Questions 1 and 2 are based on this passage
Writings by Renaissance artists are often prized for the light they can shed on artists’ lives and personalities. Despite their nearly equal life spans and impressive artistic output, Michelangelo, whose surviving writings are copious, is accessible in a way that Donatello is not. Other artists now less appreciated for their oeuvres, such as Cennino Cennini, are of greater value to modern historians for their written than for their painted output. The great paradox, however, is Leonardo da Vinci, who left thousands of pages of writing. These texts have been categorized for study, segmenting his body of writings into smaller groupings on subjects such as painting, science, anatomy, optics, and engineering. Yet despite the exhaustive application of this method, Leonardo, as an individual, remains thoroughly obscure.
The author introduces the subject of Leonardo da Vinci primarily in order to
note an exception to the usefulness of a particular approach to studying Renaissance artists
emphasize the difficulty of interpreting the writings of Renaissance artists
vindicate a particular approach to interpreting the work of Renaissance artists
cite an artist whose writings have attracted particularly keen scholarly interest
cast doubt on a particular assumption about the relationship of biography and painting
Select one answer choice.

