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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. How many tons did Leonardo plan his horse monument to weigh upon its completion?
(a) 24.
(b) 75.
(c) 12.
(d) 60.

2. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?
(a) Clerics.
(b) Medical scholars.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Sculptors.

3. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Hands.
(b) Draperies.
(c) Columns.
(d) Pieces of fruit.

4. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His scribe.
(b) His court jester.
(c) His secretary.
(d) His treasurer.

5. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
(a) Dove.
(b) Albatross.
(c) Swan.
(d) Peacock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?

2. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?

3. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?

4. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?

5. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?

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