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1. This painting, although known by a different name, is actually called "The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch". It is displayed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I first saw it in 1965 and I sat hours admiring it. It gives the impression the people in the painting are moving, an unusual characteristic, for in those days, portraits were static pictures. When this painting was "rediscovered", it was quite dark. How is this masterpiece commonly called?
2. "The Milkmaid" and "The Music Lesson" are two of the paintings of this Dutch master from the city of Delft. If you visit the city, they will show you the spot in one of the canals where the painter sat on a boat, just to paint. He specialized in middle class home scenes. They have made a movie about one of his paintings, "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Who is this painter of the Dutch Golden Age?
3. This painting depicts a princess, the Infanta Margarita, the daughter of Philip IV of Spain with her maids of honor. We see her parents, as part of the painting, but reflected on a mirror. They are posing for the artist, Velazquez, who is doing their portrait. The painting is in El Prado museum in Madrid and it is probably its most famous painting. What is its name, which means "The Maids of Honor"?
4. This painting by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) is exhibited in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, Spain. It is El Greco's best known masterpiece. It is divided in two zones, the lower one, where the painter placed the humans and the higher one, where the celestial beings are. Both sections are put together in a masterful composition. The church of Santo Tome, El Greco's parish, commissioned the painting, which was executed around 1587, in order to honor a benefactor. What is the name of this masterpiece?
5. This painting is the work of Raphael, one of the masters of Italian Renaissance. It is the portrait of a mother and her child. Raphael painted different compositions of the Virgin and Baby Jesus, but in this case, there are other figures in the painting. The Virgin Mary has a worried expression and Baby Jesus also has an unhappy expression. St. Sixtus and St. Barbara appear on each side of the painting and there are two cherubs at the foot of the Madonna. What is the name of the painting?
6. Pierre Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement. Most people have seen many of Renoir's paintings even if they do not know their names. The one I admire the most gives a glance of Paris society of the times. This painting is at the Musee d'Orsay, which is a museum in Paris that houses Impressionist paintings. This masterpiece depicts people at a restaurant. We see couples sitting in the front of the scene, while several couples are dancing in the background. The main colors used are mostly blue, gray and black.
7. This other painting is also of the Impressionist style. The artist is Edgar Degas (1834-1917) who is well known because he was fond of scenes of ballet dancers. In this painting we see an older man holding a long stick, surrounded by many young ladies wearing ballet clothes and shoes. He seems to be talking to them as they pose in ballet positions. What is the name of this painting?
8. This painter is the subject of a song called "Vincent", the painter's first name. This artist was Dutch, but he lived in Belgium and later in France. He is considered a post impressionist painter. He only sold a single painting during his lifetime, to a client of his brother Theo, an art dealer. He spent some time in an asylum as he had emotional problems and eventually committed suicide. He is the painter of "The Potato Eaters", "Starry Night" and "Irises". What is his last name?
9. This is probably the best known work of art in the world. Its name is the Mona Lisa and it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, a real Renaissance Man. It is a half length portrait of a young woman with long hair and a very intriguing smile. The portrait is in the Louvre Museum as it was "repossessed" and turned into the property of the French Republic after the French Revolution. By what other name is this painting known?
10. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter who spent most of his life in France. One of his most famous paintings is about the bombing of a city in Spain by German and Italian planes, during the Spanish Civil War. The painting is in black and white. What is the name of the painting?
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