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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?
2. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?
3. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
4. The profile pose was the standard for portraits of what type of people during the Renaissance?
5. What caused Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder to become one of his most influential paintings?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Walter Isaacson point to in Leonardo's creation of the painting Virgin of the Rocks that he says illustrates Leonardo's insistence on realism in his art?
2. How does Walter Isaacson link the qualities of genius and the qualities of obsession within the chapter about Leonardo's first round of anatomy studies?
3. What signature element of Leonardo's paintings is missing from the second version of Virgin of the Rocks but is present in the first version?
4. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?
5. How did Leonardo use his knowledge of geology to inform his painting of Virgin of the Rocks?
6. What evidence does Walter Isaacson provide for his claim that much of Leonardo's thinking was collegial?
7. Though Leonardo had completed the central part of his painting Saint Anne by 1503, he did not give it to the party who had commissioned it. What did he do with it instead?
8. What were the two colors most favored by Leonardo in the tailoring of both his clothes and the clothes of Salai?
9. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?
10. What was the event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss three different women that appear within the book's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative of Walter Isaacson's book? Choose concrete details about all three women to support your points.
Essay Topic 2
How does the author's use of the first and second person point of view serve his purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how Walter Isaacson's choice of point of view helps to advance his treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the role of Leonardo's first mentor Verrucchio within the events depicted in Walter Isaacson's biography. How does the author use his role to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
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