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Women In Art

written by: Delia
 
The past seems to have been dominated by men. However, many women undertook the job of an artist. Play this only if you are good at history and/or art, this quiz is not easy.

Question 1:


Born in Barrow, Suffolk she studied to become one of the most important portrait painters in the 17th century.
Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella
Mary Beale
Artemesia Gentileschi
Lucrina Fetti

Question 2:


In her twenties, this Dutch painter became the only female member of the Haarlem painters guild and quickly adopted students of her own.
Anne Killigrew
Maria Sibylla Merian
Judith Leyster
Giovanna Garzoni

Question 3:


She is the only Flemish woman to have specialized in still-life painting as early as the beginning of the 17th century.
Maria Sibylla Merian
Clara Peeters
Teresa Del Po
Louise Moillon

Question 4:


She was arguably the most educated and most famous woman of the 17th century. She spoke Latin, modern European languages, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and Ethiopian. She also excelled in art, music and literature.
Teresa Del Po
Rachel Ruysch
Luisa Ignacia Roldan
Anna Maria van Schurman

Question 5:


This Swiss Neoclassicist painter was chosen to paint the portrait of Monsignor Nevroni, bishop of Como, before she turned 12. Later, she became a distinguished portrait painter.
Hester Bateman
Elizabeth Blackwell
Angelica Kauffmann
Ann Bateman

Question 6:


Born in London, she became the most important woman in the silver trade. She and her husband made their reputation with silver in the popular French rococo style.
Louisa Courtauld
Marie Nicole Dumont
Mary Ann Croswell
Amelia Farnborough

Question 7:


This woman is referred to as the "the most outstanding woman goldsmith of her generation" . But this was not by chance - she was the daughter of the famous English silversmith Simon Pantin.
Rebecca Emes
Anne Seymour Damer
Elizabeth Godfrey
Angelica Kauffman

Question 8:


She was the "predecessor" of Madame Tussaud. She modelled wax figures of famous people.
Patience Wright
Caroline Watson
Luisa Roldan
Frances Scott

Question 9:


Although she was very young in 1876, she had great success painting the portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.
Charlotte Bonaparte
Anna Bilinska
Maria Bashkirtseff
Louise Abbema

Question 10:


The themes of this artist are feminist and political, depicting literary-historical figure groups and decorative female heads.
Lilly Martin Spencer
Suzanne Valadon
Marie Spartali Stillman
Annie Swynnerton

 


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