Dutch Golden Age Painting quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What does a soap bubble stand for in a vanitas painting?

   Answer: Short life

   Why: Paintings of children blowing bubbles as a warning of life's brevity were called homo bulla, Latin for 'man is a bubble'.

2. 2 Medium

   Which Italian painter gave his name to a group of Utrecht painters?

   Answer: Caravaggio

   Why: Painters such as Gerrit van Honthorst saw his work in Rome in the 1610s and brought the style back to Utrecht by about 1620.

3. 3 Hard

   Which microscope pioneer handled Vermeer's estate after his death?

   Answer: Van Leeuwenhoek

   Why: Vermeer was baptized in Delft just four days before Van Leeuwenhoek, in the autumn of 1632.

4. 4 Easy

   What does the Girl with a Pearl Earring wear on her head?

   Answer: A turban

   Why: After it reached the Mauritshuis in 1902, the painting was known for a time as Girl with a Turban.

5. 5 Medium

   How did Carel Fabritius die in 1654?

   Answer: In an explosion

   Why: The gunpowder blast destroyed a quarter of Delft, along with Fabritius's studio and most of his paintings.

6. 6 Hard

   What symbol did Judith Leyster add to her painted monogram?

   Answer: A star

   Why: Because her family name meant 'lodestar', Leyster playfully incorporated a star next to her initials on her canvases.