Boabdil's Farewell to Granada - Quiz
Boabdil s Farewell to Granada
  • 1. What is the medium of Boabdil's Farewell to Granada?
A) Watercolor
B) Oil on canvas
C) Tempera
D) Fresco
  • 2. Who painted Boabdil's Farewell to Granada?
A) Alfred Dehodencq
B) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
C) Paul Armand Silvestre
D) Eugène Delacroix
  • 3. In what year was the painting first exhibited?
A) 1940
B) 1984
C) 1869
D) 1492
  • 4. At which event was the painting first exhibited?
A) Salon of 1869
B) First International Art Exhibition
C) Venice Biennale
D) Exposition Universelle
  • 5. Which museum currently houses the finished painting?
A) Musée d'Orsay
B) Louvre
C) Snite Museum of Art
D) Musée de Roubaix
  • 6. Where is one of the painted sketches located?
A) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing
B) Musée d'Orsay
C) Arnoldi-Livie Gallery in Munich
D) Musée de Roubaix
  • 7. Where is the second painted sketch located?
A) Louvre
B) Musée d'Orsay
C) Arnoldi-Livie Gallery
D) Snite Museum of Art
  • 8. Which university houses one of the painted sketches?
A) University of Granada
B) University of Notre Dame
C) University of Munich
D) University of Paris
  • 9. Which museum holds a sketch for a figure who may be Boabdil?
A) Musée de Roubaix
B) Musée d'Orsay
C) Snite Museum of Art
D) Louvre
  • 10. Who is the central historical figure depicted in the painting?
A) Eugène Delacroix
B) Mohammed XI
C) Paul Armand Silvestre
D) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
  • 11. What title was Boabdil known by?
A) Last Emir of Granada
B) Emir of Paris
C) Sultan of Munich
D) King of France
  • 12. In what year did Granada fall, leading to Boabdil's exile?
A) 1984
B) 1869
C) 1940
D) 1492
  • 13. What action does Boabdil take as he is sent into exile?
A) Defended the city like a man
B) Fought the horse and groom
C) Turned back for one last look and wept
D) Painted a sketch of the landscape
  • 14. What perspective makes the composition particularly lively and moving?
A) Low-angled perspective of the groom
B) High-angled perspective of the viewer
C) Side-angled perspective of the horse
D) Flat perspective of the distant city
  • 15. Who bought the painting from the artist for the musée de Roubaix in 1869?
A) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
B) The state
C) The Louvre
D) The University of Notre Dame
  • 16. In what year did the painting enter the collection of the musée d'Orsay?
A) 1940
B) 1984
C) 1492
D) 1869
  • 17. To which artist did critics say Dehodencq's style owed much?
A) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Paul Armand Silvestre
D) Alfred Dehodencq
  • 18. Who described the painting as a composition without character, poorly drawn and heavily painted?
A) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
B) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
C) Maurice Cristal
D) Paul Armand Silvestre
  • 19. Who felt that the composition was not above reproach, but praised the remarkable use of colour and light?
A) Alfred Dehodencq
B) Paul Armand Silvestre
C) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
D) Maurice Cristal
  • 20. Who praised the grandeur of the painting's melancholy beauty?
A) Maurice Cristal
B) Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
C) Théophile Thoré-Bürger
D) Paul Armand Silvestre
  • 21. What did the first version of the painting show in the distance?
A) Granada
B) Munich
C) Tourcoing
D) Paris
  • 22. Who was near Boabdil in the first version of the painting?
A) Eugène Delacroix and Maurice Cristal
B) A groom and a horse
C) A group of Arab women including his mother
D) French art collectors
  • 23. What did Boabdil's mother reportedly jeer at him in the anecdote?
A) Look back at Granada one last time
B) Weep, weep like a woman for the city you could not defend like a man
C) Paint a canvas that radiates life
D) Fight like a man for the city you lost
  • 24. What does the final version strip out to create radical simplicity?
A) The oil-on-canvas medium
B) The high-angled perspective
C) Boabdil, his horse, and his groom
D) Narrative details like Arab women and distant Granada
  • 25. What does the radical simplicity of the final painting make universal?
A) The history of the Salon
B) Boabdil's suffering
C) The technique of Eugène Delacroix
D) The beauty of Paris
  • 26. In what year was the painting held at the musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing?
A) 1984
B) 1869
C) 1940
D) 1492
  • 27. What art exhibition in Munich featured the painting in 1869?
A) First International Art Exhibition
B) Salon of 1869
C) Venice Biennale
D) Exposition Universelle
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