Famous paintings quiz

David Whitley,

Art museums can be big drawcards for tourists around the world. But some paintings are a bigger lure than others. From American Gothic to the Garden of Earthly Delights and Starry Night to Guernica, how much do you know about the world’s most famous paintings and where they’re housed? Take the quiz to find out.

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Famous paintings quiz

Art museums can be big drawcards for tourists around the world. But some paintings are a bigger lure than others. From American Gothic to the Garden of Earthly Delights and Starry Night to Guernica, how much do you know about the world’s most famous paintings and where they’re housed? Take the quiz to find out.

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The National Gallery in which city houses Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, Constable’s the Hay Wain and Turner’s the Fighting Temeraire?

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Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia has a purpose-built gallery housing Guernica, widely regarded as one of history’s greatest pieces of anti-war art. Which Spanish artist painted Guernica?

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Along with several works by Manet, Cezanne and Gauguin, Grant Wood’s American Gothic can be found in the Art Institute of which American city?

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On 12 February 1994, which Norwegian artist’s painting was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo?

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The Magritte Museum is dedicated to the rather apple-obsessed works of surrealist artist René Magritte. Which European city would you find it in?

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The Virgin and Child with St Anne, Saint John the Baptist and La Belle Ferronnière are Leonardo da Vinci works somewhat overshadowed by another Leonardo painting in which French museum?

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One of the prize possessions in New York’s Museum of Modern Art is the Starry Night by which Dutch painter?

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The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez and The Fall of Man by Titian are all found in which Madrid Museum, best known for its extensive Goya collection?

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Which famous Biblical Leonardo da Vinci painting can be found in Milan’s Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie?

10 / 10

Displayed at the Mauritshuis in the Hague, Johannes Vermeer’s best-known painting features a girl wearing an earring made of what material?

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