Art Quiz II - MSN Encarta

This painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli depicts how the Roman goddess of love and beauty was born:

(Image credit: Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York)

Primavera

Birth of Venus

Madonna of the Rocks

Venus of Urbino

The Starry Night is one of this Dutch painter's best-known works, illustrating his vivid and expressive style with thick, swirling brushstrokes and contrasting colors:

Vincent van Gogh

Hieronymus Bosch

Frans Hals

Willem de Kooning

The Pietà, at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, depicts the Virgin Mary as a young woman holding the dead Christ in her arms. It was created in the late 1400s by:

The Pietà (Image credit: Araldo de Luca/Corbis)

Donatello

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Lorenzo Ghiberti

The Burial of Count Orgaz is one of this Spanish mannerist painter's most well-known works:

The Burial of Count Orgaz (Image credit: Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York)

Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

This 1871 painting by American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler demonstrates his characteristic style and reveals his European influences:

(Image credit: Giraudon/Art Resource, NY)

At the Piano

Miss Cicely Alexander

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1

Whistler's Mother

Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902-1904) by Paul Cézanne is an early example of this artistic movement invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century, after being profoundly influenced by Cézanne's later paintings and techniques:

Mont Sainte-Victoire (Image credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Corbis)

Expressionism

Cubism

Fauvism

Rococo

The Garden of Earthly Delights, by this 16th-century Flemish painter, has mystified scholars and art historians for hundreds of years:

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Image credit: Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York)

Hans Memling

Dirk Bouts

Hugo van der Goes

Hieronymus Bosch

This fine example of baroque sculpture, by 17th-century Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini, is at the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Rome:

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Assumption of the Virgin

Abduction of Proserpina

Apollo and Daphne

This French painter was influenced by the artists Camille Corot and Édouard Manet, having given up her early classical training to pursue an individualistic impressionistic style that became distinctive for its delicacy and subtlety. The Cradle, from the late 19th century, is an excellent example of this artist:

The Cradle (Image credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY)

Mary Cassatt

Camille Claudel

Rosa Bonheur

Berthe Morisot

The Arnolfini Marriage (1434, National Gallery, London) is by this Flemish painter who heralded the Renaissance in northern Europe:

The Arnolfini Marriage (Image credit: Francis G. Mayer/Corbis)

Robert Campin

Jan van Eyck

Johannes Vermeer

Peter Paul Rubens