The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Art. Answers here.
1. Who painted the portrait known as the "Mona Lisa"?
2. Which multimedia artist, born in London in 1963, created works called "My Bed" and a tent emblazoned with names called "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-95"?
3. Which Italian artist sculpted the "David" and painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine Chapel?
4. Which painter lived from 1883 in Giverny, close to the River Seine, where he and his wife cultivated a garden centred around a waterlily pond which became the subject of many of his most significant paintings?
5. The artist Vincent van Gogh was born at Zundert in 1853. Was he French, German or Dutch?
6. Which French painter (1864-1901) with deformed legs illustrated the life of the Montmartre district of Paris in works like the "Moulin Rouge" series?
7. Which Spanish artist painted the pictures "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and "Guernica"?
8. Which English artist (1775-1851) painted "The Fighting Temeraire" and "Rain, Steam, Speed"?
9. Which US artist was nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" because he splashed or threw paint at random on to the canvas?
10. Which technique of painting was perfected by the 1880s impressionist Georges Seurat, using innumerable tiny dots of colour?
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