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7 fact-checked facts about art, artists and art history, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.

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The basics

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

AnswerLeonardo da Vinci

Leonardo worked on it in the early 1500s.

What are the three traditional primary colors in painting?

AnswerRed, yellow and blue

Mixing these gives the secondary colors.

Going deeper

Claude Monet is a leading figure of which art movement?

AnswerImpressionism

The movement takes its name from his painting 'Impression, Sunrise'.

Which Spanish artist co-founded Cubism?

AnswerPablo Picasso

Picasso developed Cubism with Georges Braque.

Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory', with its melting clocks?

AnswerSalvador Dali

Dali painted it in 1931.

Expert level

Which Dutch artist painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?

AnswerJohannes Vermeer

Vermeer painted it around 1665.

Which pigment was historically made by grinding lapis lazuli?

AnswerUltramarine

Ultramarine was once more costly than gold.

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