Question
A cast of a famed sculpture of this man located in Milan was made from the cannons of the Castel Sant’Angelo. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historical figure who is portrayed as the Roman god of war in a large nude sculpture currently displayed in a stairwell designed by Robert Adam in London’s Apsley House.
ANSWER: Napoleon Bonaparte [or Napoleon I; prompt on Bonaparte or Buonaparte]
[10e] The sculpture includes Napoleon holding a gilded bronze statue of this mythological figure. Another sculptural depiction of this deity found on the island of Samothrace and now located at the top of the Louvre’s main staircase is notably missing its arms and head.
ANSWER: Winged Victory of Samothrace [or Winged Nike of Samothrace or Winged Victory of Samothrace or Winged Nike of Samothrace; prompt on partial answers]
[10m] Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker is a work of this Italian neoclassicist sculptor who also portrayed a reclining Paulina Bonaparte as Venus Victrix.
ANSWER: Antonio Canova
<Painting and Sculpture>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 71% | 29% | 14% |
Data
| Penn B | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia C | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale A | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |