Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?
2. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
3. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?
4. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
5. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What evidence does Walter Isaacson provide for his claim that much of Leonardo's thinking was collegial?
3. In one of Leonardo's notebooks, he professed his intention to understand what he called universale misura del huomo. What did Leonardo mean by this?
4. What was the cause of Friar Savonarola's death and when did it occur?
5. 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?
6. What were the two colors most favored by Leonardo in the tailoring of both his clothes and the clothes of Salai?
7. 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?
8. What is the significance of the inventory Leonardo made of a trunk of clothing sometime between 1500 and 1506?
9. While Leonardo came to the court of Ludovico Sforza hoping to work primarily as a military and civil engineer, what was the nature of most of the work he completed in the decade he was in service to Ludovico Sforza?
10. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author use sensory details in order to paint a vivid portrait of the historical events he depicts within the book? Discuss at least two scenes that include extensive use of sensory details and pull quotes from these scenes to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that discusses the author's purpose for his juxtaposition of the two cities of Florence and Milan in his portrayal of the life of Leonardo.
Essay Topic 3
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.
|
This section contains 1,117 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
