QUIZ: Do you know your art history? Identify Prague's most famous paintings

Test your knowledge of masterpieces on display in the National Gallery Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the land.

Ioana Caloianu

Written by Ioana Caloianu Published on 22.09.2023 13:50:00 (updated on 25.10.2023) Reading time: 1 minute

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As the second oldest art gallery in all of Europe after the Louvre, Prague's National Gallery manages the largest collection of fine art in the country. It has become synonymous with Czech artistic heritage for over two centuries, displaying masterpieces of Czech and international art from its world-class collections in several historical buildings across Prague: The Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia, Kinský Palace, Salm Palace, Schwarzenberg Palace, Sternberg Palace, Wallenstein Riding School, and the Trade Fair (Veletržní) Palace.

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Each building houses art from a different range of periods from Gothic to Old Masters, 19th Century Art to Classical Modernism. Test your knowledge of the famed artists on display in Prague with our quiz and make sure to visit the NGP's latest exhibit, Watercolor between Prague and Vienna, opening today and running through Jan. 7, 2024.

Question 1 / 10

Who painted Green Wheat Field?

Please answer previous questions first.

  • Claude Monet
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Paul Gaugain
Question 2 / 10

Who painted The Virgin?

Please answer previous questions first.

  • Alfons Mucha
  • Gustav Klimt
  • Egon Schiele
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Question 3 / 10

Which artist captured himself in the work Myself: Portrait – Landscape?

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  • Paul Gaugain
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Édouard Manet
  • Henri Rousseau
Question 4 / 10

Who painted Seated Woman with Bent Knees?

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  • Oskar Kokoschka
  • Gustav Klimt
  • Egon Schiele
  • Emil Nolde
Question 5 / 10

What it the name of this painting by Jan Sanders van Hemessen?

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  • Wedding Night
  • Married Couple
  • Weeping Bride
  • Portrait of a Married Couple
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Question 6 / 10

Who painted The House in Aix (Jas de Bouffa)?

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  • Édouard Manet
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Claude Monet
  • Paul Cézanne
Question 7 / 10

Who painted At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing?

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  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Claude Monet
  • Édouard Manet
  • Henri Rousseau
Question 8 / 10

Who was the model for this portrait by Agnolo Bronzino?

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  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Cecilia Gallerani
  • Simonetta Vespucci
  • Eleanor of Toledo
Question 9 / 10

Who painted Northern Sea in Moonlight?

Please answer previous questions first.

  • Philip Otto Runge
  • Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
  • Caspar David Friedrich
  • Carl Gustav Carus
Question 10 / 10

Who painted Adam and Eve?

Please answer previous questions first.

  • Lucas Cranach the Younger
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • Hans Cranach
  • Augustin Cranach
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