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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 drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
2. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?
3. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?
4. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?
5. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What types of commissions did Leonardo refuse to accept?
3. What novel idea did Leonardo come up with for protecting a port, an idea which he never brought to fruition?
4. For how long did Leonardo live in Florence upon his return there in 1500 and where did he live?
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. 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?
7. What evidence is presented that points toward Leonardo respecting and enjoying the intellectual findings of his friends and peers?
8. 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?
9. What were the two colors most favored by Leonardo in the tailoring of both his clothes and the clothes of Salai?
10. 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?
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
What is the significance of Leonardo's resignation from the service of Cesare Borgia? How does this event connect to the narrative's overarching themes?
Essay Topic 3
What ultimate message is Walter Isaacson's biography sending about the nature and value of collaboration?
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