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Question 1: The vast majority of ________ are on panel, and these include most of the earliest portraits, such as those by Jan van Eyck, and some other secular scenes.
RenaissanceRenaissance in the Low CountriesBelgiumEarly Netherlandish painting

Question 2: But, for example, The National Gallery in London has two ________ portraits on panel.
William BlakeCaspar David FriedrichEugène DelacroixFrancisco Goya

Question 3: Canvas took over from panel in Italy by the first half of the 16th century, a change led by ________ and the artists of Venice (which made the finest canvas at this point).
RomeFlorenceGiovanni BelliniAndrea Mantegna

Question 4: A series of 6th century BC painted tablets from Pitsa (________) represent the oldest surviving Greek panel paintings.
PortugalGermanyGreecePoland

Question 5: Carbon-dating techniques can give an approximate date-range (typically to about a range of about 20 years), and ________ sequences have been developed for the main source areas of timber for panels.
Ice coreTimeGeologic time scaleDendrochronology

Question 6: This was replaced before the end of first millennium by ________, which uses an egg-yolk medium.
TemperaMadonna (art)Oil paintingPaint

Question 7: His panels are of notoriously complicated construction, containing as many as seventeen pieces of wood (Het Steen, ________).
National Portrait Gallery (London)National Gallery (London)British MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum

Question 8: Until ________ became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, it was the normal form of support for a painting not on a wall (fresco) or on vellum, which was used for miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and also for paintings for framing.
TextileCambricCanvasWeaving

Question 9: However, one of the earliest surviving oils on ________ is a French Madonna with angels of about 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, which is very early indeed for oil painting also.
CambricTextileCanvasWeaving

Question 10: In the ________ the change took about a century longer, and panel paintings remained common, especially in Northern Europe, even after the cheaper and more portable canvas had become the main support medium.
GreeceNetherlandsPolandGermany
















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