Famous Paintings

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Instructions: Can you identify these famous paintings and their artists?

1.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A
Michelangelo
B
Botticelli
C
Raphael
D
Leonardo da Vinci
2.
Which artist painted 'Starry Night'?
A
Claude Monet
B
Vincent van Gogh
C
Paul Cezanne
D
Edgar Degas
3.
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
A
Michelangelo
B
Caravaggio
C
Leonardo da Vinci
D
Raphael
4.
Which painting features a woman with a pearl earring, painted by Johannes Vermeer?
A
Girl with a Pearl Earring
B
The Milkmaid
C
The Lacemaker
D
Woman Reading a Letter
5.
Who painted 'The Last Supper'?
A
Titian
B
Leonardo da Vinci
C
Raphael
D
Michelangelo
6.
Which artist is known for painting 'Water Lilies,' a series of approximately 250 oil paintings?
A
Claude Monet
B
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
C
Camille Pissarro
D
Alfred Sisley
7.
Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory,' featuring melting clocks?
A
Salvador Dali
B
Rene Magritte
C
Max Ernst
D
Pablo Picasso
8.
Which painting by Edvard Munch depicts a figure with an agonized expression against a turbulent sky?
A
The Scream
B
Despair
C
Anxiety
D
The Sick Child
9.
Who painted 'American Gothic,' showing a farmer and his daughter before a house with a Gothic window?
A
Edward Hopper
B
Andrew Wyeth
C
Grant Wood
D
Norman Rockwell
10.
Which artist painted 'Guernica,' depicting the horrors of the Spanish Civil War?
A
Joan Miro
B
Pablo Picasso
C
Diego Rivera
D
Francisco Goya
11.
Who painted 'The Birth of Venus,' depicting the goddess emerging from the sea?
A
Giovanni Bellini
B
Raphael
C
Sandro Botticelli
D
Titian
12.
Which painting by Georges Seurat pioneered the Pointillist technique?
A
Bathers at Asnieres
B
The Circus
C
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
D
The Eiffel Tower
13.
Who painted 'Nighthawks,' showing people in a late-night diner?
A
Grant Wood
B
Andrew Wyeth
C
John Singer Sargent
D
Edward Hopper
14.
Which Dutch master painted 'The Night Watch' in 1642?
A
Frans Hals
B
Rembrandt van Rijn
C
Johannes Vermeer
D
Jan Steen
15.
Who painted 'Christina's World,' showing a woman crawling through a field toward a farmhouse?
A
Andrew Wyeth
B
Edward Hopper
C
Thomas Eakins
D
Winslow Homer

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