Plato - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This figure’s red cloak is sometimes interpreted as symbolizing fire, in contrast the bright blue cloak of the man to his right. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this figure who is modeled on Leonardo da Vinci in a Renaissance painting in which he holds a book in his left hand and points into the air with his right.

ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]

[10e] That depiction of Plato is from this painting, whose artist, Raphael, flattered himself by giving his own features to its depiction of the master artist Apelles.

ANSWER: The School of Athens [or La scuola d’Atene]

[10h] Vasari suggests that this artist was the model for Euclid in The School of Athens. This artist designed the Palazzo Caprini (“pah-LOTS-oh ka-PREE-nee”) where Raphael once lived, as well as a small, circular chapel commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.

ANSWER: Donato Bramante [or Bramante Lazzari] (The latter building is the Tempietto.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
GWU A (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Maryland A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Maryland B (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Maryland C (DII)	UNC D (DII)	10	10	0	20
UNC B (UG)	Virginia B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Virginia C (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Cedarville	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Kenyon	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Alabama	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	MTSU	0	10	0	10
Tennessee	Harding	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton	RIT B	10	10	0	20
UNC C (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	JMU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Virginia A (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Haverford	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Penn	Rowan	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Kiel	Edinburgh	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	KCL	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Sheffield	10	10	0	20
Warwick	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Yale B	10	10	0	20