Question

Renaissance painters were unlikely to do their subjects any favors when it came to their noses. For 10 points each:
[10e] The hooked nose of this city’s Duke Federico da Montefeltro prominently appears in a Piero della Francesca profile of him facing his wife. This city names a Titian painting of a reclining Venus.
ANSWER: Urbino [accept Venus of Urbino]
[10m] Pears, pickles, and even a cooked chicken make up some of the noses of this Renaissance painter’s portraits using unusual objects like food and books.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Arcimboldo
[10h] This artist painted an old man with rhinophyma holding a young boy. This teacher of Michelangelo inserted himself as a shepherd observing the Adoration in his frescoes for the Sassetti Chapel.
ANSWER: Domenico Ghirlandaio [or Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi]
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DukeSouth Carolina A100010
James Madison ANorth Carolina B100010
NC StateJames Madison B1010020
North Carolina ASouth Carolina B100010