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Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Put eight movements in order
Tap the movements from oldest to newest. Each one reacted to what came before, so the order tells a story. A wrong tap just counts as a mistake.
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Start with the oldest.
What this art history quiz covers, in short
Twenty multiple-choice questions on Western art from the Renaissance to Pop Art, plus a few famous works from beyond Europe: the artists, the paintings, the techniques and the movements that connect them.
Movement dates are approximate and overlap; the game uses each one's usual starting point. The quiz is our own and not normed.
By What's Your IQ · Reviewed 4 Oct 2026- Format
- 20 multiple-choice questions, 4 options each
- Eras
- Renaissance, Baroque to Romanticism, Impressionism, modern art, famous works
- Bonus
- Put 8 movements in order
- Level
- Easy to medium, a few hard
$450mpaid in 2017 for Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at auctionMany experts still doubt how much of it Leonardo painted himself, and it hasn't been shown in public since.
1503The Mona Lisa begun.Leonardo worked on it for over a decade and took it with him to France.
1874The first Impressionist show.Rejected by the official Salon, Monet, Degas, Renoir and others exhibited on their own.
1911The Mona Lisa stolen.A Louvre handyman, Vincenzo Peruggia, walked out with it. Its two-year absence made it world-famous.
1917Fountain.Duchamp's readymade urinal challenged the idea that art must be made by the artist's hand.
- Gombrich, E. H. (1950). The story of art. Phaidon.
- Scotti, R. A. (2009). Vanished smile: The mysterious theft of the Mona Lisa. Knopf.