This concept titles a scene read from left to right of a deserted city whose only remaining shop is that of an armorer. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept represented by a cross-eyed figure with goat horns who holds a cup of poison. Half-blackened fields appear in a 1339 fresco of this concept painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in Siena.
ANSWER: bad government [or Cattivo Governo; accept Effects of Bad Government in the City or Effects of Bad Government in the Countryside; prompt on government; prompt on answers of both good and bad government by asking “which one?”; reject “good government”]
[10e] This figure floats above the tyrant in the Allegory of Bad Government. In Hieronymous Bosch’s Seven Deadly Sins, this sin is represented by a woman staring into a mirror.
ANSWER: pride [or superbia; accept vanity or vanitas]
[10h] This artist depicted a man tilting the scales of Justice in his mural Corrupt Legislation, one of many in the Library of Congress’s Reading Room. This American symbolist and illustrator of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát translation created a painting of a man pressing against the lips of a sphinx.
ANSWER: Elihu Vedder
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