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