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