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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which 1570 book by Andrea Palladio explained the principles of classical Renaissance architecture?

Answer

I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Italian artist wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects?

Answer

Giorgio Vasari

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which 1478 Florentine conspiracy targeted the Medici brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano?

Answer

The Pazzi conspiracy

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Raphael painting from 1504 depicts the marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph?

Answer

The Marriage of the Virgin

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Renaissance architect designed the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini?

Answer

Leon Battista Alberti

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

What name is given to the Jewish quarter established in Venice in 1516?

Answer

The Venetian Ghetto

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Italian Renaissance artist painted the dramatic 1601 Supper at Emmaus in Rome?

Answer

Caravaggio

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Renaissance woman became Marchioness of Mantua in 1490 and was a major patron of the arts?

Answer

Isabella d'Este

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which 1465 work became the first book printed in Italy using movable type?

Answer

De oratore

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Italian Renaissance painter created the fresco cycle in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence?

Answer

Domenico Ghirlandaio

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Renaissance sculptor created the marble Saint George for Florence’s Orsanmichele?

Answer

Donatello

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Italian Renaissance

Which Italian Renaissance artist painted the illusionistic ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua?

Answer

Andrea Mantegna

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