ANSWERS

Kapinjal Kishore Sharma

Baroque Painting Quiz

1. Easy one. Who is the painter ?

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Answer :

The explanation of this particular fact is said to lie in how we interpret three-dimensional objects portrayed on a flat surface. Real three-dimensional objects look different depending on the angle because of the changing way light falls across them. But on the flat canvas, shading and light are fixed and the image looks the same from every angle.

Which fact ? And which famous Baroque painting ?

2.

The funda that the eyes of the painting “ The laughing cavalier” by Frans Hals seem to follow you wherever you are in the room. Also applicable to some other paintings.

3. What scientific error connects these two paintings ?

The reflection in the mirror aren't exactly of the part of the face, which you would scientifically expect . This is true of both the paintings, and both feature Venus.

4. Salvador Dali and Gala. Identify the unfortunate painting which which took with him.

The Lacemaker by Vermeer. Dali was quite obsessed with this painting.

5. Whose portrait, and who is the painter ?

Rene Descartes, by Frans Hals

6. The name of the

genre to which such paintings belong comes from the Dutch word for “Face”.

Which art genre?

 It is called a tronie, or genre painting in a portrait format, not intended to be a portrait of a specific individual, though a model may be used.

He was considered one of the "wonders of the age". He fought with the Royalists in the English Civil War and fled with the Queen to France but was expelled from her court when he killed a man in a duel. He was captured by Barbary pirates and spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England. A famous Anthony Van Dyck painting features him. Who ?

7.

Sir Jeffrey Hudson

8. What is the dress, which the boy is wearing, commonly called ?

It is called a Van Dyck dress, as paintings of Van Dyck often contained people dressed as such.

9. Which painting are they all looking at ?

Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer by Rembrandt. Answer :

10. Different painters. Same subject. Who ?

Mary Magdalene