Baroque Art quiz
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Which painter's name became a word for curvy, full bodies?
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Which language gave English the term 'still life'?
Answer: Dutch
Why: French calls the same genre nature morte, 'dead nature', a name it adopted in the 18th century.
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What was Caravaggio's first name?
Answer: Michelangelo
Why: His name comes from Caravaggio, the small Lombard town south of Bergamo where his family came from.
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Whose hidden initials, found in 1893, unmasked a 'Frans Hals' as hers?
Answer: Judith Leyster
Why: Her monogram joined a J and an L to a star, a pun on her surname, Dutch for 'lead star'.
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What style grew out of the Baroque in 1730s France?
Answer: Rococo
Why: Rococo takes its name from rocaille, the shell-covered rock work used to decorate artificial grottoes.
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Who gave his name to a pointed beard style?
Answer: Anthony van Dyck
Why: The style is also nicknamed a Charlie, after King Charles I of England, whom Van Dyck painted wearing it.
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How many saint statues stand above the columns of St Peter's Square?
Answer: 140
Why: From two marble discs in the square's paving, the colonnade's four rows of columns line up and look like one.
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