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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?
(a) They did not believe in auteurism.
(b) They never worked alone.
(c) They did not sign their work.
(d) They all painted using similar styles.

2. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1498.
(c) 1477.
(d) 1462.

3. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The universe.
(b) The world.
(c) The divine.
(d) The eye.

4. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?
(a) Muscles.
(b) Bones.
(c) Tendons.
(d) Ligaments.

5. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?

2. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?

3. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?

4. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?

5. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?

(see the answer key)

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