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Paintings That Were Cut Into Pieces — Daily trivia Saturday, July 11, 2026: questions and answers

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  1. Q 01Which Caravaggio altarpiece was cut from its frame by thieves in Palermo?

    • AThe Calling of Saint Matthew
    • BNativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
    • CThe Death of the Virgin
    • DThe Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
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    Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

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    Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence. Still missing, it is on the FBI's list of top ten art crimes, and one Mafia informant said it was sold to a Swiss dealer.

  2. Q 02What art style is made by tearing or cutting pieces away from an existing image?

    • ADecollage
    • BFrottage
    • CAssemblage partition
    • DChromatic sectioning
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    Decollage

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    Decollage. Wolf Vostell took the word from a 1954 Le Figaro report of a plane that took off and crashed at the same moment.

  3. Q 03Which Rembrandt painting was trimmed on all four sides when it moved into Amsterdam's Town Hall?

    • AThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
    • BThe Jewish Bride
    • CThe Night Watch
    • DThe Syndics of the Drapers' Guild
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    The Night Watch

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    The Night Watch. It was trimmed, presumably to fit its new spot, and lost two figures from its left side.

  4. Q 04Short of money, Rembrandt cut which rejected city-hall painting down to a quarter of its size?

    • ABelshazzar's Feast
    • BThe Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
    • CThe Return of the Prodigal Son
    • DAristotle with a Bust of Homer
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    The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis

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    The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis. The surviving fragment of the once-giant canvas now hangs in Stockholm's Nationalmuseum.

  5. Q 05Which Banksy painting shredded itself after selling at Sotheby's and was renamed "Love Is in the Bin"?

    • AFlower Thrower
    • BKissing Coppers
    • CDevolved Parliament
    • DGirl with Balloon
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    Girl with Balloon

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    Girl with Balloon. The framed copy had just sold for a record £1,042,000 when a shredder Banksy had hidden in the frame sliced it partway through.

  6. Q 06Which fellow painter hunted down and reassembled the sold-off fragments of Manet's The Execution of Emperor Maximilian?

    • AEdgar Degas
    • BClaude Monet
    • CCamille Pissarro
    • DPaul Cézanne
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    Edgar Degas

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    Edgar Degas. After Manet's death his second large version was cut up and sold in pieces, and those Degas gathered now hang at London's National Gallery.

  7. Q 07What destroyed most of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr Deijman?

    • AA flood
    • BWoodworm
    • CA fire
    • DA knife attack
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    A fire

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    A fire. What survived was cut down to its present size, and a Rembrandt sketch shows how much larger the original group portrait was.

  8. Q 08What did Monet do to Luncheon on the Grass when he bought it back from his landlord?

    • ARepainted it entirely
    • BGave it to Manet
    • CBurned it in a rage
    • DCut it into pieces
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    Cut it into pieces

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    Cut it into pieces. His landlord had kept the canvas rolled up in a damp cellar as security for unpaid rent, so Monet saved the sound parts; two fragments hang in the Musée d'Orsay.

  9. Q 09Soldiers of which leader cut up Veronese's The Wedding at Cana to carry it off as war booty?

    • ANapoleon Bonaparte
    • BLouis XIV
    • CCharles V
    • DGiuseppe Garibaldi
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    Napoleon Bonaparte

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    Napoleon Bonaparte. The 6.77-by-9.94-metre canvas was stitched back together in France and still hangs in the Louvre.

  10. Q 10Which parts of the sitter were lost when Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci was cut down?

    • AHer feet
    • BHer shoulders
    • CHer hands
    • DHer knees
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    Her hands

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    Her hands. At least a third of the panel was cut from the bottom, probably because of damage, and a Leonardo study of hands at Windsor may show how they looked.

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