Sandro Botticelli - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The preaching of Girolamo Savonarola inspired this artist’s apocalyptic depiction of the Nativity, which was the only painting he ever signed. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Florentine artist who drew on Savonarola’s teachings for the painting Primavera and depicted the title Roman goddess coming out of a scallop shell in The Birth of Venus.

ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli [or Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi]

[10m] This adjective appears in the modern titles of Botticelli’s Savonarola-inspired depictions of the Nativity and the Crucifixion. The Ghent Altarpiece’s central panel is titled after a lamb described by this adjective.

ANSWER: mystic [or mystical; accept The Mystic Nativity or The Mystical Nativity or The Mystic Crucifixion or The Mystical Crucifixion or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb]

[10h] Public backlash towards Savonarola may have inspired this late-period Botticelli painting, an allegorical piece about slander based on a lost painting by an ancient Greek artist from Kos.

ANSWER: The Calumny of Apelles [or La Calunnia di Apelle]

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Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	8.57	71%	14%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
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Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
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Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley D	10	0	0	10
UCSC	Berkeley F	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Stanford C	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	Claremont Scripps	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSB	10	0	0	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	USC	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
McMaster C	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	McGill C	10	10	0	20
Queen's A	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Guelph B	10	10	0	20
Toronto J	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Toronto I	Western Ontario	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	McMaster B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	0	0
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCI	10	0	0	10
Melbourne B	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
FIU	UF E	10	0	0	10
FSU	UF C	10	0	0	10
Melbourne A	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
UCF B	UF B	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF A	10	10	0	20
UF D	USF	10	0	0	10
CWRU D	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
OSU D	MSU A	10	10	0	20
MSU B	Pitt C	10	10	10	30
OSU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU B	OSU C	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
Kenyon B	Pitt B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
James Madison	Clemson B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Roanoke	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
NC State	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame E	Catholic University	10	0	0	10
George Mason A	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Maryland D	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins C	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	VCU A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
NYU B	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	WashU C	10	10	10	30
SIUE	WashU D	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
William Woods	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Macalester A	10	0	0	10
Macalester B	Wisconsin	10	0	0	10
Minnesota C	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Nebraska	10	0	0	10
St. Thomas	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
BC A	Brown B	10	0	0	10
Yale B	BC B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	BU	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin B	Amherst B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	0	0	10
Cornell-UG	Brown A	10	0	0	10
Brown C	MIT B	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Orlando	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Williams	10	10	10	30
British Columbia D	Alberta	10	10	0	20
British Columbia A	Simon Fraser	10	10	0	20
Washington A	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Washington B	British Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
McGill D	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Ohio	10	10	0	20
Tulsa	UTD A	10	0	0	10
UCO	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Cornell-DII	RIT A	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	ESF	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10