Italian Renaissance Trivia
From Brunelleschi's massive dome to Michelangelo’s beef with painting, prove you're more than just a 'little barrel' of useless facts.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
In 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to design a series of massive tapestries to hang on the lower walls of which famous Vatican chapel?
Sistine Chapel
Located in Florence's Piazza della Signoria, Benvenuto Cellini’s masterpiece depicts the hero Perseus triumphantly holding the severed head of which mythological Gorgon?
Medusa
After the 1453 fall of Constantinople, refugees brought original texts in what language to Italy, allowing scholars to bypass flawed Latin translations?
Greek
In which iconic world-class gallery in Florence has Leonardo da Vinci's early masterpiece "The Annunciation" been housed since 1867?
The Uffizi Gallery
At age 13, which apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio was invited by Lorenzo de' Medici to live in his palace and study the family's collection of classical sculptures?
Michelangelo