This artist painted both small and large “grotesque heads” for what may have been intended as a guidebook, for which he also produced a series of warty screaming mouths. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Spanish artist known for his interest in ugly subjects. He painted the bearded woman Magdalena Ventura with her husband to her side and her baby breastfeeding.
ANSWER: Jusepe de Ribera [or La Spagnoletto]
[10m] Ribera’s studies were linked to a guidebook by Guercino, who painted an event of this type regarding Saint Petronilla. The gold clad saints Augustine and Stephen carry an armored man in a painting titled for one of these events.
ANSWER: burials [accept word forms like burying; accept The Burial of Saint Petronilla; accept The Burial of the Count of Orgaz]
[10e] Ribera’s grotesque heads may have been inspired by this artist’s series Five Grotesque Heads. He drew the Vitruvian Man.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci
<Emmett Laurie, Visual Fine Arts>