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Italy through history and art
Italy through history and art
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Let's find out more about #Italian history and #art
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1
Benito Mussolini was known as 'Il Duce' meaning
The best
The wise
The leader
2
'sfumato' means blended, is an art technique created by which Italian Renaissance artist?
Tiziano
Tintoretto
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
3
A famous Italian opera is
Cavalleria Marsicana
Toscana
Don Matteo
Rigoletto
4
Mozart, a German composer, wrote many operas in Italian
False
True
5
Italy shows evidence of habitation by anatomically modern humans beginning about
43,000 years ago
35,000 years ago
12,000 years ago
51,000 years ago
6
The Renaissance started as a cultural movement in
In France
In France and then spread to Italy
In Italy
7
The artist Caravaggio used street women as models for his paintings
False
True
8
Opera was born in Italy around the year
1300
1200
1500
1600
9
Unlike other Renaissance artists, Leonardo da Vinci never received any kind of formal education
True
False
10
The name of the city Naples, in Greek Neapolis, means
City of the South
Beautiful City
Sunny City
New City
11
Rome was founded by twin brothers
Romulus and Remus
Remulus and Romus
Romulus and Remulus
12
William Shakesphere wrote 38 plays; how many of them were set in Italy?
25
8
21
13
13
When Michelangelo started working on the statue of David he was
26 years old
19 years old
36 years old
14
The Birth of Venus is a famous painting by Italian artist
Caravaggio
Botticelli
Raffaello
15
Caravaggio mastered the painting technique known as chiaroscuro
False
True
16
During the last Ice Age the island of Sicily was connected to the mainland
True
False
17
Leonardo's famous painting The Last Supper can be admired
in Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City
the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan
18
Claretta Petacci, who was killed with Mussolini, was his
Cousin
Colleague
Mistress
19
In 1348, what plague hit Italy, killing a third of the population?
The bad death
The red death
The black death
The great death
20
Benito Mussolini's Party was the
United Italian Fascists
National Fascist Party
Italian Fascist Party
21
The surname of Michelangelo is
Rossi
De Monti
Berlusconi
Buonarroti
22
The month of August is named after the roman emperor Augustus
True
False
23
Leonardo da Vinci is primarily known as a
Scientist
Sculptor
Painter
Musician