Sebastiano del Piombo - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Benjamin West repaired the leg of a figure draped in cloth in this artist’s colorful The Raising of Lazarus. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Venetian Renaissance artist of a posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus. Ludovico Ariosto nicknamed this artist after his position as Keeper of the Seals in the Vatican.

ANSWER: Sebastiano del Piombo [or Sebastiano del Piombo; or Sebastiano Luciani; accept Fra Sebastiano]

[10m] Michelangelo promoted a contest between Sebastiano’s Raising of Lazarus and this artist’s final painting for the Narbonne Cathedral, in which Moses and Elijah appear floating above a mountain with an epileptic boy in the foreground.

ANSWER: Raphael [or Raffaello; or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino; or Raphael Santi] (The painting is The Transfiguration.)

[10e] Sebastiano advised Michelangelo to paint this artwork in oil before he was forced to rework it as a fresco. The flayed skin of Saint Bartholomew is a self-portrait within this fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

ANSWER: The Last Judgment [or Il Giudizio Universale]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	23	13.04	96%	30%	4%

Data


Florida A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	NYU A	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Penn State A	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Penn A	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Chicago C	Texas A	0	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Iowa State A	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Florida B	0	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Houston A	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Duke A	Yale A	0	0	10	10