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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. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?
2. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?
3. How did the friar Savonarola die?
4. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
5. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the cause of Friar Savonarola's death and when did it occur?
2. For how long did Leonardo live in Florence upon his return there in 1500 and where did he live?
3. When Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, how had Florence changed in the time he had been away?
4. What are the two possibilities concerning the angel's identity within the painting Virgin of the Rocks?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo put aside his work on anatomy and would not return to it for another decade. What endeavor did he begin upon dropping his anatomy studies?
9. 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?
10. What was the significance of Leonardo's depiction of the human frontal sinus?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how Walter Isaacson's book Leonardo da Vinci invites the readers to learn particular lessons from Leonardo and to apply those lessons to their own lives. How does he accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the author's message regarding intrinsic motivation versus extrinsic motivation within his biography of Leonardo da Vinci?
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