Who was the only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle not to be named after a famous painter?

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four fictional teenaged anthropomorphic turtles named after Renaissance Italian artists. They were trained in the art of ninjutsu by their anthropomorphic rat sensei they call Master Splinter. From their home in sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated creatures, and alien invaders while attempting to remain hidden from society. They were created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984 in Dover, New Hampshire. The concept arose from a humorous drawing sketched out by Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming and bad television with Laird. Using money from a tax refund, together with a loan from Eastman’s uncle, the young artists self-published a single-issue comic intended to parody four of the most popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics’ Daredevil and New Mutants, Dave Sim’s Cerebus, and Frank Miller’s Ronin.

Donatello is named after the early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence, Donatello.

Leonardo was named after the Italian polymath, painter, engineer, inventor, writer, anatomist, and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo is named after the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer, Michelangelo.

Raphael is named after the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raphael.

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Diana DeLisle

According to your answer, all four were painters.

silrem

Donatello sculpted and painted, this is crap

Sean Philips

Steve Kemp, The question is not incorrect - you are. All artists are not painters - Donatello Bardi was a sculptor (an artist who creates sculpture).

Cindy Austria

Your answer had them all being painters

Reggie Keogh

Donatello was more a painter than Leonardo

patrhea

What😲

Charles Borg

Answers [provided were bad. They were all painters. Donatello (Donnie or Don) – He is named after the early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence,

Charli Robinson

My son loved these little figures. I still have them along with a carrying case. He's now 33!

aaustin

I don't understand. All four were artists. How can Donatello not be an artist. Unless you were th thinking about Donatello Versace, the designer.

Jim Adams

Toughest question ever, but I think your answer and reasoning are wrong. All four were painters Leonardo da Vinci was practically a savant at everything Michelangelo definitely a painter Rafael he was a pain or inventor mathematician he knew a lot of stuff to the only possible solution was Donatello I knew he was a sculpture but I believe he painted also. So you didn’t have a right answer at all.

docluci

I already answered this question; my note appears missing, however. I had noted, how thoughtful is the Quizz Staff to provide all 4 names so I could easily choose the one best meeting the given criterion!!!!!

ninakamwene

Process of elimination helped.

Dena Barrett

Although Donatello was most noted for his sculptures, he was in fact a painter as well. Just like DaVinci was not noted specifically as a painter but he must assuredly painted. He also sculpted, invented, and was noted in a wide number of other fields. This question needs to be rewritten.