Answer the following about the genre painter Pieter Aertsen, for 10 points each.
[10h] One of Aertsen’s most famous scenes shows this kind of stuff hanging in front of a painting of the Holy Family giving alms. A Velazquez portrait inspired a modern artist to place Innocent X (“the tenth”) between two pieces of this stuff.
ANSWER: meat [prompt on animal carcasses or animal skeletons] (The second painting is Francis Bacon’s Figure with Meat.)
[10e] The aforementioned painting by Aertsen depicts two fish forming this shape. This religious object is central to a “White” Marc Chagall painting which depicts a burning synagogue on its right.
ANSWER: cross [prompt on White Crucifixion or crucifix by asking “what object is central to a crucifix?”]
[10m] In another genre scene by Aertsen, he painted a man dancing to a bagpipe while moving one of these objects in a chalk circle. A flower emerges from one of these objects being held by a hand in Dali’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
ANSWER: eggs [or The Egg Dance; or De eierdans]
<Hari Parameswaran, Fine Arts - Painting - European to 1600> ~21098~ <Editor: Chandler West>