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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?
(a) They did not sign their work.
(b) They all painted using similar styles.
(c) They did not believe in auteurism.
(d) They never worked alone.

2. Leonardo was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?
(a) The valves of the heart.
(b) The joints.
(c) The heel bone.
(d) The frontal sinus.

3. In May of 1504, Isabella gave up on her quest to get Leonardo to paint her portrait, telling him that instead he could paint a portrait for her of what person?
(a) Lucrezia Borgia.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Jesus.

4. How many illegitimate children did Pope Alexander VI have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Ten.

5. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?
(a) 40.
(b) 21.
(c) 26.
(d) 35.

6. From whom did Isabella borrow a portrait by Leonardo so that she could decide which artist should paint her portrait?
(a) Cecilia Gallerina.
(b) Ludovico Borgia.
(c) Salai.
(d) Lucrezia Borgia.

7. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
(a) Salai.
(b) Cesare.
(c) Francesco.
(d) Lucrezia.

8. Even though Isabella told Leonardo that she would pay whatever he wished for a painting, he declined. Who then stepped in to offer Isabella one of his own paintings?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Verracchio.
(c) Boticelli.
(d) Salai.

9. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?
(a) Shadows.
(b) Lines.
(c) Circles.
(d) Compasses.

10. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
(a) Poisoned his nephew.
(b) Stabbed his brother.
(c) Burned the home of his uncle.
(d) Drowned his father.

11. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?
(a) 1465.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1485.
(d) 1475.

12. In what year did Savonarola lead what became known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
(a) 1477.
(b) 1497.
(c) 1517.
(d) 1487.

13. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?
(a) Bones.
(b) Muscles.
(c) Ligaments.
(d) Tendons.

14. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Draperies.
(b) Columns.
(c) Hands.
(d) Pieces of fruit.

15. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?
(a) In a convent.
(b) In a church.
(c) In his father's home.
(d) In a university apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?

2. 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?

3. In the world of the Renaissance, what did a white ermine represent?

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?

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