Dokimasia

🖼️ Famous Paintings

Name the hand that held the brush.

Movement: Renaissance & Baroque (33) · Romanticism & Realism (24) · Impressionism & Post-Impressionism (30) · Modern & Surrealism (29).

Stand before the canvas and say who. The paintings bank holds one hundred and sixteen works and asks one question of each: name the hand that held the brush. It walks four movements in roughly chronological order. The Renaissance and Baroque supply the marble certainties — the Mona Lisa, the School of Athens, Vermeer's quiet Delft interiors — where the difficulty is not knowing the answer but distinguishing the Leonardos from the Raphaels at speed. Romanticism and Realism bring the storm clouds and barricades; Goya's majas, naked and clothed, both sit for examination. The Impressionists and their stubborn descendants fill the third room — water lilies, sunflowers, dancers caught mid-rehearsal — where Monet and Manet cost more marks than any other single letter in the society. The modern wing closes the circuit with the Surrealists and their melting clocks. Decoys are drawn from the same movement, which is the whole cruelty of the design: nobody confuses Dalí with Titian, but Titian against Tintoretto against Veronese is a genuine afternoon's work. A quarter of the bank rates easy, a third hard, and the rest is the honest middle where most reputations are made. Wrong attributions join your drill pool and return until the eye learns. No image licensing was harmed: the bank names the works, and your memory supplies the gallery.