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Pictures at an Exhibition - May I Kiss You Quiz


Let's imagine an exhibition of various artworks, grouped by subject. The seventh room in the exhibition is filled with artworks that represent a kiss. All these questions are based upon the book "Baci", with over 200 artworks.

A multiple-choice quiz by JanIQ. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Question 1 of 10
1. Giotto di Bondone completed a number of frescoes between 1300 and 1306 in Padua, in the Scrovegni Chapel. One of these frescoes shows us a kiss - one of the first artistic kiss of which we know the artist and the date. It shows us the parents of Virgin Mary meeting at the Golden Gate. What is the name of this kissing married couple? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Hieronymus Bosch made a number of large panels that are overpopulated with (mainly nude) figures, most of which are surrealistically deformed. One of his best known paintings shows us (among many other weird appearances) a nude man and a nude woman, enclosed in a soap bubble, when the man starts caressing the woman's belly and tries to kiss her on the mouth. What is the English name of this painting? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Most paintings of "Madonna and Child" show us the Virgin Mary staring at someone or something in the room where the visitors of the painting stroll, and Jesus Christ sitting (quite rigidly) on her lap. One of the few exceptions is the painting a minor Flemish artist made between 1500 and 1510. In this particular painting, Mary kisses Jesus on the mouth. To see this "Madonna with Child", you'll have to pay a visit to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Who produced this extraordinary painting? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Benvenuto Cellini made between 1528 and 1530 a famous artwork entitled "Leda and the Swan". In this masterpiece, you'll see a nude woman kissing a swan (which really is Jupiter, or Zeus if you prefer Greek mythology, in disguise). Which object was decorated with this "Leda and the Swan"? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The statue "Amor and Psyche" (1793), which you can admire in the Louvre in Paris, was made by an Italian Classical sculptor. In this statue, you'll find a reclining woman (with only a drape covering her waist) reaching out for a nude young man, wearing only a pair of wings on his back. (What would modern fashion designers say about such a spectacle...) Who made this sculpture? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The kiss is a theme that has influenced many artists of all over the world. Japanese painters such as Katsushige Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro made paintings or xylographic images of kissing couples. What is the Japanese term for the art movement including Hokusai and Utamaro? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In 1881, Pierre Auguste Renoir painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" ("Le déjeuner des canotiers"). In this painting, you'll find many of Renoir's friends and acquaintances. The girl on the front left seems to attract all attention, because of the somewhat peculiar activity she's involved in. What is she doing? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The most famous sculpture representing a kiss was made by Auguste Rodin and bears the title "The Kiss". It represents a nude male on whose lap a nude female crawls to kiss him. These persons would refer to a dramatic Italian love affair. Who are the adulterous lovers depicted in this sculpture? By the way, Dante finds these people in hell. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. One of the best-known paintings bearing the title "The Kiss" was made by an Austrian painter in 1908. Who was this Austrian painter? The kissing couple is depicted against a golden background. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. The painting I will discuss in this question is entitled "Birthday" and was made in 1915. It shows us a young woman searching for a vase to put some flowers in, and her lover trying to kiss her. The reason why this painting made a lasting impression on my memory is the weird position of the kissing lover. It seems he hovers some two feet above the floor, his feet pointing away from the woman in the picture. And yet, he succeeds in turning his face towards her, in order to kiss her on the mouth.
Smart quizzers as you are, you have already guessed that I'll ask you for the name of the painter. He was made a French citizen in 1937, and he hails from Russian Jews. Who was this artist?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Giotto di Bondone completed a number of frescoes between 1300 and 1306 in Padua, in the Scrovegni Chapel. One of these frescoes shows us a kiss - one of the first artistic kiss of which we know the artist and the date. It shows us the parents of Virgin Mary meeting at the Golden Gate. What is the name of this kissing married couple?

Answer: Joachim and Anna

Isaac and Rebecca were married, but lived many generations before the Virgin Mary. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Isaac was the fortieth generation before Saint Joseph (see Matthew 1:2 -1:17).
Moses seems to be not related to Jesus Christ, although a genealogy of forty-two generations as mentioned in Matthew 1:1 - 1:17 doesn't take in account all branches. However, Moses and Zipporah lived several generations before Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary.
Zacharias and Elisabeth were close relatives of Mary's. Indeed: Elisabeth and Mary were cousins, and they found out they were each expecting a child at the same time. Mary bore Jesus Christ, and Elisabeth gave birth to John the Baptist. Luke 1:39-45 elaborates on the time Mary and Elisabeth told each other that they were pregnant.
Joachim and Anne are the parents of the Virgin Mary. They don't appear in the official Bible books, only the apocryphal gospels mention them.
By the way, the "Golden Gate" mentioned in the title of this fresco is a gate in Jerusalem, not the strait near San Francisco. According to the gospel of James, Joachim went to the Golden Gate in Jerusalem because a vision had told him so. When they met, Anne declared herself to be pregnant of a daughter (they knew because of a divine vision - the medical science was not yet advanced enough to establish the gender of an unborn child).
Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337) was one of the earliest Italian Renaissance painters. The Scrovegni Chapel is his masterpiece.
2. Hieronymus Bosch made a number of large panels that are overpopulated with (mainly nude) figures, most of which are surrealistically deformed. One of his best known paintings shows us (among many other weird appearances) a nude man and a nude woman, enclosed in a soap bubble, when the man starts caressing the woman's belly and tries to kiss her on the mouth. What is the English name of this painting?

Answer: The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch (born "Van Aken", 1450-1516) was a Dutch painter best known for his apocalyptic scenes. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" shows us all kind of earthly sins, and was probably intended to show what happened before Bosch' other painting, "The Last Judgment".
The other paintings ("Ship of Fools" and "Extraction of the Stone of Madness") are also made by Bosch. "Extraction" shows us a barber trying to perform a lobotomy without anaesthesia (ouch!), and "Ship of Fools" depicts an expedition of people who seem to have escaped from an asylum for the mentally deficient.
For those of you who think they can observe "The Garden of Earthly Delights" without getting nightmares, I advise you to open Google Earth. Under the topic "Madrid, Prado" you can click on some paintings and get an enlarged view of the painting, with a resolution up to 14000 mega pixels.
3. Most paintings of "Madonna and Child" show us the Virgin Mary staring at someone or something in the room where the visitors of the painting stroll, and Jesus Christ sitting (quite rigidly) on her lap. One of the few exceptions is the painting a minor Flemish artist made between 1500 and 1510. In this particular painting, Mary kisses Jesus on the mouth. To see this "Madonna with Child", you'll have to pay a visit to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Who produced this extraordinary painting?

Answer: Quentin Metsys

Hendrik Avercamp (1585-1634) was a Dutch Baroque painter. He specialised in (winter) landscapes. There is no record of any "Madonna" by this painter.
Christoffer Eckersberg (1783-1853) was a Danish painter. He is best known for some female nudes.
Michel Anguier (1612-1686) and his senior brother François (1604-1669) were French Baroque sculptors and architects. While François sculpted some of his contemporary compatriots, Michel was mainly inspired by Greek mythology. Michel sculpted "Ceres" and "Amphitrite", and François is best known for the mausoleum of Montmorency.
The only Flemish artist mentioned in this question is Quentin Metsys (1466-1530). He was born and trained in Louvain, and started his career in Antwerp. Both his sons Jan (1509-1575) and Cornelis (1510-1557) followed in his footsteps. Quentin's best known paintings are "The Moneylender and His Wife" (1514) and "The Ugly Duchess" (1515) - also known as "A Grotesque Old Woman".
4. Benvenuto Cellini made between 1528 and 1530 a famous artwork entitled "Leda and the Swan". In this masterpiece, you'll see a nude woman kissing a swan (which really is Jupiter, or Zeus if you prefer Greek mythology, in disguise). Which object was decorated with this "Leda and the Swan"?

Answer: A medallion

Surely you didn't pick the altar? The decoration represents a notorious case of adultery, and was inspired by a polytheistic mythology. For both of these reasons, it would be deemed unfit to decorate a Catholic church.
Cellini (1500-1571) was a goldsmith and sculptor whose masterpiece was a salt-cellar made of gold, ebony and enamel for the French King Francis I. However, it doesn't represent Leda and the swan, but Neptune (or Poseidon in the Greek tradition) and one of his beloved nymphs, perhaps Amphitrite.
I haven't found any platter or dish decorated by Cellini. His elaborate style would probably diminish the usefulness of any dish or platter he would decorate.
"Leda and the Swan" was represented on a medallion made for Gabbriello Cesarino. It was a golden relief on a bluish gemstone, decorated on the edge with many pearls.
5. The statue "Amor and Psyche" (1793), which you can admire in the Louvre in Paris, was made by an Italian Classical sculptor. In this statue, you'll find a reclining woman (with only a drape covering her waist) reaching out for a nude young man, wearing only a pair of wings on his back. (What would modern fashion designers say about such a spectacle...) Who made this sculpture?

Answer: Antonio Canova

All these artists were Italian, but only one of them was mainly a sculptor.
Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817) was granted the function of main architect by Tsarina Catharine the Great. In this capacity, he designed several buildings in Saint Petersburg, including the theatre in the Hermitage.
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a painter, but is best remembered for his sculpture "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" - a figure representing a marching man, but without any arms and without a recognisable face. This Futuristic sculpture is also displayed on the reverse of the coin of 20 eurocents made in Italy.
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) was a Venetian painter, son of Iacopo (1400-1471) and brother of Gentile (1429-1507). All three specialised in religious paintings.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) is the artist we were looking for in this question. Other works of his are a "Portrait of Paulina Borghese as Venus Victrix", the tomb for Pope Clement XIII, and a portrait of George Washington.
6. The kiss is a theme that has influenced many artists of all over the world. Japanese painters such as Katsushige Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro made paintings or xylographic images of kissing couples. What is the Japanese term for the art movement including Hokusai and Utamaro?

Answer: Ukiyo-e

Origami is the art of folding paper. A common Japanese theme for origami artists is the crane.
Ikebana is the arrangement of flowers and other organic materials, often in a minimalist design.
Anime is the Japanese word for animated pictures. In Japanese anime, the eyes of most characters are larger than the natural proportions would suggest.
Ukiyo-e is a Japanese word for "the floating world", meaning the world of all kind of entertainers (for example theatre players, geisha, prostitutes). Pictures of ukiyo-e include portraits of notorious kabuki players and of well-praised prostitutes, as well as landscapes with or without typical inns. Some famous ukiyo-e artists were Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Katsushige Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). The paintings to which I referred in this question are Utamaro's "The Lovers" (1788) and Hokusai's "Adonis Plant" (1822). Hokusai is of course better known for his "Great Wave off Kanagawa" (1832).
Many French Impressionists collected ukiyo-e prints. We thank these French painters for the notoriety of the ukiyo-e prints.
By the way, a xylography is a print made by using a woodblock, in the same way as lithography is printing by means of a stone impregnated with ink.
7. In 1881, Pierre Auguste Renoir painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" ("Le déjeuner des canotiers"). In this painting, you'll find many of Renoir's friends and acquaintances. The girl on the front left seems to attract all attention, because of the somewhat peculiar activity she's involved in. What is she doing?

Answer: Kissing her dog

If one did not know the painting and just analysed the title, then the option "rowing a boat" could make sense. However, most people don't row a boat when at a luncheon party.
The portrayed girl was named Aline Charigot and worked as a seamstress. Nevertheless, she is not hemming a dress in this painting.
"Stabbing a bathing young man" was the activity that made Charlotte Corday world famous. Charlotte killed the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in 1793 when he took his bath. Jean-Louis David made, even the same year, his notorious portrait "Death of Marat".
Aline Charigot, in the painting by Renoir, is trying to kiss her dog. Remember the title of this quiz: it should deal with some sort of kissing.
Renoir (1841-1919) was a French Impressionist painter. His son Jean (1894-1979) was one of the first famous French movie directors.
By the way, there are other artworks that depict some human kissing some non-human. I'll give you some examples of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. The French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) painted a nude young woman kissing a dog in 1862; the British Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825, of Swiss origin) painted the nymph Titania (in a human appearance) kissing a person with a bull's head; the French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) displayed the sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue of Galatea; the Belgian painter Constant Montald (1862-1944) depicted a young woman kissing a nest with three birds; and the German Symbolist painter Max Klinger (1857-1920) painted a young man making love to a siren. In this last painting, you can see the siren's tail entangling the man's legs.
8. The most famous sculpture representing a kiss was made by Auguste Rodin and bears the title "The Kiss". It represents a nude male on whose lap a nude female crawls to kiss him. These persons would refer to a dramatic Italian love affair. Who are the adulterous lovers depicted in this sculpture? By the way, Dante finds these people in hell.

Answer: Paolo and Francesca

"Lancelot and Guinevere" refers to the Arthurian legends and has no link with Italy. Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, fell in love with Arthur's loyal knight. One of the most famous artists who depicted Lancelot and Guinevere was Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
"Romeo and Juliet" is of course one of the most famous love affairs. In the tragedy by Shakespeare, the two title characters fall in love in spite of the feud between their families. The English painter Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) painted the well known balcony scene in 1870.
"Tarquin and Lucretia" refers to an episode of early Roman history - the Roman Kingdom, an era so distant that we cannot distinguish legend from factual history. The story tells how Tarquin, son of the seventh and last King of Rome, took Lucretia by force. Ashamed of this incident, she told her family what had happened and then committed suicide. Titian (Tiziano Vecello, 1488-1576) painted the rape of Lucretia, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) painted Lucretia in the act of committing suicide.
"The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) depicts Paolo Malatesta (1246-1285) and his sister-in-law Francesca da Rimini (1255-1285). Francesca was married to Paolo's brother Giovanni, but fell in love with Paolo. After all, Giovanni was allegedly deformed and Paolo was quite handsome. When Giovanni caught Paolo and Francesca "in flagrante delicto", he killed them on the spot. Jean Dominique Auguste Ingres (1780-1867) completed a painting in which Giovanni reaches for his sword, as he sees the adulterous couple red-handed (or red-cheeked?).
Here's some information about the artists mentioned in this question.
Rossetti was a founder of the pre-Raphaelite movement: a group of British artists having adopted a style which reminds us of the early Renaissance, to protest against complicating art. Madox Brown was a later adept of this movement.
Titian was a Venetian Renaissance painter. His masterworks are (to name only a few) the "Venus of Urbino", "Danae", "Portrait of Eleonora de Gonzaga" and "Charles V at Mühlberg". Rembrandt was a prolific Dutch Baroque painter who left us hundreds of paintings. A few highlights: "The Night Watch" and "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp". Ingres was a French Romantic painter, known for his "Grande Odalisque". Rodin was a French sculptor, who apparently did not belong to one of the classical art movements. His works are best described as "Realistic".
9. One of the best-known paintings bearing the title "The Kiss" was made by an Austrian painter in 1908. Who was this Austrian painter? The kissing couple is depicted against a golden background.

Answer: Gustav Klimt

All the options I've given in this question were Austrian artists.
Hundertwasser (1928-2000, born Friedrich Stowasser) was a painter and architect, best remembered for his constructions. In Vienna you'll find a power plant and an apartment building he designed. The apartment building was named after him. Adolf Loos (1870-1933), one of the pioneers of Functionalism, and Otto Wagner (1841-1918) were also Austrian architects. None of these architects produced a painting entitled "The Kiss". Hundertwasser worked in Europe and America, while Loos and Wagner restricted their terrain to Central Europe.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the artist we're looking for. The golden background is very typical of his paintings. You'll find the same style of background in his other masterpieces "Portrait of Adèle Bloch-Bauer I" and "Danaë".
10. The painting I will discuss in this question is entitled "Birthday" and was made in 1915. It shows us a young woman searching for a vase to put some flowers in, and her lover trying to kiss her. The reason why this painting made a lasting impression on my memory is the weird position of the kissing lover. It seems he hovers some two feet above the floor, his feet pointing away from the woman in the picture. And yet, he succeeds in turning his face towards her, in order to kiss her on the mouth. Smart quizzers as you are, you have already guessed that I'll ask you for the name of the painter. He was made a French citizen in 1937, and he hails from Russian Jews. Who was this artist?

Answer: Marc Chagall

If you can't imagine what I'm talking about, go find out yourself. You can order a reproduction of this painting on different websites (just search images that correspond to "Birthday Marc Chagall"). Or you could visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Felicien Rops (1833-1898) was a Belgian painter who never obtained French nationality. Most of his artworks were considered "X-rated" (if this qualification could already apply). For example, his painting "Pornocrates" shows us a woman walking her pig. The woman in the painting wears a large hat, a white blindfold, long black gloves, silk stockings just above the knee and shoes with high heels, and a blue ribbon around her belly. But she shows frankly the body parts most women would like to keep undercover.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Impressionist painter. He is well known for his still-lives composed of flowers and fruits. He also made a series of paintings of a hill situated near his home: "Mont Sainte Victoire", depicted in various weather conditions.
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was another French Impressionist painter and sculptor. His main source of inspiration was the ballet and horse racing. Famous artworks of his include the paintings "The Dance Class" and "Ballet Rehearsal", and the sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years".
The painter who made the dazzling painting "Birthday" was Marc Chagall (1887-1985), born in Belarus. His masterpieces include "I and the Village" (1911) and "The Bride" (1950). He also made stained glass widows for the German church Saint Stephens in Mainz.

Sources for this quiz include: "Baci" edited by Mondadori SpA, Milan in 2008; "World History" by Carl Grimberg; "7000 Years of World History" edited by Christoph Columbus Verlag AG; "Verschueren Groot Encyclopedisch Woordenboek"; "Le Petit Larousse"; the Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM; and some online sources: the Catholic Encyclopedia; the Web Gallery of Art; the Webmuseum; Artnet; and Wikipedia.
Source: Author JanIQ

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