Renaissance Art Masters

What this quiz asks

• Which artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
• The Pietà in St Peter's Basilica is the only work Michelangelo ever signed.
• In which city can you see Leonardo's The Last Supper, painted on the wall of a monastery dining hall?
• In what year was Leonardo da Vinci born, near the Tuscan town of Vinci?
• Select ALL of these artists traditionally grouped as the three giants of the High Renaissance.
• Albrecht Dürer's famous 1515 woodcut shows this animal. What was his picture based on?
• Put these works in order of when they were made, earliest first.
• Did Michelangelo think of himself mainly as a painter rather than a sculptor?
• The early Renaissance is generally said to have begun in the early 1400s in which Italian city?
• Which 1434 painting by Jan van Eyck has a convex mirror on the back wall reflecting the whole room?
• The word 'Renaissance' is French for 'rebirth'.
• Select ALL of these that were new or revived features of Renaissance painting.
• Who wrote 'Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects'?
• How old was Raphael when he died in Rome in 1520?
• Order these artists by year of birth, earliest first.
• Which Michelangelo statue, made for the tomb of Pope Julius II, shows a prophet with two horns?
• Did Leonardo da Vinci write many of his notes in mirror writing, from right to left?
• Whose 'Holy Trinity' fresco in Florence is one of the earliest paintings to use linear perspective?
• Select ALL of these artists who worked for Pope Julius II.
• Which artist perfected sfumato, the soft, smoky blending of tones without hard outlines?