Q 01/05

What was Caravaggio's real name?

A) Michelangelo Merisi

B) Giovanni Baglione

C) Mario Minniti

D) Simone Peterzano

Answer · why

A) Michelangelo Merisi

He is named after the Lombard town where he grew up, 35 km east of Milan.

Q 02/05

In which city was Caravaggio born in 1571?

A) Bergamo

B) Milan

C) Rome

D) Naples

Answer · why

B) Milan

It was long assumed he was born in Caravaggio, where the family fled plague in 1576.

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

It shifts from light to dark with little intermediate value; followers were called tenebrosi.

Q 04/05

Caravaggio's Milanese master Simone Peterzano was described as a pupil of which painter?

A) Leonardo

B) Tintoretto

C) Raphael

D) Titian

Answer · why

D) Titian

The four-year apprenticeship began in 1584, the year Caravaggio's mother died.

Q 05/05

Caravaggio fled Milan for Rome in 1592 after 'certain quarrels' and the wounding of whom?

A) A police officer

B) A priest

C) A rival painter

D) A nobleman's son

Answer · why

A) A police officer

He arrived in Rome 'naked and extremely needy'.