Q 01/05

What was Caravaggio's real name?

A) Michelangelo Merisi

B) Jacopo Robusti

C) Paolo Caliari

D) Antonio Allegri

Answer · why

A) Michelangelo Merisi

Michelangelo Merisi. 'Caravaggio' is the Lombard town his family came from, and his first name points to a birthday on 29 September, the feast of the ...

Q 02/05

In which city did the young Caravaggio begin his apprenticeship as a painter in 1584?

A) Bergamo

B) Milan

C) Rome

D) Naples

Answer · why

B) Milan

Milan. His father had kept a workshop there, and at 12 the boy was bound to Simone Peterzano, a specialist in fresco, a technique Caravaggio never too...

Q 03/05

Caravaggio's dramatic form of chiaroscuro came to be known as what?

A) Pointillism

B) Cloisonnism

C) Tenebrism

D) Sfumato

Answer · why

C) Tenebrism

Tenebrism. Faces and hands are picked out by a harsh light against a mostly dark setting, a look so widely copied that his followers were called teneb...

Q 04/05

Caravaggio's teacher Simone Peterzano styled himself a pupil of which Venetian master?

A) Leonardo

B) Tintoretto

C) Raphael

D) Titian

Answer · why

D) Titian

Titian. Peterzano had trained in Venice and signed pictures 'Titiani alumnus', and the darkest, most dramatic Venetian painting reads like a forerunne...

Q 05/05

Caravaggio left Lombardy for Rome in 1592 after a violent incident said to involve whom?

A) A police officer

B) A priest

C) A rival painter

D) A nobleman's son

Answer · why

A) A police officer

A police officer. The only evidence is a note in the margin of an early biography, but it fits the pattern: he began his career as he ended it, in tro...