Q 01/05

In which small Italian city was Raphael born in 1483?

A) Siena

B) Perugia

C) Urbino

D) Mantua

Answer · why

C) Urbino

Urbino. He carried the town in his name for life, signing paintings and documents 'Raphael Urbinas', Latin for Raphael of Urbino.

Q 02/05

Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo are the three great masters of which period of Italian art?

A) Baroque

B) Early Renaissance

C) High Renaissance

D) Mannerism

Answer · why

C) High Renaissance

High Renaissance. Raphael was the youngest of the three by far, and at 21 he went to Florence to study what the other two were doing there.

Q 03/05

The Vatican room holding The School of Athens is thought to have been planned as a pope's private what?

A) Chapel

B) Bedroom

C) Dining room

D) Library

Answer · why

D) Library

Library. Each wall stands for a branch of learning its books covered: philosophy faces theology, with poetry and law on the two side walls.

Q 04/05

Raphael died at 37 on which holy day?

A) Christmas Day

B) Good Friday

C) Palm Sunday

D) Easter Sunday

Answer · why

B) Good Friday

Good Friday. Vasari wrote that he was born on a Good Friday too, and blamed the fatal fever on a night of amorous excess that Raphael hid from his doc...

Q 05/05

Which pope invited Raphael to Rome in 1508?

A) Leo X

B) Julius II

C) Alexander VI

D) Clement VII

Answer · why

B) Julius II

Julius II. He no longer wanted to live in the rooms of his detested predecessor, Alexander VI, so he had the floor above redecorated and Raphael got t...