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