Italian Renaissance

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1. Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, between 1460 and 1465, patronized the urban transformation of the small village of Corsignano, not far from Siena, into a renaissance 'ideal city', better known as: Answer: (One Word)

2. Donato Bramante, probably around 1502, designed and built in Rome a 'tempietto', a little domed circular church, known as: San Pietro e Paolo San Pietro in Montorio San Pietro in Vincoli San Pietro in Vaticano

3. After working in Saint Peter's Cathedral, Michelangelo planned and completed an over-elevated square, which was soon to become the center of Rome's civil power. What was it called? Answer: (Think: Washington)

4. Antonio Averlino, sculptor, architect, and writer of a 'Treaty of Architecture', is also and better known as: Filelfo Filarete Metastasio Cesariano

5. An easy one: what is the complete name of the author of the dome of the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence? Answer: (Two Words)

6. Not too far from the Po river and Mantua (present-day Lombardy), lays a village that was built to become the 'New Rome'. Such utopic city, still almost perfectly preserved, was planned in 1554 by Vespasiano Gonzaga: Palmanova Alcina Vittoria Sabbioneta

7. What was Michelangelo's family name? Michelangelo Buonarroti Del Ray Bertolucci

8. In 1559, before moving from Florence to Rome, Michelangelo planned and completed a famous library: Biblioteca Medicea Biblioteca Marciana Biblioteca Laurenziana Biblioteca Vaticana

9. What is Giulio Romano's best known piece of architecture, completed in 1534? Palazzo Maccarani, Rome Palazzo Te, Mantua Palazzo Thiene, Vicenza Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

10. Andrea di Pietro is better known as: Answer: (A venetian architect....)