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1. Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a true Renaissance man, he was a sculptor, a painter, an architect and a poet and he exerted a solid influence on his contemporaries. In 'The Agony And The Ecstasy', he is portrayed by Charlton Heston. In this movie, we meet another notorious Italian painter who also worked for pope Julius II and painted for him frescoes in four small rooms of the Vatican Palace. Who is he?
2. Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) had a style of his own: elongated bodies and faces and shocking colors are examples of it. In 'Montparnasse 19' (1958) directed by Jacques Becker, which talented and very handsome French actor played the painter?
3. In 'The Life Of Emile Zola' (1937), we learn that the novelist's boyhood friend was a well known painter. In the movie, he is played by Vladimir Sokoloff. Who was this artist?
4. In 1986, Derek Jarman directed 'Caravaggio' with Nigel Terry in the title role. Caravaggio (1573-1610) was an Italian baroque painter. What was his real name?
5. Domenikos Theotokopoulos was born in Crete in 1541. He worked in Venice with Titian and was strongly influenced by Tintoretto. In 1570, he left for Spain where, in 1577, he executed the 'Assumption Of The Virgin' for the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In 1963, a movie was made about him in which he was portrayed by Mel Ferrer. The title of the movie is also the name by which Domenikos is known. What is it?
6. Born in Brooklyn on 22 December 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat started to draw at four. At fifteen, he ran away from home and started to experiement with the drugs who will later kill him. In 1981, he became so popular that his paintings were selling faster than he was able to produce them. In the 1990 movie 'Basquiat', who played him?
7. In 'A Dog Of Flanders' (1999), which famous painter took the young Nello (played by Jeremy James Kissher) under his wing?
8. In 'The Private Life Of Henry VIII' (1933), John Turnbull played a famous painter known for the portraits he made of the King and his family. Who is he?
9. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a tormented artist influenced by the impressionnists and by Japanese printmakers such as Hiroshige and Hokusai. After threatening Gauguin with a razor during a quarrel, he went home and cut off part of his own ear. Who never played the artist in a movie?
10. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. His work is divided in many periods: blue, pink, protocubism, cubism etc... He was an innovator, but also a womanizer as we see in 'Surviving Picasso' with Anthony Hopkins as the artist. In this movie who played the mother of his children Paloma and Claude?
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