The Bridge at Narni - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Art critic Kenneth Clark called the preliminary sketch of this painting “as free as the most vigorous Constable” though he later decried the final painting. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this painting whose view was previously painted by the artist’s teacher, Achille Etna Michallon (“ah-SHEEL ET-na mee-sha-LON”). This painting depicts a destroyed structure the artist witnessed on an 1825 trip.

ANSWER: The Bridge at Narni [or Le pont de Narni or View at Narni] (The painting is by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.)

[10e] The title bridge at Narni, Ponte d’Augusto, was also sketched years earlier by this artist of The Slave Ship.

ANSWER: J. M. W. Turner [accept Joseph Mallord William Turner]

[10m] This artist depicted multiple Roman bridges in paintings such as Rome and the Ponte Molle and The Battle of the Milvian Bridge. J. M. W. Turner was so inspired by this author’s painting The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba that he requested one of his paintings to be hung next to it.

ANSWER: Claude Lorrain [or Claude Lorrain; accept Le Lorrain or Claude Gellée]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	8.33	58%	25%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	6.67	56%	11%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	75%	13%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	10.83	83%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	88%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD C	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Brock	0	0	0	0
McMaster B	Western B	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	McGill A	0	0	0	0
Ottawa	UBC A	0	10	0	10
UBC B	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	Queen's	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western A	0	0	0	0
Western C	Simon Fraser	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Guelph	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Duke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	NC State B	0	10	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
VCU	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	William and Mary	0	10	10	20
Wake Forest	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Chicago E	Indiana A	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Indiana C	10	10	10	30
Northwestern D	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Carleton College	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Claremont	0	0	0	0
Missouri A	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Washington B	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Murray State A	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
Bruin	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	City St. George's	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	LSE	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Montpellier	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Durham	UCL	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Catholic	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown	NYU A	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Cornell A	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Binghamton B	RIT	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Rochester	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10