Gallery Talks Quiz 2 - The Answers
Many of you enjoyed the distraction of spending a little time completing the second Gallery Talks Quiz. Please see the answers below.
Congratulations to Barbara Visy, the winner of Quiz 2, who will be receiving a special prize!
I will be posting another in the series of art quizes soon.
Gallery Talks Quiz 2 - National Gallery ‘Animals’
- Which animal stands in front of the couple in the ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434?
A Dog - Uccello painted the ‘Battle of San Romano’ in 1438-40 and filled the scene with many images of which type of animal?
Horses - Which two animals are believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci in ‘Tobias and the Angel’ c.1470-5 by Verrocchio and his workshop?
The fish and the dog - In Antonello da Messina’s painting ‘St Jerome in his Study’ c.1475 what animal walks along the aisle on the right side of the picture?
A lion - What does the peacock symbolise in ‘The Adoration of the Kings’ of c.1470-5 by Botticelli?
Resurrection and eternal life - A pair of which type of animal pull Bacchus’ chariot in Titian’s ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ of 1520-23?
Cheetahs - In ‘Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects’ painted by Balthasar van der Ast c.1630 what type of insect is depicted on the ledge?
A cricket - Two dogs are chained together as a reference to the arranged marriage in Scene 1 of the series of 6 pictures named ‘Marriage a la Mode’ painted c.1743 by which artist?
Hogarth - ‘The Infant St John with the Lamb’ was painted in 1660-5 by which artist?
Murillo - What type of animal was Whistlejacket, who was painted by Stubbs c.1762?
A horse - What type of bird did Joseph Wright of Derby include in his painting ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’ dated 1768?
A white cockatoo - What breed of dog was depicted by Gainsborough in his portrait of Mr and Mrs William Hallett ‘The Morning Walk’ of 1785?
A Pomeranian sheepdog - Which animal lies in the left foreground of Seurat’s ‘Bathers at Arnieres’ painted in 1884?
A dog - Who painted a pair of crabs in 1889 inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai?
Van Gogh - Who painted a tiger in 1891 in the painting entitled ‘Surprised!’?
Henri Rousseau