Question

This painting’s artist spread rumors he was murdered by bandits while traveling from Rome to extend this painting’s viewing time at the Salon. A museum in Toledo, Ohio contains (15[1])a later, smaller (15[1])version of this painting (-5[1])that shows a spool of thread at the feet of a woman in a blue headband. This painting’s imagery was inspired by a side character in a play by Corneille who arrives carrying objects that serve as this painting’s vanishing point. This painting’s setting in a (*) closed courtyard (10[1])is dominated by three (-5[1])large arches. (10[1])This painting’s artist (10[1])may have been inspired (10[1])by friezes at Pompeii (10[2])to depict the flowing robes of a man who (-5[1])holds a spear (10[1])behind (10[1])his back. A group of weeping women (10[1])on this (10[1])painting’s (10[1])right look away from its central scene. For 10 points, a Roman father holds up three swords to his sons in what (10[1])painting by Jacques-Louis David? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: The Oath of the Horatii [or Le Serment des Horaces]
<GE, Visual Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Stan MelkumianPurdue AChicago B2815
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri A3115
Justin WytmarIllinois ANotre Dame B35-5
Steven YuanBerkeley BStanford A8310
Kane NguyenMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa A87-5
Aden SunChicago APurdue B8910
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL H2OSIUE9210
Will AlstonSGV CapitalI will play anything with a buzzer in front of me9610
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame AIllinois B10010
Cade ReinbergerRITCornell MATLAB10010
Micah ColmanWaterlooOttawa B109-5
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABerkeley C11210
Collin NadarajahWUSTL XYZMissouri B11310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltIndiana12010
Sky LiToronto Ray of Sun in the SkyOttawa C12210
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterCornell R12310
Matthew AmanteNotre Dame BIllinois A14510
Gabrielle ClarkOttawa AMcDouble West-Carleton14910
Stefan VladOttawa BWaterloo1500