EC1: Why is Federico da Montefeltro often depicted in profile?
EC2: What did the virtue of Prudence represent for the quattrocento?
EC3: What do the images of a squirrel and a crane suggest about Federico's leadership?
EC4: What are the roots of the Urbino court's interest in astronomy and time?
EC5: What does Prudence signify to architects?
EC6: Why are Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro's initials ingrained in a mirror at Gubbio?
EC7: What did the quattrocento think about the mechanical arts?
EC8: How did Federico, Guidobaldo, and their contemporaries think that they thought?
EC9: How might one's body manifest right or wrong habits of thought?
EC10: What kind of music was considered to be the most appropriate for learning?
EC11: What do parrots and parakeets have to say about a quattrocento education?
EC12: Who was Urbino's "Prince of Astrology," and why was he interested in tarot cards?
EC13: What were quattrocento pedagogical views toward natural talent and experience?
EC14: What are some of the basic memory images found in the Gubbio studiolo?
EC15: What might architecture have signified for Federico da Montefeltro?
EC16: Why are there birdcages in both studioli?
EC17: How did the quattrocento reinvent the wheel?
EC18: In addition to designing fortresses and writing treatises, in what other ways did a quattrocento architect such as Francesco di Giorgio contribute to the life of a court and city?
EC19: How should a building manifest the character of its owner?
EC20: How do processions and celebrations create communal memory?
EC21: Why is the infant wearing a coral necklace and pendant in two of Piero della Francesca's paintings?
EC22: What clues might the hunting horn and tuning key at Gubbio offer about the spiritual devotion of the Montefeltro?
EC23: Why would mathematics be significant for Urbino and the Montefeltro dukes?
EC24: Who was Cardinal Bessarion, and how was he important to Federico?
EC25: Why were 72 carved stone tablets inset into the facade of Urbino's ducal palace?
EC26: Is there a relation between visual perspective and musical counterpoint?
EC27: Why was the Order of the Garter prominently displayed in both studioli?
EC28: Why is a seven-sided figure included in the Urbino studiolo?
EC29: Why are the wheels in the Urbino studiolo bench legs fitted with hubs?
EC30: What were the Urbino court's thoughts about the soul?