Answer the following about the West’s obsession with Chinese porcelain. for 10 points each.
[10e] Two answers required. Giovanni Bellini’s Feast of the Gods depicts several figures holding Míng porcelain of these two colors. Cobalt oxide pigments are applied to clay and glazed over to make porcelain with these two colors.
ANSWER: blue AND white [accept in either order; accept qīng-huā]
[10m] The first examples of European porcelain were soft-paste imitations named for this family. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo designed a palace for this family, and a pope from this family commissioned the Laurentian Library.
ANSWER: Medici family [or House of Medici]
[10h] During the 17th-century, this city originated a prized blue “ware.” The artist of The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius, was a member of a school of painting named for this city.
ANSWER: Delft [accept Delftware; accept Delft School]
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