SparkNotes: Leonardo da Vinci: Review Test

1. Vinci is a village near what city?

(A) Florence

(B) Milan

(C) Rome

(D) Pisa

2. Verrochio was most talented as what kind of artist?

(A) A painter

(B) An architect

(C) A navigator

(D) A sculptor

3. What was the name of Leonardo's father?

(A) Ser Piero

(B) Lorenzo

(C) Francesco

(D) Antonio

4. What was the profession of Leonardo's father?

(A) Farmer

(B) Tailor

(C) Merchant

(D) Notary

5. Leonardo was accused of what crime?

(A) Sodomy

(B) Calumny

(C) Plagiarism

(D) Failing to fulfill a commission

6. Leonardo explains his obsession with flight by talking about an experience he had with a bird as a young boy What kind of bird was it?

(A) A sparrow

(B) A red hawk

(C) A kite

(D) A vulture

7. Which family ruled Florence during Leonardo's lifetime?

(A) Savonarola

(B) Borgia

(C) Medici

(D) Sforza

8. Ludovico Sforza was duke of what city?

(A) Milan

(B) Florence

(C) Pisa

(D) Amboise

9. Who was Lorenzo de Medici's favorite artist?

(A) Raphael

(B) Titian

(C) Leonardo

(D) Michelangelo

10. What kind of tree is prominent in Ginevra de Benci, serving as a visual pun?

(A) Palm

(B) Juniper

(C) Ginger

(D) Sycamore

11. What is the name for a painting which portrays an angel telling Mary about the Virgin birth?

(A) The Last Supper

(B) The Adoration

(C) The Annunciation

(D) The Pieta

12. Which of the following Leonardo paintings famously lacks halos?

(A) The Benois Madonna

(B) The Baptism

(C) The Annunciation

(D) The Last Supper

13. The Lady with an Ermine was most likely a portrait of a mistress of which man?

(A) Lorenzo the Magnificent

(B) Francis I

(C) Cesare Borgia

(D) Ludovico Sforza

14. What did Pacioli teach to Leonardo?

(A) Anatomy

(B) Hydraulics

(C) Mathematics

(D) Architecture

15. What does the nickname "Salai" mean?

(A) Pillow

(B) Limb of Satan

(C) Moor

(D) Valentine

16. According to Vasari, for whom did Leonardo make a mechanical Lion?

(A) Sforza

(B) Leo X

(C) Francis I

(D) Charles II

17. Which of the following inventions did Leonardo not in some way predict?

(A) The tank

(B) The automobile transmission

(C) The jet engine

(D) The helicopter

18. How many of Leonardo's designs for war machines seem to have been put into production?

(A) Sforza made a few

(B) Cesare Borgia ordered a division of Leonardo's giant crossbows

(C) Almost all of them, but only in the late sixteenth century

(D) None

19. Who was Leonardo's second-to-last patron?

(A) Charles d'Ambois

(B) Leo X

(C) Giuliano de Medici

(D) Maximilian Sforza

20. Leonardo probably met Machiavelli when he was in whose service?

(A) Andrea del Verrocchio's

(B) Ludovico Sforza's

(C) Sofia de Medici's

(D) Cesare Borgia's

21. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?

(A) Lisa

(B) Caterina

(C) Emilia

(D) Cecilia

22. Which of the following paintings was completed?

(A) Adoration of the Magi

(B) St Jerome

(C) Portrait of Ginevra de Benci

(D) Battle of Anghiari

23. Which pope was in power when Leonardo came to live in the Vatican?

(A) Sixtus I

(B) Julius II

(C) Leo X

(D) Leon I

24. Which Medici was referred to as "the magnificent"?

(A) Cosimo

(B) Piero

(C) Giuliano

(D) Lorenzo

25. What did Leonardo do to study anatomy?

(A) He looked at his servants

(B) He hired models

(C) He opened corpses

(D) He read the studies of the ancients

26. In a convent, what is a refectory?

(A) A throne room

(B) A kitchen

(C) A bath

(D) A dining hall

27. For his Last Supper, Leonardo chose what moment of the biblical Last Supper?

(A) Jesus's statement that he will be betrayed

(B) Jesus's introduction of the Eucharist

(C) Jesus's washing of Peter's feet

(D) Jesus's accusation of Judas

28. Which painting did Leonardo do two versions of?

(A) The Virgin of the Rocks

(B) The Battle of Anghiari

(C) Adoration of the Magi

(D) Saint John the Baptist

29. In which of the following paintings did Leonardo include unusually realistic wings?

(A) Virgin of the Rocks

(B) Adoration of the Magi

(C) Annunciation

(D) Baptism of Christ

30. In which painting of Verrocchio's did Leonardo paint the leftmost angel?

(A) Virgin of the Rocks

(B) Adoration of the Magi

(C) Annunciation

(D) Baptism of Christ

31. In what region of Italy is Milan found?

(A) Tuscany

(B) Sicily

(C) Venice

(D) Lombardi

32. Which of the following disgusted Leonardo?

(A) Cadavers

(B) Intestines

(C) Sexual intercourse

(D) The male figure

33. Leonardo's attempts at flight were based on what?

(A) His invention of the propeller

(B) His study of aerodynamics

(C) His experiments with hot air

(D) His studies of birds

34. The model for the giant statue of a horse was destroyed by what?

(A) French crossbow practice

(B) The weather

(C) It collapsed under its own weight

(D) The new Duke had it demolished

35. Leonardo said that he wanted "to write down what the soul was." This impulse led to which of his studies?

(A) Anatomy

(B) Astronomy

(C) Latin

(D) Mathematics

36. Leonardo's inventions tended to follow what principle?

(A) Simplification

(B) Precision

(C) Automation

(D) Spectacle

37. When he was preparing to enter the service of Ludovico Sforza, Leonardo wrote a letter detailing his skills at what?

(A) Painting

(B) Military science

(C) Diplomacy

(D) Philosophy

38. About what age was Leonardo when he began his apprenticeship?

(A) 15

(B) 12

(C) 19

(D) 5

39. Which of the following paintings did Leonardo take with him to France?

(A) The Mona Lisa

(B) The Battle of Alghiari

(C) The St. Jerome

(D) The Annunciation

40. What is the Mona Lisa called in Italian?

(A) The Benois Madonna

(B) Mona Bella

(C) La Mona Lisa

(D) La Gioconda

41. How many years after Leonardo's death did Vasari write?

(A) 30

(B) 75

(C) 100

(D) 5

42. Whom was Leonardo's bronze horse meant to honor?

(A) Michelangelo

(B) Cosimo de Medici

(C) Francesco Sforza

(D) Ser Piero

43. Which of the following probably helped tempt Leonardo to Milan?

(A) Milan had a stronger community of artists than Florence

(B) Homosexuality was more accepted there

(C) Milan relied on a complex water system

(D) He was called to design a church there

44. Which of the following paintings is the most deteriorated?

(A) The Last Supper

(B) The Mona Lisa

(C) St. John the Baptist

(D) The Annunciation

45. Who was Leonardo's final patron?

(A) Leo X

(B) Cesare Borgia

(C) Charles d'Amboise

(D) Francis I

46. Leonardo returned to Florence to fight for his share of whose inheritance?

(A) Ser Piero's

(B) Francesco's

(C) Caterina's

(D) Verrocchio's

47. In what year did Leonardo die?

(A) 1600

(B) 1490

(C) 1519

(D) 1521