The art of travel quiz

Which famous painting was stolen in 1911 by Italian museum worker and artist Vincenzo Peruggia, who believed the artwork should be displayed in Italy?

In which English city, which still has a big street art collection, did the elusive Banksy create his first large mural – Mild Mild West – in 1997?

What was the name of the post-impressionist painter, creator of the Large Bathers painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Card Players in Paris’ Musee d’Orsay, who was born and died in Aix-en-Provence?

In 2024, scientists discovered cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that has been dated to 51,200 years old. It is thought to contain the oldest discovered depiction of what?

Which Italian artist, famous for grisly paintings such as Judith Beheading Holofernes in Rome’s Galleria Nazionale de Arte Antica and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist inside the St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, was a convicted murderer?

In which Washington DC building does a fresco called the Apotheosis of Washington, depicting President George Washington ascending to the heavens, cover the inside of the dome?

The tomb of which great Renaissance artist, who gave his name to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, can be found in the Pantheon – the best-preserved Roman building in Rome?

Where would you find artworks by Smug in Lameroo, South Australia, Peter Mortimore in Dunedoo, NSW, and Tim Bowtell in Lake Boga, Victoria?

The French city of Arles, home to the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre, is depicted in paintings such as Café Terrace at Night, the Yellow House and Starry Night Over The Rhone by which artist?

Michelangelo’s Carrara marble statue Pieta, depicting Mary holding the lifeless body of Jesus after he’s been taken down from the cross, is immediately on the right of which Rome building after entering through the Holy Door?