How Much Do You Know About Famous Paintings? | 21-Question Art Quiz

You have seen these paintings on posters, book covers, and coffee mugs your whole life, but can you actually name them? This 21-question art quiz starts with the most iconic canvases in history, then shows you famous paintings to identify, and finishes with close-up details only a true art lover will spot. Difficulty rises with every round, so grab a pen, keep score, and play along. Chapters: 0:00 Round 1: Icons of the Canvas 3:21 Round 2: Name That Painting 6:37 Round 3: The Closer Look 9:57 Final score — Every answer is fact-checked, but if you spot a mistake, tell us in the comments and we will pin the correction. Photographs and artworks come from Wikimedia Commons, Openverse, the Wellcome Collection, The Met and NASA and are credited below. Sources: • Encyclopaedia Britannica • Museum of Modern Art • Art Institute of Chicago • Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden • Kroller-Muller Museum • The Metropolitan Museum of Art • The Courtauld Gallery • Phillips Collection • National Gallery, London • Mauritshuis • Museo del Prado Footage and images: • Sandro Botticelli — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Vincent van Gogh — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Johannes Vermeer — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Gotfryd, Bernard — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Johannes Vermeer — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Vincent van Gogh — Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • After Katsushika Hokusai — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Vincent van Gogh — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Albrecht Dürer — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Johannes Vermeer — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Michelangelo — Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...