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"El Greco: Portrait of an Artist"

1. What was El Greco's first language?

A) Italian.

B) Spanish.

C) Greek.

D) Pig Latin.

1. Answer C.

2. Why was he called "El Greco"?

A) Because his real name, Domenikos Theotocopoulos, meant "He who can't paint."

B) Because in Spain, he was known as "The Greek."

C) Because he hung around the main artist's café in Toledo, which was called the "El Greco."

D) Because his real name, Giuseppe Giovanni Luciano Greco, was too Italian.

2. Answer B.

3. Which earlier, spiritual, Christian art was the foundation for El Greco's art?

A) Roman.

B) Greek.

C) Byzantine.

D) Romanesque.

3. Answer C.

4. Where did El Greco travel to at the age of 27, and who was his major influence there?

A) Venice/Tintoretto.

B) Ghent/Jan van Eyck.

C) Memphis/Elvis Presley.

D) Milan/Leonardo da Vinci.

4. Answer A.

5. In Rome, El Greco was influenced by Michelangelo's late works, and what art style?

A) Late Gothic.

B) Early Renaissance.

C) High Renaissance.

D) Mannerism.

5. Answer D.

6. In Toledo, Spain, what work did El Greco paint after he had a son?

A) The Last Judgment.

B) Holy Family with Saint Anne.

C) The Annunciation.

D) St. Sebastian.

6. Answer B.

7. In El Greco's Burial of Count Orgaz, the spectators are portraits of contemporary men in Toledo. True or false?

7. Answer True.

8. What city did El Greco use as the background for many of his paintings?

A) Rome.

B) Venice.

C) Toledo.

D) Madrid.

8. Answer C.

9. In one of El Greco's later paintings of the Virgin, people objected to an "indecent" element of the picture. What was it?

A) The rough collars (a contemporary fashion) on some of the figures beneath the Virgin.

B) The nudity of the Virgin.

C) El Greco's use of his own face on Christ's body.

D) The fact that the Virgin was modeled after a known prostitute.

9. Answer A.

10. How old was El Greco when he died?

A) 33.

B) 53.

C) 73.

D) 93.
10. Answer C.

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