Visual Arts

At the Louvre or the Centre Pompidou, these are the French art vocabulary words you need: this quiz matches five terms from the world of fine arts to their English translations.

Peinture carries the same double meaning as its English equivalent: it refers both to a painting on a wall and to the paint in the tin. Beaux-arts will already be familiar to many English speakers as a borrowed term for a 19th-century architectural and decorative style.