Art · 26 questions
Name the artist of each famous painting
A famous painting is shown. Type the name of the artist who painted it. The surname is enough. You get one try at each. A right answer moves on by itself, Enter locks in a guess, and Skip or typing ? passes.
About this quiz
26 of the most famous paintings in the world, painted between 1434 and 1908. A painting is shown and you name the artist. Three artists appear more than once. Every picture here is in the public domain, so artists who died after 1950 are missing, along with a few famous works whose owners restrict reproductions.
Capital letters, accents and spaces are ignored when your answers are checked. You earn a bronze, silver or gold medal depending on how many you get right, and your best score is saved in this browser. There is no account to create.
Notes on the answers, and a fact contains spoilers
The oldest is Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait and the newest Gustav Klimt's The Kiss. Three are by Van Gogh and two each by Vermeer and Monet. Picasso and Dalí are the best known of the missing artists, and The Last Supper and the Sistine Chapel ceiling the best known of the missing works. Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, and it shows the view from his window there.
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The paintings are shown from public-domain and CC0 reproductions published by Wikimedia Commons, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.