🎨 Art Trivia - Mind-Blowing Artistic Facts That Will Amaze Every Art Lover

Q: What did Marcel Duchamp submit for the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibition signed R Mutt?

Porcelain urinal titled Fountain

Q: Which pigment in The Night Watch was discovered to have darkened?

Smalt potassium cobalt silicate glass

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Which Renaissance innovator wrote that painting is a thing of the mind?

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Which American realist painted Nighthawks?

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Which Dutch painting famously includes a convex mirror that reflects two visitors?

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What is the catalog number of Duchamp's Fountain in the Stieglitz photograph?

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How many panels are in the open view of the Ghent Altarpiece?

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Which Dutch Golden Age painter is famous for Girl with a Pearl Earring?

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Which fresco depicts Jesus and the Twelve Apostles?

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Which Spanish surrealist painted soft clocks?

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In what year did Pontormo complete the Deposition?

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Which sculptor made a giant spider titled Maman?

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Which painter created Garden at Sainte Adresse?

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Which Austrian artist painted The Kiss?

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How many canvases are in Monet's Water Lilies cycle in the Orangerie?

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Which Norwegian artist created The Scream?

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Which French painter built a garden at Giverny to paint his water lilies?

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What is the height in meters of Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate?

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Which French sculptor designed the Statue of Liberty?

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Which painter used a camera obscura to achieve luminous realism?

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Which plate number in Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is The Great Wave?

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Which artist filled the Turbine Hall with steel curving forms called Torqued Ellipses?

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Which sculptor created The Thinker?

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What was the auction price for David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist?

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Which ancient sculpture group influenced Michelangelo with its twisting bodies?

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Which sculpture in Chicago is nicknamed The Bean?

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Which painter created The Garden of Earthly Delights?

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Which American painter is celebrated for large close up flowers?

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Which Mexican muralist painted sweeping history scenes?

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Which Caravaggio painting was rediscovered in a Toulouse attic?

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Which contemporary artist is known for immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms?

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Which American architect designed Fallingwater?

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Which Dutch painter cut off part of his ear and painted The Starry Night?

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What is the height in centimeters of Michelangelo's David?

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Which French Impressionist painted dancers?

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Which artist coined the term action painting?

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In which city is The Starry Night by van Gogh permanently displayed?

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In what year did the Rijksmuseum unveil Operation Night Watch?

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Which panel of the Polyptych of the Mystical Lamb bears the inscription Als Ich Can?

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Which artist filmed himself destroying a framed Banksy print in 2021?

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Which Dutch master signed his works simply with his first name?

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In which exhibition room was The Kiss by Brancusi shown at the 1913 Armory Show?

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Which artist created a room-sized Sun in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall?

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Which photographer documented the Great Depression?

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Which American photographer made dramatic black and white images of Yosemite?

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Which female painter painted Judith Slaying Holofernes?

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Which American artist turned soup cans into Pop Art?

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Which American artist painted American Gothic?

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What date did the Louvre first exhibit the recovered Mona Lisa?

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Which Roman numeral is carved at the base of the Column of Trajan?

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Which painter created a series of Rouen Cathedral facades?

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Which lithograph in Escher's Relativity series features three gravity sources?

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Which Italian sculptor carved the marble statue of David?

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What was the estimated weight of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses plates?

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Which Renaissance architect engineered the dome of Florence Cathedral?

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In what year did Artemisia Gentileschi paint Susanna and the Elders?

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Which painter's private notebooks introduced the term sfumato?

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How many tiles compose the blue field of the Portuguese azulejo panel Panorama of Lisbon?

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Which artist painted the Mona Lisa?

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Which Post Impressionist painted still lifes of apples?

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Which Dutch painter is known for grids of black lines and primary colors?

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What is the length in meters of the Bayeux Embroidery?

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Which binding material was identified in Sigalit Landau's Dead Sea of Salt painting?

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Which museum acquired Salvator Mundi in 2017 at a record auction price?

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Which Goya painting shows firing squads executing rebels?

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Which American museum houses the Barnes collection in Philadelphia?

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What was the hammer price for Banksy's partially shredded Girl with Balloon?

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Which museum installed the Water Lilies in oval rooms?

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Where was Botticelli's Birth of Venus originally housed?

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How many human figures appear in Michelangelo's Last Judgment?

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Which album cover did Peter Blake create for a Beatles record?

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Which artist painted Campbell's Soup Cans?

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In what year did Seurat complete A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

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Which color theory pioneer wrote The Interaction of Color?

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Which Impressionist rented a floating studio boat to paint along the Seine?

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Which Mexican painter is known for self portraits?

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Which French artist wrote This Is Not a Pipe under a painted pipe?

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Which Italian early Renaissance painter created Primavera?

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Which American portraitist painted President Barack Obama?

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Which architect designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre?

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Which marble quarry provided stone for Bernini's Apollo and Daphne?

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What was the number of porcelain seeds in Ai Weiwei's Turbine Hall installation?

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What did Marcel Duchamp submit for the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibition signed R Mutt?

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Which pigment in The Night Watch was discovered to have darkened?

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What is the diameter of the Pantheon oculus?

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In what year did Malevich first exhibit Black Square?

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Which Spanish museum houses Guernica?

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Which Italian painter used dramatic light and shadow known as chiaroscuro?

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Which artist developed pointillism alongside Georges Seurat?

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Which plate in Goya's Disasters of War shows the caption This is the worst?

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Which Chinese artist filled Tate Modern with millions of porcelain sunflower seeds?

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Which Italian sculptor's Pieta in St Peter's was signed across Mary's sash?

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Which modern artist made a full size boat out of glass?

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Which pair designed massive site specific wrappings?

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Which street artist shredded a framed print at auction in 2018?

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Which Pantone code is associated with International Klein Blue?

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In what year did Vermeer paint The Art of Painting?

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Which British artist became famous for colorful spot paintings and a shark in formaldehyde?

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Which American painter pioneered drip technique on canvases?

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Which British artist painted Portrait of an Artist Pool with Two Figures?

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Which painting by Grant Wood was modeled with his sister and his dentist?

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Which Italian painting shows a goddess on a seashell?

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Which canvas in Rothko's Seagram Murals did the artist withdraw from the Four Seasons?

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Which museum in Paris houses the glass pyramid entrance?

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Which Flemish artist painted The Arnolfini Portrait?

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Which room number in the Prado housed Las Meninas?

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Which Roman marvel inspired modern architects with its coffered dome?

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Which painting by Botticelli shows Zephyrus carrying Chloris?

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Which Spanish court painter created Las Meninas?

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Which art movement prized spontaneous drips and large canvases?

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Which painting features a loaf of bread, an eel and lemons arranged with precision?

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Which museum in New York has a spiral ramp designed by Wright?

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In which year did Picasso paint Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

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Which quarry letter mark appears on the back of the Parthenon east frieze?

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Which panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece features a lamb bleeding into a chalice?

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Which panel from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights features musical instruments as torture devices?

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Which cathedral façade carved by Lorenzo Ghiberti includes the panel Jacob and Esau?

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What was the height in centimeters of Louise Bourgeois Maman?

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Which Spanish master painted Guernica?

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Which codex sheet records Leonardo's recipe for a varnish?

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Which painter created The Dance?

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Which Japanese printmaker made The Great Wave off Kanagawa?

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Which woodblock print by Hiroshige depicts a sudden rainstorm?

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Which type of marble was used for Praxiteles Aphrodite of Knidos?

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How many figures appear in the mirror of Las Meninas?

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What pigment gave Hokusai's Great Wave its intense blue?

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Which Renaissance innovator wrote that painting is a thing of the mind?

Which American realist painted Nighthawks?

Which Dutch painting famously includes a convex mirror that reflects two visitors?

What is the catalog number of Duchamp's Fountain in the Stieglitz photograph?

How many panels are in the open view of the Ghent Altarpiece?

Which Dutch Golden Age painter is famous for Girl with a Pearl Earring?

Which fresco depicts Jesus and the Twelve Apostles?

Which Spanish surrealist painted soft clocks?

In what year did Pontormo complete the Deposition?

Which sculptor made a giant spider titled Maman?

Which painter created Garden at Sainte Adresse?

Which Austrian artist painted The Kiss?

How many canvases are in Monet's Water Lilies cycle in the Orangerie?

Which Norwegian artist created The Scream?

Which French painter built a garden at Giverny to paint his water lilies?

What is the height in meters of Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate?

Which French sculptor designed the Statue of Liberty?

Which painter used a camera obscura to achieve luminous realism?

Which plate number in Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is The Great Wave?

Which artist filled the Turbine Hall with steel curving forms called Torqued Ellipses?

Which sculptor created The Thinker?

What was the auction price for David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist?

Which ancient sculpture group influenced Michelangelo with its twisting bodies?

Which sculpture in Chicago is nicknamed The Bean?

Which painter created The Garden of Earthly Delights?

Which American painter is celebrated for large close up flowers?

Which Mexican muralist painted sweeping history scenes?

Which Caravaggio painting was rediscovered in a Toulouse attic?

Which contemporary artist is known for immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms?

Which American architect designed Fallingwater?

Which Dutch painter cut off part of his ear and painted The Starry Night?

What is the height in centimeters of Michelangelo's David?

Which French Impressionist painted dancers?

Which artist coined the term action painting?

In which city is The Starry Night by van Gogh permanently displayed?

In what year did the Rijksmuseum unveil Operation Night Watch?

Which panel of the Polyptych of the Mystical Lamb bears the inscription Als Ich Can?

Which artist filmed himself destroying a framed Banksy print in 2021?

Which Dutch master signed his works simply with his first name?

In which exhibition room was The Kiss by Brancusi shown at the 1913 Armory Show?

Which artist created a room-sized Sun in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall?

Which photographer documented the Great Depression?

Which American photographer made dramatic black and white images of Yosemite?

Which female painter painted Judith Slaying Holofernes?

Which American artist turned soup cans into Pop Art?

Which American artist painted American Gothic?

What date did the Louvre first exhibit the recovered Mona Lisa?

Which Roman numeral is carved at the base of the Column of Trajan?

Which painter created a series of Rouen Cathedral facades?

Which lithograph in Escher's Relativity series features three gravity sources?

Which Italian sculptor carved the marble statue of David?

What was the estimated weight of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses plates?

Which Renaissance architect engineered the dome of Florence Cathedral?

In what year did Artemisia Gentileschi paint Susanna and the Elders?

Which painter's private notebooks introduced the term sfumato?

How many tiles compose the blue field of the Portuguese azulejo panel Panorama of Lisbon?

Which artist painted the Mona Lisa?

Which Post Impressionist painted still lifes of apples?

Which Dutch painter is known for grids of black lines and primary colors?

What is the length in meters of the Bayeux Embroidery?

Which binding material was identified in Sigalit Landau's Dead Sea of Salt painting?

Which museum acquired Salvator Mundi in 2017 at a record auction price?

Which Goya painting shows firing squads executing rebels?

Which American museum houses the Barnes collection in Philadelphia?

What was the hammer price for Banksy's partially shredded Girl with Balloon?

Which museum installed the Water Lilies in oval rooms?

Where was Botticelli's Birth of Venus originally housed?

How many human figures appear in Michelangelo's Last Judgment?

Which album cover did Peter Blake create for a Beatles record?

Which artist painted Campbell's Soup Cans?

In what year did Seurat complete A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

Which color theory pioneer wrote The Interaction of Color?

Which Impressionist rented a floating studio boat to paint along the Seine?

Which Mexican painter is known for self portraits?

Which French artist wrote This Is Not a Pipe under a painted pipe?

Which Italian early Renaissance painter created Primavera?

Which American portraitist painted President Barack Obama?

Which architect designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre?

Which marble quarry provided stone for Bernini's Apollo and Daphne?