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Art and Food Trivia Quiz

Food has always played an important role in art, often giving additional meaning to an artwork. Join this quiz to test your observation skills...

A multiple-choice quiz by malvasia. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
malvasia

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
277,492

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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951

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Question 1 of 10

1. In a famous Vermeer painting you can see a maid wearing the typical Dutch bonnet. On her right (the viewer's left) there is a window which is the only light source. The maid is working at a table full of food. She is pouring some beverage from a jug. Which beverage is it? Hint

milk

wine

beer

water

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Question 2 of 10

2. Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit" is famous for being the first "still life" in art history. What is also peculiar with this still life? Hint

There are summer fruits together with spring fruits.

It is extremely detailed, which is hard to reach with tempera.

In the back of the basket you can see a banana.

Most of the fruit shows signs of decaying.

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Question 3 of 10

3. In Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" a loving couple has chosen a very unusual alcove to "express their feelings". What is this couple's bed? Hint

A nutshell

A leaf

A mussel

A blossom

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Question 4 of 10

4. One of Boucher's pastoral paintings shows a young couple busy harvesting something. The boy has climbed a ladder cast against a tree trunk and is throwing something he has just picked in the girl's apron. What is he throwing? Hint

strawberries

peaches

nuts

cherries

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Question 5 of 10

5. This Italian baroque painter is world known for his "capricci", paintings where he used flowers, fruits, vegetables or animals to compose anthropomorphic figures. Who is this painter? Hint

Annibale Carracci

Caravaggio

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Orazio Gentileschi

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Question 6 of 10

6. The peasant family portrayed in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" are of course busy eating potatoes. But what are they drinking with their meal? Hint

beer

wine

water

coffee

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Question 7 of 10

7. The subject of the "Last Supper" was often chosen to decorate the dining hall in a monastery and in fact Leonardo's "Last Supper" is visible in such a room at Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery, in Milan. But what is the Italian world for a dining hall in a monastery? Hint

capitolo

chiostro

refettorio

ristorante

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Question 8 of 10

8. "The Absynthe" by Degas is quite famous. A few years later also Manet painted something on a similar subject. A melancholy young woman, possibly a prostitute is sitting in a caf�. She has a distracted gaze and has forgotten to light her cigarette. On the table in front of her sits a glass of brandy in which what is soaked? Hint

A cherry

A plum

A pineapple slice

Her cigarette

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Question 9 of 10

9. Another Manet masterpiece is "Bar at the Folies Bergeres". In the foreground there is a bottle of beer. Where was this beer manufactured? Hint

Alsace

Netherlands

Germany

England

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Question 10 of 10

10. In Rembrandt's "The Nightwatch", light is cast on a figure that looks out of place among the soldiers: a young girl on whose belt a dead bird is hanging. Which bird is it? Hint

A turkey

A lark

A pheasant

A chicken

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: milk

The painting is "The Milkmaid", by Johannes Vermeer (1658-1660).

2. Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit" is famous for being the first "still life" in art history. What is also peculiar with this still life?

Answer: Most of the fruit shows signs of decaying.

Although some art historians suggest that Caravaggio simply painted what he had available, the usual explanation for the less than perfect state of the fruit is that it is a metaphor for the decaying in life. The painting is not a tempera but an oil.

3. In Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" a loving couple has chosen a very unusual alcove to "express their feelings". What is this couple's bed?

Answer: A mussel

Mankind has eaten shellfish since the Stone Age. Often clams, mussels and oysters have been thought to have aphrodisiac power, maybe due to the female symbolism of the shell.

Answer: cherries

"Landscape with Figures Gathering Cherries". Francois Boucher, 1768. London, Kenwood House. The red cherries mean the sensuality of love.

5. This Italian baroque painter is world known for his "capricci", paintings where he used flowers, fruits, vegetables or animals to compose anthropomorphic figures. Who is this painter?

Answer: Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also known as Arcimboldi, worked at the Habsburg Court in the second half of 16th century. His peculiar paintings reflect his age's renewed interest for the wonders of nature.

6. The peasant family portrayed in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" are of course busy eating potatoes. But what are they drinking with their meal?

Answer: coffee

During the 18th century coffee was an aristocratic beverage. A century later is was a common beverage in every social class.

Answer: refettorio

Actually Leonardo's work is not a fresco, since he choose to paint it on a dry wall instead than on wet plaster. He did so because a fresco can't be modified later, while Leonardo was used to working slowly, and modifying his works often. The yet untested technique adopted by Leonardo was the main cause of the quick deterioration of the painting.

Answer: A plum

"The Plum", oil on canvas, 1878. Washington, National Gallery of art.

9. Another Manet masterpiece is "Bar at the Folies Bergeres". In the foreground there is a bottle of beer. Where was this beer manufactured?

Answer: England

At the time of this painting Germany was the main beer productor. But since France was at war with Germany, Manet wanted to boycott German products. Alsatian beer would not have had the requisites either, since Alsace had been occupied by the German army.

10. In Rembrandt's "The Nightwatch", light is cast on a figure that looks out of place among the soldiers: a young girl on whose belt a dead bird is hanging. Which bird is it?

Answer: A chicken

The girl is actually carrying the symbol of the Arquebusiers: a chicken claw.

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