Question
Answer the following about Giorgio Vasari’s artist biographies in The Lives. For 10 points each:
[10m] Vasari said that “there was no uglier man in the city of Florence” than this artist. This painter of the Scrovegni Chapel walls once painted a fly so realistic that his teacher Cimabue tried to brush it off.
ANSWER: Giotto di Bondone [or Giottus]
[10h] Vasari’s claim that this painter was blind by age 60 is often disputed. This painter from Sansepolcro depicted a scene from the passion narrative where three men stand unaware of the main action, paralleling another painting by him where four men sleep at the base of a tomb.
ANSWER: Piero della Francesca [accept either underlined portion; prompt on di Benedetto]
[10e] The first biography in the second volume praises this painter’s famed depiction of the Last Supper. Vasari also celebrates the ambiguous smile in this painter’s portrait of Mona Lisa.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci [accept either underlined portion]
<Painting and Sculpture>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Haverford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Princeton B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan A | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |