Q 01/05

Which museum marked 500 years since Leonardo's death with a 2019 blockbuster in the country where he died?

A) The Louvre

B) The Uffizi

C) The British Museum

D) The Vatican Museums

Answer · why

A) The Louvre

The Louvre. It owns five of his paintings, more than any other museum, yet its star stayed out of the show: the Mona Lisa was left in her usual room b...

Q 02/05

Leonardo's Last Supper shows the apostles reacting just after Jesus has said what?

A) "One of you will betray me"

B) "You will deny me three times"

C) "This is my body"

D) "Do this in memory of me"

Answer · why

A) "One of you will betray me"

"One of you will betray me" is the line. Vasari tells that when the prior nagged him to hurry, Leonardo told the duke he still lacked a face wicked en...

Q 03/05

Which Leonardo work appears on Italy's one-euro coin?

A) The Annunciation

B) Saint John the Baptist

C) The Last Supper

D) Vitruvian Man

Answer · why

D) Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man. Leonardo drew it around 1490 to test a claim by the Roman architect Vitruvius: that a well-built man with his limbs spread fits inside ...

Q 04/05

Near which Tuscan hill town, about 35 km from Florence, was Leonardo born on 15 April 1452?

A) Arezzo

B) Vinci

C) Lucca

D) Siena

Answer · why

B) Vinci

Local tradition puts the birth in the hamlet of Anchiano, private enough for an illegitimate child.

Q 05/05

What was the profession of Leonardo's father, Ser Piero?

A) Priest

B) Legal notary

C) Painter

D) Silk merchant

Answer · why

B) Legal notary

Legal notary. Ser Piero drew up contracts for leading Florentine families, the Medici among them, and it was he who carried the boy's drawings to an a...