Famous Paintings
Instructions: Can you identify these famous paintings and their artists?
- 1.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
AMichelangeloBBotticelliCRaphaelDLeonardo da Vinci - 2.
Which artist painted 'Starry Night'?
AClaude MonetBVincent van GoghCPaul CezanneDEdgar Degas - 3.
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
AMichelangeloBCaravaggioCLeonardo da VinciDRaphael - 4.
Which painting features a woman with a pearl earring, painted by Johannes Vermeer?
AGirl with a Pearl EarringBThe MilkmaidCThe LacemakerDWoman Reading a Letter - 5.
Who painted 'The Last Supper'?
ATitianBLeonardo da VinciCRaphaelDMichelangelo - 6.
Which artist is known for painting 'Water Lilies,' a series of approximately 250 oil paintings?
AClaude MonetBPierre-Auguste RenoirCCamille PissarroDAlfred Sisley - 7.
Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory,' featuring melting clocks?
ASalvador DaliBRene MagritteCMax ErnstDPablo Picasso - 8.
Which painting by Edvard Munch depicts a figure with an agonized expression against a turbulent sky?
AThe ScreamBDespairCAnxietyDThe Sick Child - 9.
Who painted 'American Gothic,' showing a farmer and his daughter before a house with a Gothic window?
AEdward HopperBAndrew WyethCGrant WoodDNorman Rockwell - 10.
Which artist painted 'Guernica,' depicting the horrors of the Spanish Civil War?
AJoan MiroBPablo PicassoCDiego RiveraDFrancisco Goya - 11.
Who painted 'The Birth of Venus,' depicting the goddess emerging from the sea?
AGiovanni BelliniBRaphaelCSandro BotticelliDTitian - 12.
Which painting by Georges Seurat pioneered the Pointillist technique?
ABathers at AsnieresBThe CircusCA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande JatteDThe Eiffel Tower - 13.
Who painted 'Nighthawks,' showing people in a late-night diner?
AGrant WoodBAndrew WyethCJohn Singer SargentDEdward Hopper - 14.
Which Dutch master painted 'The Night Watch' in 1642?
AFrans HalsBRembrandt van RijnCJohannes VermeerDJan Steen - 15.
Who painted 'Christina's World,' showing a woman crawling through a field toward a farmhouse?
AAndrew WyethBEdward HopperCThomas EakinsDWinslow Homer
Answer Key
The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1519. It hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Vincent van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night' in June 1889 while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. The most famous section is 'The Creation of Adam.'
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was painted by Johannes Vermeer around 1665. It is sometimes called the 'Mona Lisa of the North.'
Leonardo da Vinci painted 'The Last Supper' between 1495 and 1498 on the wall of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
Claude Monet painted his famous Water Lilies series over the last 30 years of his life, inspired by his flower garden at Giverny.
Salvador Dali painted 'The Persistence of Memory' in 1931. It is one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.
'The Scream' was painted by Edvard Munch in 1893. It has become one of the most iconic images of art, symbolizing modern human anxiety.
Grant Wood painted 'American Gothic' in 1930. The models were his sister and his dentist. It is one of the most familiar images in American art.
Pablo Picasso painted 'Guernica' in 1937 in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Sandro Botticelli painted 'The Birth of Venus' around 1485. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' (1884-1886) by Seurat is the most famous example of Pointillism, using tiny dots of color.
Edward Hopper painted 'Nighthawks' in 1942. It depicts customers in a downtown diner late at night and is considered his most famous work.
Rembrandt van Rijn painted 'The Night Watch' in 1642. It is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings and hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Andrew Wyeth painted 'Christina's World' in 1948. The woman depicted is Christina Olson, who had a degenerative muscular condition.