A) August 10, 1520 B) March 22, 1433 C) April 15, 1452 D) June 15, 1478
A) Napoleon Bonaparte B) Julius Caesar C) Cleopatra D) Ludovico Sforza
A) Girl with a Pearl Earring B) The Starry Night C) Mona Lisa D) American Gothic
A) Louis XIV B) Henry VIII C) Philip II D) Francis I
A) Corpses B) Insects C) Animals D) Mannequins
A) Tablet B) Scroll C) Codex D) Tome
A) Pablo Picasso B) Andrea del Verrocchio C) Rembrandt D) Vincent van Gogh
A) The Sistine Chapel B) The Last Supper C) The Birth of Venus D) The Creation of Adam
A) Leonardo Donatello di Vinci B) Leonardo Michelangelo di Vinci C) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci D) Leonardo Raphael da Vinci
A) Florence B) Rome C) France D) Milan
A) Most expensive painting sold at public auction B) Largest painting sold at auction C) First painting by Leonardo sold at auction D) Oldest painting sold at auction
A) Astronomy B) Chemistry C) Anatomy D) Philosophy
A) Hot air balloon B) Steam engine C) Submarine D) Armoured fighting vehicle
A) Automated bobbin winder B) Armoured fighting vehicle C) Flying machine D) Ratio machine
A) 50 miles B) 20 miles C) 30 miles D) 10 miles
A) Artisan B) Painter C) Merchant D) Florentine legal notary
A) 'The quarrelsome one' B) 'The painter' C) 'The scholar' D) 'The notary'
A) Two B) Three C) Four D) One
A) 5 B) 11 C) 16 D) 8
A) 46 years old B) 50 years old C) 30 years old D) 40 years old
A) Religious schooling B) Basic and informal C) Military training D) Advanced formal
A) Sculpture, painting, and music B) Latin, philosophy, and science C) Engineering, anatomy, and astronomy D) (Vernacular) writing, reading, and mathematics
A) Meeting his father B) Flying a bird for the first time C) Painting his first artwork D) A kite came to his cradle and opened his mouth with its tail
A) Leonardo da Vinci B) Francesco da Vinci C) Antonio da Vinci D) Giorgio Vasari
A) Platonic Academy B) Verrocchio's workshop C) Medici Palace D) Bargello
A) Piero della Francesca B) Masaccio C) Ghiberti D) Donatello
A) Michelangelo, Bramante, Titian B) Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino C) Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Raphael D) Donatello, Masaccio, Ghiberti
A) Piero della Francesca B) Masaccio C) Ghiberti D) Leon Battista Alberti
A) The Baptism of Christ B) Tobias and the Angel C) David D) Madonna of the Rocks
A) Fresco B) Watercolor C) Tempera only D) Oil paint
A) Vitruvian Man B) Mona Lisa C) The Last Supper D) A monster spitting fire
A) A lion's mane B) An eagle's beak C) A horse's head D) A dolphin's tail
A) Regisole B) Gattamelata C) Gran Cavallo D) Bartolomeo Colleoni
A) A forest of oak trees B) A vineyard C) A pergola created by interwoven mulberry trees D) A garden of roses
A) Milan B) Florence C) Venice D) Rome
A) Charles II d'Amboise B) Ludovico Sforza C) Pope Alexander VI D) Cesare Borgia
A) Lungs B) Foetus C) Heart D) Liver
A) Giuliano de' Medici B) Lorenzo de' Medici's son Giovanni as Leo X C) Pope Clement VII D) Pope Julius II
A) 10,000 scudi B) 8,000 crowns C) 5,000 ducats D) 15,000 florins
A) Milan B) Florence C) Rome D) Clos Lucé
A) 1.50 metres (4.9 ft) B) 1.73 metres (5.7 ft) C) 1.60 metres (5.3 ft) D) 2.00 metres (6.6 ft)
A) The Pupil B) The Little Genius C) The Master's Shadow D) Il Salaino
A) Gian Giacomo Trivulzio B) King Francis I of France C) Pope Leo X D) Lorenzo de' Medici
A) Louis XII B) Francis I C) Charles IX D) Henry II
A) Cardinal Louis d'Aragon B) Nicolas Poussin C) Marcantonio della Torre D) Luca Pacioli
A) The subtle shadowing that creates a smoky effect B) A style of painting with visible brushstrokes C) A method of using bright, contrasting colors D) A way to create three-dimensional effects with lines
A) Tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso B) Fresco on wet plaster C) Oil on canvas D) Encaustic wax painting
A) Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet B) Francesco Melzi C) Antonio Maria Pallavicini D) Lorenzo di Credi
A) Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio B) Count Francesco Melzi C) Bernardino Luini D) Marco d'Oggiono
A) 'So pleasing that it seems more divine than human' B) 'It is identical to the original model's smile' C) 'It is a simple and unremarkable feature' D) 'It lacks any emotional depth'
A) A mural B) A map C) An equestrian figure D) A portrait
A) 1512 B) 1493 C) 1505 D) 1520
A) Matteo Bandello B) Vasari C) Michelangelo D) Ludovico Sforza
A) Walter Isaacson B) Vasari C) Sigmund Freud D) Melzi
A) Michelangelo B) Nicolas Poussin C) Raphael D) Titian
A) Po B) Adige C) Arno D) Tiber
A) Plans for draining them B) Creating a botanical garden C) Designing a fountain D) Building a new church
A) A manuscript B) A painting C) A statue D) A lizard
A) A treatise on vocal cords B) Botanical studies C) Engineering designs D) Anatomy of the human body
A) An iron nail B) A bronze ring C) A silver bracelet D) A gold necklace
A) Salaì B) Boltraffio C) Melzi D) Luca Pacioli
A) Mona Lisa B) Virgin of the Rocks C) Annunciations D) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
A) At Medici's Vaprio d'Adda villa B) Porta Orientale, Milan C) In the Belvedere Courtyard in the Apostolic Palace, Rome D) Clos Lucé near Château d'Amboise
A) The Black Plague B) The French Revolution C) World War I D) An earthquake in 1802
A) Sfumato B) Chiaroscuro C) Grisaille D) Impasto
A) The heart B) The lungs C) The brain D) The liver
A) The British Library B) Bill Gates C) John Nicholas Brown I D) Robert Lehman
A) The Last Supper B) Mona Lisa C) Vitruvian Man D) Divina proportione
A) 20 florins B) 40 crowns C) 33 ducats D) 50 scudi
A) Flapping ornithopter B) Glider C) Helicopter D) Hot air balloon
A) The Enlightenment B) Baroque period C) Renaissance humanism D) Romanticism
A) Mona Lisa B) Lady with an Ermine C) The larger Annunciation D) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
A) Pope Leo X B) Ludovico il Moro C) Niccolò Machiavelli D) Michelangelo
A) Napoleon III B) Arsène Houssaye C) Mary Margaret Heaton D) Charles Nicholl
A) Marcantonio della Torre B) Luca Pacioli C) Nicolas Poussin D) Verrocchio
A) 1510 B) 1502 C) 1499 D) 1482
A) Monkeys B) Bears C) Cows D) Insects
A) 300 lire B) 505 lire C) 1000 lire D) 750 lire
A) 1485, aged thirty-three B) 1503, aged fifty-two C) 1476, aged twenty-four D) 1492, aged forty-one
A) Exploded view B) Orthographic projection C) Isometric view D) Perspective view
A) An equestrian statue B) A mechanical lion C) A portrait of Louise of Savoy D) A painting of Francis I
A) May 2, 1519 B) April 15, 1506 C) March 30, 1498 D) June 23, 1524
A) Late 1504 B) Mid-1505 C) Early 1503 D) Early 1506
A) Venice B) Florence C) Milan D) Rome
A) Leonardo's Dream Machines B) Doing DaVinci C) The Art of Engineering D) Masters of Invention
A) The Last Supper B) Vitruvian Man C) Saint John the Baptist D) Mona Lisa
A) 1999 B) 1987 C) 2019 D) 2005
A) Ludovico Sforza B) Cesare Borgia C) Charles II d'Amboise D) Pope Alexander VI |