Starting out
Leonardo's mother
Who was Caterina?
This is the mischievous boy "adopted" by Leonardo
Who is Salai?
Use to describe Leonardo's signature approach to modeling, this word means "smoky" in Italian
What is sfumato?
Identifying drawings by Leonardo often comes down to detecting these
What are hatchmarks?
Leonardo's first painting (on which he collaborated) goes by this title
What is The Baptism of Christ?
Leonardo apprenticed with this master artist
Who was Verrocchio?
Leonardo actively sought out the patronage of this powerful duke
Who is Ludovico Sforza
A "ground-breaking" combination of oil paint, tempera paint, and lead white spelled disaster for this work
What is the Last Supper?
In paintings such as St. Jerome, this is a means of verifying that Leonardo was the artist who created the work (specific to paintings)
What are fingerprints?
Stolen from the Louvre by a patriotic Italian, this painting was ultimately located in a suitcase under a bed in Florence
What is The Mona Lisa?
Early on, Leonardo's father had him paint this for a client
What is a buckler, or shield?
This is the full name of the woman who posed for the world's most famous painting
Lisa Maria Gherardini
At the center of this plan was civic hygiene and the movement of water through a complex sewer system
What was the ideal city, proposed for Milan?
Martin Kemp believes "La Principessa" came from this book
What is The Sforziana?
What is my last name? (spelled correctly)
What is Smith Abbott
Leo's earliest independent commission has this title
What is the Annunciation?
Leonardo traveled with this friend, whose mathematical treatise he agreed to illustrate
Who is Luca Pacioli?
Among Leonardo's most gruesome machines for war, this one relied on the aid of a horse
What is a rotating scythe?
Both a conservator and a connoisseur, this person did the "conservation" work on the Salvator Mundi
who is Diane Modestini?
This person wrote, "Truly wondrous and divine was Leonardo, the son of Piero da Vinci, and he would have made great progress in his early studies of literature if he had not been so unpredictable and unstable"
Who was Giorgio Vasari?
This is the name of the institution that commissioned Leonardo's earliest work
What is the Monastery of Monte Oliveto?
The world's leading expert on Leonardo, who authenticated both "La Principessa" and "Salvator Mundi"
Who is Martin Kemp?
Although we credit Leonardo with a now-iconic image of ideal proportions, the originator of this study was a 1st-century Roman architect
Who is Vitruvius?
This artist created a copy of the Salvator Mundi that is central to the efforts to attribute the Christie's version to Leonardo.
Who is Wenceslas Hollar?
"I ask your forgiveness and I am a mountain tiger" wrote this person
Who is Ginevra de' Benci?