This artist painted numerous depictions of Venus wearing nothing but jeweled chokers and large, elaborate hats sometimes decorated with pompoms. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this court painter to the Electors of Saxony, who also painted noblewomen wearing large hats. This artist signed his works with a winged snake holding a ruby ring.
ANSWER: Lucas Cranach the Elder [prompt on Cranach]
[10e] Cranach the Elder depicted this woman holding up a sword and “dressed to kill” wearing jeweled necklaces and ornate hats. A popular “Power of Women” motif showed this woman with the head of Holofernes.
ANSWER: Judith
[10h] Several of Cranach’s Venuses pose wearing large hats while Cupid holds one of these objects and complains. A sign on a tree in one such scene moralizes on pleasure and pain, like Cupid’s pain due to his theft of this object.
ANSWER: honeycombs
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