Apelles of Kos - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The story from Vasari’s Lives of the Artist in which Giotto draws a perfect circle for the pope was likely inspired by Pliny the Elder’s anecdote in which this painter impressed Protogenes with a single fine line. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Ancient Greek painter of Aphrodite Anadyomene (“an-uh-dy-OM-uh-nee”). Botticelli painted a “Calumny” modeled on a lost work by this painter from Kos.

ANSWER: Apelles of Kos [accept The Calumny of Apelles]

[10h] A challenge posed by this author led many Renaissance artists to create versions of The Calumny of Apelles. This author devised geometric ideas on perspective in De pictura and built on Vitruvius in On the Art of Building.

ANSWER: Leon Battista Alberti

[10e] Raphael may have modeled his depiction of himself in this painting on Apelles, next to a man modeled on Protogenes. Plato points toward the sky in this painting.

ANSWER: The School of Athens [or Scuola di Atene]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Winona State	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin B	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	10	10
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	ASU	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	ESF A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Chicago D	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Durham	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
LSE	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Cambridge E	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UCF C	0	0	10	10
Case Western B	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Case Western A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	BU	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Penn A	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Yale A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10