The Museo del Prado houses one of the biggest collections of Peter Paul Rubens’ work. With this quiz game, we encourage you to test your knowledge of one of the most outstanding artists of the Seventeenth century.
Bruges
Antwerp
Leuven
Siegen
True
False
Philip II
Philip IV
Charles IV
Charles III
True
False
He did not have a workshop
Van Dyck
Velázquez
Paul Bril
He was an avowed enemy of the Flemish artists Frans Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder
He was a blood relative of the Flemish artists Frans Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder
He used to collect artworks by the Flemish artists Frans Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder
He used to collaborate with other Flemish artists such as Frans Snyders or Jan Brueghel the Elder
An altarpiece commissioned for the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales
A set of tapestries commissioned by Philip IV for the Monasterio del Escorial
A series of tapestries commissioned by Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands
The title of an essay about iconography written by Rubens
The Torre de la Parada
El Escorial
Rubens’ house in Antwerp
The palace of the archdukes Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia
Nobody in particular
Isabella I of Castile
His lover
His second wife, Hélène Fourment
His knowledge on Classical sculpture, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, acquired during his stay in Italy
His free creative process, breaking away from what he had learnt during his stay in Italy
His knowledge on Classical sculpture acquired during his stay in Greece
A very little pious interpretation of the apostles