This black-garbed man kneels and presents his work to a different figure’s right hand in the most famous work by Orcagna, the Strozzi Altarpiece. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this title figure of a 1631 altarpiece, that unusually for its artist, does not use tenebrism. A group including Charles V kneels below this man in the clouds in that painting created for a college in Seville.
ANSWER: Saint Thomas Aquinas [or Tommaso d’Aquino; accept The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas; prompt on Saint Thomas] (The unnamed painting is The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas by Francisco de Zurbarán.)
[10e] Thomas Aquinas appears in the bottom right of a painting by this artist, where he turns to the right to face Pope Innocent VIII. This artist’s set of four paintings in the Stanza della Segnatura includes La Disputa.
ANSWER: Raphael [or Raffaello; or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino; or Raphael Santi]
[10m] The most reproduced painting of Aquinas is likely this artist’s altarpiece panel of him holding a book and a model church. This Italian artist included a trompe-l'œil fly and a cucumber in his circa-1480 Virgin and Child.
ANSWER: Carlo Crivelli
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