The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper (Part 1)

Which Renaissance artist painted both the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper?

• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

• Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi

In the Mona Lisa, what painting technique softens edges and creates a hazy, distant background?

• Impasto thick paint texture

• Chiaroscuro dramatic lighting

• Sfumato blending of tones

• Linear perspective shading technique

Many historians think the sitter in the Mona Lisa may have been Lisa Gherardini. Which detail best supports this identification?

• She was a famous sculptor from Milan

• She was Leonardo’s personal apprentice

• She was the wife of a Florentine silk merchant

• She was a well-known court musician

Which city-state is home to the Sistine Chapel, and what is it best known for?

• Florence, known for medieval fresco cycles

• Milan, known for Gothic cathedral sculpture

• Venice, known for Baroque altarpieces

• Vatican City, known for Renaissance ceiling art

Why do some critics argue The Last Supper cannot be viewed strictly as a Leonardo painting?

• Poor materials and later damage changed the surface

• It depicts scenes from Genesis instead

• It was completed entirely by Michelangelo

• It was destroyed and recreated from memory

Michelangelo’s statue David represents which figure, and what artistic era does it belong to?

• A Roman emperor, Medieval art era

• The biblical hero David, Renaissance era

• A Greek philosopher, Classical art era

• The apostle Paul, Baroque art era

Who painted the fresco known as the School of Athens?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Titian

In Raphael’s School of Athens, which two philosophers stand at the center and are shown debating ideas?

• Epicurus and Zeno

• Pythagoras and Euclid

• Aristotle and Plato

• Socrates and Diogenes

Michelangelo’s David is notable for which accurate description?

• A 17-foot marble statue carved from discarded stone

• A small wooden figure painted with tempera colors

• A bronze equestrian statue of a Roman emperor

• A mosaic portrait made with brightly colored tiles