Paint, Pages & Masterpieces
The works that shaped how we look at everything since. Ten questions across canvases and bookshelves, each with the context that makes it stick.
About this topic
There is a small set of paintings and novels that turn up everywhere, quoted, parodied and referenced by people who have never seen or read them. This quiz covers that common ground: the ceiling everyone recognises, the opening line everyone can finish, the movements that changed what art was permitted to do. The questions stay on the works themselves rather than on dates and schools of criticism. The explanations add the reason each one mattered, so a famous name becomes a person who made a decision that other people then had to answer.
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