Question
This technique names a style of stained glass that became popular in the 13th century due in part to a Cistercian prohibition on alternatives. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this technique that is similar to, but more limited than, camaïeu (“kah-mah-yur”). A style of manuscript illumination featuring this technique is exemplified by Jean Pucelle’s Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux.
ANSWER: grisaille (“gree-ZYE”) [prompt on monochrome or monochromatic; prompt on grey or gray by asking “what is the term of art?”] (The Cistercians prohibited colored glass.)
[10m] Two answers required. Some of the first grisaille (“gree-ZYE”) wall paintings were Giotto’s frescoes of 14 allegorical representations of these two collective concepts in the Arena Chapel. Renaissance artists often depicted the Choice of Hercules between these two concepts.
ANSWER: vices AND virtues [accept accept answers in either order; accept sins, peccati, peccato, vizi, or vizio in place of “vices”; accept cardinal virtues or virtù cardinali in place of “virtues”; reject “seven deadly sins”]
[10e] Grisaille was often used in the outer panels of altarpieces to imitate sculptures, such as the depictions of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in this altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
ANSWER: Ghent Altarpiece [or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb or Adoration of the Lamb of God or De aanbidding van het Lam Gods; prompt on the Adoration or De aanbidding]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 15.71 | 100% | 48% | 10% |
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| Columbia A | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Duke | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Indiana | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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| Minnesota A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Northwestern | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
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| Virginia | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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| Cornell B | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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