’s son came down with COVID, what did she make him do to his siblings?
Stay away from them
Continue to be kind despite the sickness
Breathe on them so the entire household would be infected with COVID
It’s a free for all — in the word’s of Charles Darwin, “survival of the fittest”
Which two artists shared the same first name?
Munch and Hopper
Seurat and O'Keeffe
Rubens and Cezanne
Michelangelo and Caravaggio
What painting is this?
Where was Hunt of the Unicorn likely woven?
France
The Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Which artist believed he was a reincarnation of his dead brother?
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
August Natterer
Francisco de Goya
What city convinced Dr. Childs to become an art history major?
Venice
Florence
Paris
Avignon
What painting is this?
During spring break what does Dr. Kleutghen and her husband typically do?
Visit their alma maters
Go to Colorado for snowshoeing and hiking
Spend the week relaxing
Go to Paris and explore the city
Which of the following is NOT true of Caravaggio?
Caravaggio was obsessed with receiving an artist's chain, and his rival — whom he viewed to be the lesser artist — Baglione, had one. So Caravaggio spread around a poem making a mockery of Baglione, for which he was sued for libel
Caravaggio planned the murder of his tennis opponent, who he had a longstanding dislike for
While on the run for the murder of his tennis opponent, Caravaggio sent a self-portrait of himself as a Goliath executed by David to the papal court in hopes of a pardon. The pardon, however, was not granted
He was friends with Artemisia Gentileschi's father
What painting is this?
Dr. Sheren once stayed in an ice hotel in -25 degree weather, in a room carved with the story of Jonah and the Whale. Where was this ice hotel?
Quebec
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Dr. Aravecchia has a driver’s license in all the following countries except:
Australia
Egypt
United States
Italy
What part of Italy is Dr. Miller’s family from?
Venice
Naples
Palermo
Bologna
Dr. Swan loves 17th-century Dutch art and she loves to cook and bake, too. Which one of the following HAS Dr. Swan made?
Bread pudding according to a recipe taken from a Vermeer painting (The Milkmaid, Rijksmuseum)
Pancakes in the manner of Rembrandt’s etching, The Pancake Maker
A gingerbread cookie in the shape of a 17th-century Dutch statesman
A pheasant pie as featured in the still life paintings of Pieter Claesz
What painting is this?
What was the name of the student who found a Michelangelo document in the Special Collections of WashU's library?
Francesca Anderson
Isla Jones
Anne Williams
Larysa Beyer
