Q 01/05

In which Italian city was Botticelli born, and where did he live all his life?

A) Siena

B) Venice

C) Rome

D) Florence

Answer · why

D) Florence

His only long spells away were months in Pisa in 1474 and Rome in 1481–82.

Q 02/05

Which Florentine gallery holds both The Birth of Venus and Primavera?

A) Pitti Palace

B) Uffizi

C) Accademia

D) Bargello

Answer · why

B) Uffizi

It holds many of his works; Venus and Mars is the only big mythology elsewhere.

Q 03/05

What does the nickname Botticelli mean?

A) Little wasp

B) Little barrel

C) Little brush

D) Little saint

Answer · why

B) Little barrel

It was first applied to his round-figured brother Giovanni, called Botticello.

Q 04/05

What was Botticelli's real surname?

A) Lippi

B) Vespucci

C) Filipepi

D) Vannucci

Answer · why

C) Filipepi

He was born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, son of a tanner.

Q 05/05

To which leading painter, a Medici favourite, was Botticelli apprenticed around 1461?

A) Domenico Ghirlandaio

B) Andrea del Verrocchio

C) Fra Filippo Lippi

D) Piero della Francesca

Answer · why

C) Fra Filippo Lippi

He later took on his master's son Filippino as his own first apprentice.