Question

This painting’s artist spread rumors he was murdered by bandits while traveling from Rome to extend this painting’s viewing time at the Salon. A museum in Toledo, Ohio contains a later, smaller version of this painting that shows a spool of thread at the feet of a woman in a blue headband. This painting’s imagery was inspired by a side character in a play by Corneille who arrives carrying objects that serve as this painting’s vanishing point. This painting’s setting in a (*) closed courtyard is dominated by three (-5[1])large arches. This painting’s artist may have been inspired by friezes at Pompeii to depict the flowing robes of a man who (-5[1])holds a spear behind his back. A group of weeping women on this (10[1])painting’s right look away from its central scene. For 10 points, a Roman father holds up three swords to his sons in what painting by Jacques-Louis David? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: The Oath of the Horatii [or Le Serment des Horaces]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kane NguyenMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa A87-5
Micah ColmanWaterlooOttawa B109-5
Sky LiToronto Ray of Sun in the SkyOttawa C12210
Gabrielle ClarkOttawa AMcDouble West-Carleton14910
Stefan VladOttawa BWaterloo1500

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2023 ARCADIA at UC BerkeleyPremiereY2100%0%0%97.50
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton UniversityPremiereY367%0%67%135.50
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont CollegesPremiereY1100%0%0%96.00
2023 ARCADIA at IndianaPremiereY5100%20%20%96.40
2023 ARCADIA at RITPremiereY2100%0%0%111.50
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTLPremiereY3100%33%0%78.67