Quiz: How Well Do You Know Art History?

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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Art History?
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About This Quiz

When people think of art, the first painting that pops in their mind is probably the Mona Lisa, but there are other important classical paintings. And what about modern art? Take this quiz and find out how much you know about famous artists and their work!
Which Renaissance painter also designed a flying machine?
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Which famous psychologist fascinated Salvador Dali?
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Ivan Pavlov
Name the artist that cut off part of his ear.
Rembrandt
Vincent Van Gogh
Andy Warhol

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Which artist was known for drip paintings?
Andy Warhol
Salvador Dali
Jackson Pollock
What world event is depicted in Pablo Picasso's Guernica?
the Spanish Civil War
World War I
the French Revolution
Who painted "The Persistence of Memory," also known as the "melting clocks painting"?
Michelangelo
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso

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What was Andy Warhol's inspiration for his paintings?
dreams
nature
pop culture
In which museum is the Mona Lisa located?
the Louvre
the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
the Prado
When did the postmodern art history period begin?
1860s
1950s
2000s

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Which museum is known for the largest art heist in American history?
the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
the Guggenheim