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1 On the 8th April 1820, a peasant discovered which armless statue in the ruins of an ancient city on the Aegean island of Melos?
A The Venus de Milo (a.k.a. Aphrodite of Milos – Created at some time between 130 and 100 BCE – peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas)
2 Who sculptured the famous statue of David, supposedly the perfect male body?
A Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
3 The Blue Boy, is a work by which 18th century English portrait and landscape artist?
A Thomas Gainsborough (perhaps his most famous work)
4 Which famous 19th-century English Romanticist landscape artist had the first names, Joseph Mallord William?
A Turner
5 Which company uses the Latin version of the phrase Art for art’s sake as its motto?
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (ars gratia artis)
6 Which Royal Chartered cultural organisation supports activities across the arts throughout the UK?
A Arts Council
7 Which art historian and surveyor of the queen’s pictures turned out to be a Soviet spy?
A Anthony Blunt
8 In which field of the arts has American-born Annie Leibovitz achieved fame?
A Photography
9 Which American politician did Gore Vidal describe in April 1981 as “a triumph of the embalmer’s art”?
A Ronald Reagan (Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner and epigrammatic wit)
10 The literary character and artist Basil Hallward, painted which enchanted fictional portrait?
A The Picture of Dorian Grey