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Biography Quiz - Leonardo da Vinci

What do you know about the life of the polymath Leonardo da Vinci?
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1. In what artistic style or period did Leonardo da Vinci live?
High renaissance
Rococo
Realism
Romanticism
2. At the age of 14, Leonardo da Vinci became an apprentice for what artist?
Raphael
Sandro Botticelli
Andrea del Verrocchio
Donatello
3. What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions?
The Vitruvian Man
Studies of the Body
The Renaissance Man
Salvator Mundi
4. In which city in the convent of church Santa Maria delle Grazie did Leonardo paint the Last Supper?
Venice
Milan
Rome
Florence
5. What painting is not one of Leonardo da Vinci's work?
The Sistine Madonna
Lady with an Ermine
Virgin of the Rocks
Ginevra de' Benci
6. Who was Leonardo's patron during his 17 years stay in Milan?
Giuliano de' Medici
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ludovico Sforza
Cesare Borgia
7. Leonardo's work covered four main themes. Which was not among them?
poetry
painting
the elements of mechanics
human anatomy
architecture
8. What was Leonardo da Vinci suffering at age of 65 from?
paralysis
muteness
deafness
blindness
9. What Leonardo's painting was sold at auction for US$450.3 million, setting a new record for most expensive painting ever sold at public auction?
Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk
Mona Lisa
Saint John the Baptist
Salvator Mundi
10. What crime was Leonardo charged with in 1476?
sodomy
treason
murder
arson
11. Who was the model for the Mona Lisa?
Lisa Giocondo
Caterina de Cremona
Contessina di Bardi
Simonetta Vespucci
12. What lost painting by Leonardo some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio?
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of Anghiari
The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Gaugamela
13. What famous artist was considered a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa?
Pablo Picasso
Gustav Klimt
Claude Monet
Henri Matisse
14. Where is the Mona Lisa located?
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Louvre
Musée d'Orsay
Uffizi Gallery
15. In which present country was Leonardo da Vinci buried in 1519?
Spain
Italy
Austria
France
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