In 2019, Dorothy Mahon discovered that a large hat and expensive wallpaper in a painting of this couple was painted over after one of them was executed for being a tax collector. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this married couple who appear seated with various glass objects on top of a red tablecloth to their right in a Jacques-Louis David painting.
ANSWER: Lavoisiers [accept Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier; accept Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife; accept Portrait d'Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier et de sa femme]
[10e] This artist hid the initial to his first name in the belly button of a corpse whose arm is being dissected in another scientifically inspired painting, The Anatomy Lesson. This Dutch artist also painted The Night Watch.
ANSWER: Rembrandt van Rijn
[10m] An astrolabe and quadrant in this painting’s upper half symbolizes “heavenly bodies” in contrast with a distorted object in its lower half based on Jean de Dinteville’s motto “memento mori.”
ANSWER: The Ambassadors (by Hans Holbein)
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