Boabdil's Farewell to Granada - Quiz
Boabdil s Farewell to Granada
  • 1. What is the medium of Boabdil's Farewell to Granada?
A) Fresco
B) Tempera
C) Watercolor
D) Oil on canvas
  • 2. Who painted Boabdil's Farewell to Granada?
A) Paul Armand Silvestre
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
D) Alfred Dehodencq
  • 3. In what year was the painting first exhibited?
A) 1869
B) 1940
C) 1492
D) 1984
  • 4. At which event was the painting first exhibited?
A) Exposition Universelle
B) Salon of 1869
C) First International Art Exhibition
D) Venice Biennale
  • 5. Which museum currently houses the finished painting?
A) Musée de Roubaix
B) Louvre
C) Snite Museum of Art
D) Musée d'Orsay
  • 6. Where is one of the painted sketches located?
A) Arnoldi-Livie Gallery in Munich
B) Musée de Roubaix
C) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing
D) Musée d'Orsay
  • 7. Where is the second painted sketch located?
A) Arnoldi-Livie Gallery
B) Louvre
C) Musée d'Orsay
D) Snite Museum of Art
  • 8. Which university houses one of the painted sketches?
A) University of Munich
B) University of Notre Dame
C) University of Granada
D) University of Paris
  • 9. Which museum holds a sketch for a figure who may be Boabdil?
A) Musée d'Orsay
B) Musée de Roubaix
C) Louvre
D) Snite Museum of Art
  • 10. Who is the central historical figure depicted in the painting?
A) Mohammed XI
B) Paul Armand Silvestre
C) Eugène Delacroix
D) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
  • 11. What title was Boabdil known by?
A) King of France
B) Emir of Paris
C) Last Emir of Granada
D) Sultan of Munich
  • 12. In what year did Granada fall, leading to Boabdil's exile?
A) 1492
B) 1984
C) 1940
D) 1869
  • 13. What action does Boabdil take as he is sent into exile?
A) Fought the horse and groom
B) Turned back for one last look and wept
C) Painted a sketch of the landscape
D) Defended the city like a man
  • 14. What perspective makes the composition particularly lively and moving?
A) Low-angled perspective of the groom
B) Side-angled perspective of the horse
C) Flat perspective of the distant city
D) High-angled perspective of the viewer
  • 15. Who bought the painting from the artist for the musée de Roubaix in 1869?
A) The University of Notre Dame
B) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
C) The Louvre
D) The state
  • 16. In what year did the painting enter the collection of the musée d'Orsay?
A) 1940
B) 1984
C) 1869
D) 1492
  • 17. To which artist did critics say Dehodencq's style owed much?
A) Paul Armand Silvestre
B) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
C) Alfred Dehodencq
D) Eugène Delacroix
  • 18. Who described the painting as a composition without character, poorly drawn and heavily painted?
A) Paul Armand Silvestre
B) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
C) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
D) Maurice Cristal
  • 19. Who felt that the composition was not above reproach, but praised the remarkable use of colour and light?
A) Paul Armand Silvestre
B) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
C) Alfred Dehodencq
D) Maurice Cristal
  • 20. Who praised the grandeur of the painting's melancholy beauty?
A) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
B) Paul Armand Silvestre
C) Maurice Cristal
D) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
  • 21. What did the first version of the painting show in the distance?
A) Tourcoing
B) Munich
C) Granada
D) Paris
  • 22. Who was near Boabdil in the first version of the painting?
A) A group of Arab women including his mother
B) Eugène Delacroix and Maurice Cristal
C) A groom and a horse
D) French art collectors
  • 23. What did Boabdil's mother reportedly jeer at him in the anecdote?
A) Weep, weep like a woman for the city you could not defend like a man
B) Fight like a man for the city you lost
C) Paint a canvas that radiates life
D) Look back at Granada one last time
  • 24. What does the final version strip out to create radical simplicity?
A) Narrative details like Arab women and distant Granada
B) The high-angled perspective
C) Boabdil, his horse, and his groom
D) The oil-on-canvas medium
  • 25. What does the radical simplicity of the final painting make universal?
A) The technique of Eugène Delacroix
B) The beauty of Paris
C) The history of the Salon
D) Boabdil's suffering
  • 26. In what year was the painting held at the musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing?
A) 1492
B) 1984
C) 1869
D) 1940
  • 27. What art exhibition in Munich featured the painting in 1869?
A) First International Art Exhibition
B) Exposition Universelle
C) Salon of 1869
D) Venice Biennale
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