Blue Book Paintings

Question 1

Madonna and Child

Answer 1

1230, Byzantine Period, Raphael, tempera on wood, (gold ground)

Question 2

The Arnolfini Portrait

Answer 2

1434, Jan Van Eyck, oil on panel, early Renaissance

Question 3

Pieta

Answer 3

1498-1499, Michelangelo, high Renaissance, marble

Question 4

Mona Lisa

Answer 4

1506, Leonardo Da Vinci, high Renaissance, oil on poplar wood

Question 5

St. Jerome In His Study

Answer 5

1514, Albrecht Durer, engraved on paper, Northern Renaissance

Question 6

The Milkmaid

Answer 6

1657-1658, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, Baroque Period

Question 7

Return of the Prodigal Son

Answer 7

1668, Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn, oil on canvas, Baroque

Question 8

The Staircase Group

Answer 8

1795, Charles Wilson Pearle, oil on canvas, American Neoclassicism

Question 9

The Oxbow

Answer 9

1836, Thomas Cole, oil on canvas, American Romanticism

Question 10

The Golf Stream

Answer 10

1899, Winslow Homer, oil on canvas, realism

Question 11

Impressionism, Sunrise

Answer 11

1873, Claude Monet, oil on canvas, Impressionism

Question 12

Zero Summer

Answer 12

2005, Makota Fujimura; gold, tarnished silver, mineral pigments, on Kumohada paper, contemporary art