Romantic Painting quiz

More questions about Romantic Painting

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1. 1 Easy

   Who went on the Bank of England's £20 note in 2020?

   Answer: Turner

   Why: Turner's 1799 self-portrait appears on the note in front of his painting The Fighting Temeraire.

2. 2 Medium

   Whose 1878 photos proved Géricault's galloping horses wrong?

   Answer: Eadweard Muybridge

   Why: A galloping horse does leave the ground, but with its legs tucked under its body, not stretched out fore and aft.

3. 3 Hard

   What shape did Philipp Otto Runge give his 1810 colour model?

   Answer: A sphere

   Why: Like a globe, Runge's sphere puts white and black at the poles, pure colours around the equator and grey at its heart.

4. 4 Easy

   What did Goya lose for good after an illness around 1793?

   Answer: His hearing

   Why: His house near Madrid was nicknamed the Villa of the Deaf Man, yet the name came from another deaf man, not Goya.

5. 5 Medium

   Whose Faust did Delacroix illustrate with lithographs in 1828?

   Answer: Goethe

   Why: Marlowe also wrote a Faust play, Doctor Faustus, but it was first printed in 1604, two centuries before Goethe's Part One.

6. 6 Hard

   About how many sketches and watercolours did Turner leave to the nation?

   Answer: About 30,000

   Why: He also left nearly 300 oil paintings, so his sketches and watercolours outnumber the oils about a hundred to one.