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Mona Lisa and Her Mysteries

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Mona Lisa and Her Mysteries game quiz
"Some questions, suitably reverent I hope, about the world's most famous painting."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Popular tradition favours the idea that the "Mona Lisa" was painted in which Italian city?
    Mantua
    Urbino
    Pisa
    Florence


2. How is the lady in the picture posing?
    leaning against a window-sill
    sitting in an armchair by a window
    sitting on a sofa in front of a portrait
    standing in front of a tapestry


3. How did the "Mona Lisa" first arrive in France?
    It was stolen by French soldiers
    It was ordered by Francis I for the Louvre
    It was bought by Louis XII and taken there by his men
    Leonardo carried it there himself


4. By what name is the "Mona Lisa" usually known in Italy?
    La Gioconda
    La Donna Lisa
    La Donna da Firenze
    Madonna Lisa


5. Which Italian writer of the mid-sixteenth century is responsible for the belief that the "Mona Lisa" was the third wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a rich Florentine merchant?
    Giorgio Nicodemi
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Giorgio Vasari
    Francesco Melzi


6. Which French writer, who spent thirty years of his life in prison, described the "Mona Lisa" painting as "the very essence of femininity"?
    Alfred de Musset
    Francois Villon
    the Marquis de Sade
    Victor Hugo


7. What did Oscar Wilde have to say about the "Mona Lisa"?
    The man who could command this woman could command the world
    A mystery wrapped in an enigma
    The picture reveals to us a secret of which, in truth, it knows nothing
    The unassailable in pursuit of the ineffable


8. What did Sigmund Freud, rejecting the identity of the Florentine lady, suggest about the "Mona Lisa" painting?
    It is the portrait of a peasant girl dressed as a lady
    It is a portrait of the Roman goddess Venus
    It is an idealised portrait of Leonardo's dead mother
    It is a self-portrait of Leonardo in drag


9. Who famously, in the interests of modern art, drew a moustache and goatee beard onto the image of the "Mona Lisa"?
    Marcel Duchamp
    Salvador Dali
    Yann Arp
    Allen Ginsberg


10. Which one of the following *never* used the Mona Lisa image in their creative work?
    Monty Python
    Andy Warhol
    Alfons Mucha
    the Beatles


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