Q 01/05

Michelangelo was born in 1475 in Caprese, a small town in which Italian region?

A) Tuscany

B) Umbria

C) Lazio

D) Emilia-Romagna

Answer · why

A) Tuscany

Tuscany, but only by chance: his Florentine father was serving a short term as magistrate of little Caprese, and within months the family had moved ba...

Q 02/05

As a boy in Settignano, Michelangelo lived with a nanny whose husband did what job?

A) Blacksmith

B) Wool dyer

C) Stonecutter

D) Vineyard keeper

Answer · why

C) Stonecutter

Stonecutter: Michelangelo later joked that he had sucked in the hammer and chisels of his trade along with his wet nurse's milk.

Q 03/05

At 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to which Florentine fresco master?

A) Sandro Botticelli

B) Domenico Ghirlandaio

C) Andrea del Verrocchio

D) Filippino Lippi

Answer · why

B) Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio ran the city's leading fresco workshop. Michelangelo's father had fought the move, thinking an artist's trade beneath the family,...

Q 04/05

Ghiberti's bronze doors, which Michelangelo reportedly called 'the Gates of Paradise', hang on which Florentine building?

A) The Duomo

B) Orsanmichele

C) The Palazzo Vecchio

D) The Baptistery

Answer · why

D) The Baptistery

The Baptistery's east doors are Ghiberti's masterpiece. Vasari has Michelangelo, asked his opinion while walking past, reply that they were beautiful ...

Q 05/05

Which ruler of Florence took the teenage Michelangelo into his own household around 1490?

A) Cosimo de' Medici

B) Alessandro de' Medici

C) Giuliano de' Medici

D) Lorenzo de' Medici

Answer · why

D) Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici, 'the Magnificent', gave the boy a room in his palace and a seat at the family table. One of the sons he grew up beside became Pope...