SparkNotes: Michelangelo Buonarroti: Quiz

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1. How many brothers did Michelangelo have in total?

(A) One

(B) Two

(D) Four

2. What was the occupation of Michelangelo's wet-nurse's family?

(A) Plumbing

(B) Stonemasonry

(D) Farming

3. In whose studio did Michelangelo serve as an apprentice as a boy in Florence?

(A) Domenico and David Ghirlandaio's

(B) Leonardo da Vinci's

(D) Bertoldo di Giovanni's

4. What was the nickname of Lorenzo de' Medici, the wealthy Florentine patron who invited the teenage Michelangelo into his home?

(A) "The Terrible"

(B) "The Magnificent"

(D) "The Ridiculous"

5. Who of the following was NOT an influential member of the Medici court while Michelangelo was there?

(A) Girolamo Savonarola

(B) Dante

(D) Angelo Poliziano

6. In what city did Michelangelo receive his commission for Bacchus?

(A) Rome

(B) Bologna

(D) Venice

7. Which of the following major projects did Pope Julius II NOT commission from Michelangelo?

(A) The Sistine ceiling

(B) The Medici Chapel

(D) A large bronze portrait statue of himself, which was then destroyed

8. Which of the following Medici Pope commissions never made it past the model stage?

(A) The Medici Chapel

(B) The Allegories of the Phases of the Day

(D) The Biblioteca Laurenziana

9. Which Pope reigned when the 1527 Sack of Rome occurred?

(A) Clement VII

(B) Leo X

(D) Pius IV

10. What took up most of Michelangelo's time in 1528 and 1529?

(A) His poetry

(B) His design for the Campidoglio

(D) His work on Slaves statues

11. To whom did Michelangelo dedicate many love poems when he lived in Rome?

(A) Tommaso de'Cavalieri

(B) Pius IV

(D) Francesco Urbino

12. What major commission did Paul III give Michelangelo?

(A) The Sistine Ceiling

(B) The Porta Pia

(D) The Last Judgment

13. Who of the following people had the greatest religious and personal influence on Michelangelo in his fifties and sixties?

(A) Julius III

(B) Vittoria Colonna

(D) Ascanio Condivi

14. Who was a great proponent of Neoplatonism during the Renaissance?

(A) Marsilio Ficino

(B) Girolamo Savonarola

(D) Plato

15. What is the title of Michelangelo's final painting?

(A) Conversion of St. Paul

(B) Last Judgment

(D) Crucifixion of St. Peter

16. When did the Council of Trent first meet?

(A) 1540

(B) 1545

(D) 1563

17. What was the only work that Michelangelo ever signed?

(A) The Groslaye Pieta

(B) The Last Judgment

(D) David

18. Who was one of the greatest critics of the Last Judgment?

(A) Titian

(B) Pietro Aretino

(D) Giorgio Vasari

19. Who of the following artists did NOT contribute to the design of St. Peter's before Michelangelo took over around 1546?

(A) Bellini

(B) Bramante

(D) Sangallo

20. What is the shape of the Campidoglio courtyard?

(A) Square

(B) Circular

(D) Hexagonal

21. When was the first edition of Vasari's Lives of the Artists published?

(A) 1545

(B) 1550

(D) 1563

22. When was Ascanio Condivi's Life of Michelangelo published?

(A) 1545

(B) 1551

(D) 1564

23. Which of the following was NOT one of Michelangelo's final three sculptures?

(A) Brutus

(B) The Rondanini Pieta

(D) The Florentine Pieta

24. Who was the leader of the "panty-painters"?

(A) Sangallo

(B) Donatello

(D) Daniele da Volterra

25. Where is Michelangelo buried?

(A) In Rome, in St. Peter's

(B) In Rome, in the Sistine Chapel

(D) In Florence, in Santa Croce