Q 01/05
A) A poplar panel
B) Linen canvas
C) A copper sheet
D) Wet plaster
Answer · why
King Francis I acquired it after Leonardo's death and it has hung in the Louvre since 1797.
Q 02/05
A) Adam Worth
B) Vincenzo Peruggia
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Guillaume Apollinaire
Answer · why
The Italian claimed patriotism; the theft made the painting world-famous.
Q 03/05
A) A prison
B) A hospital for the poor
C) An asylum
D) A monastery
Answer · why
He admitted himself to Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in May 1889 and added the village from imagination.
Q 04/05
A) A small painting on copper
B) A picture within a picture
C) A pocket-sized miniature
D) A head study, not a portrait
Answer · why
Vermeer's painting has hung in the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902.
Q 05/05
A) Four
B) One
C) Two
D) Six
Answer · why
Two are painted and two are pastel, plus a lithograph; both painted versions have been stolen and recovered.
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