Question

1. Who wrote "The Prince", a political treatise which suggests that a political leader must be ruthless and may disregard moral virtues?

2 - During the High Renaissance, the center of artistic activities shifts from Florence to what city?
3 - What architect, commissioned to rebuild the St. Peter’s basilica, designed a monumentally proportioned, centrally planned building, capped by immense dome?
4 - What is the name of the building that was designed by Bramante and occupies the site of St. Peter’s martyrdom in Rome?
5 - What is the name of the famous sixteenth century Italian architect who defended classical symmetry and centrality and who wrote his Four Books on Architecture?
6 - What is the name of Palladio’s most famous and influential centrally symmetrical villa near Vicenza?
7 - What skills did Leonardo possess that earned him a title of a true "Renaissance man"?
8 - Which portrait is Leonardo’s probably most famous painting?
9 - What is the name of a painting technique that uses smoky graduations of light and shade, used by Leonardo?
10 - Which classic religious fresco is Leonardo’s most famous large-scale, grand design painting?

Answer 1

1) Niccolò Machiavelli

2) Rome

3) Donato Bramante

4) Tempietto

5) Andrea Palladio

6) Villa Capra "La Rotonda

7) A scientist, artist, mathematician, composer, inventor.

8) Mona Lisa

9) Sfumato

10) The Last Supper

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