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The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Paris) - Quiz
The Crowning with Thorns Titian Paris
  • 1. Who is the artist of The Crowning with Thorns?
A) Robert Haven Schauffler
B) Titian
C) Tiberius
D) Fritz von Uhde
  • 2. During which years was The Crowning with Thorns painted?
A) 1796 and 1797
B) 1540 and 1541
C) 1542 and 1543
D) 1506 and 1507
  • 3. Where is the painting currently housed?
A) A private gallery in Rome
B) Musée du Louvre
C) Santa Maria delle Grazie
D) The Vatican Museums
  • 4. Which organization commissioned the painting?
A) The Roman authorities
B) Confraternity of Santa Maria delle Grazie
C) Napoleon Bonaparte
D) The Louvre museum staff
  • 5. In what year was the painting brought to France?
A) 1800
B) 1797
C) 1506
D) 1543
  • 6. What antique statue serves as the model for the figure of Christ?
A) Belvedere Torso
B) Bust of Tiberius
C) Laocoön
D) Venus de Milo
  • 7. What is the Laocoön considered to be an archetypal example of?
A) Roman authority
B) Trinitarian geometry
C) Venetian color technique
D) Exemplum doloris
  • 8. Which antique sculptural fragment models the upper body of the torturer on the left?
A) Belvedere Torso
B) Bust of Tiberius
C) The Capitoline Wolf
D) Laocoön
  • 9. Whose bust is included in the painting as a reference to the authorities who condemned Christ?
A) Titian
B) Laocoön
C) Emperor Tiberius
D) Napoleon
  • 10. What geometric shape is formed by the canes to the right of Christ's head?
A) A diagonal line
B) A square
C) A perfect circle
D) Trinitarian triangle
  • 11. Which painter considered this work to be the greatest picture ever painted?
A) Robert Haven Schauffler
B) Laocoön
C) Titian
D) Fritz von Uhde
  • 12. What does the unused cane on the foremost step resemble?
A) A snake
B) A crown of thorns
C) A knife
D) A vein
  • 13. How is the space of the painting described?
A) Deep and linear
B) Vast and open
C) Compressed
D) Illusionistically infinite
  • 14. Which colors are noted as being colder than usual in the painting?
A) Yellow and orange
B) Red and gold
C) Black and white
D) Blue and green
  • 15. Where was the Laocoön statue discovered in 1506?
A) Rome
B) Milan
C) Venice
D) Paris
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