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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?
Realism
High renaissance
Romanticism
Rococo
2. At the age of 14, Leonardo da Vinci became an apprentice for what artist?
Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
Andrea del Verrocchio
Donatello
3. What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions?
Studies of the Body
Salvator Mundi
The Vitruvian Man
The Renaissance Man
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?
Lady with an Ermine
The Sistine Madonna
Virgin of the Rocks
Ginevra de' Benci
6. Who was Leonardo's patron during his 17 years stay in Milan?
Cesare Borgia
Niccolo Machiavelli
Giuliano de' Medici
Ludovico Sforza
7. Leonardo's work covered four main themes. Which was not among them?
poetry
architecture
the elements of mechanics
painting
human anatomy
8. What was Leonardo da Vinci suffering at age of 65 from?
deafness
muteness
paralysis
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?
Salvator Mundi
Mona Lisa
Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk
Saint John the Baptist
10. What crime was Leonardo charged with in 1476?
murder
arson
sodomy
treason
11. Who was the model for the Mona Lisa?
Contessina di Bardi
Lisa Giocondo
Caterina de Cremona
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 Anghiari
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Gaugamela
13. What famous artist was considered a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa?
Claude Monet
Henri Matisse
Gustav Klimt
Pablo Picasso
14. Where is the Mona Lisa located?
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Louvre
Uffizi Gallery
Musée d'Orsay
15. In which present country was Leonardo da Vinci buried in 1519?
Spain
Austria
Italy
France
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