Leonardo da Vinci - Quiz
Leonardo da Vinci
  • 1. When was Leonardo da Vinci born?
A) June 15, 1478
B) August 10, 1520
C) April 15, 1452
D) March 22, 1433
  • 2. Which Italian ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci?
A) Ludovico Sforza
B) Napoleon Bonaparte
C) Julius Caesar
D) Cleopatra
  • 3. What is Leonardo da Vinci's most famous portrait?
A) American Gothic
B) The Starry Night
C) Girl with a Pearl Earring
D) Mona Lisa
  • 4. What French king invited Leonardo da Vinci to live and work at the Château de Cloux?
A) Philip II
B) Henry VIII
C) Francis I
D) Louis XIV
  • 5. What did Leonardo da Vinci dissect to study human anatomy?
A) Mannequins
B) Animals
C) Corpses
D) Insects
  • 6. What was the name of Leonardo da Vinci's notebook filled with sketches and ideas?
A) Codex
B) Tome
C) Tablet
D) Scroll
  • 7. Who was the teacher who inspired and encouraged Leonardo da Vinci's artistic talents?
A) Andrea del Verrocchio
B) Rembrandt
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 8. What is the title of the mural painted by Leonardo da Vinci that depicts the dinner Jesus had with his disciples before his crucifixion?
A) The Sistine Chapel
B) The Birth of Venus
C) The Creation of Adam
D) The Last Supper
  • 9. What is Leonardo da Vinci's full name?
A) Leonardo Michelangelo di Vinci
B) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
C) Leonardo Donatello di Vinci
D) Leonardo Raphael da Vinci
  • 10. Where did Leonardo spend his last three years?
A) France
B) Milan
C) Rome
D) Florence
  • 11. What record did Salvator Mundi set in 2017?
A) Largest painting sold at auction
B) First painting by Leonardo sold at auction
C) Oldest painting sold at auction
D) Most expensive painting sold at public auction
  • 12. Which field did Leonardo make substantial discoveries in?
A) Philosophy
B) Chemistry
C) Anatomy
D) Astronomy
  • 13. What type of vehicle did Leonardo conceptualize?
A) Hot air balloon
B) Steam engine
C) Armoured fighting vehicle
D) Submarine
  • 14. Which invention by Leonardo entered manufacturing unheralded?
A) Armoured fighting vehicle
B) Automated bobbin winder
C) Ratio machine
D) Flying machine
  • 15. What is the approximate distance of Vinci from Florence?
A) 30 miles
B) 20 miles
C) 10 miles
D) 50 miles
  • 16. What was Leonardo's father's profession?
A) Painter
B) Merchant
C) Artisan
D) Florentine legal notary
  • 17. What nickname was given to Antonio di Piero Buti del Vacca?
A) 'The notary'
B) 'The quarrelsome one'
C) 'The painter'
D) 'The scholar'
  • 18. How many times did Ser Piero marry after Caterina?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
  • 19. How many half-siblings did Leonardo have who survived infancy?
A) 16
B) 11
C) 5
D) 8
  • 20. At what age was the last of Leonardo's half-siblings born?
A) 40 years old
B) 50 years old
C) 30 years old
D) 46 years old
  • 21. What type of education did Leonardo receive?
A) Basic and informal
B) Religious schooling
C) Military training
D) Advanced formal
  • 22. Which skills were included in Leonardo's basic education?
A) Engineering, anatomy, and astronomy
B) Sculpture, painting, and music
C) (Vernacular) writing, reading, and mathematics
D) Latin, philosophy, and science
  • 23. What is the name of Leonardo's earliest memory recorded in the Codex Atlanticus?
A) Meeting his father
B) A kite came to his cradle and opened his mouth with its tail
C) Flying a bird for the first time
D) Painting his first artwork
  • 24. Who recorded Leonardo's biography in 'Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'?
A) Giorgio Vasari
B) Antonio da Vinci
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Francesco da Vinci
  • 25. Where did Leonardo da Vinci become an apprentice around the age of 14?
A) Verrocchio's workshop
B) Platonic Academy
C) Medici Palace
D) Bargello
  • 26. Which artist's death coincided with Leonardo becoming a studio boy?
A) Piero della Francesca
B) Ghiberti
C) Masaccio
D) Donatello
  • 27. Who were Leonardo's contemporaries that he met at Verrocchio's workshop?
A) Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Raphael
B) Donatello, Masaccio, Ghiberti
C) Michelangelo, Bramante, Titian
D) Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino
  • 28. Which artist's work was known for realism and emotion in frescoes?
A) Piero della Francesca
B) Leon Battista Alberti
C) Masaccio
D) Ghiberti
  • 29. What was the title of the painting Leonardo collaborated on with Verrocchio?
A) Tobias and the Angel
B) Madonna of the Rocks
C) The Baptism of Christ
D) David
  • 30. What technique did Leonardo apply to parts of 'The Baptism of Christ'?
A) Fresco
B) Watercolor
C) Tempera only
D) Oil paint
  • 31. What did Leonardo paint on a buckler shield that was sold for 100 ducats?
A) Vitruvian Man
B) The Last Supper
C) A monster spitting fire
D) Mona Lisa
  • 32. What was the form of the silver string instrument Leonardo brought to Milan?
A) A dolphin's tail
B) A horse's head
C) A lion's mane
D) An eagle's beak
  • 33. What was the name of the equestrian monument Leonardo planned for Ludovico Sforza?
A) Gattamelata
B) Regisole
C) Bartolomeo Colleoni
D) Gran Cavallo
  • 34. What was the trompe-l'œil decoration in the Sala delle Asse intended to resemble?
A) A vineyard
B) A forest of oak trees
C) A garden of roses
D) A pergola created by interwoven mulberry trees
  • 35. Where did Leonardo flee to after Ludovico Sforza was overthrown?
A) Rome
B) Venice
C) Florence
D) Milan
  • 36. Who was Leonardo in service to in Cesena in 1502?
A) Charles II d'Amboise
B) Cesare Borgia
C) Ludovico Sforza
D) Pope Alexander VI
  • 37. Which anatomical feature did Leonardo da Vinci make one of the first scientific drawings of in utero?
A) Foetus
B) Lungs
C) Heart
D) Liver
  • 38. Who assumed the papacy in March 1513?
A) Lorenzo de' Medici's son Giovanni as Leo X
B) Pope Clement VII
C) Pope Julius II
D) Giuliano de' Medici
  • 39. What was the total amount of Leonardo's pension in France?
A) 8,000 crowns
B) 5,000 ducats
C) 10,000 scudi
D) 15,000 florins
  • 40. Where did Leonardo da Vinci die?
A) Milan
B) Rome
C) Florence
D) Clos Lucé
  • 41. What was the height of the skeleton discovered by Houssaye?
A) 2.00 metres (6.6 ft)
B) 1.50 metres (4.9 ft)
C) 1.60 metres (5.3 ft)
D) 1.73 metres (5.7 ft)
  • 42. What nickname was given to Leonardo's assistant Salaì?
A) The Little Genius
B) The Pupil
C) Il Salaino
D) The Master's Shadow
  • 43. Who was Leonardo working on an equestrian monument for?
A) Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
B) Pope Leo X
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) King Francis I of France
  • 44. Which king of France supported Leonardo in his old age?
A) Henry II
B) Charles IX
C) Louis XII
D) Francis I
  • 45. Under whom did Leonardo da Vinci study mathematics in the 1490s?
A) Luca Pacioli
B) Nicolas Poussin
C) Marcantonio della Torre
D) Cardinal Louis d'Aragon
  • 46. What is 'sfumato', a technique used by Leonardo?
A) The subtle shadowing that creates a smoky effect
B) A method of using bright, contrasting colors
C) A style of painting with visible brushstrokes
D) A way to create three-dimensional effects with lines
  • 47. What was Leonardo da Vinci's painting technique for 'The Last Supper'?
A) Tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso
B) Fresco on wet plaster
C) Encaustic wax painting
D) Oil on canvas
  • 48. Who was King Francis I's royal advisor that sent instructions regarding Leonardo?
A) Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet
B) Antonio Maria Pallavicini
C) Francesco Melzi
D) Lorenzo di Credi
  • 49. Who was Leonardo's favourite student?
A) Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
B) Count Francesco Melzi
C) Bernardino Luini
D) Marco d'Oggiono
  • 50. What did Vasari say about the 'Mona Lisa's' smile?
A) 'So pleasing that it seems more divine than human'
B) 'It is identical to the original model's smile'
C) 'It lacks any emotional depth'
D) 'It is a simple and unremarkable feature'
  • 51. What was the subject of a project Leonardo may have commenced for Charles II d'Amboise?
A) A mural
B) A map
C) An equestrian figure
D) A portrait
  • 52. In what year did Leonardo first state the 'laws' of sliding friction in his notebooks?
A) 1520
B) 1505
C) 1493
D) 1512
  • 53. Who observed Leonardo at work on 'The Last Supper' and wrote about it?
A) Vasari
B) Ludovico Sforza
C) Matteo Bandello
D) Michelangelo
  • 54. Who made explicit his opinion that Leonardo's relations with Salaì were intimate and homosexual?
A) Walter Isaacson
B) Melzi
C) Vasari
D) Sigmund Freud
  • 55. Which artist's drawings were based on Leonardo's anatomical studies for publication?
A) Titian
B) Raphael
C) Nicolas Poussin
D) Michelangelo
  • 56. Which river's flow did Leonardo devise a scheme to divert in 1502?
A) Po
B) Arno
C) Adige
D) Tiber
  • 57. What was one of the projects Leonardo worked on for Pope Leo X regarding the Pontine Marshes?
A) Building a new church
B) Designing a fountain
C) Creating a botanical garden
D) Plans for draining them
  • 58. What did Leonardo decorate with scales dipped in quicksilver?
A) A statue
B) A manuscript
C) A painting
D) A lizard
  • 59. What did Leonardo make notes on while dissecting cadavers in the Vatican Gardens?
A) Anatomy of the human body
B) Botanical studies
C) A treatise on vocal cords
D) Engineering designs
  • 60. What was found on one finger of the skeleton discovered by Arsène Houssaye?
A) An iron nail
B) A silver bracelet
C) A gold necklace
D) A bronze ring
  • 61. Which pupil of Leonardo is considered to have artistic merit comparable to others like Marco d'Oggiono?
A) Melzi
B) Boltraffio
C) Salaì
D) Luca Pacioli
  • 62. Which painting by Leonardo da Vinci is characterized by the Virgin Mary sitting or kneeling to the right, approached by an angel?
A) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
B) Virgin of the Rocks
C) Mona Lisa
D) Annunciations
  • 63. Where did Leonardo live from September 1513 to 1516?
A) Porta Orientale, Milan
B) In the Belvedere Courtyard in the Apostolic Palace, Rome
C) At Medici's Vaprio d'Adda villa
D) Clos Lucé near Château d'Amboise
  • 64. What event led to the demolition of the church where Leonardo was buried?
A) The French Revolution
B) The Black Plague
C) An earthquake in 1802
D) World War I
  • 65. Which drawing technique did Leonardo use in 'The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist'?
A) Sfumato
B) Impasto
C) Grisaille
D) Chiaroscuro
  • 66. What did Leonardo identify as defining the circulatory system?
A) The lungs
B) The brain
C) The liver
D) The heart
  • 67. Who owns the Codex Leicester?
A) John Nicholas Brown I
B) Robert Lehman
C) Bill Gates
D) The British Library
  • 68. Which book did Leonardo collaborate on with mathematician Luca Pacioli?
A) The Last Supper
B) Vitruvian Man
C) Divina proportione
D) Mona Lisa
  • 69. What was Leonardo given as a monthly allowance in Rome?
A) 20 florins
B) 50 scudi
C) 40 crowns
D) 33 ducats
  • 70. Which flying machine did Leonardo design that mimics bird flight?
A) Hot air balloon
B) Flapping ornithopter
C) Glider
D) Helicopter
  • 71. Which Renaissance movement recognized no polarities between the sciences and the arts?
A) Renaissance humanism
B) Romanticism
C) Baroque period
D) The Enlightenment
  • 72. Which painting by Leonardo da Vinci is characterized by a calm young woman accepting her role as the Mother of God with confidence?
A) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
B) Mona Lisa
C) Lady with an Ermine
D) The larger Annunciation
  • 73. Who also worked on the project to divert the Arno river's flow alongside Leonardo?
A) Niccolò Machiavelli
B) Ludovico il Moro
C) Michelangelo
D) Pope Leo X
  • 74. Who discovered a partially complete skeleton believed to be Leonardo's remains?
A) Arsène Houssaye
B) Mary Margaret Heaton
C) Napoleon III
D) Charles Nicholl
  • 75. Who collaborated with Leonardo in his anatomical studies from 1510 to 1511?
A) Nicolas Poussin
B) Marcantonio della Torre
C) Verrocchio
D) Luca Pacioli
  • 76. In which year did Leonardo write to Ludovico il Moro about creating machines for city protection?
A) 1482
B) 1502
C) 1510
D) 1499
  • 77. Which of the following did Leonardo not study anatomically?
A) Bears
B) Insects
C) Cows
D) Monkeys
  • 78. How was the painting referred to as Joconda valued in Salaì's posthumous inventory?
A) 1000 lire
B) 750 lire
C) 505 lire
D) 300 lire
  • 79. In what year was Leonardo charged with sodomy, and how old was he at the time?
A) 1485, aged thirty-three
B) 1503, aged fifty-two
C) 1492, aged forty-one
D) 1476, aged twenty-four
  • 80. What technique did Leonardo perfect that represents internal components in technical drawings?
A) Perspective view
B) Orthographic projection
C) Isometric view
D) Exploded view
  • 81. What did Leonardo create that walked towards the King during a pageant?
A) An equestrian statue
B) A mechanical lion
C) A painting of Francis I
D) A portrait of Louise of Savoy
  • 82. On what date did Leonardo da Vinci pass away?
A) March 30, 1498
B) April 15, 1506
C) June 23, 1524
D) May 2, 1519
  • 83. When did Leonardo return to Florence after leaving Borgia's service?
A) Early 1503
B) Early 1506
C) Late 1504
D) Mid-1505
  • 84. Where was Leonardo sorting out a dispute in 1507?
A) Milan
B) Florence
C) Venice
D) Rome
  • 85. Which television series built ten machines designed by Leonardo?
A) Masters of Invention
B) The Art of Engineering
C) Doing DaVinci
D) Leonardo's Dream Machines
  • 86. Which of Leonardo's works is noted for its androgyny and eroticism?
A) Saint John the Baptist
B) Mona Lisa
C) The Last Supper
D) Vitruvian Man
  • 87. What year were documents published revealing Houssaye's actions?
A) 2005
B) 1999
C) 2019
D) 1987
  • 88. Who summoned Leonardo to Milan in 1506?
A) Cesare Borgia
B) Ludovico Sforza
C) Charles II d'Amboise
D) Pope Alexander VI
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