LOCKDOWN ARTS QUIZ NO. 7

A Quiz by Anne Anderson based on Beyond the Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy held at the Southampton City Art gallery and the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum until 27th Sept 2020. The exhibition catalogue by Anne Anderson can be on Amazon….it has all the answers!

Question 1:

Which Shakespearian play is depicted in this painting by Frank Dicksee? (Southampton City Art Gallery Collection)

(A clue: this is the balcony scene)

Question 2:

Who modelled for ’s Venus Verticordia? (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum)

(A clue: her first name is now very common; you might have her in your own sitting room)

A bonus mark if you can translate the title!

Wessex Lockdown Arts Quiz No. 7 1 Question 3:

There is another version of this famous painting, Afterglow in Egypt, by (SCAG). Do you know where it is?

(A clue: the museum bears the name of its founder)

Question 4:

Who is Perseus rescuing from The Rock of Doom? (SCAG)

(A clue: the myth also involves Medusa)

Question 5: Joseph Southall’s At the Well of Samaria is painted in tempera (RCAGM). What is tempera?

(A clue: it was an Italian quattrocento technique)

Wessex Lockdown Arts Quiz No. 7 2 Question 6:

What is the name of ’s home? (RCAGM)

(A clue: it’s in the Lake District)

Question 7:

What art school did attend? (RCAGM)

(A clue: women were admitted)

Question 8:

John Everett Millais was fond of painting star-crossed lovers. Which novel by Walter Scott is depicted here? (Bristol Art Gallery)

(A clue: our heroine has just been saved from a charging bull)

Question 9:

Thomas Cooper Gotch belonged to which school of British painters? (Tate Gallery) (A clue: down in the West Country)

Wessex Lockdown Arts Quiz No. 7 3 Question 10:

David Inshaw belonged to the Brotherhood of Ruralists. Who gave the group their name? (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath)

(A clue: this famous author also wrote Cider with Rosie)

Question 11:

Aubrey Beardsley was only 25 when he died. What disease ended his life?

(A clue: he went to the South of France in the of recovering)

Question 12:

Frank Cadogan Cowper’s Vanity was his diploma . To which institution had he been elected?

(A clue: this institution celebrated 250 years in 2018).

Wessex Lockdown Arts Quiz No. 7 4 Question 13:

Edward John Gregory’s “Après?” is not typical of his work. Can you name his most famous painting? (RA)

(A clue: it’s a star attraction of the Lady Lever Gallery)

Question 14:

Can you name Tolkien’s dragon? (Alan Lee)

(A clue: he guards the treasure in The Hobbit).

Question 15:

How did Vivien trap Merlin? (Alan Lee)

(A clue: he never escaped from his tomb!).

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LOCKDOWN ARTS QUIZ NO.7 - ANSWERS:

1. Romeo and Juliet 2. 3. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 4. Andromeda 5. Pigment mixed with egg yolk or the whole egg. 6. Brantwood 7. The Slade 8. The Bride of Lammermoor 9. Newlyn School 10. Laurie Lee 11. Tuberculosis 12. Royal Academy 13. Boulter’s Lock 14. Smaug 15. She trapped him in a cave, under a stone or in a hawthorn bush.

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