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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. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?
2. How did the friar Savonarola die?
3. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?
4. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
5. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, how had Florence changed in the time he had been away?
3. What was the cause of Friar Savonarola's death and when did it occur?
4. What reasons did Leonardo have for always wanting to portray portrait subjects facing the viewer or in three-quarters view, contrary to the customary profile pose?
5. When Leonardo moved to Milan in 1482, what did he discover about the study of anatomy in that location?
6. 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?
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 evidence does Walter Isaacson provide for his claim that much of Leonardo's thinking was collegial?
9. What are the two possibilities concerning the angel's identity within the painting Virgin of the Rocks?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the significance of the coda that is placed by the author just after the body of the narrative ends. How do its themes connect to the overall themes within the biography?
Essay Topic 2
Choose a symbolic object from the book, such as Leonardo's inventory of the clothing trunk, Leonardo's short rose-colored cloak, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to 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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