Daily Quiz | On Leonardo da Vinci

1 / 8 | Under which Florentine master artist did Leonardo do his apprenticeship?

2 / 8 | What is common to Atlanticus, Arundel, Leicester, Madrid I and II?

Answer : These are some of the notebooks or Codices containing many of Da Vinci’s notes and drawings

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3 / 8 | The most famous work of Da Vinci is of course the ‘Mona Lisa’. Can you tell whose portrait is the painting?

Answer : Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant

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4 / 8 | Which is Da Vinci’s largest painting, covering over 40 square metres, and found on the former refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan?

5 / 8 | Name the technique Leonardo used in many of his paintings to create a soft, gradual transition between tones and colours?

6 / 8 | What is special about the work ‘The Virgin and Laughing Child’ housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Answer : Da Vinci scholars have attributed it to da Vinci as “the artist’s only surviving sculpture”

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7 / 8 | What is the more common name for the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, the lover of his patron Ludovico Sforza?

Answer : ‘The Lady with an Ermine’

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8 / 8 | Name the work attributed to da Vinci which was sold at a Chistie’s auction for a world record $450m in 2017 to a private collector