You Gotta Know
You Gotta Know These Artistic Creations
The following table lists the thirty most-frequently referenced works of visual art in NAQT questions as of May 7, 2002. While you really gotta know their creators, these are also some of the works about which more substantive questions are written, so teams should be prepared for questions on their materials, design, technique, depicted action, and circumstances of creation.
| Rank | Title | Genre | Creator | Date | Freq. |
| 1 | The Arnolfini Wedding | Painting | Jan van Eyck | 1434 | 21 |
| 2 | The Birth of Venus | Painting | Sandro Botticelli | 1480 | 20 |
| 3 | Perseus With the Head Of Medusa | Sculpture | Benvenuto Cellini | 1563 | 20 |
| 4 | The Persistence of Memory | Painting | Salvador (Felipe Jacinto) Dalí (y Domenech) | 1931 | 18 |
| 5 | The Kiss | Sculpture | (René-François-)Auguste Rodin | 1886 | 18 |
| 6 | Mona Lisa | Painting | Leonardo da Vinci | 1500 | 17 |
| 7 | Liberty Leading the People | Painting | Eugene Delacroix | 1830 | 17 |
| 8 | David | Sculpture | Michelangelo (Buonarotti) | 1504 | 17 |
| 9 | Last Supper | Painting | Leonardo da Vinci | 1495-1498 | 16 |
| 10 | The Thinker | Sculpture | (René-François-)Auguste Rodin | 1880-1 | 16 |
| 11 | School of Athens | Painting | Raphael | 1509 | 14 |
| 12 | The Death of Marat | Painting | Jacques-Louis David | 1793 | 13 |
| 13 | Luncheon on the Grass | Painting | Édouard Manet | 1863 | 13 |
| 14 | American Gothic | Painting | Grant Wood | 1930 | 13 |
| 15 | Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: The Artist's Mother | Painting | James (Abbott) McNeill Whistler | 1871 | 13 |
| 16 | Bird in Space | Sculpture | Constantin Brancusi | 1919 | 13 |
| 17 | Fallingwater | Building | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1936 | 12 |
| 18 | The Hay Wain | Painting | John Constable | 1821 | 12 |
| 19 | Nighthawks | Painting | Edward Hopper | 1942 | 12 |
| 20 | Las Meninas | Painting | Diego (Rodríguez de Silva y) Velázquez | 1656 | 12 |
| 21 | The Blue Boy | Painting | Thomas Gainsborough | 1770 | 12 |
| 22 | I and the Village | Painting | Marc Chagall | 1911 | 11 |
| 23 | The Scream | Painting | Edvard Munch | 1893 | 10 |
| 24 | Guernica | Painting | Pablo Picasso y Ruiz | 1937 | 10 |
| 25 | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Painting | Pablo Picasso y Ruiz | 1907 | 10 |
| 26 | Primavera | Painting | Sandro Botticelli | 1478 | 10 |
| 27 | Impression: Sunrise | Painting | (Oscar-)Claude Monet | 1872 | 10 |
| 28 | Burial at Ornans | Painting | Gustave Courbet | 1849-50 | 10 |
| 29 | David | Sculpture | Donatello | c. 1440 | 10 |
| 30 | The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa | Sculpture | Gianlorenzo Bernini | 1646 | 10 |
NAQT has complete lists of the works of literature, art, and music that have been mentioned in its questions, sorted by frequency, available for purchase by coaches or teams for use as study guides.
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