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

His father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke there.

Q 02/05

With which two artists does Raphael form the High Renaissance trinity of masters?

A) Titian and Giorgione

B) Leonardo and Michelangelo

C) Botticelli and Donatello

D) Bramante and Bernini

Answer · why

B) Leonardo and Michelangelo

Leonardo was thirty years older; Michelangelo was just eight years his senior and came to loathe him.

Q 03/05

Raphael's best-known work, The School of Athens, is in which Vatican room?

A) Sala di Costantino

B) Sistine Chapel

C) Stanza di Eliodoro

D) Stanza della Segnatura

Answer · why

D) Stanza della Segnatura

It was intended as Julius II's private library and was the first of the Raphael Rooms painted.

Q 04/05

How old was Raphael when he died on 6 April 1520?

A) 37

B) 29

C) 44

D) 52

Answer · why

A) 37

Vasari claimed he was born and died on Good Friday, and blamed exhaustion from 'unceasing romantic interests'.

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

He was set to fresco the pope's private library, probably on Bramante's suggestion.